Bringing my son out yonder for his 16th birthday in about 2 weeks.

My plan is to show up with 2 rifles and 2 backpacks. Prairie dog/coyote hunting, hiking, camping and fossil hunting. Ghost town type stuff would be cool. Not doing the national parks, did Yellowstone and some of Teton last year.

Looking for suggestions.
How is the snow melt going? Will I be able to drive a rental car up into the mountains to park and hike?

Flaming Gorge look like a cool hike, is it worth it? Is there national forest or BLM land where I can do a similar hike to flaming gorge?

Devil's tour? Not sure if I want to go all the way up there to see a big rock. I could do some of the prairie dog hunting up that way...

I've seen the Kemmerer are for hunting fossilized fish. Rules don't allow for collecting on BLM land but are there any other public lands where you can dig for them or are you pretty much restricted to the pay quarries?

Anyone have problems with coyotes harassing their cattle or prairie dogs tearing up their pasture? Let me know if you want help with eradication, my son and I might be able to put a day or two into it for you, otherwise we will be decimating them on public land...

Can you hunt coyotes at night on public land with a light?

Nope, no hunting at night, cannot use artificial light or lighted sighting device.  Just about everything else is ok, firearms, caliber, suppressors, mag size are all un-restricted.

According to WGF the only restriction for taking Yotes, Jack Rabbits, Skunks or Coons with artificial light is you need written permission from a GF officer for public ground or from the landowner / land manager for private ground. Also you can't shoot from a public road you must be 30ft from the edge of the road.
This all in the regs on the WFG web and I called the Lander office to verify.

So we might swing by gf, see if I can hunt at night over some dead Prairie dogs.

I called G&F. The officer said they don't give permission to do night hunts. The state land management office would do that and she has never heard of them giving it.

Well I guess I misunderstood which office gives permission, my bad. I spotlight on my family's ranches and never had to deal with seeking permission.

I'm actually looking for it written in the rules. If I can find it on paper I'll go to game and fish and ask for permission. They might not give it but I'll still ask if its in the rules.