Let’s face it, I-80 is not a road. It’s a railroad disguised as a highway. Over four decades, it has turned into something entirely different from what it was designed for in the last century.

Sheridan— In an interview with WyoFile, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig recommend Wyoming wean itself from a commodity diet.
Hoenig was in Sheridan earlier this month to give a speech titled: An Economy at Risk.
Although Hoenig was addressing the national economic recession, the title to his speech could not be more fitting [...]

This book is not intended as another plea to save the greater Red Desert. Many tries for conservation by people who love the place have come and gone over the decades, defeated by the prevailing attitude of “show me the money,” by the congressional cold shoulder, by lack of knowledge of what is in that [...]

While some Wyoming legislators, hunters, and ranchers claim that wolves are decimating the state’s elk herds, analysis of the facts tells a different story. Prior to the reintroduction of wolves into the Greater Yellowstone area during 1995 and 1996, some pessimists predicted that following wolf recovery, Wyoming’s abundant elk herds and popular elk hunting would [...]

Nestled on the downwind side of the Rocky Mountains, Dubois, Wyoming is in the southeast arm of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. This small mountain town has been our home for nearly four decades. We spent 30 years building and operating a successful wilderness outfitting business. We saddled horses for folks who want to vacation, to [...]

Sheridan — In the past year, the west has watch with grim fascination as some of the Rocky Mountain’s poshest resorts have careened down the black-diamond slope.
The Yellowstone Club of Big Sky, Montana provides the most spectacular example.
Prospective members of the 13,400-acre ski and golf resort had to have a net worth of $3 million [...]

Okay, Ken Salazar opposed saving the black-tailed prairie dog. But give President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head up the Interior Department a break.
After eight years of the Bush Administration’s using Interior to enrich its friends in the energy business, obliterate huge swaths of landscape – see the Upper Green River Valley — short-change us on [...]

CASPER  –  U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer said in a Friday ruling that, while he didn’t like another federal judge’s decision to throw out Yellowstone National Park snowmobile rules, he wasn’t going to fight it.
But Brimmer confused matters by also ruling that “the NPS[National Park Service] shall reinstate the 2004 temporary rule until such time [...]

Casper — With the winter season closing in and Wyoming snow outfitters in limbo, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park officials unveiled a temporary winter use plan that lowers daily snowmobile numbers by more than 40 percent.
The proposed reduction came after a previous parks service plan, allowing 540 snowmobiles a day into the parks, was [...]