Wyoming team recommends Gov. Mead revise greater sage grouse conservation protections, to prohibit drilling in winter concentration areas.
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State group: Wyoming needs special winter rules for sage grouse
Wyoming’s “core area” designation will not include critical winter range inside a proposed gas field, but a team will recommend special winter stipulations there.
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Interior’s plan envisions leasing 10B tons of coal
Companies mining Powder River Basin coal prefer the status quo over new restrictions. For greens, the plan is a disappointment.
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Counties: Move on wilderness study areas
The state’s county commissioners plan to give Congress a Wyoming blueprint on whether more than 750,000 acres of roadless federal wilderness study areas should be preserved or reclassified, possibly for development. Commissioners are focused on making “long-term, locally driven decisions” about Wyoming’s 45 federal wilderness study areas, the director of the state commissioners’ association said. […]
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Teton land swap falls behind
A proposed swap to preserve 1,280 acres of Wyoming school trust land in Grand Teton National Park has fallen behind schedule
