Sublette County

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...
CHEYENNE — Four counties in Wyoming will have more federal contracting opportunities after the governor-designated Historically Underutilized Business Zone option was taken advantage of for the first time.   Gov. Mark Gordon requested Big Horn, Converse, Sweetwater and Sublette counties be granted...
JACKSON (WNE) — Jackson Fork Ranch owner and billionaire Joe Ricketts donated $1 million last Monday to the Sublette County Health Foundation, bringing the county closer to having its own hospital.    At the moment, the roughly 9,000 residents of Sublette County must travel 77 miles north to St....
DOUGLAS — Converse County continues to lead the Cowboy State in energy.    According to data provided by ENVERUS (Drilling Info Inc.), more than half of Wyoming’s active rig count is located in Converse (eight rigs) and Campbell (five rigs) counties, with the most recent count Jan. 30 totaling 20...
JACKSON — Teton County lawmakers have convened in Cheyenne to work on issues such as property tax relief, abortion access and state land use, but they will do so in a Wyoming Legislature deeply divided between conservatives and ultra-conservatives. Legislators outlined their priorities last week in...
A pair of peer-reviewed papers examining how insects are faring in reclaimed portions of the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah gas fields found major population and diversity upticks, as well as evidence that breaking up the sagebrush benefits pollinators.  To make those determinations, former...

Pronghorn migrate south for the winter near the town of Pinedale. These animals are part of a herd that migrates south through the Green River basin. Although their travels are known, they remain unprotected by the state of Wyoming. (Joe Riis)

A Wyoming policy held up as the national gold standard for protecting big game migration corridors is gathering dust nearly three years into its existence, frustrating wildlife advocates who fear critical habitat is being degraded and lost.  Conservationists worry the governor is playing favorites...
JACKSON – In the windy, unincorporated hunting and ranching enclave of Bondurant, south of Jackson Hole, Richard Pearson is thought to be one of the oldest residents who grew up there. Pearson doesn’t like what he’s seeing in the town he’s called home all of his 70-plus years. Some eight miles away...
At 2.2% Weston County’s unemployment rate for October was the lowest in the state, according to the Nov. 21 report from the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services Research and Planning Division.  Weston County has maintained a 2.1% or 2.2% unemployment rate for most of the year, the report says....
JACKSON  – Soon after Michele Voorhees pulled the trigger, she realized something was up. It was Sept. 16 and Voorhees, 58, was out hunting in Granite Creek with her niece when they saw a mule deer grazing just across the creek. She pulled the trigger and hit the buck in the lungs. But when the...

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