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<title>Locals Say Controversial Rock Springs Land Plan Must Allow Energy, Public Access | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Rock Springs residents turned out Tuesday to support promised changes to a controversial plan to manage 3.6 million acres of southwest Wyoming. The plan is being amended to comply with Trump’s order to peel away roadblocks to U.S. energy development.

Locals Say Controversial Rock Springs Land Plan Must Allow Energy, Public Access

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<title>Helicopter Hunters Challenge Ranchers Over Access To Landlocked Public Land | Cowboy State Daily</title>

To access sections of Wyoming public land surrounded by private property, some hunters are chartering helicopter pilots to fly them in, upsetting adjacent ranchers.

Helicopter Hunters Challenge Ranchers Over Access To Landlocked Public Land

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<title>$60 Million Wyoming Rare Earth Plant To Challenge China Nears Full Operation | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Construction of a $60 million state-of-the-art rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant is complete in Upton, Wyoming. It’s expected to be game-changing in America’s efforts to break China’s rare earth stranglehold.

$60 Million Wyoming Rare Earth Plant To Challenge China Nears Full Operation

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Jen Kocher

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<title>Felony Warrant Issued For Wyoming Mom Who Took Off With 10-Month-Old Baby | Cowboy State Daily</title>

More than two weeks after a 10-month-old boy was reported missing, authorities have issued a felony arrest warrant for his mother, who’s accused of taking the baby. “I feel like I'm getting robbed of the joys of being a dad,” his father says.

Felony Warrant Issued For Wyoming Mom Who Took Off With 10-Month-Old Baby

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<title>Wyoming Officials Fear Seminoe Power Project Could Ruin Premier Bighorn Herd | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming wildife officials and others fear a Utah-based company’s plan to build a 900-megawatt power project at Seminoe Reservoir could ruin the state's most-prized bighorn sheep herd and a blue-ribbon trout fishery.

Wyoming Officials Fear Seminoe Power Project Could Ruin Premier Bighorn Herd

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Dale Killingbeck

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<title>Douglas Couple Escape Fire, But Not Their Shop And 102-Year-Old Home | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Douglas couple is trying to salvage what they can from their 1923 Craftsman bungalow home that was devastated by fire Friday morning. A shop next to the home full of the husband’s tools also burned. He’s a carpenter recently laid off for the season.

Douglas Couple Escape Fire, But Not Their Shop And 102-Year-Old Home

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Carol Lynn Kilzer Larson, 81