USFS Officials Recommend Against Forest Merger
U.S. Forest Service officials are recommending against merging the management of the Bridger-Teton National Forest in northwestern Wyoming and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in southeastern Idaho.
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Woman Accused in Fatal Bar Parking Lot Crash
An Idaho woman is accused of killing one person and injuring another by hitting them with her car outside a Wyoming bar.
Which Bordering State Would You Least Like to Vacation? – Survey of the Day
Let’s be honest, who isn’t a big fan of competition? Be it in sports rivalries, accelerating faster than someone after a stop light turns green, or trying to get more “likes” than your friends with a Facebook status, there are competitions everywhere in our everyday lives.
Wyoming, Idaho Meetings Set On Power Line, Sage Grouse
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Federal land managers have scheduled public meetings in Wyoming and Idaho on a sage grouse habitat analysis for a proposed electric power transmission line.
The Bureau of Land Management says the meetings will be held Feb...
High Court To Hear Environmental Case From Idaho
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Sackett remembers what he thought when he saw the eye-popping fines of more than $30,000 a day that the Environmental Protection Agency was threatening to impose on him over a piece of Idaho property worth less than one day’s penalty...
2 Idaho Women Killed In Crash Near Jackson
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say two Idaho women were killed and one man was seriously injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash south of Jackson.
Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper David Richelderfer says 70-year-old Rita Lyle and 77-year-old Illa Kidder, both of Victor, Idaho, were killed in the crash...
Fisher Will Not Be Protected Under Endangered Species Act in the Northern Rockies
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Wednesday that it has completed a 12-month finding on the fisher (Martes pennanti) in the Northern Rocky Mountains, and concluded it does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act in Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming.
The status review was prompted by a petition sent to the Service in 2009 from environmental groups hoping to have the weasel-li
Governor Mead Cautious About Endangered Wolves Proposed Settlement
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said Friday he's not holding his breath about a proposed settlement between the Fish and Wildlife Service and environmental groups which would take wolves off the Endangered Species List in Montana and Idaho, but keep them under federal control in Wyoming.