My Wyoming Bucket list
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here are literally millions of Americans who will be visiting Wyoming this summer seeking out those secret spots. I will be one of them.
This column is my annual “Wyoming Bucket List” of those places that I have always wanted to visit. Some of them were featured in my three- volume trilogy of coffee table books about Wyoming but many were not.
Either way, I am eager to go see them.
Now readers need to know that Wyoming is full of many of the most scenic places in the world, such as Yellowstone National Park, Teton National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, the Medicine Wheel, the Oregon Trail, the Red Desert, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.
There are literally millions of Americans who will be visiting Wyoming this summer seeking out those secret spots. I will be one of them.
This column is my annual “Wyoming Bucket List” of those places that I have always wanted to visit. Some of them were featured in my three- volume trilogy of coffee table books about Wyoming but many were not.
Either way, I am eager to go see them.
Now readers need to know that Wyoming is full of many of the most scenic places in the world, such as Yellowstone National Park, Teton National Park, Devils Tower National Monument, the Medicine Wheel, the Oregon Trail, the Red Desert, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Wyoming lawmakers will give Medicaid expansion a hard look in the 2021 interim after two attempts to pass the measure failed in the Wyoming Senate in the recent session.
The Legislatureâs Management Council approved expansion as an interim topic last Friday by a 7-4 vote. The Joint Revenue Committee will now take it up.
Long a hot-button topic in Wyoming politics, Medicaid expansion saw renewed interest this past session after the federal government passed legislation increasing the federal match.
The Management Council also approved studies on charter schools, a corporate income tax, election law and education funding as it finalized its list of topics to be examined in the months between now and the 2022 session. Some controversial topics considered in the 2021 session, like the legalization of marijuana, were not raised as potential subjects for the interim session while others, like the potential transfer of federal lands to the state, were significantly pared down.
Governor signs bill allowing Wyoming road kill harvesting By Brendan LaChance on April 6, 2021
(Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
CASPER, Wyo. People will soon have an option to harvest the carcasses of animals they unintentionally hit or see get hit on Wyoming roadways with Governor Mark Gordon signing House Bill 95 on Monday.
The new law will take effect July 1, 2021 and includes rules that will allow people to harvest road killed animals by following rules which will be set by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission.
“Unless otherwise provided by rule of the commission, a person desiring to possess a road killed animal shall contact the department before taking possession of an animal to obtain a donation certificate,” the new law states. “The rules may provide that a person requesting the donation certificate may have to present the animal for inspection to verify its possession meets the criteria of the regulation.”
After adopting amendments to change some key aspects of the bill, the Wyoming Senate gave its final approval Friday to legislation outlining the stateâs K-12 education funding model with the inclusion of an estimated $45 million in cuts.
The legislation, as previously advanced by the House, included a conditional sales tax increase and phased-in cuts to save roughly $80 million through eliminated funding for inactive district health insurance plans. With the stateâs K-12 education system facing a structural revenue shortfall worth hundreds of millions of dollars, lawmakers in the House argued the conditional sales tax increase would provide a long-term insurance policy after the pursuit of cost-saving measures.