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Wyoming Game and Fish wolf hunting proposal out
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will host public meetings this month to discuss proposed changes to wolf management and the 2013 wolf hunting season.
Spring into Yellowstone
A May festival will focus on the birds and the wildlife that make the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem so unique.
“Spring into Yellowstone: Cody Birding and Wildlife Festival,” runs May 15-19.
Fire burns 1,528 acres near Lovell
A fire roughly northeast of Lovell had burned 1,528 acres as of Monday morning, but firefighters on the scene were getting it under control.
Up in flames
A California man escaped injury when his car burst into flames around 5 p.m. Saturday.
Game and Fish suggests halving 2013 wolf quota
Wyoming’s wolf hunting quota could be reduced by half this year.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is proposing that the total 2013 quota in the wolf trophy game management and seasonal wolf trophy game management areas should be 26 wolves. Last year, it was 52 wolves.
Grizzly delisting next year?
Grizzly bears could be delisted in the next year or so, but it must be proven the bruins can get by without whitebark pine nuts.
That’s what Mark Bruscino said at the Wyoming Outfitters Guide Association and Cody Country Outfitters and Guides Association meeting Saturday morning in Cody.
Smokestack at Heart Mountain getting much needed repair
Restoration begins
Workers are fixing the tallest chimney in these parts.
The chimney, formerly a hospital boiler smokestack at the old Japanese American internment camp above the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, is leaning to one side. It won’t get straightened, but the chimney will be repaired and repointed by remortaring the brickwork joints.
Yellowstone plow funding completed
Send in the snowplows
Thanks to successful community fundraising campaigns, snowplows from Wyoming will plow the east and south entrances of Yellowstone National Park, allowing them to open on schedule, May 3 and May 10, respectively.
Buffalo Bill Reservoir will have adequate irrigation water
Buffalo Bill Reservoir may not fill to the brim this spring, but it should be full enough for irrigation needs during the spring and summer.
If the reservoir receives the expected inflows, there will be adequate water to meet needs downstream, said Mahonri Williams, chief of the bureau’s Water and Lands Division in Mills.