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Much of southern Arizona and New Mexico are expected to see above average potential for wildfire in April.

The judges said the ranch could not deny access to federal public lands for lawful purposes and affirmed that corner crossing is not trespassing, as long as private land is not physically touched.

“The Hunters could corner-cross as long as they did not physically touch Iron Bar’s land,” the three-member court wrote in a unanimous decision.

The Conservation in the West poll asks voters across the region about a wide range of environmental and policy topics. For 15 years, the Colorado College-run opinion survey has found strong support for conservation on public lands.

Thousands of federal workers nationwide have been fired as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal workforce. The firings have largely targeted probationary workers in their first year. But many fear more cuts are coming. Wyoming Public Radio’s reporters have been working to confirm what’s happening here in the state.

The Trump administration is moving quickly to reduce the government workforce. Federal workers with connections to Wyoming speak about how they’re impacted by the layoffs.

A bipartisan team of researchers leads Colorado College's annual "Conservation in the West" poll of about 3,300 voters in eight western states: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

The U.S. Forest Service is firing thousands of workers a day after Trump’s federal worker resignation deadline passed, according to Politico reporting. At least four sources told Wyoming Public Radio this will likely impact forest workers in Wyoming.

Kathleen Sgamma is the president of Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, where she’s worked for nearly two decades to reduce barriers for oil and gas producers extracting from federal lands.

The resolution to hand over wide swaths of public land failed after a bumpy ride in the Senate.