Attempts to cut the federal agency, AmeriCorps, led the University of Wyoming to find different funding to support its extension office summer volunteer positions.
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Biologist: Grizzly deaths in Grand Teton within normal range
Three bears found dead last month in Grand Teton, including one hit by a car, are on par with human-caused and natural mortality data.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus touts new abortion pill study. Researchers are skeptical
A new study says the abortion pill mifepristone is 22 times more dangerous than previously known. What to make of a study that seems to upend years of accepted science?
Jackson’s rodeo is selling out and looking to grow
While the crowd puts tourists into the stands, finding more seats or more nights isn’t likely in the cards anytime soon.
BLM OKs roundup of much of southwest Wyoming’s wild horses
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.
Supreme Court sides with controversial Uinta Basin railway, limiting federal environmental review
The proposed railroad would transport crude oil from Utah through the Colorado Rockies to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Supreme Court has ruled in the railway developers’ favor, after hearing oral arguments in December.
New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River
The study found that groundwater losses in the Colorado River basin were 2.4 times greater than the amount of water lost from the surfaces of Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and a number of other smaller reservoirs that store Colorado River water.
140 years later, a massacre in Rock Springs shows immigrant’s resilience and persistence
‘Strangers in the Land’ traces 19th-century violence against Chinese immigrants in Wyoming to contemporary crackdowns.
Rapid snowmelt in mountains could spell trouble for the Mountain West
Researcher says snow melted up to three weeks earlier than normal.
