Park gateway towns brace for 20%-50% pandemic tax drop
As Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks reopen to keen interest, officials keep a wary eye on visitors and a steep decline of projected tax revenues.
Natural Resources
Scientists: Reworked BLM plan still fails to protect sage grouse
Agency’s preferred alternatives don’t account for four-year population slide, wildfire risks or landscape-scale coordination as the BLM aligns federal conservation plans with states’, experts charge. Others back the federal plan.
Here’s how to save the Colorado River
Opinion
by 3 Comments The Colorado River basin faces a massive crisis. Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lays out a road map that doesn’t entail arbitrary cuts.
State weighs contentious Ramaco coal mine permit, again
The years-long, politically charged fight over permitting what would be the first new Wyoming coal mine in decades resumed Wednesday with familiar arguments from both sides.
EPA knocks Wyo plan to bar public’s water pollution data
State proposal, supported by agricultural interests, would also prohibit information gathered by academic institutions from being solely used to classify the health of streams, rivers and lakes.
