Sage Grouse

All Wyomingites, especially landowners, are again being asked to assist in the management of the state’s sage grouse populations this summer by immediately reporting dead sage grouse to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department so they can be tested for West Nile Virus...

Don Simpson, Director of the Wyoming Bureau of Land Management, signed the Record of Decision Thursday for the agency's Lander Resource Management Plan.

The Wyoming Department of Education says there are 92,218 students enrolled in the state's K-12 public schools this year, up from 90,993 last year. Wildlife advocates have filed a legal petition with the federal government that seeks a prohibition on coal mining in areas across the west with prime habitat for sage grouse...

The Bureau of Land Management will hold a series of public meetings on sage grouse management next month. A federal judge has ordered a Russian man who pleaded guilty to trying to export high-tech military rifle sights to leave the country...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service favor a middle path among the options they're considering for protecting sage grouse habitat in Wyoming.

Agenda items include reports from the Douglas core area reclamation group, Thunder Basin National Grassland and the sage grouse noise and reclamation/restoration/mitigation subcommittees.

Several environmental groups have petitioned the federal government to halt new wellpad and road construction inside the Douglas Sage Grouse Core Area  of eastern Wyoming. Amy Richards reports. Gas prices feel six cents a gallon across Wyoming last week, but saw a slight increase Monday, according to Greg Laskoski with gasbuddy...

Habitat zones such as the Douglas sage grouse core area are a key part of Wyoming's strategy for keeping sage grouse off the threatened or endangered species list.

The International Conference on Future Technologies for Wind Energy will be held October 7th-9th at the UW conference center at the Hilton Garden Inn in Laramie. Amy Richards has a report. Sage Grouse hunting is now open in most of Wyoming, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is asking sage grouse hunters to drop a wing from each bird they harvest in sage grouse wing collection barrels... Rea

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has been working with a petroleum company to develop a plan to guide oil drilling in a vast area of designated sage grouse habitat in east-central Wyoming. The Casper City Council has signed off on plans for a new, privately owned hospital on the city's east side...