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Gray Wolf Protection Potentially Changes

Submitted by ErickPauley on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 22:40

A panel of Wyoming lawmakers is considering a proposal to remove federal protections from gray wolves in the state possibly as soon as next year. A legislative committee is meeting in Thermopolis on Tuesday to consider proposed changes to the state's wolf-management plan. Gov. Matt Mead and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar this summer reached an agreement over how to turn wolf management over to the state. 

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Wyoming Looks for Royalty Share

Submitted by ErickPauley on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 13:28

Wyoming is looking to get its fair share of royalty payments on natural gas that is burned off oil wells on state land. A public meeting in Casper on Monday will bring together staff of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the Office of State Lands and Investments to talk about the practice of flaring gas from oil wells. 

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17yr Old Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter

Submitted by ErickPauley on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 13:26

A 17-year-old Casper resident stood in court Thursday and admitted to inadvertently shooting his sleeping friend with a pistol they had stolen out of a car the previous night. The Billings Gazette reports that Matthew Dean Campbell pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated burglary. In exchange for the pleas, prosecutors agreed to seek no more than 15 years behind bars at Campbell's sentencing in coming weeks.