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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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Clair McFarland

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<title>Wyoming Woman Charged With Impersonating Police Officer While Boarding Plane | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Shoshoni, Wyoming, woman is accused of impersonating a police officer while trying to get onto an airplane in Riverton. Wearing a security officer badge on her waist, she allegedly claimed she was transporting DNA evidence for the FBI.

Wyoming Woman Charged With Impersonating Police Officer While Boarding Plane

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>Get Ready To Shiver — Cold Wave To Plunge Wyoming Below Zero This Week | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A surge of polar air from Canada will move into Wyoming by the end of the week, plunging much of the state into below zero temperatures. It’s the start of what could be a prolonged period of serious cold.

Get Ready To Shiver — Cold Wave To Plunge Wyoming Below Zero This Week

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<title>Bill Splitting Deer Seasons Would Just Get More Mule Deer Shot, Biologist Says | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Advocates of legislative bill to split Wyoming hunting seasons for white-tailed and mule deer say it will help save mule deer. A retired wildlife biologist says that would just get more mule deer killed.

Bill Splitting Deer Seasons Would Just Get More Mule Deer Shot, Biologist Says

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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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<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

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