Energy companies in Wyoming's Jonah Field are funding habitat preservation, but no one seems to know how the wildlife's doing.
Items by Rebecca Huntington
The Pinedale Anticline Working Group was supposed to give citizens input on the local oil and gas boom, but it hasn’t worked out as planned.
Western communities such as Lander, Wyo., are suddenly
working hard to lure new colleges to town
In Idaho and Wyoming, old eminent domain laws allow
private entities to condemn landowners’ property – as
Peter and Judy Riede discovered when J.R. Simplot Co. announced
plans to expand its phosphate mine and build a road across their
ranch.
A series of animal poisonings in Wyoming and Idaho raises
questions about whether the states are ready to take on management
of wolves
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