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A federal auction scheduled for June proposes leasing tracts of all three protected Wyoming migration corridors to oil and gas drilling, and it also opens the door to rigs within a now-unprotected pronghorn corridor that’s eyed for protections of its own.

The potential for industrial incursion into habitats that prized ungulate populations depend on to reach their seasonal ranges in the Platte, Little Snake and Green River basins comes via the Bureau of Land Management’s lease sale of more than 250,000 acres in Wyoming. It’s a sale that’s now in the early “scoping” phase and could still change, but what’s been proposed is to auction more than five dozen parcels t

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