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Company founded by lawmaker expects new sites in four cities CASPER — Electric vehicle drivers are about to have a lot more charging options in Wyoming.  OtterSpace, a company founded in 2021 by state Rep. Mike Yin, D-Jackson, announced Monday that it plans to install fast charging stations — also...

A single surviving pronghorn stands between a trio of antelope carcasses south of Boulder. Adult pronghorn mortality in the Sublette herd is typically around 20 percent, but wildlife biologists expect a far higher rate this year. The magnitude of the loss may not be known until May or June.

(Cali O'Hare/Pinedale Roundup via Wyoming News Exchange)

Precipitation and water content in the mountain snowfields were just above average, but not extraordinary, in most of western Wyoming. At low elevations, though, the snow depths shattered records — and killed tens of thousands of ungulates. Jackson Lake likely won’t fill this year.  That may come...
JACKSON (WNE) — With less than a month to go before Wyoming typically allows people to begin picking up antlers, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is mulling changing the spring shed hunting season following a winter that has decimated mule deer and pronghorn herds.   Because it may take longer...
CASPER – It’s been a long, tough winter for Wyoming’s wildlife — especially near Pinedale, where unusually deep snow, very cold temperatures and an outbreak of a rare disease in the local pronghorn herd have decimated pronghorn and mule deer populations.    Gov. Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Game and...
Elevated concentrations of ozone — a human health hazard — have returned to the Upper Green River Basin south of Pinedale after years of coordinated efforts to plug leaks and reduce emissions from oil and gas production facilities there, according to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality...

Pronghorn in the snow. (John Fandek)

Toward the end of each hard winter, Wyoming Game and Fish Department gets the word out about dead animals: Mule deer falling over from starvation or pronghorn caught in fences or hit by vehicles.    Those announcements ask people  to slow down on highways, stay off of closed winter ranges and not...
JACKSON — This winter is killing mule deer fawns in Wyoming’s largest herd, and may be exacerbating a pneumonia outbreak in pronghorn near Pinedale.   “This is a real deal winter and we’re in the thick of it at the moment,” Ian Tator, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s terrestrial habitat...
POWELL —Talking about climate change in Wyoming — where roughly half of the state government’s revenue comes from fossil fuels — can make for a “tough conversation,” Bill Barron admits.    But for the second time in four years, the regional coordinator for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby toured the...
PINEDALE (WNE) — The Marbleton Town Council agreed at its Jan. 9 meeting to explore ways that its administration and Big Piney’s might find common ground to save money with some form of partnership or annexation.  Mayor Jim Robinson asked council members what they thought of “the idea of joining...
PINEDALE (WNE) —  Attention, livestock brand owners: The Wyoming Livestock Board is sending out final notices for brand owners whose brands are scheduled for renewal.  Those who are not sure of when their brand is scheduled for renewal or are not sure if the Wyoming Livestock Board has their...

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