Cheyenne News Staff

The National Park Service has released a prospectus soliciting proposals from businesses interested in providing guided, interpretive oversnow vehicle tours of Yellowstone National Park. Wyoming Highway Patrol Troopers are starting special overtime patrols on Thanksgiving Day that will continue through New Years Eve

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WYDOT is reminding motorists about the state's chain law. Joy Greenwald reports. The legislature's Management Audit Committee is set to release draft program evaluation reports today. Amy Richards has details

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The new contracts will take the place of 13 concession contracts for guided interpretive snowcoach tours and 21 commercial use authorizations (CUA) for guided interpretive snowmobile tours currently in place in Yellowstone.

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Spokeswoman Mary Cernicek says the restrictions include areas of crucial wildlife winter range that are closed to all human presence.

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Areas where road construction has taken place are also attractive to wildlife as they congregate in newly seeded areas where groundcover seeding has taken place.

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The Pokes (4-2) trailed by just four at halftime, 38-34, and started the second half with a 9-1 run to go up by four.

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The patrol says a 19 year-old female was located last weekend by troopers on a U.S. Forest Service road in the Big Horn mountains after spending a night in her car after she became stuck. She was apparently following driving instructions on her GPS.

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Native trout numbers are rising in Yellowstone Lake. Amy Richards reports. A University of Wyoming anthropologist has published a new book about the earliest inhabitants of Colorado.

Laws such as the National Historic Preservation Act, the Archaeological Resource Protection Act, and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, prohibit disturbing, or removing artifacts.

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Under a plea agreement with the government, the company was sentenced to pay fines, restitution and community service totaling $1 million and was placed on probation for five years.

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