Pinedale News

Due primarily to bark beetle infestation, 300 trees have been cut, limbed, and decked at the Bridger-Teton National Foresta TMs Green River Lakes Recreation Area on the Pinedale Ranger District.

International announced on June 24, 2009 that High Country Counseling and Resource Centers has been accredited for a period of one year for its Outpatient Treatment Services for adults, adolescents and children.

A young Rock Springs man, Robert W. Routh, died at the scene of a one vehicle rollover 19 miles west of Pinedale, at 2:55 P.M. Monday, June 22.

You will get a dose of Texas music, a Stampede from Utah, and some of the very best cowboy poetry Wyoming has to offer at the Seventh Annual Grand Encampment Cowboy Gathering July 17-19, in Encampment, Wyo.

Each year on the second full weekend in July, Pinedale, Wyoming turns back the clock to the time when the Mountain Men would gather together with the native tribes and anyone else to trade their furs and tell their stories.

Recently my jeweler daughter, Isabel, made me a great "Swiss Writing Knife" with symbols of seven of the things I'm interested in: A Zhabotinsky scroll , the Mandelbrot set , a robot, A Square , Infinity, a UFO, a Cone Shell .

The US Bureau of Land Management is not keeping up with legally required environmental inspections of oil and gas wells in the Western US, but the current gas demand slump is providing a "golden opportunity to catch up," a coalition of environmental groups said Friday after releasing a new report.

In a few weeks, Teton Motors is slated to end its 24-year run as a Jeep dealer, while Wolf Auto Group should continue to sell Chrysler and Dodge vehicles.

Though still in the early stages, a new bill from Congress has piqued the interest of citizens in Western Wyoming.

Jackson Hole, Wyo.-Across the Rocky Mountain West, islands of green pine trees dot the landscape, isolated from one another by a sea of dying, and dead, rusty colored pines.

A group of Sublette County residents, with the blessing of the Pinedale Town Council, is petitioning the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council for stricter ozone standards in the region following several ozone warnings last year.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal has recommended to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that a swath of southwest Wyoming with a concentration of natural gas fields be designated as an 'ozone nonattainment area.' The EPA will make the final designation, and then the state will develop a plan to attain acceptable air quality standards in the area.

The Bureau of Land Management Pinedale and Rock Springs Field Offices are seeking comments on the proposed Paradise Powerline Project in Sublette County.

Pinedale - Modern Electric, of Casper, intends to begin work on two separate lighting projects to in Sublette County this week depending on weather.

For The Associated Press= Storms rumbled over the Southeast and the Northwest early Monday, while sunshine reigned from the Great Lakes to the Rockies.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal has submitted a recommendation to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the agency should designate an area in southwest Wyoming as an ozone nonattainment area.

The Bureau of Land Managementa s Pinedale Field Office is looking for volunteers to assist in installing wildlife escape ladders in livestock water tanks to help prevent birds and small mammals from drowning.

The discovery of high levels of ozone around Pinedale, Wyo., galvanized the energy industry.

Thrown into the media spotlight by his appearance on "The Bachelorette," snowboarder Jesse Csincsak will be back on prime-time television yet again.

Caza Drilling Co. employees work a rig near Rifle. Researchers say that pollutants from oil and gas drilling probably contribute to the rise of winter ozone in the West.