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<title>You Still Here? Monday, February 2, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

You Still Here? Monday, February 2, 2026

 Feeding the birds didn’t go as expected for grandma so she just let go and accepted her fate.....

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Chance of afternoon rain in parts of Wyoming on Friday, otherwise mostly sunny. Chance of rain overnight. Highs from the mid 70s to low 90s. Lows from near 40 to near 60.

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Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise sunny and breezy today with a high near 89 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 59 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

Mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 91 and wind gusts as high as 32 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

 Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 88 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 58.

 Patchy smoke after noon, sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 40 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with patchy smoke before 9 p.m., patchy blowing dust before midnight, a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 41 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after 4 p.m., increasing clouds and breezy today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 51 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

Sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Mostly cloudy and breezy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 40 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

Slight chance of rain after noon, otherwise mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 77 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Increasing clouds and breezy overnight with a chance of rain after 4 a.m., a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

 Slight chance of rain after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny and breezy today with a high near 83 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

  Mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 79 and wind gusts as high as 33 mph. Increasing clouds and breezy overnight with a chance of rain mainly after 5 a.m., a low near 41 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

 Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

  Chance of rain mainly after 1 p.m., otherwise partly sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 44 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park

:  Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 71 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain, a low near 38 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

Slight chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise partly sunny today with a high near 91 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain mainly before 9 p.m. and a low near 58.

:  Chance of rain mainly after 1 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 83 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Increasing clouds overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 1 a.m. and a low near 55.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., mostly cloudy today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 2 a.m. and a low near 55.

  Chance of rain mainly after 5 p.m., gradually becoming sunny today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Gradually becoming mostly clear overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 7 p.m., a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph.

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  Slight chance of rain after 5 p.m., gradually becoming mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before 9 p.m. and a low near 53.

:  Partly sunny today with a high near 84 and mostly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before midnight and a low near 53.

Slight chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 9 p.m., a low near 58 and wind gusts as high as 31 mph.

  Gradually becoming sunny today with a high near 83 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain before midnight, a low near 61 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

:  Chance of rain after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 18 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before 9 p.m., a low near 63 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 88 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain mainly before midnight and a low near 60.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 86 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain mainly before 9 p.m., a low near 57 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Slight chance of rain after 1 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 88 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 7 p.m., a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

  Chance of rain after noon, otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 81 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 7 p.m. and a low near 55.

  Chance of rain mainly after 2 p.m., otherwise mostly sunny today with a high near 79 and partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Chance of rain mainly after 3 p.m., increasing clouds today with a high near 83 and partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a slight chance of rain mainly before midnight, a low near 58 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 35 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 54 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Slight chance of rain, otherwise mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 82 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Breezy, gradually becoming clear overnight with a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Sunny and breezy today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, June 26, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Friday, June 26, 2026

Kerry Drake

Crime & Courts

Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak says stopping human sex trafficking is a new agency priority because for too long Cheyenne has been a “safe haven” for this form of modern slavery.

An undercover operation in Cheyenne led by two detectives resulted in two arrests for soliciting acts of prostitution last weekend. Kozak said the effort is the first in many years for his office, but he promised there will be more.

“People come to Cheyenne to make those (prostitution) arrangements because everyone knew there was no enforcement,” Kozak told Cowboy State Daily.

“But it’s a hard thing to recover women in the trade. Because there’s so much pressure on them, whether it’s drug addiction or physical abuse. Actually the situation that they’re in, sometimes it’s better than their real home life.”

Kozak said that 10 years ago, when he was Cheyenne police chief, his department began undercover operations to arrest human traffickers when he noticed the online activity was extremely high in Cheyenne.

“I went to my sergeant who ran the undercover unit and told him I wanted them to all go to human trafficking training because I think we have a problem in Cheyenne,” the sheriff said.

Kozak said the sergeant didn’t believe him until he did some research and looked at Craigslist and some other sites. 

“He said, ‘Oh my God, we do have a major spike here',” he recalled. “We started to make some great cases against traffickers, or what the industry might call a pimp.” 

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It takes lots of time and money for law enforcement to try to stop human sex trafficking, which is rarely prosecuted in Wyoming. Often the crimes are charged as sexual assault or child abuse.

In addition to overtime, the department had to buy cameras for undercover operations, have “buy money” available for stings, and create ads online. 

“Then the investigations themselves can take us out of state as well,” Kozak said. 

Successful results are difficult to gauge.

Kozak said his office was successful in helping some women leave the sex trade, but it didn’t happen until after investigations were completed and the women came to them.

“We have the resources to help them, we have housing, and that’s the goal for these operations,” he said. 

He said the police stings ended when he left the Cheyenne Police Department because the next administration didn’t make human trafficking a priority. 

“As sheriff, I’m bringing it back again,” Kozak said.

He said trafficking spikes during Cheyenne Frontier Days, which typically brings about 200,000 visitors for the 10-day event.

“During this first (sheriff’s) operation we focused on demand reduction, or what you would call ‘johns', because it’s easier than recovering men in the sex trade,” Kozak noted. “The detectives learned a lot and will change some things when they do that type of operation.”   

But the focus will shift soon to trying to find women and young girls in the sex trade as well, Kozak said, by using "reverse stings.” Undercover officers will pose as men wanting to pay for sex acts.

“We’ve trained every single person in the sheriff’s office; all 240 including the civilian staff, have all been trained in human sex trafficking,” Kozak said. “I wanted them to know that was our goal, to reduce the problem here.” 

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Instead of sending a few detectives to training sessions, Kozak said experts came to Cheyenne. One such session was Tuesday, where assessments were made about what went right and wrong during the first sting.

“What we’re planning to do is take the money we’ve received from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and roll it back to pay for the human-trafficking enforcement,” he said.

The sheriff’s office under Kozak’s command signed controversial agreements with ICE last year to deputize local law-enforcement agencies to perform duties otherwise conducted by federal immigration agents. That included arresting and holding people in the county jail until they’re moved to a federal detention center.

In the future, undocumented immigrants arrested through agreements with ICE might be in jail in Cheyenne with sex traffickers who were captured by local law enforcement using funds from the federal agency.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming sued the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office in May, contending the agency didn’t follow Wyoming law when it signed the agreements.

The first two men the sheriff’s office arrested for alleged solicitation of an act of prostitution were David Drehbol and Christopher Miller, both of Cheyenne. The sheriff’s office identified Drehbol as a registered sex offender who was convicted in 2007 for unlawful sexual contact in Colorado.

The National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) tracks sex cases in every state. The NHTH works closely with service providers, law enforcement, and other professionals in Wyoming to serve victims and survivors of trafficking, respond to trafficking cases, and share information and resources. 

Since the organization’s inception in 2007, it has 

identified 148 cases of human trafficking

Sex trafficking activity is difficult to track and prosecute. But Terri Markham, executive director of Uprising, a statewide anti-human trafficking group based in Sheridan, estimated Wyoming likely generates $12 million a year from pimp-controlled sex trafficking alone. 

Cara Chambers,Wyoming Division of Victim Services director, told the 

 that Wyoming is susceptible to this type of organized crime. She said Wyoming’s rural population and vast land mass result in many places where traffickers can set up operations undetected.

A large interweb of interstate highways also connects people to some of the biggest hubs in the West. 

“There’s a bit of a circuit that these traffickers will take their victims through to Las Vegas and up in California, and it goes through Wyoming,” Chambers said.

The Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act.

If you or someone you know is experiencing human trafficking, contact the national human trafficking hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or your local law enforcement office.

Kerry Drake can be reached at: Kerry@CowboyStateDaily.com

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<title>Sheriff Says Laramie County Will Stop Being ‘Safe Haven’ For Human Trafficking | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A sex solicitation sting in Cheyenne led to the arrest of two men last weekend. Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak says it’s the beginning of a new effort to stop human trafficking that has been ignored for too long by law enforcement.

Sheriff Says Laramie County Will Stop Being ‘Safe Haven’ For Human Trafficking

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Kolby Fedore

An alleged burglary at a downtown bar in Cheyenne began with two men making out in a bathroom stall.

Casey Fox, 23, and Carlos Glaub, 18, told police they left the restroom in search of more privacy and slipped into an employee-only basement at the Crown Bar, where they continued making out, according to court documents.

The affidavit says Glaub then broke into a locked liquor storage room, tucked bottles of Jose Cuervo into his pants and was caught by an employee moments later.

The employee told police she saw Glaub with his pants unbuttoned and unzipped, and he was attempting to return two other bottles to the shelf when she walked in. 

Glaub briefly tried to flee before admitting he had been caught trying to steal the alcohol, the affidavit reports.

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Fox pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor criminal trespass. Glaub was arrested Tuesday on a felony burglary charge.

Police estimated the splintered door frame sustained about $200 in damage. The three bottles of liquor were valued at roughly $55.

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Police were dispatched to the Crown Bar shortly before midnight June 19 after employees reported the suspected burglary in progress.

One told officers she became suspicious after seeing Fox emerge from the employee-only basement because she didn't recognize him as someone who worked at the bar.

When she went downstairs, she discovered the locked liquor storage room door had been forced open.

The employee grabbed one of the bottles from Glaub's hands and escorted him upstairs.

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After being advised of his rights, Fox gave investigators a detailed account of the evening.

Fox said he and Glaub first kissed in a stall inside the men's restroom before deciding to find a more secluded place.

The pair wandered into the basement, where they continued making out until they came across the liquor storage room.

Fox told investigators Glaub "donkey kicked" the locked door before stuffing three bottles of liquor into his pants.

Moments later, the pair heard someone entering the basement. Fox walked out of the storage room while Glaub began putting the bottles back on the shelves, according to the affidavit.

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He reportedly admitted he and Fox went into the basement looking for privacy before trying to force open the liquor room door.

When that didn't work, he allegedly kicked the door open and concealed the three bottles of liquor in his pants.

Officer L. Ray wrote that Glaub later acknowledged stealing the alcohol but argued both the bar and Fox shared responsibility because the establishment allowed him inside even though he's only 18 years old, and had served him alcohol.

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Court records show he pleaded guilty Monday in Laramie County Circuit Court to one misdemeanor count of criminal trespass stemming from the incident.

Glaub, meanwhile, was arrested the next day and charged with felony burglary, a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted. As with many criminal cases, the charges against Glaub could be amended or reduced as the case moves through the judicial process.

Court records show Glaub posted a $1,000 cash bond and was released from jail.

He is scheduled for a July 2 preliminary hearing, where a judge will determine whether there is enough evidence to bind the case over to District Court.

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<title>Two Arrested After Allegedly Kicking Down Door, Stuffing 3 Bottles Of Tequila In Pants | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Police say two Cheyenne men looking for "more privacy" wound up in the Crown Bar's employee-only basement, where one "donkey kicked" a locked liquor room door and then stuffed three bottles of tequila in his pants before they were caught.

Two Arrested After Allegedly Kicking Down Door, Stuffing 3 Bottles Of Tequila In Pants

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Mark Heinz

Fishing

Upper Sunshine Reservoir near Meeteetse is popular with local anglers, particularly for ice fishing, but the reservoir is being drained so fishing there won't be an option for two years.

The Greybull Valley Irrigation District is draining the reservoir “to perform critical irrigation infrastructure repairs,” according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Upper Sunshine is expected to be completely drained by Sept. 1, so engineers can inspect infrastructure and determine what repairs are needed.

It will start refilling Oct. 1 but will be drained again in 2027 for the repair work. Repairs are scheduled for completion by April 2028.

“Game and Fish will not stock the small pool that will form during the 2026-2027 period, as it will be drained again in the fall of 2027. Stocking to rebuild the fishery will resume in the fall of 2028, once repairs are completed and water levels stabilize,” according to the agency.

Dalton Epperson of Cody and his friend Tyler Geving of Meeteetse have fished at Upper and Lower Sunshine reservoirs for years.

Upper Sunshine is primarily for ice fishing, they said.

“It’s usually the first thing that’s frozen” in the area, Epperson said.

Upper Sunshine doesn’t have much fish variety, he added.

“It’s all suckers and cutthroats,” he said.

Meat from the suckers makes good lake trout bait, he said.

Because this past winter was so dry, Upper Sunshine Reservoir wasn’t in the best shape anyway, Geving said.

“It was pretty low during ice fishing season,” he said.

Even so, with plentiful fish and easy access, it’s remained popular, Geving said.

“Upper Sunshine is a good starter lake. It’s a good place to take somebody and teach them ice fishing because you can catch 14- and 15-inch cutthroat all day long,” he said.

The reservoirs are the site of an ice fishing derby during the first week of February.

Epperson said Upper and Lower Sunshine are go-too fishing spots for Park County locals because they're about 40 minutes from Cody.

And from Meeteetse, “locals can be there in about 10 minutes and have their boats on the water,” he added.

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While the drainages and construction will tank fishing at Upper Sunshine Reservoir in the short term, the repair work should have lasting benefits for the fishery, according to Game and Fish.

“Recent sampling has indicated reduced growth rates in stocked Yellowstone cutthroat trout, likely due to an overabundance of longnose suckers competing for resources, and the drawdown will significantly reduce the sucker population,” Cody regional fisheries biologist Jason Burckhardt said in a statement from the agency.

Refilling the reservoir will release “a surplus of nutrients” from plants and soil, he added.

That will boost plankton production, so trout should grow faster and bigger, Burkhardt said.

While Upper Sunshine Reservoir is down, anglers can turn their attention to Lower Sunshine Reservoir and other waters in the region.

Some of those include Boysen Reservoir south of Thermopolis, Buffalo Bill Reservoir west of Cody, and Meadowlark Lake in the Bighorn Mountains.

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Epperson and Geving said draining Upper Sunshine Reservoir will put a pinch on their local angling opportunities. But they understand the work has to be done, and there’s no shortage of other places to fish.

“I know they’ve got to upgrade stuff and keep things fixed, to keep the reservoirs running right,” Geving said. “And Lower Sunshine is more fun to fish because it’s got lake trout and splake, and bigger fish.” 

Splake are a sterile hybrid species popular among Wyoming anglers. They’re produced in Game and Fish hatcheries by crossing male brook trout with female lake trout.

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<title>Upper Sunshine Reservoir Near Meeteetse Drained, No More Fishing For Two years | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Upper Sunshine Reservoir near Meeteetse is popular with local anglers, particularly for ice fishing, but the reservoir is being drained, so there won’t be any fishing there for two years. It’s expected to be completely drained by Sept. 1.

Upper Sunshine Reservoir Near Meeteetse Drained, No More Fishing For Two years

Facing extreme drought in the wake of an exceptionally mild winter, officials in Colorado and Oregon have thrown up their hands and told anglers at some reservoirs: Catch all the fish you want, because they’re going to die anyway.

Conditions aren’t nearly so dire at two of Wyoming’s premier fishing reservoirs, Flaming Gorge in Sweetwater County and Boysen in Fremont County, where limits remain in place and the angling should remain good this summer, a state park manager and marina owner told Cowboy State Daily.

In northeastern Oregon, fishing limits were lifted on three reservoirs on the Powder River, a tributary of the Snake River, which originates in Wyoming.

Colorado is allowing unlimited angling on Antero Reservoir on the South Platte River in the central part of the state, and the Nee Noshe Reservoir to the southeast.

Utah has loosened catch limits on Crouse Reservoir, east of Salt Lake City, and Nine Mile Reservoir, south of the city.

In each instance, state agencies surmised reservoirs are getting so low and stagnant the fish are doomed regardless, according to numerous media reports.

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Despite drought conditions across the state, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department doesn’t have “immediate plans to enact emergency regulations to liberalize creel limits,” according to fisheries management coordinator Mark Smith.

“However, conditions could change rapidly. If an emergency change to creel limits were to occur that information would be disseminated widely to the public and posted at the water for anglers to find,” Smith said in an email to Cowboy State Daily.

Some of Wyoming’s larger reservoirs have conservation pools, or “dead pools,” to act as buffers for fisheries when water is running low, Smith said.

Even so, “all stored water has limitations,” he added. The water at Flaming Gorge and Boysen is expected to drop enough to render some boat ramps useless.

So, Game and Fish is watching closely for a “tipping point” that might warrant a change in fishing regulations, Smith said.

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For smaller fisheries, the news isn’t quite so good.

“Ultimately, our goal is to protect all of our fisheries, but we recognize that some of our small waters have already been lost, or will be lost, to drying,” Smith said.

Sometimes that happens so fast there isn’t time to react, he said.  

“For example, when we were finally able to access roads and assess small ponds in the 33 Mile country north of Casper this May, most of those fisheries had already succumbed to low water elevations and poor water-quality conditions,” Smith said.

“Other sagebrush stock-water reservoirs could face a similar fate,” he added.

Emergency regulations require the governor’s signature.

“Emergency regulations take effect immediately upon the Governor’s approval and would be lifted if conditions improved and fish were likely to survive,” Smith said.

Boysen Reservoir has been roughly 70% full during June, Boysen State Park superintendent John Bass said.

Boysen is one of Wyoming’s top destinations for walleye, and also boasts good trout fishing.

Bass said he doesn’t anticipate the reservoir dropping to the point of mass fish die-offs or calls to lift all fishing limits.

According to Bureau of Reclamation estimates, Boysen will slowly fall, but remain above 50% capacity.

All four Boysen boat ramps are usable, he said. They are Bannon, Tough Creek, Fremont Bay and Cottonwood Bay.

“Although, as the lake starts falling, the Fremont and Cottonwood Ramps will be too shallow to use. But that’s a fairly common occurrence in my 10 years here,” Bass said. "The Brannon and Tough Creek boat ramps will be usable for the remainder of the year, until ice-up.” 

Likewise, there’s no reason to think officials will call for a free-for-all at Flaming Gorge, which straddles the Wyoming-Utah state line, Buckboard Marina owner Tony Valdez said.

“I don’t think we’ll be at the stagnant water level, where we could lose all of the fish,” he said.

Flaming Gorge draws anglers from all over the region for its prized kokanee salmon. It’s also known for lake trout and other species.

The Bureau of Reclamation this spring announced that Flaming Gorge is set for a million-acre-foot drawdown to make up for severe shortages downstream at Lake Powell, on the Utah-Arizona state line.

An acre foot is the amount of water that would flood an acre of land to the depth of one foot.

Valdez has previously expressed concerns the drawdown could ruin kokanee spawning areas. Kokanee are already under pressure because of competition with lake trout and burbot.

Wyoming Game and Fish and the Utah Division of Wildlife already lifted catch limits on smaller lake trout (under 28 inches) and burbot, in hopes of helping the kokanee.

Valdez said he doesn’t expect fishing limits to be suspended on any other species.

However, boat ramps could be rendered useless as the reservoir drops for the drawdown, he added.

Valdez said his marina could also tank this summer.

“This year, the marina could be gone. In fact, I’ve got to go deal with that right now, and move some stuff around (because of dropping water levels),” he said during a telephone interview with Cowboy State Daily.

Facing extreme drought in the wake of an exceptionally mild winter, officials in Colorado and Oregon have told anglers at some reservoirs: Catch all the fish you want, because they’re going to die anyway. In Wyoming, emergency measures are on hold.

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