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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video News: Tuesday, January 14, 2024 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Tuesday's headlines include:
- 68th Wyoming Legislature Starts Today
- Finally, Feds OK Turbine Graveyard In Coal Mines
- Denver Int Airport No Longer Accepting Cash To Park

Cowboy State Daily Video News: Tuesday, January 14, 2024

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Renée Jean

Energy

Coal

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<title>Feds OK Wyoming Idea To Use Old Wind Turbines To Fill In Coal Mines | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming’s innovative plan to allow coal mines to accept wind turbine blades as fill material has cleared the Biden administration, almost four years after the state approved it.

Feds OK Wyoming Idea To Use Old Wind Turbines To Fill In Coal Mines

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Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Wildlife

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<title>Wolves From Canada Arrive In Colorado, Nobody’s Saying Where They’ll Be Released | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A group of wolves have been flown from Canada to Colorado for another round of reintroductions, which has been highly controversial. There’s no word yet on when and where they’ll be released. 

Wolves From Canada Arrive In Colorado, Nobody’s Saying Where They’ll Be Released

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Dale Killingbeck

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<title>Just How Windy Does It Get In Wyoming? | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The most powerful wind gust ever recorded in Wyoming was in the town of Clark in April, 2022. That's when the wind hit 128 mph. Luckily, wind speeds don't get this high that often.

Just How Windy Does It Get In Wyoming?

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>Fossils Of 47 Million-Year-Old "Alien Plant" Raise More Questions Than Answers | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien plant" from Utah. That’s why it's baffling that it remains so elusive and unlike anything else ever found on the planet.

Fossils Of 47 Million-Year-Old "Alien Plant" Raise More Questions Than Answers

Dick Perue

The American West

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<title>The American West: The World War II POW Camp Housed In Snowy Range | Cowboy State Daily</title>

R. R. Crow, the owner of the sawmill and logging operations in the Upper North Platte River Valley, requested prisoners of war to help with his sawmill. His request was granted and Italian and German prisoners were housed in the mountain town of Ryan Park from 1943 to 1945.

The American West: The World War II POW Camp Housed In Snowy Range

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