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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking the public for ideas to help the agency avoid a future budget crisis. Doug Randall has the details. More Farmers Markets are springing up across the country, that’s according to U.S.D.A. Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Kenneth Sims, an Associate Professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, has received a National Science Foundation Grant to study Mount Erebus in Antarctica. Amy Richards has a report. Solvay Chemicals has installed a methane recovery facility at it’s trona mine in Sweetwater County. Business Reporter Sharon Fain has details. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Small, nonfarm businesses in 13 Wyoming counties and neighboring counties in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota are eligible to apply for low‑interest federal disaster loans from the U. S. Small Business A
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he judge in a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man killed by a grizzly bear has decided not to visit the mauling site near Yellowstone National Park. Doug Randall has the details. Wyoming Air National Guard and F.E. Warren Air Force Base firefighters demonstrated the new Mobile Aircraft Fire Trainer (MAFT) Friday. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation this week that would restore the money owed to coal producing states from the Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Trust Fund. In June, the House and Senate passed a two-year transportation bill which included a provision that raided trust funds used for reclaiming abandoned mine lands.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from environmental groups that sought to block federal coal leases in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on the grounds that burning the coal would contribute to global warming. Clay Van Houten, Emerging Diseases Unit Chief for the Wyoming Department of Health, says the number of Whooping Cough (aka Pertussis) cases in Wyoming are up this year. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Wyoming Air National Guard and F.E. Warren Air Force Base firefighters demonstrated the new Mobile Aircraft Fire Trainer (MAFT) Friday. F.E. Warren Fire Chief John McDougall says the MAFT allows firefighters to train locally on how to safely extinguish an aircraft fires. He says in the past, crews had to travel across the country annually to receive the training.
Construction work begins Monday, August 6th on the Holliday Park Greenway Connector Project at the intersection of East Lincolnway and Dunn Avenue in Cheyenne.
Wildfire experts says states across the west are now at the highest risk of the season for wildfires. Amy Richards reports. Laramie County officials say they are seeing some fresh interest in oil drilling after a recent lull. Business Reporter Sharon Fain has details. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Governor Matt Mead toured several of the state’s recent fire areas this week. The Governor said over 4000 people have come into Wyoming to fight fires this year and the fire season is not over yet. An order restricting access to caves and old mines on national forest and grasslands in five states is being extended, so that a bat killing fungus won’t spread. Doug Randall reports. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
Two companies are getting ready to boost production from a central Wyoming oil field by pumping carbon dioxide underground. An update on Wyoming Olympians Jennifer Nichols and Brett Newlin. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.
