Incredible piece of historic storytelling about pioneering and roguish Teton climbers taking on Mt. Everest vintage Angus Thuermer wyofile.com/carried-by-run…

A reader just alerted me that this Canadian-turned-Colorado wolf was killed near Wheatland, Wyoming. There could've been disperers since the Yellowstone reintro in '95, but if not it was probably the first wolf in the Laramie Mountains in a century-plus! coloradosun.com/2025/03/20/col…

Are "elk-occupancy agreements" the future? Maybe. “In the early days of wolf recovery... [livestock] compensation was novel—an innovation that Defenders of Wildlife was doing with private money. Now we think of it as standard practice.” -Arthur Middleton wyofile.com/paying-rancher…

The complete removal of nonnative equines from the Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek and the northwest portion of the Adobe Town herd management areas still faces a public review process and legal appeal. Mike Koshmrl has more. 👇 Read the story at ➡️ wyofile.com/feds-plan-to-r…

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New: Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) tells me that he believes the provision mandating the sale of public lands in Nevada and Utah has been stripped out and will be reflected in the managers amendment. Zinke had said this was a redline . Nevada GOP Rep Mark Amodei was pushing for it.

Drawn to Twitter today for obvious reasons and it reminded me I haven't posted in ages. Here's a WyoFile story about wildlife impacts at the planned Wyoming State Shooting Complex south of Cody. It only exists because of tips, so thank you, tipsters wyofile.com/state-biologis…

SCOOP: Huge news for western states. The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to allow the sale of millions of acres of federal land fails to comply with the Byrd Rule. Montana/Idaho GOP senators have said they oppose it as well. I’m told this decision

From 2014 to '24, the share of Wyoming residents who believe climate change is happening jumped from 55% to 86%. “That’s a huge change in 10 years. There is worry and there is a desire for action.” -Kristen Landreville Dustin Bleizeffer story for WyoFile. wyofile.com/wyoming-warmin…

Humans can sure do a number (2) on alpine environments. Here's a case in point: Wyoming's Lonesome Lake, stunning and remote as it is, was more polluted with fecal bacteria that any of the other 981 lakes U.S. EPA sampled for its National Lakes Assessment! wyofile.com/wyomings-crowd…

1.5 yrs ago, Cody Roberts brought a wounded wolf into a bar & drew international disgust. Leniency of the punishment—a $250 fine—stoked the outrage. Now, a grand jury has convened that could indict him for felony animal cruelty. The scoop for WyoFile. wyofile.com/grand-jury-con…

Gov. Mark Gordon will deploy the Wyoming National Guard to support Trump's mass detention and deportation effort. He is one of a reported 20 Republican governors to do so. wyofile.com/gordon-to-depl…

Uinta, Platte, Niobrara, Goshen and Sublette counties become "news deserts" as News Media Corp shutters eight local Wyoming newspapers with no notice. The oldest had been in print for 122 years. Thirty people lost jobs. wyofile.com/stop-the-press…

A full-throttled rollback of federal regulations on industrial emissions might not be uniformly welcome in Wyoming, particularly in Pinedale where residents struggled for years before convincing regulators and industry to address a health threat. WyoFile wyofile.com/wyoming-crowd-…