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Two local lawmakers have asked a legislative committee to study the planning process for Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites, and Trails before the 2024 legislative session.

Wyoming mule deer and pronghorns are dying from starvation due to snow that’s buried their favorite shrubs, a lack of wind that usually clears hillsides for foraging and below-zero temperatures.

Precipitation and water content in the mountain snowfields were just above average, but not extraordinary, in most of western Wyoming. At low elevations, though, the snow depths shattered records — and killed tens of thousands of ungulates.

Massive winterkill – particularly among some of Wyoming’s premier antelope herds – has prompted the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to propose significant cutbacks in hunting tags this fall.

While antelope, deer and even elk struggle to survive one on the worst winters in recent memory, the fate of Wyoming’s wild mustangs remains largely unknown.

Catastrophic winter kill in some of Wyoming's best mule deer and antelope hunting territory could make for lean pickings for tags for this fall, some wildlife managers said. 

Grizzlies are out and wildlife is severely stressed. States issue warnings that recreationists need to be smart and, most importantly, respect space of animals or they could perish

Not a good time for humans to be out there.

Much of the Mountain West has endured a long, harsh winter, and it’s been an especially hard season for deer and other big game. Now, wildlife managers are searching for ways to help herds recover.

Conservative lawmakers in the West are reviving efforts to delist certain populations of the grizzly bear and gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act, and last week they made their case to remove federal protections before a U.S. House subcommittee.