• Wyoming’s Permanent Mineral Trust Fund can’t entirely protect the budget from volatile commodity prices

  

  Wyoming’s Permanent Mineral Trust Fund provides a mostly stable stream of revenue to the state’s general fund. Yet state lawmakers are trimming budget plans right now, revealing that even $5.4 billion isn’t large enough to cut through the waves of energy commodities... Read the full article...

  

• Snowmobile trip over Sylvan Pass offers adventurous loop through Yellowstone Park

  

  Yellowstone Gate editor Ruffin Prevost recently rode along on a 150 mile snowmobile tour of the lower portion of Yellowstone, taking in sights along the way such as Yellowstone Lake, Old Faithful, Fountain Paint Pot and the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River... Read the full article...

  

• Planners discuss snowmobiles, ‘sound events’ at Yellowstone winter use meetings

  

  More than a decade of public debate and court challenges have complicated efforts to complete a long-term winter use plan for Yellowstone National Park. Yet, a final version of the plan could be in place by the start of the 2012-13 winter season... Read the full article...

  

• Two Wyoming towns wither while company asks for $100M to bring about salvation with coal-to-gasoline plant

  

  Many residents of the towns of Hanna and Medicine Bow foresee a time when there will be too few people and too thin of an economy to keep going their towns going. To them, the proposal by DKRW Advanced Fuels to build a coal-to-gasoline plant offers salvation... Read the full article...

  

• A Matter of Time: Wyoming Whiskey ages gracefully before December release

  

  Since the first drops from production went into barrels in July 2009, Wyoming Whiskey has been a widely hyped but seldom-tasted product. Finally, the state’s first (legal) distillery announced this week that its bottles will be on retailers’ shelves by Dec. 1... Read the full article...

  

• Safe Bet? Wyo officials weigh investment in DKRW’s coal-to-liquids proposal

  

  The company seeking to build the nation’s first coal-to-gasoline plant in Wyoming has trimmed its request for taxpayer-backed bonds — allowing them to bypass legislative approval and rely only on approval of Carbon County, the State Treasurer and Gov. Matt Mead... Read the full article...

  

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