Rock Springs

The Bureau of Land Management is punting its roundup of most wild horses in southwest Wyoming. This comes after a summer of back and forth.

A town that still relies on migrant labor grapples with the memory of anti-Chinese violence.

Rock Springs was once one of the most diverse towns in the West. Now, its relationship with immigrants is embattled for other reasons.

The fate of thousands of wild horses in the Rock Springs area is still unknown after 15 years of court battles. A judge just pushed the final decision back to a lower court.

Sweetwater Economic Development Coalition is the latest casualty of local government budget cuts spurred by the Legislature this year.

In a win for Sweetwater School District No. 1, a federal judge ordered the termination of the court case, arguing that the plaintiffs did not have their right to control their child’s upbringing infringed on.

Sections of southwest Wyoming’s iconic sprawling sagebrush landscape could soon look different: No wild horses. That’s because the Bureau of Land Management is planning to remove all of the wild horses roaming a 2.1 million acre area near Rock Springs.

The Trump administration is ordering to unleash American energy on public lands. That includes reviewing the recently approved management plan for 3.6 million acres around Rock Springs, as well as other high profile areas in Wyoming. But some speculate any rescinding of the plans would face legal battles.

In case you missed it over the holidays, the federal government released its final decision for how to manage millions of acres of public land in southwest Wyoming. The plan is over a decade in the making. Reactions from state politicians are very unhappy. Many are looking to a Trump administration for relief, but that route isn’t clear.

The plan will guide energy development and conservation on roughly 3.6 million acres of public land near Rock Springs.