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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, August 25th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Nevada is suing the federal government to dispute a water usage plan that it calls unfair to the economy of Las Vegas and surrounding areas. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the act could drag Wyoming and other states into litigation, after they spent years negotiating outside court.

"We headlined it 'shots fired' because the states have been negotiating this as the drought depresses the Colorado River more than 100 years after the original compact was struck, and then the feds got involved and kind of did a plan that wants to cut from the lower basin states like Nevada, California, Arizona. Technically, it spared the upper basin states, but the upper basin states are already suffering from drought and basically can't fabricate what's not there. And so the governor's statement was basically, 'We still want to negotiate and deal with this, but we are looking at legal options as well.'"

Gov. Mark Gordon told Cowboy State Daily in a Monday statement that he's asked the Wyoming State Engineer and the Wyoming Attorney General's Office "to evaluate all legal options to ensure that Wyoming's rights are fully protected."

Read the full story HERE.

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An extraordinary search for a 120-pound white livestock guard dog has been launched after he ran away on Friday. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that personnel from Wyoming Game and Fish, law enforcement, someone with a plane, and even the previous owners have all joined in on the search.

"Since Great Pyrenees are known to roam, we talked to an expert, Kathy Liles, who said that these dogs can cover a tremendous distance at this point, being days into the search, she's not so much worried about food as they can go many days without food. But the risk of dehydration and traffic are her greatest concerns right now. Kathy and Anthony Green and Gillette said that they are hoping that they can find this dog before it's too late. He was a great working dog. The family loved him. They just thought that this would be a good situation for him, as he wasn't getting along with some of their other dogs as well."

Tango was last seen around 7:30 p.m. Friday near the BB Ranch area north of Casper, headed north. Since then, there hasn't been a single confirmed sighting.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming Game and Fish's interim leadership team declined to address former director Angi Bruce's abrupt Aug. 6 departure during a press conference Monday. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports they did talk about initiatives that Bruce supported or initiated.

"They did not address, I guess what many people consider to be the elephant in the room. They said right off the bat they weren't going to talk about the situation with Angi Bruce. And if you think about it, that makes sense. That is really when it comes to personnel matters with Game and Fish, that is handled by the Game and Fish Commission. These folks are saying we're optimistic that the department can continue with this mission. We want to stay on top of some things that Angie Bruce was very much taking leadership on, which was the Kemmerer Wildlife Crossing Project, the upgrades to the Speas Fish Hatchery the continued conservation and concern for the the path of the pronghorn, the Sublette pronghorn migration quarter, those types of things."

Gov. Mark Gordon, who appointed Bruce in 2024, announced Aug. 7 that Bruce would