Sage grouse hunters shot about 7,600 birds in 2019
State’s greater sage grouse team hears criticism that research doesn’t support hunting the imperiled bird, but Game and Fish disagrees.
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EPA disputes ‘alternative approach’ that OK’d huge oilfield
Environmental agency objects, along with others who say faulty justifications allowed approval of Delaware-sized Converse County Oil and Gas Project.
State unveils new grouse rules as feds again ease protections
Wyoming adopts habitat mitigation rules as Trump’s BLM, thwarted by courts, issues second stab at greater sage grouse plan rewrite.
State’s Teton land revenue quest gets only 3 construction plans
Conservation proposals dominate the offers but some of those could generate millions of dollars for schools.
Cheney next to vote on Great American Outdoors Act, park funds
U.S. Sens. Enzi, Barrasso opposed the bill that would permanently fund a program that brought $132 million in federal investment to Wyoming over 55 years. Cheney has a record of skepticism regarding the program.
