Under Gov. Jim Geringer's "open for business' philosophy,
the methane gas industry faces little regulation in
Wyoming.
Items by Katharine Collins
In Wyoming, hunters and ORVers rally to protest the way
that newly arrived corporate ranchers and rich people are blocking
traditional areas of access to public lands.
Prof. Debra Donahue's book, "The Western Range Revisited:
Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native
Biodiversity," has infuriated Wyoming ranchers.
At the University of Wyoming, Prof. Debra Donahue's book,
"The Western Range Revisited," with its criticism of grazing, has
provoked fury among ranchers and raised questions about academic
freedom.
Annie Proulx's new book, "Close Range: Wyoming Stories,"
has displeased some Wyoming residents by its gritty, unflattering
look at what lies under the surface of the cowboy mythology of the
state.
Rancher Wright Dickenson's overgrazed Pine Mountain
allotment in southern Wyoming is at the center of a dispute between
the BLM and the National Wildlife Federation.
A possible oil and gas boom in Wyoming's Red Desert has
environmentalists scrambling to mitigate the impacts without
totally alienating local oil and gas workers.
A proposed private-federal land swap designed to preserve
Wyoming's Spring Gulch Ranch raises controversy and charges of
elitism.
The Nature Conservancy buys Pete Widener ranch near
Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains.
A boom in natural gas drilling in Wyoming is happening too
fast for wildlife.
Retired U.S. forest Service Supervisor Tom Kovalicky gives
speech warning of agency backlash and resistance to
change.
Bob Budd will manage Red Canyon Ranch for The Nature
Conservancy.
Ranchers block hunter access to a federal grazing
allotment in Wyoming despite a BLM mandate.
Environmentalists build a coalition to protect their
interests in the Wyoming Legislature.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a plea to reconsider its 3-2 ruling that restricts the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes' use of "future" water and makes the state the administrator of federal reserved-water rights.
The jerry-built system of wildlife management on a mix of state-owned, federal and private lands is under pressure from private landowners.
It's 10 inches thick, weighs 12 pounds and will do just about anything you want it to. That malleability, according to observers, is the major weakness of the 1,800-page proposed plan for western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest.
A high-altitude standoff over construction of a national forest road gave the impression to some that a Pinedale District Ranger took orders from Louisiana-Pacific rather than from his own higher-ups in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
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