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Park County Animal Shelter kennel technician Valerie Swensrud (center) and volunteers Stephanie Tarbett (left) and Cassandra Sorrell (right), welcome four dogs to the shelter on Saturday. The canines were saved from death row in Oklahoma. (Photo by Mark Davis, Powell Tribune)
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — New temporary canine residents at the Park County Animal Shelter in Cody were happy to once again have their paws on the ground, after a long trip from Oklahoma that included several transfers complicated by nasty weather.
Four dogs...
By Mark Davis and CJ Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Almost half of all the grizzly bears trapped and euthanized in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem last year were in Park County, according to a new report.
The 2018 report, compiled by the Wyoming Game and Fish...
Garrett Burbank celebrates the return of equipment stolen from his truck in mid-December. After being taken, Burbank's belongings were returned to his yard on Christmas. (Photo courtesy of Becky Burbank).
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Garrett Burbank owes his wife an apology.
For years, Becky Burbank had been nagging him to lock his truck. Then, as she had warned, Garrett’s hunting gear was stolen last month, in the middle of his elk season.
“It was all I could...
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — The harvest of wolf 926F during the Montana hunting season reignited a firestorm of calls to end hunting of the species — or at least making a wide buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park.
The killing of the female — also known...
By Dave Bonner
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — President George H.W. Bush and former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson shared many personal and touching moments, including a snowball fight on the last night of the elder Bush’s presidency at the White House.
Simpson, of Cody, will recall...
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering its options as a deadline nears to appeal a U.S. District Court ruling that relisted the Yellowstone area’s grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act. However, the options...
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — As chronic wasting disease continues to move through the state, Wyoming wildlife biologists warn Park County deer herds could see a rise in prevalence within the next few seasons.
“It’s moving across the state,” said Corey Class,...
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Like a huge puzzle, young scientists at the University of Wyoming are attempting to piece together how a mammoth died outside of Cody centuries ago. They’re recording as much information as they can about the animal’s life in Park...
By CJ Baker
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — State leaders hope a new program will encourage more medical providers and facilities to offer free care to some of Wyoming’s poorer residents.
Wyoming’s Volunteer Health Services Program was created earlier this year by the state...
By Mark Davis
Powell Tribune
Via Wyoming News Exchange
POWELL — Like any first-time hunter, Lucas Young needed help if he was ever going to be able to successfully harvest a deer.
Young had to prove himself accurate with a rifle, but there’s a lot more to hunting than just pulling the trigger....
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