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From the Casper Star Tribune, Wyoming's state newspaper of record:

Conservationists issue Western energy agenda
2007-03-05  Denver - Hoping to build on initiatives from the Democratic-controlled Congress and Western governors, several conservation groups have released a clean-energy manifesto that includes tougher environmental regulations and axing parts of the 2005 federal energy bill. ... more>

BLM chief steps down
2006-12-29  Washington - Kathleen Clarke, the first woman to head the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, resigned Thursday to return to her home state of Utah. ... more>

Sweetwater: Protect Adobe Town
2006-11-23  GREEN RIVER -- Sweetwater County commissioners have joined a growing chorus of groups seeking to keep the remote Adobe Town in southern Wyoming free from energy development. ... more>

Union protests Adobe Town development
2006-11-14  ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - A labor union has sent a formal protest to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, saying the agency shouldn't allow oil and gas development in the remote Adobe Town area of southern Wyoming.  ... more>

Grouse data could prompt petition
2006-10-10  Several recent studies have concluded that energy development practices in Wyoming are hurting the state's sage grouse populations.  ... more>

A triumph for big game in the making
2006-10-08  The time to protect the Northern Red Desert is now. This wild expanse of public land provides a vital sanctuary for our majestic wildlife and our cultural heritage but it could be lost in the rush to develop energy if we don’t draw the line in the sand now. Enough is enough. ... more>

Gov urges lease buy-back
2006-09-23  Gov. Dave Freudenthal is suggesting a new way to protect southwest Wyoming's Jack Morrow Hills from energy development. ... more>

From the Wyoming Outdoor Council newsletters:

A New Tune for the Red Desert Blues
2005-09-01  The rain started during the night. By morning we were camped in red gumbo that clung to our shoes. Each step was treacherous and slippery, not to mention tiring due to the weight of the mud. ... more>

Other articles:

Sagebrush Showdown
2007-01-01  In an unprecedented, pell-mell rush, oil and gas companies are having their way across the West's federal lands. But neither they nor biologists bargained on a bird whose fate, like the northern spotted owl's, may bring development to a halt across a wide area. ... more>

Cows, God, and Steel Join In Push For Wyoming Conservation Area
2006-11-27  Lowbagger.org LANDER, Wyo. – Sportsmen, church-goers, Native Americans, ranchers, labor union members and conservationists have joined together to campaign for the Jack Morrow Hills, located in Wyoming’s northern Red Desert, to be designated as a National Conservation Area (NCA).  ... more>

State delegation fails on environment votes
2006-10-12  Wyoming’s three members of congress each earned a zero on the League of Conservation Voters scorecard for 2006, the only state delegation to receive such a low ranking, the league said Wednesday.  ... more>

Public-lands agenda turns more radical, urgent
2005-11-28  High Country News As political winds start to turn against him, Pombo pushes to sell off forests, parks, wilderness areas Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Calif., continued his crusade against environmental regulations in November, tucking provisions into a budget bill that could lead to a massive public-lands sell-off.  ... more>

Methamphetamine fuels the West’s oil and gas boom
2005-10-03  High Country News Long the drug of choice for rural down-and-out youth, crank becomes commonplace among drill-rig roughnecks ... more>

Ready... fire... aim!
2005-03-07  High Country News. Almost a decade into the energy rush, the West decides it may be time to enforce the rules and deal with the impacts on the land, air water and wildlife. ... more>

Coalbed Methane BOOM
2004-12-17  High Country News Special Report. This special report addresses how the coalbed methane boom is impacting the West (there is a small cost to view this publication). ... more>