Raymond Plank, chairman of Apache Corp., says responsible
companies like his prove that the energy industry can reduce its
environmental impacts and give more back to local
communities
Wyoming

Approximately $68 million will be delivered to more than 100 projects across the country — many of which are based in the West.

The hunters escaped criminal trespass charges, but still face a civil suit.

Putin’s military moves — and the globe’s response to them — have unexpected consequences for the region.
Energy companies are reaping billions from the West, but
few states outside Wyoming are making sure that wealth stays at
home and is invested wisely.
Gold mining gets go-ahead near South Pass, Wyo.; Eric
Griego loses election to Albuquerque Mayor Marty Chavez; W.R. Grace
tells Libby, Mont., residents they’re not that sick;
farm-labor broker Global Horizons ordered to pay penalties, back
wages and taxes
Wounded by Percival Everett is a
modern-day Western novel with a twist

The rising popularity of Viagra has cut into the profits
of Western antler-hunters, including Wyoming Boy Scouts
In Restoring a Presence, Peter Nabokov
and Lawrence Loendorf shine a light on Yellowstone’s largely
forgotten American Indian heritage
Wyoming’s billboards are ugly, and probably
outdated, too
A Canadian mining company, the Fremont Gold Corporation,
plans to dig 200 test pits for a possible mining operation five
miles from the South Pass National Historic Landmark in Wyoming,
where wagon trains once traveled
Honor in bar fights; philanthropic roughnecks; salmon vs.
sea lions; skunks; cowboy caviar; "Liquid Gold"; slime-mold beetles
named for Bush and friends

Although I expect more heartless wind and freezing nights, I think winter’s tight grip has been loosened. Summer lies ahead.
Annie Proulx’s new collection of short stories,
Bad Dirt, celebrates and skewers the colorful
characters of rural Wyoming
Silver Fox of the Rockies by Daniel
Tyler tells the story of Delphus E. Carpenter, who sought peaceful
resolutions to Western water problems, and helped create the 1922
Colorado River Compact
Wyoming’s runaway energy boom is taking on toll on
the state’s land, especially when the industry’s salty
wastewater spills or leaches into the ground
In Great Wyoming Bear Stories, Tom Reed
takes a compassionate and entertaining look at the life, lore and
legend of the grizzly bear
Gretel Ehrlich’s recent book, The Future of Ice: A
Journey Into Cold, is an intimate "ode and lament" on global
warming and the end of winter
Wyoming writer Mark Spragg’s new novel, An
Unfinished Life, explores the universal territory of a
fractured family’s life
Friendly moose killed; San Juan Horseshoe spoofs hunters;
not an "easy to moderate" mountain climb in Wyoming; meteorite
drops in; persnickety about pumpkins in Puyallup; hit-and-run by
clown at Burning Man Festival
Some of Wamsutter’s citizens are briefly profiled: a
Baptist preacher, a couple of real estate entrepreneurs, a
café owner, the deputy sheriff, a bar owner, an oil-field
worker, the town librarian and a local Democrat
Wamsutter, Wyo., is a boomtown these days, but the town is
struggling to be a real community, instead of just a barracks for
the natural gas industry
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains,
but local farmers are stuck with a harsh reality: It still pays to
plow up virgin prairie
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