The Wyoming Outdoor Council also laid the groundwork - through surveys and catalogs - for future designations of wilderness areas in the state, including those areas eventually identified in the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 (see "The 1980s and 1990s" below) [REF].
The group also advocated for the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act, which passed in 1973, and which created the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council, the state's environmental rulemaking body.