Medicine Bow News

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.

Rocky Mountain Power expects to begin construction next spring on a proposed 74-turbine wind farm in Carbon County.

A new guide book aims to help Wyoming landowners navigate issues related to leasing their land for wind development.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Group forms to fight Wyoming-Idaho power line project Business executives that own land in Wyoming's Laramie Range and other landowners formed the Northern Laramie Range Alliance to protest the path of the Gateway West project, a 1,150-mile transmission-line project from Glenrock to Medicine Bow ...

The Sierra Club is seeking stronger emission limits for Medicine Bow Fuel & Power's proposed coal-to-gasoline refinery in Carbon County.

A group of Wyoming landowners and businessmen has been formed to oppose a pair of proposed routes for a power line project along the Laramie Range.

About 50 people attended the April 30 forum to ask questions and voice their opinions regarding small wind generators.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Across the Rocky Mountain West, islands of green pine trees dot the landscape, isolated from one another by a sea of dying, and dead, rusty colored pines.

When the mother of Riley Hanagan, 11, learned that her daughter could win a dude ranch family vacation by drawing art for an online, storybook Bible, she thought, "This is too good to be true." Her daughter is an avid horseback rider, loves the outdoors and studies the Bible daily.

Four counties in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado are joining the Medicine-Bow Routt National Forests to form a Resource Advisory Committee on forest-health projects in the region.

Today's caption of the day photo is of a pair of deer peering through a drive-in liquor store window.

A winter storm in southern and eastern Wyoming led the state Department of Transportation to close numerous roads in the Cheyenne area.

Wyoming DEQ issues air-quality permit for coal-to-liquids plant Construction on a coal-to-liquids plant in southeast Wyoming is expected to begin in 2010, although developers of the Medicine Bow have yet to ...

A 100-mile stretch of Interstate 80 between Laramie and Rawlins is closed because of blowing snow and slick conditions.

Contracts totaling $31.1 million for 12 highway projects around the state, including five made possible by the additional funding the 2008 Legislature appropriated for highway construction, were awarded by the ...

The Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust recently placed three new conservation easements in Carbon County.

The pine beetle epidemic chewing through forests in Wyoming and Colorado could endanger roads, power lines and other infrastructure as millions of acres of trees fall to the ground, a top U.S. Forest Service ...

Last night's wintery weather caused some problems for many road-bound travelers this morning.

Timber companies appeal lynx change Timber industry organizations have filed an appeal of the lynx amendment to the management plan for national forests in Colorado.