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Trump’s ‘liquidation plans’ could wipe out Wyoming research group renowned for migration work

7 hours ago | wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl

The future of a Wyoming-focused science team that helped understand and popularize the phenomenon of wildlife migration is uncertain after a series of moves by the Trump administration’s U.S. Geological Survey to hollow out or even end its 43 cooperative research units. Multiple sources reached by WyoFile this week said that plans are being developed to vastly reduce or even eliminate the entire national program, started in Iowa 90 years ago by conservationist J.N. “Ding” Darling.
Pinedale’s red lake thawed, quickly tagged as Wyoming’s first ‘harmful’ cyanobacteria bloom of 2025

1 day ago | wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl

A once-prized trout fishery in the Pinedale area that raised concerns in late 2024 when it turned the color of a taconite tailings pond is again struggling with water quality. The ice just came off many lakes along the Wind River Range’s western front, including Little Soda Lake, which shed its deep red color over the winter. Yet almost immediately — within just a few weeks at most — environmental regulators detected potential issues with the still-frigid water.
Shoshone Forest: No trail restrictions, area closures needed to safeguard moth-eating grizzlies

1 day ago | wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl

CODY—Hundreds of moth-eating grizzly bears will gather in backcountry talus fields in the months to come. It’s a high-altitude gathering similar to coastal bruins’ seasonal salmon feasts that serve as well-publicized spectacles. But land and wildlife managers face hard choices when it comes to spreading word of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s remarkable natural phenomenon, which occurs chiefly in the Absaroka Range.
Citing court losses, Freedom Caucus turns attention to Wyoming judges

2 days ago | wyofile.com | Andrew Graham

Like President Donald Trump’s efforts to detain immigrants in an El Salvadoran prison and slash the federal government through executive orders, the Wyoming Freedom Caucus’s agenda has hit roadblocks in the courts. And like the president, the caucus is targeting the court system in response. Trump has responded to adverse rulings by calling for federal judges to be impeached. His allies in Congress — including Wyoming’s delegation — then introduced bills to curtail the judicial branch’s power.
Tribes urge Trump to undo planned DOGE closure of Fish and Wildlife’s Lander Conservation Office

5 days ago | wyofile.com | Mike Koshmrl

FORT WASHAKIE—Art Lawson sometimes feels like he’s doing the work of five people in his job overseeing wildlife on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Yellowstone-sized landscape that’s home to the full suite of native species, from grizzly bears to wolverines.
Wyoming lawmakers go full steam ahead on election reform — again - WyoFile

5 days ago | wyofile.com | Maggie Mullen

LANDER—Wyoming lawmakers filed a record number of election-related bills in this winter’s general session, but they showed little sign of slowing down Thursday on plans to remake the state’s election system. During its first meeting of the legislative off-season, the Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee voted to draft 10 pieces of election legislation.
Grandmaster 24, Sheridan chess club 0, but winners all around

5 days ago | wyofile.com | Andrew Graham

At age 21, Serbian chess player Luka Budisavljević is the youngest Grandmaster in his country’s history. A grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can achieve, besides world champion, and there are only around 1,850 of them in the world today. In Sheridan last weekend for the Wyoming Community Foundation Open — a chess tournament with a $9,000 guaranteed purse — Budisavljević warmed up by playing 24 Sheridan players simultaneously.
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.
DOGE-depleted public land agencies expect to lean more on private partners

6 days ago | wyofile.com | Katie Klingsporn

Even before President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency carved away at land management agencies’ budgets, they struggled to meet mounting demands in Wyoming and elsewhere. That problem will only grow more acute, according to a regional U.S. Forest Service director, underscoring the need for partner organizations.
Speed unknown factor in death of Grizzly 1058, one of 399’s offspring

1 week ago | wyofile.com | Rebecca Huntington

A grizzly death attributed to a fatal vehicle strike has triggered an outpouring of rage on social media about people driving too fast, but law enforcement could not determine whether speed was a factor in the collision. The bear that died, Grizzly 1058, is one of the famous “quads” of their even more famous mom, Grizzly 399, who died last year after being fatally struck by a vehicle on a highway south of Jackson. In the death of Grizzly 399, authorities ruled that the driver was not speeding.