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– A dozen pronghorn were illegally shot near Kemmerer some time over the weekend, including several animals that were left wounded and suffering.

The pronghorn, which are commonly called antelope, were apparently shot sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, according to outdoors reporter Mark Heinz.

"A person or persons took it upon themselves to shoot a dozen prong horn or antelope, as people call them, and just left them laying there, including some that were wounded and still alive. Game wardens came in on Sunday and killed the ones that were still suffering… Guy Eastman… said, Yeah, that hunt area 93 where this occurred. I mean, it's a fairly well known hunt area with a high demand for legal hunting tags, which are in the fall. You know, this is just somebody killing animals for fun in the spring, including a lot of, you know, there are probably a lot of pregnant does at least there… this is probably one of the worst poaching cases we've seen in a while."

Tips on the case may be called in to the Stop Poaching Hotline at 1-877-WGFD-TIP or through the online Stop Poaching Hotline.

Read the full story HERE.

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Gov. Mark Gordon has an optimistic vision for the future of Wyoming's coal, particularly in the southeastern Asia countries of Japan and Taiwan.

Fresh off a trip to the region, Gordon expressed an idealistic vision that Wyoming could become a main supplier for these countries - if it can figure out a feasible export terminal from what he and President Donald Trump now call the Gulf of America.

Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that developing a real trade relationship for coal in southeast Asia would be huge for Wyoming.

"What the idea there is to basically try to get some investments going to make it so that this could be a feasible option. Currently, it takes about 40 days to ship Wyoming coal through the Gulf, through the Panama Canal, over to Japan and Taiwan. With investments, Gordon believes that this could be reduced to 20 days… he pointed out that the coal that Wyoming produces is much cleaner than the coal that Taiwan and Japan and South Korea get from Indonesia and Australia. And he believes that could be a real Olive Branch, if you will, to the country's goal to become carbon neutral by 2050."

Gordon said there's also interest in the region in Wyoming's nuclear, trona, carbon capture and rare earth mineral capabilities.

Read the full story HERE.

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Using tracking data from a 17-year-old girl's earbuds and a photograph of her, the Wyoming Highway Patrol caught a 33-year-old man accused of taking the girl from her Utah hometown without her parents' consent.

Alex Guy is now charged out of Utah County, Utah, with one count of aggra