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Wyoming

  • Running over a wolf with a snowmobile? You’ll be able to do that in Wyoming if the new deal between the Feds and Wyoming becomes final.

    Ken Cole

    Okay, so you want to kill a wolf in a creative way. No Problem, if you’re in Wyoming. Wanna kill one by pulling it apart with horses? You’re good in Wyoming. Wanna poison one? You’re good in Wyoming. Wanna shoot it with a poison dart? You’re good in Wyoming. Wanna kill one by strapping dynamite…

  • Grizzly bears making homes far from Yellowstone

    Ralph Maughan

    Wonderful news! And don’t believe that stuff about “these areas are no longer biologically suitable for the grizzly.” If they are not suitable, how is it that they are living there? People who say things like that don’t seem to know much about the history of wildlife in the West.  The low point for wildlife…

  • Incredible time-lapse video of big Snake River Canyon landslide

    Ralph Maughan

    The Snake River Canyon between Alpine and Jackson Hole, Wyoming is notable for its unstable mountainslopes. This mountain range is very prone to earthflows, one reason the Snake River Range is not cut up with dirt roads. The whole place would come down. However, a U.S. Highway has followed the canyon for perhaps 75 years,…

  • The biggest gas drilling plan yet for Green River Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Encana could add 3,500 gas wells SW of Pinedale, WY- Already reeling from the massive Jonah gas field, now a new field covering 4 times as much area is planned.  The “Normally Pressured Lance” natural gas field” (Son of Jonah, as some call it) comes at a time when the formerly pristine air of the…

  • In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution

    Ralph Maughan

    Just a generation ago . . . cleanest air the West set against the highest mountains in Wyoming- It was wonderful to backpack, fish, and climb in the Wind River Mountains in the day when they did not overlook a miasma of gas field air pollution. In Pinedale, Wyo., Residents Adjust to Air Pollution. By…

  • Natural gas drilling proposal in Wyoming Range gets 40,000 comments!!

    Ralph Maughan

    Wyoming folks love the Wyoming Range and fear fracking- An unprecedented number of comments came in on the Plains Exploration & Production Co.’s (PXP) plan for up to 136 gas wells south of Bondurant near Noble Basin. Most of the Wyoming and adjacent Salt River Range has been withdrawn from oil and gas leasing/drilling by…

  • 2010 Northern Rockies Wolf Report released.

    Ken Cole

    NRM population estimate down from 1731 to 1651. Minimum population estimate down significantly in Idaho from 870 to 705. The 2010 Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Reports are out and they show a decrease in the overall wolf population. Wyoming and Montana saw slight increases while Idaho accounted the decline seen in the overall population.  It…

  • Dangerous snow: Is foot rot taking hold at the National Elk Refuge?

    Ralph Maughan

    Rot is caused by freeze-thaw cycles in unsanitary snow- We just have to keep pointing out that persistant winter feeding of elk breeds disease. Now 23 elk have been put down for what is thought to be foot rot. No doubt more will die. Foot rot suspected in elk deaths on refuge. By Cory Hatch.…

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