Olivia Weitz

17 hours ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Olivia Weitz

The Plains Indian Museum has a beaded bag by Northern Arapaho and Cattaraugus Seneca artist Ken Williams Jr.Interim Curator Hunter Old Elk said Williams uses a hyper realistic bead embroidery style. “ Some artists choose to paint with beads and so they are taking this form of bead work, of flat bead work, and using colors to create realistic images,” she said. The bag features a portrait of a Shoshone woman wearing traditional clothing.

17 hours ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Olivia Weitz

The town of Powell, with its population of close to 6,500 people, wants to be a leader in glass recycling in Wyoming. The non-profit Powell Valley Recycling just got a new machine that crushes glass. The machine cost $85,000. Board member Sue Woods said it’s unusual for such a small community to have this equipment. “We will take it [glass] from anywhere in a hundred or 200 mile radius if they wanna drive over here to give their glass to us,” she said.

1 day ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Olivia Weitz

Cradleboards were not only used as baby carriers by Indigenous people. “This cradleboard is just absolutely breathtaking and stunning,” said Interim Curator of the Plains Indian Museum Hunter Old Elk, describing a cradleboard by artist Jackie Larson Bread. The cradleboard features a prairie crocus flower, also known as a pasqueflower, and it tells a story.

3 days ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Olivia Weitz

Wheat farmers in Wyoming are more worried about higher fertilizer and input costs impacting their bottom lines than they are about China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, according to a state wheat commission. Keith Kennedy, executive director of the Wyoming Wheat Marketing Commission, said the biggest export buyer of the state’s wheat is Mexico. He says it varies how much gets sent to China. China’s retaliatory import tariffs on American wheat went into effect earlier this year.

6 days ago | wyomingpublicmedia.org | Olivia Weitz

Tony Mong is a wildlife biologist with Wyoming Game and Fish, but he also describes himself as a wildlife biographer. In recent years, he’s been sharing mule deers’ stories by chronicling their migration journey. He’s captured video collar and other visual data that tells more about a day in the life of the mule deer and the challenges they face navigating rugged terrain and development in the Cody area, which is their winter range. He spoke with Wyoming Public Radio’s Olivia Weitz.