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<title>Turkish Company Offers $285 Million To Buy Interest In Huge Wyoming Trona Mine | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Sisecam, a Turkish company, is offering $285 million to buy out a minority stake in one of Wyoming’s huge new trona mines.

Turkish Company Offers $285 Million To Buy Interest In Huge Wyoming Trona Mine

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Clair McFarland

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<title>Wyoming Sues Huge Investors For Pushing “Climate Activist Agenda” To Kill Coal | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming and 10 other states are accusing three massive investors of colluding to downsize coal companies to achieve net-zero carbon emissions goals. They’re using their power as large stockholders to push “a climate activist agenda.”

Wyoming Sues Huge Investors For Pushing “Climate Activist Agenda” To Kill Coal

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<title>Hunter Baffled By Elk’s Weirdly Deformed Hooves | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Colorado hunter killed a cow elk last week that looked normal and healthy — except for some weirdly deformed hooves. Biologists say the elk is not a mutant, but the bizarre hoof deformities mirror the effects of an elk disease that’s spreading in other states.

Hunter Baffled By Elk’s Weirdly Deformed Hooves

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<title>Controversial Montana Land Developer Has A New Big Project, But No Land | Cowboy State Daily</title>

After a failed luxury community project, Robert Rule is back pitching a grandiose Montana land development. This time, he wants to build a community for veterans, but the controversial developer has just one problem — he has no land.

Controversial Montana Land Developer Has A New Big Project, But No Land

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<title>Critics Say Unchecked Traps Killing Wyoming Mountain Lions, Pets | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Some claim traps should be checked more often to save pets and wildlife that get caught in them. But one experienced trapper says they already do that, and freeing a mistakenly trapped grizzly isn’t a DIY job.

Critics Say Unchecked Traps Killing Wyoming Mountain Lions, Pets

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Jackie Dorothy

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<title>Man Spends 30 Years Photographing Wyoming’s Disappearing Ranches | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Larry Friedman began taking photos of the Sweetwater County homesteads he was visiting as a Wyoming veterinarian in 1977. For the next 30 years, he recorded a disappearing era, including the Sweeney family ranch in southwest Wyoming.

Man Spends 30 Years Photographing Wyoming’s Disappearing Ranches

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