Medicine Bow News

Blowing snow shut down travel on parts of Interstate 80 and other highways in southeast Wyoming.

Some national forests in Wyoming are trimming their budgets, including possible campground closures, as the regional U.S. Forest Service office diverts funds to bark beetle projects.

A national team will help the U.S. Forest Service manage the attack against the beetle infestation that has swept through about 2.5 million acres of forests in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming.

Wyoming is getting $2.8 million from the federal government to replace a visitor center, make parking lot improvements and other changes to the Snowy Range Scenic Byway.

Carbon County prosecutors say they won't file any charges after a 6-year-old boy accidentally shot his 4-year-old brother during a family camping trip.

A The snowy and wet weather this week has canceled two days of scheduledA work onA eleven miles of the roadA east of Medicine Bow.

As part of a renewable energy development trend sweeping across Colorado and Wyoming, a California company wants to test the Wyoming winds in the Medicine Bow National Forest northeast of the Vedauwoo Rocks to find out if it is feasible to build a wind farm there.

Developers of the Gateway West transmission line have introduced new potential routes for the power line that's proposed to run from Glenrock to western Idaho.

Rocky Mountain Power is progressing with plans to build a 74-turbine wind farm north of Medicine Bow and hopes to start operating the facility by November next year.

Company spokeswoman Margaret Oler says the meeting is part of an effort by Rocky Mountain Power to be as open and clear as possible.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Wyoming gives coal-to-gasoline plant a year extension DKRW Energy received a one-year extension from the state Industrial Siting Council on DKRW's plan to build a mine mouth coal-to-gasoline plant near Medicine Bow in Wyoming's Carbon County to allow the company to line up financing.

The Carbon County Planning Commission has given Rocky Mountain Power permission to build a new substation.

RAWLINS, Wyo. - The state Industrial Siting Council has granted a one-year delay for starting construction of a $2 billion coal-to-gasoline plant near Medicine Bow in Carbon County because the project's developer needs more time to work out financing.

Reuters, Jackson Hole N&G, etc: Beetles still chomping away on the trees. Mostly pines, but spruce too.

From the vantage point of an 80-foot tower rising above the trees, the Wyoming vista seems idyllic: snow-capped peaks in the distance give way to shimmering green spruce.

The question was: is it possible to set up a functional workspace deep in the wilderness? That's what I set out to do, as one of my last goals of Road Trip 2009 .

The Medicine Bow National Forest says hikers and others in the Pole Mountain area near Laramie should be careful not to touch unexploded munitions.

Investigators are looking into the poaching of a bull elk in Medicine Bow National Forest between Cheyenne and Laramie.

Wyoming's first reference guide on commercial wind development was released today by the University of Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources .

The Albany County Sheriff's Office says a Cheyenne man died when he fell from a rock and hit his head in the Vedauwoo area of Medicine Bow National Forest.