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EnvironmentBillionaire Joe Ricketts resurrects plans for luxury Bondurant resort after ‘Saving Yellowstone’ accolades
Fresh off a spate of positive publicity for his conservation-oriented work under the banner Saving Yellowstone, billionaire Joe Ricketts has renewed his efforts to develop a luxury resort on ranchland that runs along the rural, remote Upper…
EnvironmentA flood of Chinese soda ash has Wyoming’s industry swimming in troubled waters
After decades of quietly chugging along as the state’s largest global export commodity, reaping an annual $1.3 billion, Wyoming’s trona mining and soda ash industry is navigating troubled waters.
EnvironmentMalnutrition killed Wyoming pronghorn in peak summer as vegetation withered during record heat, severe drought
On a Tuesday in early August, Brandon Scurlock received the second notification in as many days that one of the 50 GPS-collared pronghorn he’s been monitoring died.
EnvironmentGrand Teton National Ballpark? Visitors call it a field of nightmares.
MOOSE, WYOMING—The news shot around Grand Teton National Park’s Jenny Lake on Sunday like the crack of a well-hit baseball echoing off the walls of Cascade Canyon.
EnvironmentTrump orders plans to unlock isolated public land, revise river-trip permitting
President Donald Trump last week ordered federal land managers to boost public access to public lands, including to landlocked checkerboard parcels and to Western whitewater rivers.
EnvironmentWho is the Christian legal group representing the Wind River church embroiled in sermon controversy?
A church facing demands to leave the Wind River Indian Reservation after its pastor delivered a sermon urging Native congregants to renounce Northern Arapaho traditions has a formidable ally in its corner as tensions continue to simmer.
EnvironmentNational Elk Refuge fields questions about what feeding elk could mean for Jackson Hole’s water
JACKSON—As National Elk Refuge leaders laid out long-term options for managing elk and bison wintering on the edge of Jackson, a discussion Tuesday turned to the northwestern Wyoming town’s water supply.
EnvironmentBackers of troubled Alkali Dam project threaten condemnation of private land
Backers of the proposed Alkali Creek Dam near Hyattville expect they will condemn ranch property if landowners don’t agree to sell easements necessary for construction and operation of the troubled project, letters shared with WyoFile show.