WyoFile’s staff collected some of its favorite images published in 2017 to remind us all of the year gone by.
To start, we chose an image of bison on the Wind River Reservation by Alexis Bonogofsky who photographed a transplant of buffalo last fall. We feel that the photograph and story she told represents much of what is good about the Equality State. Many of the pictures, like Bonogofsky’s, were contributed by generous photographers whose help we greatly appreciate.
In the gallery below you can find other inspiring images that tell of some of the goings on in Wyoming in 2017. From perplexed legislators to working cowpokes, volunteers to biologists, revelers to mourners, we hope this smattering of pictures reminds all of our bountiful home.
You can click on the headlines to see the story each photograph accompanied. To read the captions, roll your cursor over the bottom of the picture.
And we wish you a happy new year.
Teton Crest Trail

(Kelsey Dayton)
Sublette cowboy

(Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Dept.)
Veterans Day

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
Walking school bus

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
Bronze Boot

(Samantha Case/WyoFile)
Buffalo prayer

(Alexis Bonogofsky/WyoFile)
Target practice

(Matthew Copeland/WyoFile)

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
Cheech and throng

(Andrew Graham/WyoFile)
Citizen Legislature

(Andrew Graham/WyoFile)
Restoring buffalo

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
The Fishbowl

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
Home from school

(The Content Lab LLC, and Producers Video Corporation)
Squaretop, round orbs

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr/WyoFile)
Speed climbers
Meredith June Edwards climbs on the Grand Teton. Edwards and her partners climbed the mountain twice in a day. (Jake Urban)
(Jake Urban)
Mule deer fawn

(Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
Undocumented immigrants

(Andrew Graham/WyoFile)
A chairman’s angst

(Andrew Graham/WyoFile)
High water

(Petru Baraghin/Elevation Imaging/Float-O-Graphs)
Hotel Wolf

(Andrew Graham/WyoFile)
Live and let tutu

(Eric J. Krszjzaniek)
Name that cowboy

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr.)
ICBM test

(Staff Sgt. Christopher Ruano/U.S. Air Force)
Hooch and hound

(Matthew Copeland/WyoFile)
End of the trail

(Mary Thoman)
Car[e]-free ride

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr./WyoFile)
Olaf’s windsock

(Chris Figenshau)
Zinke’s backlog

(Department of the Interior)
Bondurant wolf

(Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish)
Education funding

(Angus M. Thuermer Jr/WyoFile)
Water protector

(Valerie Saidman)
Town Hall

(Angus Thuermer / WyoFile)
Path of the Pronghorn

(John Fandek)
Thermopolis twilight

(Sophia Jensen)
Really great pictures
A really pleasing set of images.
Well done – thoughtful and stimulating photography.