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Elk Mountain and an entrance to Elk Mountain Ranch near Interstate 80 in Carbon County. (Mike Vanata/WyoFile)
Skavdahl dismisses most of the claims made by the owner of the Elk Mountain Ranch who said Missouri hunters trespassed when they stepped over a corner of his Carbon County ranch.
A federal judge ruled Friday that four Missouri hunters did not trespass when they corner crossed and passed through...
Ammon Bundy takes questions from the public on Jan. 26, 2022 in Shelly, Idaho during his gubernatorial campaign. Bundy is known as a far-right activist who captured national attention during the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016. Recent court documents allege that Bundy is hiding assets in Wyoming trusts to evade collection in an Idaho civil suit. (Natalie Behring/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Attorneys in an Idaho lawsuit say high-profile anti-government activist Ammon Bundy is exploiting Wyoming’s controversial privacy laws.
Ammon Bundy is using Wyoming’s controversial corporate privacy laws to hide his assets in a series of shell companies, according to recent court...
The carcasses of 16 pronghorn are clustered on a hill overlooking Highway 191 south of Boulder in May 2023. The large concentrations of dead animals are a good indication that mycoplasma bovis, which causes respiratory infection, struck the herd. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
A year that started off especially deadly for the Sublette Herd of Antilocapra americana threatens to drastically reduce numbers of animals using an ancient, celebrated migration.
A collared pronghorn took her last breath on Feb. 16. The adult doe’s remains were found on the...
Greg Weisz outside the federal courthouse in Casper. (Angus M. Thuermer, Jr./WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
For the first time, a legal expert questioned opposing sides in a $7 million trespass case that addresses public access to 8.3 million acres of public land in the West.
CASPER — A judge Wednesday said he “has plenty of things to chew on” as he mulls a corner-crossing suit that...
A grizzly bear walks near Frying Pan Spring in Yellowstone National Park. (National Park Service/Jim Peaco)
The growth rate of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is charted here over time using a new population model. (Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team)
FROM WYOFILE:
After half-century of expansion, bears reach limit of “suitable habitat,” federal scientists report.
CODY—For nearly five decades the grizzly population emanating from Yellowstone National Park has pulsed farther and farther outward, reclaiming old haunts where humans wiped out their...
Acting Director of Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Resources Dave Glenn in Laramie in April 2023. (Katie Klingsporn/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
Lawmakers established a key trust fund for developing recreational infrastructure, but not the rules for how it will be governed.
Outdoor recreation advocates won big this spring when the Legislature created a new $6 million trust fund to generate grants for trail building, camping...
Corner-crossing defendants wait for their trial to begin in Rawlins on April 27, 2022. They are Phillip Yeomans, second from left and partly obscured; John Slowensky, foreground in the front row, Bradly Cape, second from left in back row and Zach Smith, right. (Angus M. Thuermer, Jr./WyoFile)
Mapping app allows users to set digital markers without standing on private land, Missouri hunters assert in fight against ranch owner’s $7M civil suit.
Hunters fighting a $7-million corner-crossing suit on Wednesday rejected an assertion that a digital “waypoint” marker set in a mapping program on...
(Photo illustration by Tennessee Watson/WyoFile)
FROM WYOFILE:
2023 law banning transgender girls from competing in girls sporting events breaks with state’s 46-year tradition of defeating bills to restrict LGBTQ civil rights.
As a wave of legislation restricting transgender rights swept through statehouses across the country this year,...
A mountain lion feeds on prey in Wyoming. (Neal Wight/Panthera)
FROM WYOFILE:
Researchers examined soil samples and plant growth at hundreds of carcass sites to find connections with landscape health.
One day about a decade ago, professional tracker and cougar researcher Michelle Peziol took a group of graduate students from Teton Science School on a walk...
A mountain lion recovers from being sedated by Teton Cougar Project researchers in 2015. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile)
In hard-hit mule deer range, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission may reexamine black bear and mountain lion hunting seasons after hearing pleas to kill predators from outfitters.
Wyoming wildlife officials are considering slashing populations of three native predators in an area where a hard...
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