Yellowstone
A sailboat and camping trailers are seen at Buffalo Bill Reservoir and State Park. (Wyoming State Parks)
Buffalo Bill State Park west of Cody is getting a management planning makeover.
The park, which encircles an 8,000-acre reservoir of the same name is dotted with campgrounds and boat ramps. A visitor center perches atop a concrete dam that has impounded the Shoshone River for more than a century...
CHEYENNE — One-hundred and ninety-six bills passed out of the Wyoming Legislature during the general session, but that doesn’t mean nothing was left on the table.
Lawmakers recognized there were missed opportunities, while still applauding steps toward saving hundreds of millions of dollars,...
CODY — New legislation from Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-Wyoming) could direct U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to remove the Yellowstone area’s grizzly bears from the federal endangered species list.
“The Greater Yellowstone population of grizzly bears should have been removed from...
JACKSON (WNE) —After “Cocker Brothers” author Faleena Hopkins, 52, was arrested by park rangers in January, family, friends and fellow authors are stumped about what prompted the uncharacteristic behavior and where the romance novelist is now.
Hopkins, noted by park officials and jail records as...
JACKSON — Harriet Hageman, Wyoming’s new Republican congresswoman, is dead set on decreasing the size of the federal government.
When she thinks about Teton County’s housing crisis, she’s thinking about tackling it with federal land — not the Teton County Fairgrounds.
“Taking away your western...
A gray wolf and a crow look toward what remains of a carcass in 2021 in Yellowstone National Park. Researchers found that when humans kill wolves, packs are less likely to reproduce the following spring and stick together. Jackson Hole News&Guide file photo by Ryan Dorgan.
JACKSON — In the late 2000s, Kira Cassidy watched the Slough Creek wolf pack in Yellowstone National Park shrink from roughly 17 wolves down to about three — in only a year and a half.
“Their alpha male had been hit by a car. I think one of the other wolves was shot outside the park,” Cassidy...
JACKSON — Wyoming legislators want the Cowboy State to “phase out” the sale of electric vehicles by 2035, the same year the U.S. West Coast plans to ban the sale of new gas- and diesel-powered cars, trucks and SUVs.
General Motors also plans to stop selling new gas- and diesel-powered vehicles by...
CHEYENNE — Committee chairs in the Wyoming Legislature said they were proud of the bills to come out of the interim, after working through a broad spectrum of issues over the past 10 months.
Nearly 100 bills have already been filed that were sponsored by committees for the 2023 general session,...
JACKSON — Two years after pledging to go net-zero by 2030, the town of Jackson is working on a plan to get itself there.
At the same time, town officials hope to develop plans to reduce air pollutants, protect water quality and native species, and identify parts of the community that are vulnerable...
Legislature to consider rebate program for film producers
SARATOGA — A lot of Joe Pickett fans can tell you unequivocally the popular series is set in Carbon County, Wyoming.
Not as many know that the television series is filmed in the province of Alberta, Canada.
Big Sky is another TV series...
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