From the monthly archives:

December 2008

December 19, 2008

Bankruptcy in Big Sky: Mile High Clubs in Trouble

Sheridan — In the past year, the west has watch with grim fascination as some of the Rocky Mountain’s poshest resorts have careened down the black-diamond slope.
The Yellowstone Club of Big Sky, Montana provides the most spectacular example.
Prospective members of the 13,400-acre ski and golf resort had to have a net worth of $3 million [...]

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December 19, 2008

Obama’s New Man at Interior: What Ken Salazar Means to Wyoming

Okay, Ken Salazar opposed saving the black-tailed prairie dog. But give President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head up the Interior Department a break.
After eight years of the Bush Administration’s using Interior to enrich its friends in the energy business, obliterate huge swaths of landscape – see the Upper Green River Valley — short-change us on [...]

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December 1, 2008

Bears by the Numbers, Keeping Tabs on Our Bruins

Casper — Ever since that day in 1961 that the Craighead brothers, Frank and John, placed a radio collar around the neck of Marian, a female grizzly bear, bear biologists have formally designated bears with numbers.
Marian was No. 40 – her life and times and tragic death documented in “Track of the Grizzly,” by Frank [...]

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