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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, August 6th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by the Converse County Tourism Promotion Board! Discover Douglas and Glenrock in beautiful Wyoming, where rich history, outdoor adventure, and welcoming communities await. Feel the Energy of Converse County at www.ConverseCountyTourism.com.

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If anyone could survive a week alone in the rugged Cloud Peak Wilderness of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains, it's Grant Gardner.

That's what his family believes, and what his wife, Lauren, told Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson. Lauren is holding onto hope that her 38-year-old husband is still alive after his solo ascent of Cloud Peak on July 29.

:44 "Naturally, she still feels pretty shocked, everything felt surreal to her. But she said that what gives her hope is that her husband is an outdoorsman, that's where he lives, he's out there all the time. He has a lot of skill, he has a lot of equipment, he's very meticulous in how he prepares, he maps everything out. She feels confident that when he went out, he was properly geared up. She said if anyone can survive out there for a week, he can."

That he's an experienced hiker is one reason Bighorn County Sheriff Ken Blackburn said the effort "very much" remains a search and rescue operation, not search and recovery, which would assume he had perished.

Read the full story HERE.

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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a ruling ordering the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider wolf policy in Wyoming and other states, which could open the door to wolves being relisted as an endangered species.

Judge Donald Molloy ruled that the Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law last year when it denied a petition from a coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups calling for wolves to be re-listed as an endangered species. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that the agency has been ordered to reconsider whether to grant wolves endangered species protection in Wyoming — as well as in Idaho, Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah.

3:44 "This doesn't mean wolves are going to be delisted right away. What this means is the judge saw value in the plaintiff's complaint and ordered FWS to go back to the drawing board and come back to the court with a better reason why wolves should remain off the endangered species list."

In Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, wolves were removed from federal protection in 2011 and management was handed over to the states. It's legal to hunt and trap wolves in all three states.

Read the full story HERE.

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The brother of a concessionaire employee who was shot to death while firing upon Yellowstone National Park rangers in July 2024 has no claim to the deceased shooter's car — which the government wants to keep.

That was the ruling Friday of U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott Klosterman in the legal action by which the U.S. Attorney's Office of Wyoming seeks to seize the gunman's 2021 Nissan Rogue. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the government claims the car was an integral part of an attempted mass shooting scheme.

1:23 "Across Wyoming courts, we have this mechanism called asset forfeiture, where the government actually accuses an object of a crime. They actually say, this object is guilty, challenging it as being a component