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The Judge Who Cried Wolf Endangered-species protections reinstated for gray wolves		18 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:01 PM on 18 Jul 2008 A federal judge has ruled that wolves should be returned to the endangered-species list for now, derailing plans for wolf hunts in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The 2,000 or so gray wolves that inhabit the three states were removed from the endangered list in March; environmentalists sued to get them back on, saying populations were not yet stable. According to the Natural Resource ...
Topics: endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

It's Worth a Shot Hunters' group sues Interior Dept for drilling's impacts on wildlife		19 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:52 AM on 19 Jun 2008 The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a coalition of hunting, fishing, and conservation groups, is suing the U.S. Interior Department over the impacts of gas drilling on wildlife in southwestern Wyoming. Some 1,000 natural-gas wells puncture the landscape of the state's Pinedale Anticline gas fields, with over 4,000 more wells likely to be drilled in the next 60 yea ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, litigation, news, oil and gas drilling, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Gray Area Gray wolves under attack, groups want them re-listed		28 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:03 PM on 28 Apr 2008 Saying that their concerns about trigger-happy hunters have been validated, 12 conservation and animal-rights groups have sued to get the gray wolf re-listed as an endangered species. The 1,500 wolves that roam through Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho were delisted on Mar. 28 and can now be shot at will; a total of 37 have been killed in the last month. Conservation groups filed suit Monday, saying th ...
Topics: animal welfare, endangered species, Idaho, litigation, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Obama wins Wyoming	David Roberts	08 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Today Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucus. He's the proud choice of Wyoming's 17 Democrats!
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, politics, presidential race 08, Wyoming (all these topics)

Wyoming caucus	David Roberts	05 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Two things you probably didn't know: Wyoming had a Republican caucus today. (The Dem caucus there is on the 8th.) Romney won it. Thompson came in second, Duncan Hunter third and no other candidate campaigned or got any support. There you have it.
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, Wyoming (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	12 Dec 2007	Gristmill
'Within the last few months, most of the planned coal plants in the United States have been cancelled, denied permits, or been involved in protracted litigation. Accordingly, the company submits that IPP 3, Bridger 5, and the IGCC option at Jim Bridger, are no longer viable options for the 2012 and 2014 time frame, respectively.' -- power company Pacificorp, in a Nov. 28 filing to the Utah Public Service Commission, announcing revocation of plans for two coal-fired ...
Topics: coal, energy, quotables, Wyoming (all these topics)

Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development		22 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Teddy Would Be Proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the U.S. Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Teddy would be proud Conservation organization sues feds over energy development	Grist	21 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership has sued the Department of the Interior over the authorization of thousands of new oil and gas wells, roads, and miles of pipeline in a wildlife-rich area of Wyoming. News that an organization has sued the federal government over environmental travesties is, well, not really news -- unless it's TRCP, a non-litigious group with a largely Republican membership. The move is indicative that even the Bushies' natural allies are fed up ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, politics, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Gas Money Besieged by natural-gas exploration, a Wyoming town draws the line	Brian Calvert	30 Nov 2006	Main Dish
On a summer weekend in the high country, I talked my grandmother into taking a drive into the Wyoming Range, where she'd worked with my grandfather as a hunting guide more than 20 years earlier. We wanted to have a look at a certain 44,600 acres of forest that had been leased by companies in search of natural gas. Can the Wyoming Range be protected from drilling? Photo: JessLeePhotos.com Hea ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, Wyoming (all these topics)

The Big Glad Wolf Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states		29 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Big Glad Wolf Wolf population thriving in Rocky Mountain states The wolf population in the Northern Rocky Mountains has grown by more than 20 percent since last winter. Officials estimate that 158 wolf packs, totaling at least 1,229 members, are living it up in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. The midyear estimate is the highest population estimate since wolves were reintroduced to the region in 1995 and 1996; how ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Not Management Material BLM slacks on environmental monitoring in Wyoming		01 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Not Management Material BLM slacks on environmental monitoring in Wyoming For the past six years, the Bureau of Land Management has been slacking on its commitment to assess and limit the impact of natural-gas drilling on wilderness in western Wyoming, says, um, the Bureau of Land Management. A leaked internal assessment for the BLM's Pinedale, Wyo., field office declare ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, Wyoming (all these topics)

You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest		03 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
You Want a Lease of Me? Wyoming governor opposes federal drilling leases in national forest Wyoming is plenty bullish on a local natural-gas boom -- but Gov. Dave Freudenthal (D) has put his foot down at the Wyoming Range, asking the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to halt sales of drilling leases on 19,000 acres of western Wyoming's Bridger-Teton Nati ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge		23 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Guess That Makes Us Punstitutes BLM focuses on drilling at expense of wildlife, critics charge Wildlife biologists at the Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale, Wyo., are finding their talents put to unusual use: reviewing drilling-permit requests. Western Wyoming has been a natural-gas drilling mecca for the last five years, during which its populations of mule deer and bree ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, news, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Harmin' Hammer? On baking soda	Umbra Fisk	10 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I liked your column about homemade cleaning products. I have a question, though: What's up with baking soda? It's frequently bandied about as an eco-friendly cleaner, but I have no idea what it is, where it comes from, or how it's made. Amanda Charlottesville, Va. Dearest Amanda, Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, a naturally occurring crystalline compound. I can be unusually precise about where it comes from: Green River, Wyo ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green cleaning, green living, mining, Wyoming (all these topics)

My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale		24 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
My Own Private Saudi Arabia Energy execs beg Congress to let them dig up the West for oil shale "We can safely say of our future with regard to oil and gas, it has yet to see its brightest days," said Rep. James Gibbons (R-Nev.) in a House subcommittee meeting yesterday. We know what you're thinking: What the ... ? Well, apparently Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are sitting on top of lots and ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, oil, politics, Utah, Wyoming (all these topics)

Ban Ban Federal judge repeals Clinton snowmobile ban		18 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Ban Ban Federal judge repeals Clinton snowmobile ban The latest chapter has opened in what has become a sort of mini-Iliad for our times: the battle over snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. On Friday, a federal judge in Wyoming, Clarence Brimmer, struck down the ban on snowmobiles in the parks put in place toward the end of Clinton's second term. The ban, he wrote in his opin ...
Topics: national parks, outdoor recreation, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

A Bridger-Teton Over Troubled Water Chalk up a win for Wyoming wildlands		16 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
A Bridger-Teton Over Troubled Water Chalk up a win for Wyoming wildlands Here's a rare victory for the wilderness crowd: The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that it will suspend plans to open 157,000 acres of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest -- much of it roadless -- to oil and gas drilling. Enviros say the forest is one of the most important wild areas in the country to have been mar ...
Topics: energy, natural gas, oil, US Forest Service, Wyoming (all these topics)

Come On, Feel the Noise New 'quiet' snowmobiles in Yellowstone are anything but	Amanda Griscom	20 Apr 2004	Muckraker
New "quiet" snowmobiles in Yellowstone are anything but By Amanda Griscom 20 Apr 2004 A vroom with a view. Photo: Greater Yellowstone Coalition. You might think a winter job in the snowy recesses of Yellowstone National Park would guarantee perks along the lines of, say, peace and quiet. Au contraire. In light of a recent study conducted for the National Park Service, many Yellowstone employees are being advised to don hearing protection fit for a rock-and-ro ...
Topics: Muckraker, national parks, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

Tempest in a Teapot Government to Bury CO2 in Teapot Dome Oil Field		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Tempest in a Teapot Government to Bury CO2 in Teapot Dome Oil Field The U.S. Department of Energy is planning to bury some 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide a year underneath the Teapot Dome oil field in central Wyoming, in the largest carbon-sequestration test project ever undertaken. The process, which involves compressing CO2 into liquid form and ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, ozone, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution, Wyoming (all these topics)

Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming		04 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Cow-a-bunga Enviro Coalition Buys Out Large Grazing Permit in Wyoming A coalition of conservation groups has agreed to pay $250,000 to a Wyoming rancher to buy out her federal grazing permit, a deal that will keep cattle out of a 137-square-mile area that abuts Grand Teton National Park. The land is home to grizzly bears, wolves, lynx, bald eagles, and numerous other species. This is just the latest incidence ...
Topics: national parks, ranching, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Back to the Yellowstone Age		26 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Back to the Yellowstone Age The Bush administration has asked the United Nations to remove Yellowstone National Park from a list of endangered World Heritage sites. "Yellowstone is no longer in danger," wrote the Interior Department's Paul Hoffman in a letter to the World Heritage Committee. There's just one snag: The park staff disagree with Hoffman, saying Yello ...
Topics: Idaho, Montana, national parks, politics, water pollution, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Why-oming		01 May 2003	Daily Grist
Why-oming In a much-anticipated decision, the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management announced yesterday that it would approve the development of as many as 51,000 coalbed methane wells in Wyoming and Montana's Powder River Basin. Although the BLM also called for a team of government representatives to monitor the air- and water-quality effects of the wells, environmentalists were disappointe ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, wilderness, Wyoming (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

Is That USGS or USBS?		18 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Is That USGS or USBS? Here's some news to make you think twice about the reliability of government figures: The U.S. Geological Survey has announced that there is far more coal bed methane gas available in the Powder River Basin than previously thought -- while simultaneously acknowledging that the Rocky Mountain West contains far less oil than the agency had claimed in earli ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Montana, politics, US Geological Survey, Wyoming (all these topics)

Bed Head		16 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Bed Head An Interior Department appeals board has upheld its earlier ruling that three of the leases for a coal bed methane (CBM) drilling project in Wyoming's Powder River Basin were issued without adequate environmental review. Environmentalists hope the decision will help block pending leases for such drilling on ...
Topics: Bureau of Land Management, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, politics, Wyoming (all these topics)

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