Raptors Taking Off At Jackson Hole Airport
Wilson, WY– Flights and Feathers is a new raptor education program created in partnership between Teton Raptor Center and Jackson Hole Airport. Summer travelers will enjoy this unique raptor-themed experience of seeing live birds up-close as they arrive at the…
UW Scientists use near-infrared light to control cellular Process in Mammals
Strange things at the University of Wyoming, as one hears molecular biologist Mark Gomelsky talk about head replacements as routine laboratory procedures. A little more conversation and things become MUCH clearer – bioengineering a protein. Researchers took the head from…
Christopher Henry Named to the Google Cloud Academic All-America Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field First Team
AUSTIN, Texas (June 27, 2019) – University of Wyoming junior distance runner Christopher Henry has been named to the Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Google Cloud Academic All-America® on Thursday, garnering First-Team honors. Henry, a native of Laramie, Wyo.,…
Senate Holds Hearing on Barrasso’s Platte River Recovery Implementation Program Extension Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee hearing on S. 990 <https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/296162d1-7060-4f33-8849-8897a4981158/s-990.pdf> , the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP) Extension Act. The bipartisan bill was introduced…
Meeteetse Man is Nine-time Champion Bullfighter
By Lew Freedman Cody Enterprise Via Wyoming News Exchange CODY — Almost every night there is a four-alarm emergency when Dusty Tuckness works the rodeo arena dirt. Someone’s life may be in jeopardy. The guy whose clothing ensemble is halfway…
Paralyzed Motorcyclist Returns to Complete Jump that left him Injured
By Ray K. Erku Rawlins Times Via Wyoming News Exchange RAWLINS – Out on a rugged dirt bike track that overlooks the desolate, bristly green highlands west of Rawlins, a group of nervous spectators surrounded David Trujillo and began to…
Volunteers on Horseback clear Hundreds of Miles of trails
By Mark Davis Powell Tribune Via Wyoming News Exchange POWELL — With storms threatening Sunday, a half-dozen horsemen loaded their saddle bags and panniers with serious looking saws, lunches of canned sardines and jerky, and rain slickers. They climbed aboard…
Plan Calls for Scaling back of Elk Feeding on Refuge
By Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole News&Guide Via Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON — Save for a decade’s worth of mild winters, the National Elk Refuge has spread out hay or alfalfa to nourish gathering wapiti for the past 107 years….
NEWS BRIEFS for Thursday, June 27, 2019
UW sexual assault reports decline CASPER (WNE) — There were 18 reports of sexual assault at the University of Wyoming in 2018, according to data from the school, a slight decrease from last year’s high of 21. “Sexual assault numbers…
Fun Run celebrates its 41st year on Independence Day 2019
Thursday, July 4, 2019 will see the 41st annual KVSI 101.7 Fun Run. “It is 8.6 miles from the radio station to our stopping point in Paris,” said Lisa Hillier of KVSI. “The majority of our participants are people who…