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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmental groups on Friday filed a third federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent move to end federal protections for wolves in Wyoming. The Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The groups say Wyoming's management plan classifying wolves as predators that can be shot on sight in most of the state is inadequate. They want the court to reinstate federal protections. AP Photo/Yellowstone N...
AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, James Brosher Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar listens as Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead answers a question during a news conference on Tuesday, March 22, 2011, in Cheyenne, Wyo. Salazar is making a vast amount of coal available for mining in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, saying the substance will remain an important source of the nation's energy supply. The coal leases Salazar announced Tuesday in Cheyenne amount to 750 million tons and will take several years to mine. Interior Secretary Salazar...
Hunting outfitters are planning a rally on the town square in Jackson this week to call attention to declining elk herds and hunting opportunities around Yellowstone National Park that they blame on wolf depredation. Jackson area outfitter B.J. Hill, a member of the board of the Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association, said he expects hundreds of people at the "Wolf Impact Rally" on Saturday. "If we don't do something with this wolf in the in the next year or two or three, sport hunting is going to be gone in the West,"...
A bill to impose a tax on wind energy generation in Wyoming advanced Monday despite warnings that it could slow development and increase power costs. The House Revenue Committee voted to reduce the proposed tax by two-thirds, from $3 to $1 per megawatt hour. It also amended the bill to delay imposition of the tax until 2012 and specified that the state won't collect taxes on power generated by turbines during their first three years of operation. The committee voted 6-3 to recommend approval of House Bill 101, which now...
