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A nonprofit in Northwest Wyoming wants senior citizens to build strength through weight lifting with the goal of improving balance and reducing falls.
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The Wiggins Fork Bison Jumps Complex is a high-elevation area in the Absaroka Mountains where different Indigenous tribes worked with and enhanced the landscape’s topography to drive bison off cliffs for harvesting. In comparison to other jumps throughout the state, the site outside of Dubois is big, old, and highly sophisticated, with multiple stone-circle campsites and seven different bison jump sites.
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A dazzling night sky filled with bright stars has long been a source of wonder and inspiration – and Sinks Canyon State Park wants to do its part to keep Wyoming’s dark skies dark. After a three-year application process, the park outside of Lander became the state’s first International Dark Sky Park through DarkSky International, an organization that raises awareness about light pollution. The designation recognizes the work the park has done to protect this often overlooked resource.
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A film called “Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations” highlights how mule deer and pronghorn travel from Grand Teton National Park to winter ranges across Idaho, Wyoming, and the Wind River Reservation. It documents how the animals depend on habitats almost 200 miles away from the park’s boundaries.
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Sixty-six million years ago, a meteor struck Earth just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Dinosaurs and 75 percent of the species on the planet went extinct – but what happened to the flora and fauna that survived?Scientists from the University of Wyoming (UW) are part of an interdisciplinary team working to answer that exact question. Using clues from the fossil record, the researchers are traveling back in time to better understand how life rebounded after such a cataclysmic event.
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How can technology help address the challenges facing a rural state like Wyoming? This year’s Wyoming Global Technology Summit is bringing entrepreneurs, business founders, policymakers, educators, and leaders together in the Tetons to talk solutions with a focus on leveraging technology for rural growth.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research has a new state-of-the-art supercomputer at its facility in Cheyenne, Wyo. – one that will enable scientists and data analysts to better predict climate and weather events.
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People have been stocking fish in the Mountain West’s high alpine lakes for decades – often for the enjoyment of anglers. In central Wyoming, some trout are showing signs of rapid evolution as they survive in harsh conditions.
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July was likely the warmest month worldwide in recorded history. In much of the Mountain West, heat waves made more extreme by human-caused climate change pushed average temperatures beyond typical levels.
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The University of Wyoming State Vet Lab has a biocontainment facility, and within that there’s a necropsy facility. It was used recently for the first time to diagnose animal infections that have the potential to transfer to humans.
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This spring, the Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) released a new map for the west half of the Ramshorn Quadrangle, which includes parts of the northwestern Wind River Range, the Wind River Basin, the southern Absaroka Range, and the town of Dubois.
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The University of Wyoming (UW) has graduates across the world. The relationships that come from that vast network serve important roles in research. But sometimes, that network helps with more than just research collaboration. Dr. Basant Giri founded the Kathmandu Institute of Applied Sciences in Nepal. It got its start in part thanks to a UW professor. Wyoming Public Radio’s Ivy Engel spoke to Giri about the institute and its ties to UW.