http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/wy-news/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:03:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050517/posts Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have more oil in oil shale than OPEC. Everyone seems to know that by now, but here are six things you probably did not know about oil shale. 1) Did you know oil shale has a smaller carbon footprint than ethanol? When calculating the carbon emissions of the entire oil shale process, without the use of carbon capture technology, its total carbon footprint is about 7 percent larger than gasoline. But a peer-reviewed article in the February issue of Science calculates the entire carbon footprint of ethanol to be 93 percent larger than gasoline. The article... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050517/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:03:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043065/posts The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced it has removed the Preble's meadow jumping mouse populations in Wyoming from protection under the Endangered Species Act. The service said it is also amended the listing for Preble's to indicate the subspecies remains threatened in the Colorado portion of its range. "For Colorado basically nothing changes," A new management plant with a new critical habitat map will be developed by 2010... The determination is based on a better understanding of the distribution of and threats to Preble's meadow jumping mouse populations in Wyoming and Colorado The Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043065/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 20:23:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041024/posts U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses. "They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident. "People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children,'" Parker said during an interview on the network's "Rule of Law Show." About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event... The Casper Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041024/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:50:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037448/posts RIVERTON — Tie dye, tee-pees, and cries for free love and world peace. If it sounds like an image of the 1960s, residents near Pinedale may believe they've traveled back in time next week when a large band of "hippies" hold their annual gathering at a national forest near Pinedale. Federal officials began arriving in Riverton earlier this month to prepare for the arrival of the group, which calls itself the Rainbow Family of Living Light. Anywhere between several hundred to a few thousand members of the group are expected, and their arrival has already drawn the ire of some... KTAK Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037448/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:13:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035723/posts By CHRIS MERRILL Star-Tribune environment reporter Tuesday, June 24, 2008 > LANDER -- Since Rainbow Family participants have chosen to stay put at Big Sandy in Wyoming's Wind River Mountains, leaders with the Boy Scouts of America have decided to alter plans for a major service project that had been scheduled to take place in the same general area. > > Leaders with the Boy Scouts' Order of the Arrow have decided to cancel a long-planned forest restoration project near Dutch Joe Guard Station in the Wind Rivers, said Mary Cernicek, spokeswoman with the Bridger-Teton National Forest. > > The... Casper Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035723/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:29:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033353/posts WASHINGTON — The fight over energy and how to lower gas prices threw the Rocky Mountain West into the spotlight Wednesday when President Bush urged Congress to repeal a moratorium on the development of oil shale. In a speech that spurred protests from Democratic leaders and environmentalists, Bush called for harvesting oil from shale rock found in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. The president also advocated drilling for oil in coastal waters and the Alaskan wilderness, saying the tight supply is pushing up gas prices. "Every American who drives to work, purchases food or ships a product has felt the effect,"... Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033353/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:11:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032192/posts CHEYENNE -- Federal officials began arriving in Riverton on Monday to prepare for the Rainbow Family gathering, which is expected to be held on U.S. Forest Service land in the Big Sandy area near Pinedale. A national incident management team made up of about 40 Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management personnel was setting up shop to deal with the potentially thousands of people who could turn out for the event in early July. "The Rainbow Gathering of Living Light" is a weeklong campout that has been held on federal lands around the country each year since the early... Casper Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032192/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:58:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031522/posts CHEYENNE -- City firefighters looked like they were out of uniform on Friday. But they were making a statement with their new red shirts in place of the traditional blue that the department wears every other day of the week. It is a statement of solidarity with others who put their lives on the line every day for their fellow citizens -- soldiers. Cheyenne Fire and Rescue is joining four other departments in Wyoming and thousands of union firefighters across the U.S. and Canada in wearing red T-shirts on Fridays to show support for troops overseas. Many of Cheyenne's firefighters... Wyoming Tribune-Eagle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031522/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:16:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031381/posts Like many Wyomingites, Jim Robinson commutes a significant distance to work each day. As might be expected, Robinson, the senior economist for the Wyoming Department of Revenue's economic analysis division, carpools to save money. The savings on gasoline once realized two years ago seems insignificant today. "More people are saying, 'If I could just get a job in the town where I live,"' Robinson said. The skyrocketing cost of gasoline may provide some gains for state revenue in Wyoming from oil production, according to local economic experts. The gains from oil production -- and more from natural gas and coal... Casper Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031381/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:02:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027625/posts NEW YORK (Fortune) -- You'd think this would be oil shale's moment. You'd think with gas prices topping $4 and consumers crying uncle, Congress would be moving fast to spur development of a domestic oil resource so vast - 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming alone - it could eventually rival the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. You'd think politicians would be tripping over themselves to arrange photo-ops with Harold Vinegar (whom I profiled in Fortune last November), the brilliant, Brooklyn-born chief scientist at Royal Dutch Shell whose research cracked the code on how... Fortune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027625/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 19:10:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026090/posts What is UCG? Underground Coal Gasification - a mining method utilizing linked well bores... Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026090/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:34:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023997/posts Conservationists who oppose the removal of wolves from under federal protection - and who call the delisting unlawful - sought an emergency injunction Thursday to stop the animals' killing. Last month, a coalition of 11 environmental groups sued the U.S. Department of the Interior in an effort to keep gray wolves in the Northern Rockies region on the endangered species list. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director H. Dale Hall announced the delisting decision in February, and it took effect March 28, divesting the gray wolf of its Endangered Species Act protections. Without those protections, environmentalists say, the gray wolf... the Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023997/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 15:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017988/posts GREEN RIVER -- The prairie dog rises above its burrow on the high plains of southern Wyoming and takes a casual look around. Seconds later, the animal disappears in an explosion of blood and dirt. The self-described "shortgrass sniper" dressed in camouflage and orange chuckles for the camera and gets ready to fire again. With thousands of hits on YouTube, this popular prairie dog video by Colorado hunter Jim Bowman advises hunters to get ready for the upcoming prairie dog killing contest in southern Wyoming's Carbon County. The controversial, fifth annual, three-day "There Goes the Neighborhood" prairie dog killing contest... Casper Star-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017988/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 11:53:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017700/posts Confronting Lion Was Breathtaking Experience. “I was walking this trail I had made, hunting for mushrooms, when I came across a deer carcass which hadn't been there before,” said Ron Olson... “I kind of looked around and didn't see anything. When I turned around, just to my left, there stood a mountain lion.” The lion sighting was officially confirmed Friday by officials from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. It is the state's first confirmed sighting in four years. About 90 minutes after they set up the camera, four shots were taken of the mountain lion eating on the carcass.... P&D http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017700/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 17:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014384/posts CHEYENNE, Wyo. - An American Indian who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled. A three-judge panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver on Thursday reversed a 2006 lower court ruling that dismissed a criminal charge against Winslow Friday, a Northern Arapaho Indian who has acknowledged shooting a bald eagle in 2005 during the tribe's Sun Dance. In dismissing the charge, U.S. District Judge William Downes of Wyoming said the federal government has shown "callous indifference" to American Indian religious beliefs. Eagle feathers are... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014384/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 13:20:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004695/posts Battle That Gained Texas Independence Observed Today Today is San Jacinto Day, a state holiday observing the April 21, 1836, battle near Houston in which a Texas army led by Gen. Sam Houston defeated Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Historians cite it as the decisive battle in Texas gaining independence from Mexico. Sam Houston's approximately 900 men, infuriated by the deaths of about 550 comrades at the Alamo and the Goliad massacre, took just 18 minutes to win a battle that left 630 Mexican soldiers dead and another 730 in captivity, according to historical accounts. Santa Anna agreed... Tyler Morning Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004695/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:39:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995554/posts CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, a former Clinton administration appointee, announced Wednesday that he will support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. Freudenthal said he was impressed by the large, enthusiastic crowds that turned out to see Obama when he visited Wyoming ahead of last month's caucuses. "They paid attention and were riveted and reactivated, and trying to be part of an America that's bigger than just their own self- interest," Freudenthal told The Associated Press. "And you hope that can work. Because something has got to dig us out of this morass that... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995554/posts#comment Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993866/posts A booming energy industry has helped Wyoming's average income double over the past decade. In 1996, the average Wyomingite earned $21,875 a year and the state ranked 33rd for average income. Last year, Wyoming's average income was $43,226 and the state ranked sixth... No other state's personal income increased as much over the same period. Wyoming is an anomaly in the region. The top five states for personal income in 2007 -- Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland -- are on the East Coast. Colorado, at 10th, is the only other Rocky Mountain state in the top 10.... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993866/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991272/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming. Google News (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991272/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:52:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991267/posts Pentagon admits mistaken arms shipment 6 minutes ago The Pentagon has announced that it mistakenly shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan from a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming. It said the items have been returned to the United States. At a news conference, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said Tuesday that the misshipped items were four nose cone assemblies for ballistic missiles. He also said it was sent instead of helicopter batteries that had been ordered by Taiwan, he said. Wynne said the matter is under investigation. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991267/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990168/posts JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, starting a visit on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Washington would never pressure Israel to take steps that threaten its security. Palestinians accuse Israel of undermining the U.S.-sponsored peace talks by expanding Jewish settlements, refusing to remove West Bank roadblocks and mounting offensives against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip who fire cross-border rockets into the Jewish state. "America's commitment to Israel's security is enduring and unshakable, as is Israel's right to protect itself always against terrorism, rocket attacks and other attacks from forces dedicated to Israel's destruction,"... al Reuters via Tahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990168/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:25:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988514/posts Montana’s wolf population increased 34 percent over the past year, to an estimated 422 wolves in 73 packs... The wolves are nearly equally distributed between northern and southern Montana...although the bulk of the population growth was in northwestern and far western Montana... Wolves are still listed under the Endangered Species Act. Delisting was set for late March, but lawsuits are expected to delay that. As for conflicts with ranchers, the FWP reported an increase in the number of confirmed cattle deaths due to wolves, from 32 to 75, and an increase in the number of sheep deaths, from four to... Bozeman Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988514/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986197/posts CHEYENNE -- Declaring that Wyoming residents have a right to defend their homes, Gov. Dave Freudenthal signed a bill Thursday that spells out in statute that citizens may use deadly force on intruders. Freudenthal said he supported a last-minute change to House Bill 137 that narrowed the scope of the bill to only cover intrusions inside the home. "I was troubled as it came out of the House because it went outside the castle," said Freudenthal, referring to the bill's common title, the "castle doctrine," which is said to have originated from a concept in English common law that a... Casper Star-Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986197/posts#comment Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984243/posts WASHINGTON - Borrowing a theme from the presidential contest, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the possibility of a 3 a.m. emergency call to the White House is all the more reason for the next commander in chief to follow through on President Bush's plans for a national missile defense. "It's plain to see that the world around us gives ample reason to continue working on missile defense," Cheney told the conservative Heritage Foundation at a dinner recognizing the 25th anniversary of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposed network of rockets capable of shooting down incoming intercontinental ballistic... The News Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984243/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:09:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982954/posts Hillary Clinton's campaign is casting her not-entirely-disastrous showing in the Wyoming caucuses as a victory. Clinton's campaign manager Maggie Williams said, "We are thrilled with this near split in delegates and are grateful to the people of Wyoming for their support. Although the Obama campaign predicted victory in Wyoming weeks ago, we worked hard to present Senator Clinton’s vision to the caucus-goers and we thank them for turning out today." Waitasec... I thought victories in red states, small-population states and caucus states were irrelevant...? I guess losses there somehow rock the house? ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982954/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:17:18 GMT