Winter 2009

The Next Boom

Amid the rush to develop industrial-scale wind farms, the Outdoor Council is offering leadership on the ground. See page 3 p4 The Council welcomes Janice Harris to the board p7 Join the Outdoor Council’s Jamie 42 Wolf for a tour in the Big Horn Basin Years

Photo courtesy of Chuck Fryberger Films, www.ChuckFryberger.com Message from the Director Wyoming Outdoor Council Laurie Milford, executive director Established in 1967, the Wyoming Outdoor Council is the state’s oldest and largest independent statewide conservation Launching a new program in energy policy organization. Our mission is to protect Wyoming’s environment and quality of life for future generations. Our publications come IN WYOMING, we launched a new program in energy policy. out quarterly and are a benefit of membership. are increasingly Richard Garrett, who joined our staff in Letters to the editor and articles aware that energy July 2008, has taken on the responsibility by members are welcome. development doesn’t of promoting, at the state level, policies that just affect land and remove barriers to energy efficiency and For more information contact: wildlife—that the dam- distributed—meaning locally generated— Wyoming Outdoor Council age caused by a well renewable electricity. He’ll also participate 262 Lincoln St, Lander, WY 82520 or pad doesn’t stop with a scar on the surface. in the planning and oversight of major 121 East Grand Avenue, Suite 204 The development of fossil fuels affects our sources of electricity such as power plants Laramie, WY 82070 health, and our profits, too. Whether it’s and industrial-scale wind farms. He’ll engage wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org contaminated water in Pavillion and Clark, in the regulation of electrical transmission 307-332-7031 (phone), 307-332-6899 (fax) harmful mercury levels in Wyoming trout, lines. Richard will also be our point-person [email protected] or unhealthy amounts of ozone in the air in on carbon capture and sequestration. The Pinedale, the production of energy takes a toll management of pollutants associated with Board of Directors that is largely unaccounted for in the price we making and moving elec-tricity is a prominent Anthony Stevens, Wilson pay for electricity and natural gas. goal of Richard’s work. President Kathy Lichtendahl, Clark According to a new report from the To complement Richard’s efforts to shape Vice President National Research Council commissioned emerging energy policies, we’ve hired Nate Barbara Parsons, Rawlins by Congress in the 2005 Energy Policy Act, Maxon as our energy and public lands fellow. Secretary damage from air pollution resulting from Nate will engage with decision makers on Keith Rittle, Laramie the generation of electricity in 2005 cost the scores of proposed and approved wind Treasurer America’s businesses, governments, and energy and transmission projects throughout Tom Bell, Lander households about $62 billion. This figure Wyoming. He will be working side-by-side Emeritus includes the cost of harmful emissions with our biologist, Sophie Osborn, to Harold Bergman, Laramie such as sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, address industrial-scale wind development Janice Harris, Laramie Tony Hoch, Laramie and particulate matter but does not include and transmission as it plays out in some of Scott Kane, Lander greenhouse gases and the damage caused our most cherished landscapes and most Lee W. Sanning, Laramie by climate change. Even when the costs of valuable habitats. Nate will also work with the Judy Walker, Denver climate change are left out of the equation, communities of Thermopolis, Worland, Cody, we still create about 3.2 cents in expense for Lander, Riverton, Rock Springs, and Green Staff every kilowatt-hour of electricity we produce, River to identify the effects of possible future Laurie Milford according to the study. energy development as the BLM revises Executive Director At my house in Laramie, my family and I long-term management plans for nearly Richard Garrett use on annual average about 12.6 kilowatt- 12,000 square miles of public lands near Energy and Legislative Advocate Bonnie Hofbauer hours of electricity each day. In one year, these communities. Office Manager through our use of electricity alone, we cause And to round out our nimble staff, this Steve Jones more than $14,000 in damage to recreational fall we hired Jamie Wolf as our outreach Watershed Protection Program Attorney opportunities, outdoor vistas, infrastructure, coordinator to help bring to the table the Nathan Maxon agricultural yields, and human health. Until I most important element of our organization: Energy and Public Lands Fellow read the NRC report, I didn’t realize the full our membership. Watch in the coming Lisa Dardy McGee extent of the environmental damage caused months for Jamie’s productions—a series of National Parks and Forests Program Director by my choices as a consumer. Am I going to opportunities to get outdoors (and indoors, Chris Merrill stop watching college football on Saturdays? and informed) with the Outdoor Council. Communications Director Sophie Osborn No, but you can bet I use a power strip, so As we approach the second decade of the Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Program Manager when I’m not watching TV I can shut off the 21st century, the Wyoming Outdoor Council Bruce Pendery supply of power completely. has renewed a promise it made in 1967 when Staff Attorney and Program Director Governments and businesses, too, may be Tom Bell, Mardie Murie, and other leaders Linda Sisco surprised to learn the monetary value of the founded the organization: to represent the Administrative Assistant damage done by the motors and generators interests of the public in decisions made Gary Wilmot they use, and the amount of money they about Wyoming’s land, air, water, and wildlife. Associate Director could save with efficiency. Jamie Wolf For these and many other reasons, Yours, Outreach Coordinator the Wyoming Outdoor Council this year Laurie

2 I wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Getting out in front of the next boom BY CHRIS MERRILL

YOMING’S NEXT ENERGY BOOM, in As a guest on the PBS show Wyoming The Wyoming Outdoor Council has the form of industrial-scale wind Perspectives earlier this year, Milford said: developed a set of ‘best management Wfarms, might already be here. “We just need to keep in mind that wind practices’ for developers, in order to And the sheer volume of new applications energy, like any industrial development, has encourage wind energy companies to for Wyoming wind projects has taken most the potential to create site-specific problems site farms appropriately—and even to site observers by surprise. There have been about for Wyoming’s wildlife. Our hope is that we individual turbines appropriately—and to 100 applications for potential wind farms on can all work together to make good decisions do other things in order to limit impacts on federal land, alone, since 2002—and most of about where we put these wind turbines.” wildlife. those have come in the past three years. “The pace is staggering,” said Sophie Reasons not to rush What’s at stake Osborn, wildlife biologist with the Council. Although wildlife biologists already know In the wake of the recent oil and gas boom, “And I think a lot of people don’t realize it.” that a poorly placed wind farm can kill large Wyoming’s response to wind energy will Earlier this year, Wyoming Gov. Dave numbers of birds and bats—and scientists are likely determine whether populations of sage- Freudenthal said that the push for wind fairly certain that industrial-scale wind farms grouse finally begin to stabilize, or whether energy development is coming to Wyoming will lead to declines in sage-grouse popula- they and other animals are pushed to the “with a gold rush pace.” And more con- tions (see page 7)—it’s still anybody’s guess brink of extinction and listed, out of necessity, cerning, he said, is that it’s coming with a as to how other animals will respond. as threatened or endangered species. “gold rush mentality.” The wind resources best suited for energy “Seemingly every acre—sage-grouse “We’re now in a position development in Wyoming are found, in core areas, private, state, and federal lands, general, in the central and eastern parts of important viewsheds and otherwise—is to help ensure that we make the state. Wind developers face relatively up for grabs in the interest of ‘green, strides as a nation toward few environmental conflicts in southeastern carbon-neutral technologies’ no matter how Wyoming. However, potential problems are truly ‘brown’ the effects are on the land,” curbing climate change, more likely on the sagebrush steppe habitats Freudenthal warned. without sacrificing Wyo- that dominate south-central Wyoming, In response to these kinds of concerns, where much of the development pressure is the Wyoming Outdoor Council has created a ming’s wildlife and most currently focused. team of staff members whose goal it is to get While many residents traditionally hold out ahead of the next energy boom, and to cherished landscapes.” Wyoming’s forests and mountain ranges in offer meaningful leadership on the ground. —Laurie Milford, executive director higher esteem than they do its high-desert “We’ve worked hard to develop the basins, there is growing appreciation expertise, and the means, to engage “We really don’t know yet how these wind amongst Westerners for the sagebrush effectively with decision makers,” said Laurie farms might affect Wyoming’s big game, for sea, and its importance in supporting vital, Milford, executive director. “And we’re now example,” Osborn said. “Will wind turbines yet increasingly threatened, habitats. The in a position to help ensure that we make change movements and affect pronghorn, sagebrush ecosystem is considered by strides as a nation toward curbing climate elk, or deer? Will turbines displace these scientists as one of the most imperiled in the change, without sacrificing Wyoming’s animals from crucial seasonal ranges? We U.S., with more than 350 plant and animal wildlife and most cherished landscapes.” need good research on the potential impacts species at risk of local or regional extinction. of turbines on Wyoming’s wildlife to better Neil Rodgers, a wildlife film producer Where we stand inform our placement of wind farms.” based in Casper, has created a series of The Wyoming Outdoor Council supports For this, and for many other reasons, educational films for Wyoming PBS on the wind energy development because it helps most non-industry observers in Wyoming— state’s rich biodiversity. reduce emissions including greenhouse including lawmakers, state game managers, “The sagebrush steppe is such a gasses, mercury, particulates, and other and federal land administrators—have marvelous place,” Rodgers said. “I’ll never types of air pollution that can be harmful reached the same conclusion: It could be a forget one time I was out at [a sage-grouse to people and can diminish visibility over very big mistake to rush into large-scale wind mating ground in the Shirley Basin] to get Wyoming’s much-loved landscapes. energy development in Wyoming without a footage of sage-grouse strutting and doing Wind is currently one of the most viable good plan, and without considering all of the their displays, and … there was a feeling alternative energy sources, and the Council possible ramifications. in the air there that was so magical; it just hopes Wyoming wind will help provide The Council is now engaging on a daily created a sense that this is unlike anywhere the nation with a domestic source of clean, basis in the planning processes for wind on earth, right here in Wyoming.” renewable energy. farms, with very specific goals in mind. continued on page 4

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Most people are surprised to learn habitats, many decision makers and biologists Proposed wind projects, just how many creatures—aside from the in Wyoming have increasingly come to agree by the numbers: sage-grouse—rely on the sagebrush steppe on some basic tenets that wind development for survival, Rodgers noted. should follow in order to avoid major damage • The federal Bureau of Land Man- Osborn agrees. to the ecosystem. agement in Wyoming has fielded “Pronghorn also rely on this Most legislators and wildlife about 100 applications for ecosystem year-round,” she managers now concur that potential wind farm developments said. “As do other animals wind farms must be kept out over the last few years. that are entirely dependent of sage-grouse core areas. on sagebrush habitats for Otherwise the species’ • The BLM’s Rawlins field office their survival, including long-term survival could had 30 applications for poten- the pygmy rabbit, Brewer’s be threatened. Doing so tial wind projects in 2008 alone. sparrow, sage thrasher, also will help protect other sage sparrow, sagebrush vulnerable sagebrush vole, and sagebrush lizard. species. • Although unlikely, if all of the Overall, nearly 300 bird There is growing recognition applications were approved and developed, wind farms could species, 87 mammal Sage Thrasher among legislators and land species, and a host of managers that they should encourage cover an estimated 1 million reptile, amphibian, and fish wind development in the eastern part of the acres of public land—and species are associated with sagebrush habitats state, where there are fewer environmental perhaps another 750,000 to in Wyoming. When you look closely, you conflicts, and discourage it in more sensitive 1 million acres of private realize there’s a lot at stake when we talk about wildlife habitats in other parts of the state. land in Wyoming. developing wind farms in this state, “Out of necessity, these wind farms will need so we have to make informed decisions.” to be sited in places where they are going to do Wind farms are least harmful to wildlife the least harm—and once they are put in place, when they are sited in already-developed there are things developers can and should or heavily fragmented landscapes. Where do to make them less harmful to wildlife,” wind projects are proposed in less developed Osborn said.

TRANSITIONS

Arrivals: 21st century, and the Wyoming Outdoor Jamie Wolf joined the staff in November Council seems an ideal focus for her, she as outreach coordinator. After graduat- Janice H. Harris said, because of its emphasis on balance ing in May 2009 from the University of of Laramie joined and collaboration. Wyoming with a dual bachelor’s degree the board in June. in international She received Nathan Maxon of southwest Wyoming studies and her bachelor’s joined the staff in October as our environment and degree from energy and public lands fellow. He natural resources, Stanford Univer- holds a bachelor’s degree in wildlife and she aspired to sity in 1965 and fisheries biol- use her education her Ph.D. from ogy, as well as a and experiences Brown Univer- law degree, both to give back to sity in 1973, when she and her husband from the Univer- the state that has Duncan Harris moved to Wyoming to join sity of Wyoming. given so much to the faculty of the Nate worked as her. Jamie is from Worland, and grew up in the department of English. At UW, a legal intern for hiking, camping, fishing, and exploring Janice was an award-winning professor, the Council dur- the great outdoors. As a UW student, she published widely in her field of modern ing the summer dedicated much of her time to leadership fiction. She held administrative positions of 2008. Prior to and civic engagement, and she worked within the College of Arts and Sciences, his legal studies, Nate worked primarily hard to improve the sustainability and en- and served as chair of the English depart- as a field biologist, spending time with vironmental stewardship of the campus. ment and the Women’s Studies program. the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the She is fascinated by the relationships that She also chaired the Wyoming Council , the Bureau of Land individuals and communities have with for the Humanities in 1982-1983. In Management, and the Wyoming Game their natural environments, and is excited 2004-2005 she spent a year in Japan as and Fish Department. As a biologist, Nate to connect people to the outdoors and a visiting professor of literature. Janice worked with rare amphibians, a variety remind them of why Wyoming is so retired from the university in May 2008. of birds, and several mammal species in special. Upon retirement she has sought to serve Wyoming, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska. Wyoming as it faces the challenges of the

4 I wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Proposed wind projects, Your membership at work Big Council, Big Influence by the numbers: A few highlights from 2009 THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL is growing—not • The federal Bureau of Land Man- just in membership, but in influence. We have agement in Wyoming has fielded Working to finish the job on the 12 staff members covering the state, working about 100 applications for Wyoming Range every day to protect Wyoming’s environment potential wind farm developments MORE THAN HALF of the contested oil and gas leases in the Wyoming and quality of life. We started with just a over the last few years. Range were rescinded this fall, much to the appreciation of conservationists, handful of members back in 1967, grew to hunters and anglers, Wyoming residents, and elected officials. 500 after 20 years, and today we are 1,300 • The BLM’s Rawlins field office The Wyoming Outdoor Council had worked for nearly four years to get members strong. Our goal is to grow to more had 30 applications for poten- these leases rescinded. than 2,000 members by 2011. Why? Because This August—during a celebration for the passage of the widely popular tial wind projects in 2008 alone. in terms of membership, size matters. And Wyoming Range Legacy Act—the federal Bureau of Land Management when thousands of supporters stand behind announced it had rescinded 24,000 of the nearly 45,000 acres of contested oil our staff, people listen. • Although unlikely, if all of the and gas leases on the Bridger-Teton National Forest in the Wyoming Range. applications were approved and “This is a huge deal,” said Lisa McGee with the Council. “This is a really developed, wind farms could positive step toward accomplishing what we all want to accomplish, which is cover an estimated 1 million the cancellation of all of the remaining leases.” acres of public land—and McGee and others—including the governor’s office—have long argued perhaps another 750,000 to that none of the contested oil and gas leases should have been issued in the 1 million acres of private first place. land in Wyoming. For more information, including an in-depth explanation of the history of these leases, visit wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org.

Safeguarding the Jack Morrow Hills THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT had intended to offer 8,000 acres of oil and gas leases in the iconic Jack Morrow Hills area in Wyoming’s during a 2009 oil and gas lease sale. We and our coalition partners convinced the BLM to withdraw the “I joined the Outdoor Council in March. five parcels. My parents are new members, and my The Jack Morrow Hills area is a vast 620,000-acre undeveloped expanse of husband is too. Wyoming is our home, high-desert sagebrush. It is home to some of the most intact segments of the Oregon, California, Mormon, and pioneer trails, as well as vital and we take heart in the fact that the habitat for large herds of mule deer, pronghorn and elk, and thus is a popular Council is looking after the places and hunting area. It is also a stronghold for the sage-grouse. the wildlife that mean so much to us.” “Given the wide range of special values and the importance of the resources in the Jack Morrow Hills, we didn’t think the BLM should have engaged —Rebecca Biles in leasing in this area, and we’re happy the agency ultimately agreed,” said New member, 2009 Bruce Pendery, program director of the Council. “There are more than 13.5 Please keep your membership current, and million acres of federally owned minerals already under lease in Wyoming and make sure that wherever we go, the room there were 263 other lease parcels available in this lease sale alone, so we did is crowded. Join today! not think holding back on leasing the 3,000 or so acres in one of our heritage landscapes was going to harm oil and gas development efforts.”

Protecting Adobe Town Working for wildlife in the THE BLM HAD PLANNED TO AUCTION OFF NEARLY 15,000 acres of oil and gas Cody area leases during its December 2009 sale for the beloved Adobe Town area of the WE SUCCEEDED in getting the BLM to defer leasing on Red Desert—but the agency pulled all of the proposed parcels in response to nearly 1,500 acres in a 2009 oil and gas lease sale for protests from the Outdoor Council and others. the Cody region. The parcels in question are adjacent The pulled leases would have fallen within a citizens’ proposed wilderness to the in important habitat area. The sections would also have been on a landscape recently designated for moose, mule deer, elk, bighorn sheep, grizzly “very rare or uncommon” by the state of Wyoming. bears, and wolves. “Adobe town is one of Wyoming’s most impressive jewels,” said Laurie Milford, executive director of the Wyoming Outdoor Council. “It’s an oasis for wildlife and recreation, and it’s a place that we need to make sure we preserve for our children and grandchildren.” For more information about Adobe Town and what makes it one of Wyoming’s heritage landscapes, visit wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org.

wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org I 5 HERITAGE New oil well threatens the nation’s LANDSCAPES first national forest BY LISA MCGEE

NTIL RECENTLY the Shoshone National Forest was one place Uin Wyoming that seemed relatively safe from oil and gas development. With no active wells on the forest, and only a handful of existing, long-suspended leases, new drilling appeared unlikely. Unfortunately, the Shoshone now seems ready to approve a company’s decade-old ap- plication to drill on the national forest outside of Dubois. This would be the first well drilled on the forest in more than twenty years, and it could authorize four drill sites of unlimited size and an unlimited number of wells from Site of the proposed those sites in a currently undeveloped well on the Shoshone area. It would also require the clear-cutting National Forest. and leveling of several acres of Shoshone National Forest land to make way for new and upgraded roads and a large well pad.

The Wyoming Outdoor This fall, the Forest Service indicated that if Teddy Roosevelt were to visit the Council believes the it might opt out of completing a detailed Shoshone today, it would look very much environmental review, claiming the project the same to him as it did when he visited Shoshone National Forest meets criteria such that it could be the area in the late 19th century. This is a deserves better. “categorically excluded” from review, testament to an engaged public that has which would essentially fast-track the demanded routinely and passionately that This drilling proposal originally came approval. Traditionally used for minor the Shoshone be managed to retain the wild before the Forest Service in 1999 and— administrative actions such as painting characteristics that set it apart from other due to public opposition and company a building or mowing a lawn—actions forests in this country and around the globe. inaction then and over the last decade— that will have an insignificant effect on The Shoshone National Forest is what we at it was never approved and has remained the environment—the use of categorical the Outdoor Council refer to as a “heritage under suspension. exclusions was expanded under the previous landscape.” Heritage landscapes are places But this past year the Bureau of Land presidential administration. This type of where the wildlife, scenic, historic, cultural, Management urged the U.S. Forest Service exclusion was adopted toward the end of or recreational values are too important to to deal with the long-suspended lease, and the last administration, and it would be its the people of Wyoming—and to the nation the Forest Service responded by contacting first application on any national forest in as a whole—to sacrifice to industrial the company, Hudson Group, LLC, which Wyoming. development. subsequently expressed a renewed interest The Wyoming Outdoor Council believes The Council is working to ensure that in developing the lease. the Shoshone National Forest deserves the Shoshone National Forest remains a The proposed oil well was controversial better. The authorization of this kind of place where wildlife continues to thrive and ten years ago and is even more unsettling industrial development shouldn’t be made people can go to experience world-class today. The land in question provides crucial without the most careful and detailed backcountry hiking, camping, hunting, and winter and spring habitat for elk, and is on a environmental analysis. The Shoshone is fishing—not unlike the experiences people migration route connecting it to elk summer one of our most treasured national forests, had more than a century ago. There are range in Yellowstone National Park. It also is and is one of this country’s last, best places perhaps few better examples of a heritage an area a local wildlife manager referred to for wildlife, biodiversity, and untouched landscape than the Shoshone National as “bear central,” because it provides some backcountry landscapes. Forest. Visit our website to learn what you of the most important springtime grizzly Bordering Yellowstone National Park, the can do to make sure the Shoshone remains bear habitat in the Greater Yellowstone area, Shoshone is the United State’s first federally the wild, backcountry forest America has offering the bears a wide variety of lower- protected national forest, created by an act valued for generations. elevation food sources. of Congress in 1891. Some have mused

6 I wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Wyoming in the lead on A majority of the nation’s sage-grouse ‘core’ areas greater sage-grouse now live in Wyoming An in-depth version of this story originally ap- and for keeping the bird off the endangered peared on the new Wyoming Outdoor Council species list. Sage-grouse numbers have been blog. For the full version, including related links and resources, navigate to: http://www. Introducing tall structures in decline throughout the West for wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/blog/. into a short ecosystem decades, and today 54 percent of the Having evolved in open, treeless habitat— remaining greater sage-grouse in the THE LOOMING THREAT that the greater sage- in what some refer to as the “sagebrush United States live in Wyoming. grouse might be listed as an endangered sea”—sage-grouse show a strong aversion species spurred Wyoming to adopt a new to vertical structures. Tall objects do not The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s approach to protecting the celebrated bird. exist in the bird’s natural surroundings, and decision whether to list the sage- As a result, the Cowboy State has they can be used as perches by raptors that emerged as the regional leader in re- prey on grouse. grouse as an endangered species thinking sage-grouse policies, focusing its Sage-grouse populations have declined will be swayed, at least in part, by the conservation efforts on sage-grouse “core” where trees, transmission lines, and oil strength and efficacy of Wyoming’s habitat areas. and gas development have encroached on policies toward the bird. Following Wyoming’s lead, Montana’s their habitat. In addition, grouse have been state game agency recently adopted its own eliminated from habitats fragmented by “core area” strategy. roads and other forms of development. There is some disagreement amongst Given these facts—coupled with the Wyoming’s conservation community about threat that sage-grouse could be listed as

Jeff Vanuga Jeff the value of this core area approach. an endangered species absent a robust But Sophie Osborn, wildlife biologist with regulatory mechanism—the wind industry the Council, said although the approach has will have to focus for now on developing some limitations, she believes Wyoming’s wind farms in areas with few or no sage- attempt to conserve core sage-grouse grouse, such as in the eastern portion of habitat might be the West’s best bet for the state. maintaining viable sage-grouse populations, BY CHRIS MERRILL

Winter Wander in the Big Horn Basin: Come Join Us!

JOIN THE WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL on a one-day wintertime tour to explore some of the wonders of the Big Horn Basin. Read more about this, The Winter Wander is tentatively scheduled for late January, mid February, or early including an in-depth explanation March, depending on the weather and snowpack, so stay tuned for more details. of Wyoming’s “core area” strategy We’ll begin with a visit to the Legend Rock Petroglyph Site, a sacred area in the Big for managing sage-grouse at the Horn Basin 30 miles northwest of Thermopolis. The rock is adorned with hundreds of Wyoming Outdoor Council blog. Native American drawings linked to numerous tribal cultures dating back thousands of years. To help us better understand the site, an expert will accompany us. Once there, you can read more about Next we’ll explore the 150,000-acre LU Ranch on Grass Creek. There will be a tour featuring the history, ecology, wildlife (including wolves and grizzlies), recreational the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s latest opportunities, mineral development, and fire ecology of the land. We’ll lunch at the activities. on-site 4-H camp, where an expert from the federal Bureau of Land Management will speak and answer questions about the ongoing process to revise the Big Horn Basin’s overarching management plan for federal lands. After lunch—and weather permitting—we will enjoy a brisk cross-country ski/ snowshoe loop on the ranch. For more information email Jamie Wolf at [email protected], or call her at 307-721-7610.

BY JAMIE WOLF

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