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Wildfire is recognized to have a cleansing and renewing role in nature, but allowing it to take its natural course is considered too risky in Wyoming.
Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that most state and federal agencies in charge of public lands have a standing policy to go after every blaze with everything they've got, as soon as possible.
"The Wyoming state forester, she mentioned on our radio news program recently that that agency has a zero tolerance policy towards wildfire. In other words, there's no let it burn policy in their playbook, fire springs up on their land, they're going to go try to put it out… the only place where a fire might be allowed to burn naturally is in a wilderness area under the US Forest Service jurisdiction. The potential problem with that, as we saw with the pack trail fire last year, sometimes those natural fires can blow out of or escape the boundaries of the wilderness and burned a lot of the forest around them."
But no agency or landowner is expected to stand alone. When a fire breaks out, it typically doesn't matter whose land it's on - firefighters from the local, county, state and federal levels all pitch in to put it out.
Read the full story HERE.
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Wyoming and 45 other states and territories are being warned against keeping what the Trump administration calls "gender ideology" in their sex-education curricula — on the threat of losing federal money.
Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that a group of Wyoming Republican lawmakers have publicly asked Gov. Mark Gordon to explain the curriculum President Donald Trump's administration is now demanding be removed.
"On the one hand, we have the Freedom Caucus riled up, like, we are out of compliance with Trump's agency, and we're touting this gender ideology, and how is this okay, Wyoming. And then on the other hand, you have Governor Mark Gordon's spokesman, like, the Department of Health just had to choose from federally approved materials under the Biden administration… according to the governor's spokesman, it's not like there was some sinister social agenda here. It's just Wyoming trying to keep up with federal grant requirements."
Gordon's office said the state is bein