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Teton County elected officials are backpedaling on urging wildlife managers to start weaning elk off of artificial feeding, a step one county commissioner said was prudent to avert the worst consequences of recently discovered chronic wasting disease. The request to do something sooner rather than later was expressed in a draft letter that commissioners were going to send to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Elected officials also mentioned giving private landowners incentives to tolerate elk that might disperse from historic feed lots. But while meeting Monday, two commissioners describe...

Judge James Radda swore County Commission Chairwoman Natalia D. Macker and Commissioner Greg Epstein into their second full terms Monday, but not without getting a word in edgewise.

Volunteer public health officials are examining special rules intended to protect residents from nitrate pollution in drinking water, but they’re developing those rules in closed sessions that are off limits to some interested parties. The policy proposal that the Teton District Board of Health is considering would increase surveillance and create a system to warn when nitrates climb above natural levels, which can indicate contamination of an aquifer from septic systems or other causes. That’s an idea proposed by Wyoming Outdoor Council senior conservation advocate and attorney Dan...