Author: Jessi Entel
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As part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area, scientific capture operations are about to begin within Yellowstone National Park. Biologists who are apart of the Interagency Grizzly Bears Study Team will begin field captures on Aug. 28 and continue through…
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking everyone, especially landowners, to report dead sage-grouse so the birds can be tested for West Nile virus. While there are no signs of an outbreak, Game and Fish asks the public annually for reports to help in the management of the state’s sage-grouse populations. West Nile virus…
The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Wyoming has shared the most recent sentencings. Joshua Charles Crook, age 34, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced on August 17, 2023, to 40 months’ imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal imposed the sentence which includes three years…
Fulbright Scholar in Residence (S-I-R), Peter Sabella will be visiting Northwest College for a pair of presentations on Wednesday, August 30. The first presentation will be held at the Bloom-Wilson Intercultural House from 12-1 p.m. The second presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Yellowstone Building Conference Center. Both sessions are free and open…
24 grizzly bears have died or have been discovered dead in the Greater Yellowstone area so far this year, with eight so far being killed for livestock depredation. This number also includes a bear that drowned in an irrigation canal. The latest grizzly bear death occurred earlier this month, when a 20-year old bear was…
The Harry Jackson Institute has announced that the Institute will gift sculptures by the late artist Harry Jackson to the Sister Cities of Camaiore, Italy and Cody, Wyoming. Camaiore and Cody have been sister cities since 2017. Cody will receive the 6-foot-tall bronze sculpture of Sor Capanna that currently stands near the City Park band…
The University of Wyoming lost its case in court to censure church elder Todd Schmidt from preaching his anti-LGBTQ ideas in the Union Breezeway. Judge Nancy Freudenthal concluded that “the foregoing reasons, the Court enjoins the UW Officials, and their agents, from censoring Schmidt’s views on the sexual identity of Artemis Langford and enjoins the…
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation has received its fourth consecutive Landmarks of American History and Culture grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used for the “Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration” program, which will bring 72 teachers from around the country to Heart Mountain to study the…
Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear on Aug. 15 after consulting with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The bear was captured for livestock depredation northwest of Thermopolis on private land and was relocated to the Five Mile Creek drainage approximately 41 miles west of Cody. Bear…
After a brief closure, the Hot Springs State Park announced on social media Wednesday evening that the Star Plunge will reopen Thursday, August 17th with normal business hours. Wyoming State Parks temporarily closed the Thermopolis pool earlier this week. According to WSP’s August 15th announcement, the closure was due to a “failure to provide proof…