10:50 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Watching the impact of drilling on wildlife

Wyoming – Host Bob Beck speaks with Ben Lamb, who works on wildlife issues for the Montana Wildlife Federation.

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10:49 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Laramie residents make suggestions for parking horror

Wyoming – The University of Wyoming is seeking advice on ways to improve the campus parking situation. Hayley Douglass took her own poll.

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10:46 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Go on a bar crawl through rural Wyoming

Wyoming – Host Bob Beck speaks with Julianne Couch, the author of a new book that highlights some of the state's quirkiest bars.

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10:43 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Teachers work overtime to ensure no child left behind

Wyoming – Renny MacKay visited some Wyoming schools to see how a five-year-old law has affected the state's teachers.

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10:41 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Cowboys fall, Cowgirls rise

Wyoming – Peter O'Dowd speaks with two sports reporters who have followed the forceful Cowgirls basketball team, and the woeful Cowboys football team.

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10:38 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Most aren't prepared for retirement

Wyoming – Bob Beck reports that many in the state are not financially prepared for their twilight years. The trick? Start early.


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10:35 am
Mon December 3, 2007

The life of a Laramie adventurer

Laramie, WY – Host Elsa Partan interviews Mark Jenkins, a Laramie-based author and journalist who has traveled the world for his work.

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WPR News
9:26 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Cheyenne hatches water plan

Cheyenne, WY – Officials are optimistic that ranch land
purchased by the city of Cheyenne a few years go will produce ample groundwater.

They say that wells on the Belvoir Ranch property west of Cheyenne could produce up to 600 gallons of water per minute.

That water would have to get to the city somehow, and there's talk about building a pipeline at a cost of about $8 million.

But once everything is in place, wells on the Belvoir Ranch could supply 2 million gallons of water a day to Cheyenne.

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WPR News
9:24 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Regional cloud seeding could boost snowpack

Rexburg, ID – Farmers in parched southeastern Idaho are
saying "let it snow."

They hope a regional cloud-seeding program will create additional moisture in the mountains to improve the snowpack.

The Rexburg City Council is among a number of municipalities in the region to pledge money to the effort to install propane generators in Clark, Fremont, Teton, Madison, Bonneville and Bingham counties.

Let it Snow, a Clark County company won the contract to shoot silver nitrate crystals into clouds to get them to produce moisture.

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WPR News
8:47 am
Mon December 3, 2007

Many moving into Wyoming from other states

Laramie, WY – A lot of young, blue-collar workers moved to Wyoming from other states in 2006.

According to new census data, that made Wyoming the fourth most popular state to move to last year.

USA Today analyzed the new data and ranked the District of Columbia in first place, Nevada in second, and Alaska in third.

That's in terms of the percentage of people who moved there from out of state in 2006.

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