More than half of Wyoming’s wild horses will be removed to appease private property owners on the checkerboard landscape. Herds will cease to exist in the Great Divide Basin and Salt Wells Creek areas, and portions of Adobe Town.
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Recreationists can now access 40,000 acres of previously locked-up public land
Thanks to a new initiative, private landowners in Colorado and Wyoming are now letting people cross through their property for free to access these acres.
Seven killed in car crash west of Yellowstone
Idaho State Police is investigating what caused a pickup truck and a passenger van to collide and catch fire on U.S. Highway 20.
Feds won’t analyze total impact of 3,224 oil and gas leases in our region
Environmentalists say this analysis is critical to paint a full picture of climate and health impacts, but industry reps say it’s not necessary.
The federal freeze hits Wyoming’s invasive weeds: funding future is a ‘hodgepodge’
Wyoming relies on millions of federal dollars to spray for invasive weeds, and federal cuts are putting some of those dollars into question for the upcoming season. That could mean more costs to private landowners or fewer new treatment projects.
Environmentalists call for more grizzly protections with delisting on the horizon
Grizzly advocates want the species to be treated as one “metapopulation” — rather than separate islands throughout the Northern Rockies.
Wyoming and Montana sue over BLM’s end to new coal leases in the Powder River Basin
Wyoming is joining Montana in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management. The states say their concerns weren’t addressed in the federal agency’s latest decision to end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.
The BLM ends new Powder River Basin coal leasing. Wyoming intends to sue.
The federal government is ending new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. Wyoming is looking to the Trump administration for relief, but economists say that might not matter – the markets are unfavorable to coal.
