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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state’s western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply. That warning…
Wyoming could be the windiest state, judging by the 67 High Wind Warnings issued in eastern Wyoming last year – the highest number ever issued in one year and more than any other region in the nation.
Over the weekend teams from Wyoming and Nebraska competed in the annual 6-man All-Star Football game. The Nebraska All-Stars would defeat team Wyoming in the game by a final score of 48-14. With the win, Nebraska ties up the series at 5 wins apiece.
Sometimes the internet really does come through with pure gold. This was one of those times. About a year ago a guy named Josh Swain got a bunch of other Josh Swains in a group message to propose that there can only be one true Josh. What started as funny banter became an international meme.…
A powerful late winter snowstorm intensified over the central Rocky Mountains on Sunday with heavy snow and wind leading to airport and road closures, power outages, and avalanche warnings in parts of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska. The National Weather Service in Wyoming called it a “historic and crippling” winter storm that would cause extremely dangerous…
Shoshone National Forest is encouraging everyone to use a new tool to plan their next excursions into the Rocky Mountain Region The US. Forest Service has released a new online tool to provide updates on the status and openings of recreation hotspots in real time. It’s a fairly straightforward tool – an interactive map of…
More closures in national forests across the West. Acting Regional Forester Jennifer Everlien signed an order closing all developed recreation sites within the Rocky Mountain Region of the National Forest Service. That region encompasses 24 national forests and grasslands across Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. Developed recreation sites are temporarily closed while dispersed camping,…
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