Basin News

Photos courtesy of Amber Wallingford ENJOYING 4-H CAMP: Young 4-H members from across the Big Horn Basin gathered at HW Camp on Grass Creek for the annual summer 4-H camp last week.

Sheep producers, veterinarians and others are invited to a meeting June 30, in Worland to learn more about the infectious disease bluetongue and how to prevent an outbreak in flocks of sheep.

Except for the Upper and Lower Green Basins, above normal water supply numbers continue to be expected for the rest of June and into July for a majority of the large watersheds in Wyoming.

May precipitation across Wyoming's river basins averaged 92 to 255 percent of average.

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SECURITY STATE BANK OF BASIN, WYOMING FILED SUIT, ALLEGING H-AND-M LIVESTOCK HAD DEFAULTED ON A 2005 LOAN OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS.

Last Thursday it appeared possible that only two names would be listed on the primary election ballot for the Big Horn County Commission.

Northwest College used a spring 2008 survey to better understand how area residents view the college.

The Meadowlark Audubon Society of the Bighorn Basin will host a Friday birding field trip to Bear Canyon, near the Wyoming-Montana border.

But, after stopping, he attempted to make a left turn onto the highway and was struck broadside by the bus.

“Those two applications will most likely move forward to the state for consideration out of more than $30 million in emergency funds”

The mayors of the nine incorporated towns in Big Horn County met Thursday in Lovell to review 36 project applications for $2.9 million in County-wide Consensus Block Grant money handed down by the state to be divvied up for this fiscal year.

Nine capital improvement projects totalling $2,530,063 were recommended for funding by the mayors, with another six projects submitted by special tax districts recommended for funding to the tune of $334,441.

The Lovell Canal District was recommended to receive $41,790 in grant funds for upgrades; North Big Horn Hospital $121,519 for a call system; County Weed and Pest District $21,000 for Americans with Disabilities Act improvements; Basin Recreation District $81,000 to repair the town swimming pool; Burlington Cemetery $53,200 for upgrades; and Big Horn County Fire District No. 4 $15,932 for generator housing. Read more

While the run for the White House dominates national headlines, voters in Big Horn County will have far more to decide this November than simply whether Barack, John or Hillary will be the next inhabitant of ... via Lovell Chronicle Home Page

The WY project is one of four advanced properties that Artha has optioned from Energy Metals Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Uranium One Inc. via Market Wire

Image: Leila Monaghan . Cheek numbing, eye watering winds whip across the plains of the Laramie Basin, Wyoming. via Wilson's Almanac

An insect mine on a 53 million year old fossil from the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. via LiveScience

“The money was to go into projects that would create jobs and try to bring jobs to West Virginia.”

New education opportunities and the potential for new jobs in the technology field for southern West Virginia were celebrated Tuesday with the dedication of a new Concord University facility. via Bluefield Daily Telegraph

If the gusto behind those new year's resolutions is starting to wane, the Northwest College Cody Center for Training and Development is coming to the rescue with classes on creating permanent change, ... via Billings Gazette

“This is an offering I think will provide some cutting-edge technology and information that will be helpful to our growers in the Big Horn Basin to produce high-quality hays and to manage and develop irrigated pastures.”

Suggestions for producing high-quality hay and developing irrigated pastures are themes of the Big Horn Basin Forage Irrigated Pasture Expo on Tuesday, Feb. via Ag Almanac

“The real benefit of this is it really opens up an entirely new avenue for extracting energy from coal. Once we can efficiently gasify the coal, we can get into the liquid fuels business in the state, and we can get into petrochemicals, all from coal”

The national and international focus on controlling greenhouse gas emissions draws a target on Wyoming's prolific coal industry, which supports more than 18,000 jobs and pumps more than $750 million into the ... via Casper Star Tribune

“We think that the warming allowed insect species from the tropics ... to migrate north”

Food crops could be ravaged this century by an explosion in the numbers of insect pests caused by rising global temperatures, according to scientists who have carried out an exhaustive survey of plant damage ... via The Independent