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BUFFALO — For years, Bruce Allison has worked to open a skilled nursing facility at the Veterans Home of Wyoming in Buffalo. Working with local elected officials, Allison, who is the superintendent of the Veterans Home, has helped shepherd...
Fort Phil Kearny Regulars fire the cannon during a reenactment of the Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands at Fort Phil Kearny in Story. The Battle of the Hundred-in-the-Hands, also known as the Fetterman Fight, was a battle during Red Cloud's War on Dec. 21, 1866, between the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho American Indians and soldiers of the United States Army. The Fort Phil Kearny Regulars are a living history group that presents programs and demonstrations of life as it was during the 1860s to 1880s, with a special focus on Fort Phil Kearny and the Bozeman Trail. Photo by the Buffalo Bulletin.
BUFFALO — For decades, staff at the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site have provided visitors with context on the Bozeman Trail, life on the frontier in the 1860s and the day-to-day operation of a fort in such an isolated location.
But starting this summer, Fort Phil Kearny will have something...
SHERIDAN (WNE) – The Bighorn Fencing Initiative exists to connect different agencies and identify and accomplish wildlife conservation projects through fence modifications or removal.
This summer, three projects are planned to remove fencing in Sheridan and Johnson counties.
The Bighorn...
BUFFALO —A federal lawsuit that seeks to prevent the U.S. Forest Service from dropping aerial fire retardant into U.S. waterways could endanger Johnson County residents' lives and property, a local leader said last week.
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics filed the lawsuit in...
LOVELL — “It’s not just another herd of horses.”
That’s the core message from Nancy Cerroni and the board of directors of the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Center to the public and the federal Bureau of Land Management regarding management documents for the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range currently...
SHERIDAN —Wyoming’s congressional delegation wants the state included in the federal fight against wildfires.
In January 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Forest Service announced a 10-year strategy to confront wildfires in the United States, specifically in the West.
The...
JACKSON — Interpretive rangers and other workers in Yellowstone National Park want to unionize.
If they’re successful, park workers there would establish the first local chapter of a federal employees’ union, the National Federation of Federal Employees.
In Yellowstone and Grand Teton national...
SHERIDAN (WNE) — The Biden-Harris Administration announced more than $12 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be invested in fiscal year 2023 to complete projects in support of the Tribal Forest Protection Act.
Projects have been selected to support a range of...
CHEYENNE (WNE)— On Wednesday, U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore criticizing their agencies for failing to protect Wyoming from the...
Wolf 1084, pictured, was a member of Wyoming’s Snake River Pack before departing south and dispersing all the way to Colorado. A coming lawsuit seeks to protect pioneer Colorado wolves that wander across the border into Wyoming’s free-fire predator zone. (Colorado Parks and Wildlife)
An environmental advocacy group intends to sue unless the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest takes steps to safeguard Colorado wolves that venture across state lines onto federal land in Wyoming.
“When Endangered Species Act-protected wolves in Colorado cross that invisible border and land in...
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