MEAD GRUVER

Colorado hosts first clone of endangered species – a ferret

Elizabeth Ann cloned from animal that died in 1988

Identity of man who found treasure chest hidden by Forrest Fenn is revealed

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A grandson of Forrest Fenn has confirmed that a medical school student from Michigan found a more than $1 million treasure chest that the retired art and antiquities dealer ...

New migration maps a tool to help big game in West

Atlas provides in-depth look at routes, obstacles for animals

Fierce winds fan Rockies wildfires, new evacuations ordered

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Strong winds fanned two Rocky Mountain wildfires Wednesday, prompting new evacuation orders as one of them spread toward communities that lie outside Rocky Mountain National...

Rocky Mountain wildfires keep growing after torching cabins

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Two big mountain wildfires in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming were growing Thursday after burning dozens of cabins and other structures. A forecast calling...

National parks hope visitors comply with virus measures

National parks hope visitors comply with virus measures

One of world’s largest steam engines converted from coal to oil

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 40...

Wanted: More pastures for West’s overpopulated wild horses

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – If you ever wished to gaze at a stomping, snorting, neighing panorama of Western heritage from your living room window, now could be your chance. A classic image ...

Trump administration rescinding rules for oil, gas drilling

CHEYENNE – President Donald Trump’s administration is rescinding proposed rules for hydraulic fracturing and other oil- and gas-drilling practices on government lands, government officials a...

Candidate to lead BLM: No advocate of transfers

Many environmentalists have been calling Budd-Falen too extreme

BLM seeks private homes for wild horses

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is seeking additional homes for potentially thousands of wild horses rounded up from Western rangelands by asking landowners in a dozen st...