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The water content of the snowpack across Wyoming increased in the last week of December but remains below normal at 75% of the average.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Stewardship pact gives Wyo more say on national forests
Agreement with federal agency calls for state role in ‘active management’ to combat fire threats, invasive weeds, but critics see it as a plan for more logging and industrial agriculture.
Dam backers forge ahead with $11 million, seek more from feds
A controversial impoundment proposed on the West Fork of Battle Creek in Carbon County has hit a couple of speed bumps but remains alive.
Poison a tool in Wyoming’s war on ravens
For now, the bird is being killed to keep industrial sites clean and livestock safe, but all eyes are on ravens’ effect on fragile sage grouse populations.
