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  • Game and Fish documents first agency trap-related grizzly death

    Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile.com|Jan 30, 2020

    Wyoming Game and Fish department staff discovered a dead grizzly bear in one of the agency’s baited traps early Sept. 30 — a first-of-its-kind capture-related fatality that nevertheless sparked dismay among conservations and other bear advocates. A diagnostic report based on a necropsy obtained by WyoFile stated that the bear died after suffering capture myopathy, a condition during which animals become extremely exhausted. Trappers found the 326-pound, approximately 7-year-old male grizzly dead in a box trap at the Shoshone Lodge outside the e...

  • Wyoming News Briefs Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020

    Jan 30, 2020

    Trustees set budget of $33 million for UW construction LARAMIE (WNE) — Last week, the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees gave administrators a budget of $33.4 million to move forward with a number of construction projects related to the planned re-vamping of the university’s dormitories. Almost half of that funding is budgeted for the least glamorous project: $14.9 million to relocate utilities on the northeast corner of campus to accommodate the demolition of Wyoming Hall and construction of new dorms on that section of campus. That pri...

  • Worland vs. Rawlins canceled due to weather

    Jan 30, 2020

    WORLAND - The Worland Warriors and Lady Warriors basketball home games against Rawlins High School on Feb. 2 have been canceled due to weather along the I-80 corridor. Efforts to reschedule the games are under way....