The East Yellowstone Brucellosis Compensation fund launched the first of January and has already seen two interested applicants.

The comment period just opened for the proposal to keep grizzlies in the Northern Rockies classified as “threatened” — with some tweaks to how they are managed.

When talking about climate change, carbon dioxide often takes center stage. But methane is actually a bigger problem. A project in southwest Wyoming intends to address it with the help of new federal funds.

Talks for what people will be allowed to do on the land – and how the state will use the sale proceeds – are slated to start this year.

There’s been a seasonal fishing closure on a stretch of the Shoshone River near Yellowstone for the past 140 years. The proposed changes would allow anglers to fish the lower part of the North Fork for two weeks in early April.

Public lands advocates worried that allowing Utah’s case to move forward would threaten to upend management of 200 million acres of public lands across the West.

The Sheridan Community Land Trust recently bought more than a hundred acres just a few miles outside of town. The Big Goose Natural Area will open up opportunities for recreation, historical preservation, conservation and community-building.

A beloved fishing lake near Pinedale now has no fish. To top it off, the entire lake turned red a couple months ago, and land managers and biologists don’t know exactly why. WyoFile’s Mike Koshmrl first reported on this in early December and gives us a debrief.

That decision by the Department of Labor was based on a review of evidence that concluded that “female firefighters, more likely than not, face heightened risks for breast, uterine and ovarian cancers… due to the toxic exposures they face in their work.”

Out-of-staters say they’re OK with paying more in states like Wyoming, if that means trails are groomed well.