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Wolf 1084, pictured, was a member of Wyoming’s Snake River Pack before departing south and dispersing all the way to Colorado. A coming lawsuit seeks to protect pioneer Colorado wolves that wander across the border into Wyoming’s free-fire predator zone. (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
An environmental advocacy group intends to sue unless the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest takes steps to safeguard Colorado wolves that venture across state lines onto federal land in Wyoming.
“When Endangered Species Act-protected wolves in Colorado cross that invisible border and land in...
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...
Federal authorities have set a Feb. 13 deadline for comments on a proposal to build a 264-foot-high concrete dam in the Medicine Bow National Forest in Carbon County.
The proposed West Fork Dam and reservoir would impound 6,500 acre-feet of irrigation storage in the Little Snake River Valley and...
SHERIDAN — A new study by University of Wyoming researchers has found that for every dollar lost in the ranching industry, there is a $1.55 loss in secondary economic activity.
“On a statewide basis, for every dollar decrease in direct ranch sales related to livestock raising, that causes a $2.55...
PINEDALE —Wyoming’s water – whether it runs too high, too low or not at all – seems to be the single most important statewide topic of the season.
With irrigation shut down for autumn, livestock returning to home ranches or new and larger ponds setting a serene landscape, Wyoming’s focus on water...
DOUGLAS (WNE) — Six hundred eighty-three acres have burned six miles southwest of Esterbrook as of Tuesday, and the fire remained 0% contained, although Forest Service fire crews are on the scene battling the blaze.
Esterbrook is a very small town located south of Douglas.
The Monday Creek Fire...
Feds to reconsider two elk feedgrounds following CWD discoveries
By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com
Following recent discoveries of Chronic Wasting Disease in feedground-supported elk herds, the U.S. Forest Service will conduct a detailed environmental review that could decide the fate of...
EPA backs Bighorn Forest’s plan for aerial herbicide spraying
By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com
Aerial spraying of chemicals — including one banned in Europe — to kill sagebrush and invasive plants appears to be “the most-reasonable option” for the Bighorn National Forest to meet range and...
Sublette County elk feeding program in doubt
By Joy Ufford
Sublette Examiner
Via Wyoming News Exchange
PINEDALE — Feeding tons of hay to wild elk wintering around the Dell Creek feedground in Bondurant – to keep them out of privately owned haystacks – might not happen this year due to a Sept....
Gordon issues rule to increase fuel supply
By Nicole Pollack
Casper Star-Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
CASPER — Gov. Mark Gordon issued an executive order on Tuesday that allows the Wyoming Department of Transportation to deliver additional gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel through Aug. 20...
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