Angus Thuermer

Jackson

Reporter and Photographer at WyoFile

Citizen, reporter, photographer, skier, angler, paddler, climber, hunter.

Articles

Trump order threatens public radio's daily programming in Wyoming, and more

6 days ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

President Donald Trump’s May 1 order to halt federal funding of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service jeopardizes news and other programming broadcast by Wyoming’s affiliate stations that serve about 95% of the state’s rural population. The executive order ensures that “Federal funding does not support biased and partisan news coverage,” Trump wrote about the attack against the two national news nonprofits and their parent Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Run for the racks

1 week ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

“It’s going to be a big old-fashioned horse race,” Hunter Whitney said as he lounged in his makeshift camp Wednesday at the Teton County Fairgrounds, waiting for the opening of shed-antler hunting season. Camp stoves, backpacks, folding chairs and even a cornhole set surrounded the Star Valley resident as he catnapped among picnic tables at his sidewalk quarters. A long-cold fried egg lay abandoned in a skillet, a pair of sturdy boots aired out on the concrete.
Leaked federal roadmap for public land called 'industry wish list'

2 weeks ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

As the Department of the Interior develops a plan to “restore American prosperity” by exploiting Western natural resources, a Wyoming attorney who has steeled rural communities against federal policies is atop the hierarchy that will marshal the effort. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum last month appointed Karen Budd-Falen as temporary deputy secretary and his senior advisor.
Scientist who recovered grizzlies warns Trump's assault on conservation risks irreversible losses

2 weeks ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

In fewer than 100 days, the Trump administration has promoted drilling, mining and development of public lands while undercutting the science, scientists and laws that protect the environmental fabric of the West, conservationists say. The president maintains he is pursuing his agenda in the name of national security and a better life for Americans.
Despite DOGE at Interior, Yellowstone staffing 'higher than last year'

3 weeks ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

Five days into the Trump administration’s DOGE takeover of the Department of Interior’s policy, management and budget, Yellowstone National Park staffing is “higher than last year,” an Interior Department spokesperson in Washington, D.C. said Monday. Yellowstone Park confirmed the increase. “Going into this year, we should have a total of 769 NPS employees,” park spokeswoman Linda Veress said in an email, up from 748 last year.
As international visitors stay away, Yellowstone tourism industry banks on Americans

3 weeks ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA—Tchotchke shop owners are busy stocking shelves with Old Faithful shot glasses, stuffed teddy bears and Yellowstone hoodies. Motel managers are hiring their last employees as the summer tourism season begins with the opening of Yellowstone’s West Entrance today. After park crews plowed a winter’s worth of snow from roads, visitors are now motoring to Old Faithful, Canyon and Norris, marking the unofficial start to the summer.
With freestyler Kauf, Wyoming celebrates another world ski champion

1 month ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

When Jaelin Kauf zipped through moguls and jumps to win two world freestyle skiing titles this winter, she was far from the cowbells, gluhwein, chocolate and other slopeside paraphernalia that speckles historic European ski venues. She skidded to a stop March 1 at the bottom of Kazakhstan’s Shymbulak Mountain Resort, a central Asian slope on the other side of the globe from her hometown of Alta, Wyoming.
Wyoming’s national parks offer weeks of car-free cycling, strolling

1 month ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

April eases Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks into the hustle of summer, coaxing cyclists to dust off their steeds for car-free exploration of otherwise heavily trafficked scenic routes. In Wyoming’s two federal reserves, workers plow a winter’s worth of snow from highways, then open the roads exclusively for bicyclists and pedestrians. And in Yellowstone, for a bison or 10.
Barrasso, Lummis vote to allow selling federal land to fund Trump budget

1 month ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

In a battle over taxes and access to Wyoming’s wide open spaces, U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis voted against a measure that would have blocked the government from selling public land to help fund the federal budget. Wyoming’s two Republican senators voted Friday evening against a budget amendment brought by Colorado’s Democratic Sen.
Supreme Court tosses Jackson Hole water-protection suit fighting glampers' sewage

1 month ago | wyofile.com | Angus Thuermer

The Wyoming Supreme Court has dismissed a Teton County water-protection group’s challenge of a state-issued sewage permit for a glamping hotel in a polluted watershed. The court ruled Tuesday that the nonprofit Protect our Water Jackson Hole doesn’t have standing — sufficient stake or investment in the issue — to challenge a Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality permit issued to the glamping owners.