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POWELL — With everything to lose if discovered, an intelligent and well-kept man spoke softly of his past from a dark corner of a Cody coffee shop. He kept his back to the wall, his eyes shifting, aware of every customer coming through the door. As he told his story calmly, the tension of the situations — from work undercover among some of the most dangerous gang members in the country to international drug interdiction — were enough to turn a parent's hair gray. And no matter how much the m...
POWELL - Step after step while climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, the endeavor by area residents Deb White and Cathy Blanchard was as much mental as it was physical. For nine days the retirees pushed toward the summit on the mountain with the world's fourth highest vertical climb, cementing a lifelong bond through their adventure on the 19,340-foot behemoth. "I had never been tested to the full extent of my physical and mental capabilities," said Blanchard, a 70-year-old making her home in the shadow of...
POWELL - Michael Seib had lost his job, his car and was losing control. The musician and artist was in a free fall. After a sterling high school experience, he was accepted to a prestigious university in Southern California. That's when he lost control. "It was almost off the rails, you know. I was drinking a lot and just partying and gambling," he said. "I wasn't living up to my potential." He descended into addiction, eventually falling in with a group of musicians who felt inebriation...
POWELL — From a distance it may have seemed like a fairly easy hunt. Not far off the road a nice pronghorn buck was spotted in an agricultural field near Heart Mountain. A group of three men, experienced in successfully hunting North America’s fastest land mammal, guided a nonresident hunter to within 100 yards of the target. It’s a fairly typical scene during hunting season in northwestern Wyoming. This picturesque region full of trophy big game animals is at the top of most hunters’ bucket...
POWELL — As news of translocations of two grizzly bears broke, few realized the amount of hard work — on the phone, on paper and in the wilderness — it takes to make such a feat happen. It is touted as a step to increase genetic diversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s population of its most charismatic creature. But if you think all they had to do was load a couple bears in a truck and drive six to eight hours to release them in and near Yellowstone National Park, you’d be wrong. Th...
POWELL — After migrating to the North Fork of the Shoshone River and more than a dozen major tributaries to spawn in the spring and early-summer months, many of the highly migratory rainbow and Yellowstone cutthroat trout return to Buffalo Bill Reservoir. This wild population of trout, which have survived without stocking efforts from Wyoming Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists, is the pride of the Cody Region. But while the population isn’t being supplemented, it is getting help. Reg...
POWELL — The Supreme Court has overturned the Chevron Doctrine, which instructed courts to defer to federal agencies on details where the law is unclear, so long as that guidance is “reasonable." The decision, released Friday by the court, will significantly reduce the federal government’s power to interpret laws and issue regulations — including protections for the environment, wildlife and their habitats and how scientists work in a variety of fields. The victory for Loper Bright Enterprises, a herring fishing company in New Jersey, will ma...
POWELL — Unlike most high school kids, environmental photojournalist Julia Cook spent much of her free time in the basement of the Draper Natural History Museum stripping rotting meat from the skeletons of various animals; bears, wolves, mountain lions. A half-dozen years later, you can still find her there volunteering to do work many would turn their nose up to. “Sometimes it is a bit smelly,” Cook said during a recent lecture at the museum. Cook was an intern with the Wyoming Game and Fish...
POWELL — Sobering news resulting from a multi-year Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance program by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department between 2018 and 2022 shows significant increases in the fatal disease for the state’s prized mule deer and elk herds. In one herd, the prevalence rate is calculated at 65% in mule deer bucks, and there are concerning increases in infected elk, including hunt areas popular for Big Horn Basin hunters. The disease, which typically kills infected animals within two years after initial exposure, now occurs in...