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<title>Rocky Mountain Grizzlies Keep Getting Shot By… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Grizzlies in the Rocky Mountain region keep getting shot in self-defense by archery hunters with handguns. As the popularity of bowhunting grows, they’re bound to cross paths with grizzlies more often.

Rocky Mountain Grizzlies Keep Getting Shot By Bowhunters With Handguns

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Renée Jean

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<title>Jay Leno Climbs Aboard Cheyenne’s Big Boy… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Big Boy No. 4014 will be featured on “Jay Leno’s Garage” show on September 23. The former “The Tonight Show” host climbed aboard Big Boy on Monday somewhere in the Missouri Valley to help drive the locomotive to Iowa.

Jay Leno Climbs Aboard Cheyenne’s Big Boy Locomotive For His TV Show

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>Tuesday Night's Supermoon Will Also Feature A… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Tuesday night's supermoon will have a bonus element to it. A partial lunar eclipse will also occur. For Wyomingites, the eclipse will begin at moonrise, just after 7 p.m., and it will peak at around 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday Night's Supermoon Will Also Feature A Partial Lunar Eclipse

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Greg Johnson

Public Lands

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<title>Short Draw Fire 65% Contained, But Igniting… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wildland firefighting crews have gained 65% containment of the Short Draw Fire in northeast Wyoming and southern Montana. But they’re also now fighting coal seam fires ignited by the wildfire.

Short Draw Fire 65% Contained, But Igniting Underground Coal Seams

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Clair McFarland

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<title>Idaho Company's Bungee Jump From Casper Crime… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

People in Casper were shocked and saddened over the weekend when they saw an Idaho company holding bungee-jump sessions at the scene of a crime so tragic that one crime writer called it “the loss of innocence for a whole community.”

Idaho Company's Bungee Jump From Casper Crime Scene Leaves People Shocked, Sad

Energy

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<title>Judge Puts Massive 5,000-Well Wyoming Oil And… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A massive oil and gas project that calls for up to 5,000 wells in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin is in limbo after a Friday ruling by a federal judge. The decision doesn’t affect existing drilling permits, but blocks future ones.

Judge Puts Massive 5,000-Well Wyoming Oil And Gas Project In Limbo

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