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A federal agency wants to revoke management of lands on the Wind River Reservation. A portion of Muddy Ridge could go to the Bureau of Land Management, or to local entities like Wyoming’s two federally recognized tribes.
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Every winter at 22 state-run feedgrounds in western Wyoming, elk descend from the mountains looking for more forage, and possibly hay. It all started about a 100 years ago. After some brutal winters, Wyoming started feeding elk to help them survive and to keep them off ranches. All these years later, elk have come to depend on it. But now, Wyoming says it can’t go on the way it always has, because of a deadly disease that can spread when elk congregate.
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In celebration of Earth Day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded over $1 million to nine rural businesses in Wyoming to help them lower energy costs. The money comes from the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which is funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. The REAP initiative helps agricultural producers and rural small businesses use more renewable energy sources and increase their overall energy efficiency.
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Plans are moving forward for a wind turbine project in southwest Wyoming, and the public comment period was recently extended.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is officially recognizing ‘conservation’ as one of the multiple uses of land it oversees, and it’s controversial with lawmakers in Wyoming.
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The Sublette County Attorney’s Office released a statement Monday, April 22, on the recent wolf incident in Daniel. This comes after the killing and alleged torture of a wolf by local Cody Roberts in late February has received international attention.
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The largest electricity provider in Wyoming is proposing rate hikes to customers again. Rocky Mountain Power, a division of the six-state utility PacifiCorp, is asking the state to approve an average of a 12.3 percent hike to its 144,511 Wyoming customers’ bills.
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The agency says the new rule puts conservation on equal footing with other uses of public lands, like ranching and mining.
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A coalition of Western conservationists and tribes are working to protect more public lands before the November presidential election.
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Wyoming has received a couple of rounds of federal funds recently, amounting to about $35 million, to help with restoring land used for old coal mines.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Wyoming Department of Transportation are trying to reduce collisions between wildlife and vehicles on Highway 26 east and west of Dubois. The stretch of road is particularly deadly for deer and costly for people, too. In response, the agencies have developed a plan to help reduce the number of accidents in that area.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department euthanized a grizzly bear Monday that had injured a cow on private land south of Ten Sleep.