4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (903+ words) Public opposition will slow plans to remove and display a section of a dead Shoshone National Forest tree that surveyors mapping Yellowstone Forest Reserve boundaries inscribed 133 years ago. The dead Engelmann spruce still stands about 28 miles from the nearest trailhead…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (606+ words) For 60 years, the Dave Johnston electrical power plant has stood over serpentine bends of the North Platte River in Converse County, its two towering smokestacks dominating the skyline as a symbol of Wyoming’s coal-fueled power might. But the commanding presence…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1035+ words) As drought and over-allocation of Colorado River water shock the West, two lawsuits raise serious questions about irrigation in Wyoming and state plans to build a new dam and reservoir in Carbon County. As soon as the federal government announced…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (521+ words) This commentary was originally published by Writers on the Range. Had Donald Trump been president in 1973, when Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into federal law, the Gunnison sage-grouse would be extinct. Close to 90% of all Gunnison sage-grouse remaining…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (341+ words) In mid July, the Secretary of the Interior and three governors gathered near Yellowstone National Park to celebrate the remarkable recovery of grizzly bears. Rather than declaring their work done, they announced an innovative approach to implementing the Endangered Species…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (742+ words) Declaring that Forest Service regulations “for too long … have stood in the way of public recreation access,” the Trump administration seeks to open some 6.2 million acres of public forest land in Wyoming to virtually unbridled motorized access, prompting widespread criticism…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (574+ words) WyoFile A massive decision about the public land right next to our homes in Sundance is being rushed through its review process. The U.S. Forest Service just opened a public comment window for the proposed Bear Lodge rare earth mine at…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1242+ words) Even though the 7.1-mile Moose-Wilson Road represents a sliver of the 310,000-acre Grand Teton National Park, its fate has fueled years of debate. And when the National Park Service recently amended a 10-year-old park management plan to allow for the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (594+ words) Wildfires once ran on deadlines. After a series of catastrophic blazes in the early 20th century, the U.S. Forest Service sought to show it was able to control and protect forests under its care. In 1933, the agency mandated the “10 a.m. Rule,” declaring…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (911+ words) Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed a 10-year plan Friday that preserves Wyoming’s decades-long allocation for the drought-plagued Colorado River Basin. The plan sets operating criteria for releases into and out of the southwestern reservoirs of Lake Powell and Lake Mead…...