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PINEDALE — Although the news of Cody Roberts capturing and torturing a live wolf by running it down on his snowmobile and binding its mouth shut before killing it in

PINEDALE — Although the news of Cody Roberts allegedly capturing and torturing a live wolf by running it down on his snowmobile and binding its mouth shut before killing it

While tossing a fishing line in your favorite lake, if you meet a Wyoming Game and Fish Department fisheries biologist there’s a one-in-four chance that individual was a student of

I know a lot of people have their hearts set on eating bugs, and the world ending with pestilence and fire devouring humankind. Cranky as they are in their native, foaming-at-the-mouth state, the sort...

Normally there would be hundreds of antelope this time of year grazing sagebrush and spring grass. But instead, there are piles of dead antelope on top of a blanket of snow. Some are still alive – but barely. This unprecedented wildlife loss in some of the country’s largest antelope and mule deer herds is the result of an incredibly harsh winter in southwest Wyoming. It is expected that as many as 50 percent of the animals will die before summer.

Numbers of pronghorn, antelope and mule deer are in decline in Western Wyoming amid an above average snowpack and infections.

Wyoming’s Gov. Mark Gordon came to Pinedale late last week for an emergency meeting to discuss the state of big game. The consensus is the animals are suffering drastically.

Commercially guided fishing boats will be able to launch into Wyoming rivers as they please this summer, as a House Bill that would have changed that has been postponed.House Bill 84 would have set daily limits on the number of commercially guided fishing boats launching into any section of river in Wyoming.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the state has not ceded jurisdiction of Grand Teton National Park inholdings hopefully to end a long debate on managing wildlife in certain boundaries. Wyoming Game and Fish Director Brian Nesvick says the ruling only applies to wildlife, but inholdings are private lands that are within the external boundaries of the park. This includes ranches that also extend to the external boundaries. “It’s been…discussed for gosh over a decade now, probably eve...