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Blowing snow closes roads in southeast Wyo.
Blowing snow shut down travel on parts of Interstate 80 and other highways in southeast Wyoming.
Wyoming forests prep for cuts; money goes to beetles
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.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
National team to help manage bark beetle problem
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.
Snowy Range Byway wins $2.8M for work
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.
No charges in Wyo shooting of 4-year-old
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.
Expect delays on US 30, US 287
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.
Companies add new options for disputed power line
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.
Utility seeks approval for new Wyoming wind farm
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.
Meeting set to discuss Gateway West power line
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.
Rocky Mountain Power gets Carbon Co. permit
The Carbon County Planning Commission has given Rocky Mountain Power permission to build a new substation.
DKRW Energy gets OK to delay coal-to-gas plant
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.
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Reuters, Jackson Hole N&G, etc: Beetles still chomping away on...
Reuters, Jackson Hole N&G, etc: Beetles still chomping away on the trees. Mostly pines, but spruce too.
Forests fall to beetle outbreak
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.
On Road Trip 2009, making a mobile, off-the-grid office
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 .
Forest urges care in Pole Mountain weapons area
The Medicine Bow National Forest says hikers and others in the Pole Mountain area near Laramie should be careful not to touch unexploded munitions.
Medicine Bow elk poaching investigated
Investigators are looking into the poaching of a bull elk in Medicine Bow National Forest between Cheyenne and Laramie.
Offer guide to commercial wind development
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 .
Cheyenne man dies in fall from Vedauwoo rocks
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.
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