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  • SWAT team wraps up winter season

    Fay Quitroz, SWAT Winter Season Banquet Chairperson|Mar 21, 2024

    The Sweetwater Aquatics Team (SWAT) recently wrapped up their winter season with swimmers and families attending the annual Winter Season Banquet. SWAT swimmers range from ages seven years old to 18 years old comprising grades first through high school. The program includes both a lessons program and competitive swim team. The lesson program has four levels to help swimmers progress from beginning water safety skills (i.e. dunking head head the water) to learning all four swimming strokes:... Full story

  • BLM offers updated sage grouse plan

    Mark Davis, Powell Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 21, 2024

    POWELL - The Bureau of Land Management released a draft Thursday of an updated sage grouse management plan that places species protections back on track after several years of disruptions to the historic 2015 sage grouse plan. That was then credited for halting plans for costly protections for the species under the Endangered Species Act. Following 2019 court orders overturning Trump administration changes to the historic collaborative plans, the BLM has been managing sage grouse habitat...

  • As disease threatens feedground elk, Wyoming mired in planning and consensus-seeking

    Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile.com|Mar 21, 2024

    For the first time in its history, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has a formal plan in place for managing the state's 21 winter elk feedgrounds. The 96-page document allows for changes to feedgrounds that could avert the worst consequences of an ugly disease that's ramping up - a sickness that scientists expect will devastate Northwest Wyoming's six fed elk herds in the long term if feeding continues. Notably, the plan does not compel reform or call for closing feedgrounds, but it does... Full story

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