It used to be that only a good horse or a stout pair of hiking boots could get Wyoming hunters into the backcountry – then mountain bikes became an option – and now e-bikes are increasingly part of the hunting scene.

The overall popularity of e-bikes has skyrocketed. That’s meant more accessibility for more people in the outdoors, which is both good and bad, depending upon the perspective.

Hunters seek places where the game is plentiful, but the people are sparse.

So e-bikes raise much the same quandary for them as they do for anybody else. They are a faster way to get into the backcountry – but if everybody has one, that could make escaping mobs more difficult.

Devin O’Dea, the Western policy and conservation manager for Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, told Cowboy State Daily t

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