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The words we choose reveal a lot about how we think about the natural world.

The National Park Service (NPS) and Devils Tower Natural History Association are hosting a bat festival this Saturday, Sept. 25 at Devils Tower National Monument. The festival will feature educational talks, showcase technology that allows people to hear bat echolocation calls, and will give people the opportunity to build their own bat houses using repurposed lumber.

By the time we left our fourth Minnesotan antique store, my dad was searching XM radio for a station that wasn’t the Beatles channel, my mom was asking me for

Water is low. Grass has not grown much. Hay production is down and is expensive.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., seen here at a May 28 news conference at the Capitol, says Democrats reconciliation bill "is a terrifying, inflation-causing, big government-motivated spending bill.” (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images) Democrats are trying to push both a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and another $3.5 trillion spending package through Congress.  Although the former provides funding for traditional infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, the other and larger pa...

MSU microbiologist Eric Boyd talks about his research, which the Department of Energy awarded a $3.3 million grant. The U.S. Department of Energy will invest $3.3 million into Montana State University research focused on the critical ingredients for next-generation batteries and high-tech equipment. U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced the funding during a video conference with MSU researcher Eric Boyd and the state’s U.S. senators, Democrat Jon Tester and Republican Steve Dai...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Two bats from northeastern Wyomings Devils Tower National Monument have been found with the states first confirmed cases of a deadly fungal disease.

(Cheyenne, WY) – Wildlife researchers have confirmed the presence of white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats at Devils Tower National Monument. While this is the first confirmation of WNS in the state, the fungus that causes WNS, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), was potentially detected in southeast Wyoming as early as 2018. Biologists from the University of Wyoming discovered evidence of WNS during surveys completed in early May 2021, when they captured and sampled bats to test for the fungus. T...

A continuing series on the 100th anniversary of the current Corn Palace in Mitchell

The town was founded in 1883 by French nobleman Antoine Amedee Marie Vincent Manca de Vallambrosa. He named it for his wife, Medora Von Hoffman, daughter of a New York investment banker.