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Solar, Wind Energy Get Hundreds Of Times More Tax Incentives Than Oil And Gas
To transition from fossil fuels to green energy, solar and wind companies get as much as 300 times more tax incentives than coal, oil, gas and nuclear. Solar alone is poised to get as much as $900 billion by 2060.
Kevin KilloughOctober 01, 2023

Wyoming’s Arapaho Ranch, Where American Heritage Meets Italian Villa
Located just off of Highway 170 between Thermopolis and Meeteetse, the 350,000-acre ranch is home to rich Wyoming heritage and history for the Arapaho Tribe. And, of late, it’s been undergoing a revival.
Renée JeanOctober 01, 2023

On The Road With Renee: Little Snake River Museum Is World Class
Guests, many of whom are world travelers, often tell Little Snake River Valley Museum Director Lela Emmons that the museum in tiny Savery, Wyoming, is one of the best they’ve ever been to.
Renée JeanOctober 01, 2023

Wyoming Places: Digging For 67 Million-Year-Old Fossils At Triceratops Gulch
Triceratops Gulch is a large swath of exposed rock on a private ranch near Glenrock. In 28 years of digging, over 70 sites have been identified, containing everything from complete skeletons and massive skulls to micro-sites and plant impressions.
Andrew RossiOctober 01, 2023

Letter To The Editor: Thanks To Cat Urbigkit For BLM Proposal Coverage
Dear editor: I read Cat Urbigkit's comments and greatly appreciate her interpretation and comments on the proposed BLM closure of public lands.
CSD StaffOctober 01, 2023

Wyoming’s Retro Motel Revival Continues With Saratoga’s Riviera Motor Lodge
Riviera Motor Lodge in Saratoga, Wyoming, is close to completing an all-around outdoor-indoor upcycle that includes a nice community gathering spot by the river as well as a room-by-room renovation.
Renée JeanOctober 01, 2023

This Gun Is So Ugly It’s Endearing And So Dangerous It Shouldn’t Be Fired
The Wyoming owner of a Warner Infallible pistol said it’s such a hideous-looking gun that it’s cool. A museum’s firearms expert said the rare pistol, which is more than a century old, also is so dangerous it should not be fired.
John ThompsonOctober 01, 2023

Guest Column: We Can't Take Our Land Back If We Never Owned It In The First Place
Tom Lubnau writes, "I read the musing of another politician pontificating we need to 'take our land back!' The truth is, Wyoming never had title to the lands in the first place, so to say we are 'taking them back' is a nice political rallying cry, but has little to do with the law."
CSD StaffOctober 01, 2023

Rod Miller: Friday Night Lights in Wyoming’s Lower East Side
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "Confession – I’m a sucker for high school football. My son Vic and I caught the first win of the season for the 2A Burns Broncs in that bucolic little southeastern town out on the edge of America’s amber waves of grain."
Rod MillerOctober 01, 2023

Wyoming People: Donald Siegel, 99, Saw Action At Iwo Jima In World War II
Few who saw action in Iwo Jima and Okinawa are alive today, like 99-year-old Donald Siegel of Jackson, Wyoming, who was a Navy gunner during World War II.
Jake NicholsOctober 01, 2023

Barbed Wire Still Important Part Of Managing Wyoming Wildlife
Since it started in 2020, the Absaroka Fence Initiative has removed, modified or repaired more than 25 miles of fencing to improve migration routes for mule deer, elk, pronghorn and bighorn sheep in northwest Wyoming.
Andrew RossiSeptember 30, 2023

Buffalo’s Occidental Hotel: A Western Wyoming Original, Bullet Holes And All
The Occidental Hotel is a registered museum where guests sleep in themed rooms with period Old West furniture. The adjacent saloon still has bullet holes and its original backbar imported from Scotland.
Renée JeanSeptember 30, 2023