Letters to the Editor

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A whitetail deer, left, and mule deer, right.

Letter To The Editor: Splitting Mule Deer and Whitetail Tags Would Be A Disaster

Dear editor: This bill is not good for hunters and it is not good for the resource. It is being pushed by people who are only looking at money. They see the dollar signs and want a piece of that pie.

January 26, 2025

Letter To The Editor: The Sausage-Making In The Legislature Is Terrifying

Dear editor: The Wyoming State Legislature is not boring this year, which everyone should find terrifying. If things continue as they are, I hope all of us can make our own “sausage” because the current actions of our legislative body is running Wyoming out of meat.

January 26, 2025

Letter To The Editor: Personal Bias or Monumental Ignorance? Neither Have a Place in Science

Dear editor: The Jan. 12 article regarding the introduction of wolves to Yellowstone unfortunately incorporated alarmingly slanted or seriously misinformed views from a supposed expert about wolf and elk population dynamics in Yellowstone.

January 15, 2025

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Letter To The Editor: Let's Keep Nuclear Waste Dumps Out Of Wyoming

Dear editor: Here we are again — tempted by the possibility of easy money and an increasingly desperate federal government that has shown itself incapable of finding a permanent solution to the problem of nuclear waste.

January 09, 2025

Letter To The Editor: I Will Not Participate In The Charade

Dear editor: I thank Gina Mae Douglas for the Letter to the Editor in support of men becoming women and women becoming men, but I cannot agree with any of the reasoning, or the "esteemed" medical field held up as truth.

January 03, 2025

Serbian-American physicist sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his "Magnifying transmitter" - 1899

Letter To The Editor: Bravo To "The American West"

Dear editor: This is why I subscribe to the Cowboy State Daily newsletter and read it every day:

January 03, 2025

The Orleans Parish Coroner van returns to the scene on Bourbon Street after at least ten people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year's Day on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Letter To The Editor: Who's To Blame In New Orleans?

Dear editor: Was it evil outside our borders that invaded Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day or was it backsliding within?

January 03, 2025

A river otter on a frozen lake in Yellowstone National Park.

Letter To The Editor: More Information On Wyoming's Otters Please

Dear editor: [Could] Cowboy State Daily’s Mark Heinz or another experienced wildlife reporter write a balanced story on the pros and cons of keeping otters on the state’s protected species list [?]

January 03, 2025

Letter To The Editor: Cassie Craven Is Wrong

In her most recent column, Cassie Craven espouses "common-sense" in praising the Freedom Caucus' third attempt to pass the What Is A Woman Act. Coming from a practicing-attorney, Craven's column is ludicrously disingenuous and propagandistic.

January 01, 2025

There is General consensus over preserving the Greater Little Mountain area in Sweetwater County, although a draft plan for managing other federal lands around it was slammed by Wyoming elected officials.

Letter To The Editor: BLM's Rock Springs Plan is Balanced, Good for Wildlife

Dear editor: In the case of the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan, the BLM has done a great job at taking into consideration local stakeholder input and honoring the wishes of many to protect the Red Desert for future generations.

January 01, 2025

Letter To The Editor: BLM’s Updated Western Solar Plan Is A Good Outcome

Dear editor: The updated Western Solar Plan, finalized by the Bureau of Land Management on December 20th, has been thoughtfully designed to address the challenges faced by the increased demand on western landscapes for energy generation.

December 30, 2024

Letter To The Editor: Thank You Sen. Lummis For Rip And Replace

Dear editor: Congress established Rip and Replace in 2019 because it realized Chinese-manufactured equipment in our broadband and mobile networks posed a serious threat to our national security and legislatively banned the equipment.

December 24, 2024