Mike Koshmrl
@Koshywrites
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Reporter @WyoFile, covering wildlife, wildlands and fancy-tickling Wyoming things. Tips and talking-tos: [email protected]. Opinions my own.
Wyoming
Joined March 2014
A full-throttled rollback of federal regulations on industrial emissions might not be uniformly welcome in Wyoming, particularly in Pinedale where residents struggled for years before convincing regulators and industry to address a health threat. @WyoFile
wyofile.com
U.S. Rep. Hageman's comment didn't go over well in Pinedale, where residents struggled for years to clean up health-threatening pollution from oil and gas drilling.
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Uinta, Platte, Niobrara, Goshen and Sublette counties become "news deserts" as News Media Corp shutters eight local Wyoming newspapers with no notice. The oldest had been in print for 122 years. Thirty people lost jobs.
wyofile.com
Uinta, Platte, Niobrara, Goshen and Sublette counties become "news deserts" as News Media Corp shutters eight local Wyoming newspapers with no notice. The oldest had been in print for 122 years....
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Gov. Mark Gordon will deploy the Wyoming National Guard to support Trump's mass detention and deportation effort. He is one of a reported 20 Republican governors to do so. https://t.co/Bo0xjRyC12
wyofile.com
Gov. Mark Gordon is among a reported 20 Republican governors who agreed to the president’s request to use guard members for immigration enforcement duties — maybe paperwork.
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1.5 yrs ago, Cody Roberts brought a wounded wolf into a bar & drew international disgust. Leniency of the punishment—a $250 fine—stoked the outrage. Now, a grand jury has convened that could indict him for felony animal cruelty. The scoop for @WyoFile. https://t.co/68yPqiJ5fh
wyofile.com
Seventeen months after the infamous incident in the Green River Bar, closed-door legal proceedings are underway in Sublette County to determine whether to charge the Daniel resident who tormented a...
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Humans can sure do a number (2) on alpine environments. Here's a case in point: Wyoming's Lonesome Lake, stunning and remote as it is, was more polluted with fecal bacteria that any of the other 981 lakes @EPA sampled for its National Lakes Assessment! https://t.co/Z2pLCyy17p
wyofile.com
Environmental regulators have launched an investigation into a heavily trafficked lake below the Cirque of the Towers in the Wind River Range, with an Enterococci reading 384 times the safety...
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From 2014 to '24, the share of Wyoming residents who believe climate change is happening jumped from 55% to 86%. “That’s a huge change in 10 years. There is worry and there is a desire for action.” -Kristen Landreville @DBleizeffer story for @WyoFile. https://t.co/YVOOOAlSXe
wyofile.com
Of the 81% who want their communities to plan for climate-related water changes, less than half know that most of their neighbors feel the same.
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SCOOP: Huge news for western states. The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to allow the sale of millions of acres of federal land fails to comply with the Byrd Rule. Montana/Idaho GOP senators have said they oppose it as well. I’m told this decision
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And here's a perhaps less surprising take from a Jackson Hole entrepreneur who puts U.S. @RepHageman on blast for supporting the sale of public lands that are integral to the lives of her constituents. https://t.co/Ugk8gWTUIr
wyofile.com
The congresswoman likes to remind us she upholds Wyoming values, but her actions in D.C. say otherwise, guest columnist Trevor Neilson writes.
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In Wyoming, ALL reaches of the political spectrum are lining up against @SenMikeLee's bid to sell off ~3M acres of the public's land. Here's a take from extremely MAGA (Jan. 6 participant) oil and gas executive state representative Mike Schmid. https://t.co/jKV4grs8FO
cowboystatedaily.com
Rep. Mike Schmid writes, "As a member of the Wyoming Legislature, I have deep concerns about the proposal buried in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill”…
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Seriously, I'm a sucker for the genre. An old grizzly longevity story:
jhnewsandguide.com
Zach Turnbull could barely make out the emaciated grizzly bear’s inside-lip tattoo, and when he did decipher the digits — 168 — they just didn’t seem right.
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Love me a good longevity record story. The latest: Wolf 840M breaks Wyoming's age record, nears the all-time species record, and does it while living on the fringe of subdivisions in Teton Valley, Idaho. “Super savvy wolf,” @WGFD's Ken Mills said. https://t.co/Ehup6aAIyM
wyofile.com
Gray male, the oldest Wyoming wolf ever documented, lived a mysterious existence amid human development, perched in the mountainsides overlooking Teton Valley, Idaho.
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Drawn to Twitter today for obvious reasons and it reminded me I haven't posted in ages. Here's a @WyoFile story about wildlife impacts at the planned Wyoming State Shooting Complex south of Cody. It only exists because of tips, so thank you, tipsters https://t.co/NkWhrFiO4s
wyofile.com
Crucial mule deer range and sage grouse core habitat caused wildlife managers to ask that the large commercial operation be relocated, but the requests, which haven’t been discussed publicly, have...
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New: Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) tells me that he believes the provision mandating the sale of public lands in Nevada and Utah has been stripped out and will be reflected in the managers amendment. Zinke had said this was a redline . Nevada GOP Rep Mark Amodei was pushing for it.
NEW FROM JOHNSON — Managers amendment out soon (again no definition on that). And then they’ll decide whether to vote tonight or tomorrow morning. NO DECISION YET.
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The complete removal of nonnative equines from the Great Divide Basin, Salt Wells Creek and the northwest portion of the Adobe Town herd management areas still faces a public review process and legal appeal. @Koshywrites has more. 👇 Read the story at ➡️ https://t.co/FI26ArEP2V
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Feeling a little blue? Send tips to journalists, have fun.
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Are "elk-occupancy agreements" the future? Maybe. “In the early days of wolf recovery... [livestock] compensation was novel—an innovation that Defenders of Wildlife was doing with private money. Now we think of it as standard practice.” -Arthur Middleton https://t.co/sdTrST7KSf
wyofile.com
As an always-lethal disease spreads on elk feedgrounds, pilot projects are underway to find more low-elevation habitat for wintering wapiti.
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A reader just alerted me that this Canadian-turned-Colorado wolf was killed near Wheatland, Wyoming. There could've been disperers since the Yellowstone reintro in '95, but if not it was probably the first wolf in the Laramie Mountains in a century-plus! https://t.co/5j0V3jhU8I
coloradosun.com
Wolves are managed differently in Wyoming, and state officials said the wolf was legally shot after finding evidence of depredation
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Incredible piece of historic storytelling about pioneering and roguish Teton climbers taking on Mt. Everest vintage @AngusThuermer
https://t.co/pXiSqIexnB
wyofile.com
A squad of climbers, steeled by ascents in the Tetons, made a historic Himalayan climb in 1963, even after the mountain claimed one of their own.
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