Hiking trails and our backpacking experiences may be severely impacted by decisions made in response to climate change. In this occasional series, we’ll peek at the eco-friendly (or not) happenings in each state. Today: Wyoming.
Living Within Your Climate
Since then, I saw people in South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and California all trying to grow the same grass lawns that people try to grow in Minnesota. Those grasses don’t grow well in Minnesota without significant watering, …
Wyoming Solves Climate Change With Coal. Wait, what?
A team of researchers from the University of Wyoming says they’ve created a carbon capture device capable of trapping 90% of CO2 at low cost. Traditional attempts to suck CO2 out of emissions are expensive due to the cost of materials …
Wyoming Considers Climate Change
More than 130 biologists, scientists, policy-makers, sportsmen and members of the media came together in Cheyenne on Monday, June 16 to learn more about climate change and how it could potentially affect Wyoming’s resources. …
USGS study tracks climate change’s effects on wildlife in Wyoming
A two-year US Geological Survey will use satellite imagery and information obtained from scientists’ field operations in Wyoming to track what effect, if any, climate change is having on elk, moose, mule deer and pronghorn antelope. …
Climate Change Effects on Wyoming Rangeland Part of Cheyenne Symposium
8, 2008 — How climate change may affect rangelands and the scientific background for making management decisions for the long-term sustainability of grazing systems will be presented during a September symposium in Cheyenne.
Wyoming has the right to preserve special places
Casper Star-Tribune: As gasoline prices continue to rise, Americans are changing their opinions about how to solve the current energy crisis. A Pew Research Center report in February found that 35 percent of the public wanted to expand …
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