By AP

Pinedale, WY – The Sublette County Sheriff's Department has confirmed that the body found last week near Big Sandy River was the son of Sheriff Wayne Bardin.

Investigators say 24-year-old Garrett Bardin of Pinedale apparently died of a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The department and volunteer searchers had been looking for Garrett Bardin for nearly two weeks. His body was found last Thursday, a little over a half mile from the Rainbow Family camp.

By AP

Rock Springs, WY – The City of Rock Springs will begin spraying for mosquitoes at the city cemetery on Thursday. The spraying is part of the effort to prevent the spread of West Nile virus.

Wyoming saw 185 cases of West Nile virus last year and Sweetwater County had its first reported case.

Crews this week plan to spray a pesticide called "Biomist" that contains permethrin. Officials say the pesticide is based on compounds taken from plants and doesn't pose a significant risk to people or pets.

Cheyenne, Wy – The U.S. Attorney's Office in Cheyenne
says four Rainbow Family members have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor
charges stemming from a confrontation with U.S. Forest Service officers.
The Forest Service has said that Rainbow Family participants
threw rocks and sticks at officers last Thursday when the officers
were taking a man into custody for an alleged drug offense.
Defendants from Texas, New Mexico, California and North Dakota
pleaded guilty Monday to interfering with a Forest Service officer.

Denver, Co – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce Wednesday whether the Preble's meadow jumping mouse will
continue to be listed as an endangered species.
The announcement could affect tens of thousand acres in Colorado
and Wyoming designated as a critical habitat to allow the mouse to
recover. The mouse is named for its ability to leap twice its
length and pivot in the air.
Opponents of the endangered-species designation say the creature
is the same as more common species.

By Bob Beck

Laramie, Wy –
Bureau of Land Management officials in Wyoming are struggling with a steep decline in Wild Horse adoptions.
As the BLM considers a policy of euthanizing wild horses to deal with a nationwide overpopulation, Wyoming is facing a 70 percent decline in wild horse adoptions this year.
Alan Shepherd heads the BLM's state program for wild horses and burros. He says most people just can't afford to keep a horse right now.
Shepherd says, this fall, Wyoming will have about four hundred wild horses too many for the landscape to support.

By Bob Beck

Laramie, WY – Recently, western governors were shown how scientific data combined with mapping can be used to sort out such things as how energy development can impact wildlife corridors. It's just the latest way the Geospatial technology may be used to solve future problems. All this is exciting to the Jeff Hamerlinck who runs U-W's Geographic Information Science center. Hamerlinck says the ability to look at a problem and solve it with a global mapping system has been around for awhile. But the way people view it is different now.

By Peter O'Dowd

Denver, Co – A federal appeals court in Denver has
denied a Wyoming man's request for a new hearing on the issue of whether he should stand trial for shooting an eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied the request from Winslow Friday of Ethete, Wyo.
Friday had asked the full appeals court to review a May decision
from a three-judge panel. The panel had overturned the decision of a federal judge in Wyoming who dismissed the criminal charge against Friday.

Washington, DC – A top U.S. Forest Service official says
the agency must consider banning the Rainbow Family from Forest Service lands after a confrontation that led to the arrests of at least eight people.
John Twiss, director of Forest Service Law Enforcement and
Investigations in Washington D.C., said Monday that he was among
the officers who responded last week when Rainbow Family members
threw sticks and rocks at federal officers.
The Forest Service says the incident started when officers tried