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Cat Urbigkit

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Cat Urbigkit: Power Line Bird Deaths From Shooting: What Was Reported, What’s the Truth, What Was Omitted

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, 'The New York Times reported, “A survey of power lines in four Western states found bullet fragments and shotgun pellets in most of the dead birds that were collected” (not true) and 'Two-thirds of birds found dead beneath power lines had been shot' (also not true).

Cat UrbigkitAugust 08, 2023

Environmental Groups Lose Appeal Of Wyoming 3,500 Gas Well Project at Jonah Field

After five years of litigation, the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected claims by environmental groups against a Wyoming 3,500-well natural gas project at Jonah Field.

Cat UrbigkitAugust 07, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Let Freedom Read

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "The Wyoming Freedom Caucus proposes to continue the push to criminalize librarians for what it views as obscene materials in public libraries, in essence using the coercive power of government to impose its set of values on all the state’s citizens."

Cat UrbigkitAugust 01, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: This is Bear Country

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Too many people still believe that bear country is the backcountry or wilderness. That needs to be called out and corrected because Wyoming is bear country."

Cat UrbigkitJuly 26, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Make No Mistake -- Elk Feedground Plan is WG&F’s Vision

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "This plan wasn’t ready for prime time. It’s sloppy, unorganized, inconsistent, and includes statements in contradiction with other statements, while neglecting other legitimate concerns."

Cat UrbigkitJuly 18, 2023

Huge Swath Of Wyoming ‘Checkerboard’ Land May Be Up For Sale Again

Gov. Mark Gordon says he’s “interested in learning more” about huge chunks of land across southern Wyoming the state tried — and failed — to buy in 2020 that are for sale again.

Cat UrbigkitJuly 11, 2023

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Cat Urbigkit: Wyo Game & Fish's Elk Feedground Plan Puts The Squeeze To Agriculture

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Wyoming Game and Fish isn’t known for its expertise in livestock management, and it’s way out of its realm on this one, alienating livestock producers in the process."

Cat UrbigkitJuly 11, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: The Needless Same-Sex Wedding Website Ruling And Wyoming’s Connection to the Case

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court granted permission for Lorie Smith, a Colorado website designer, to refuse to create wedding websites for gay couples in a case that never should have been heard by the nation’s highest court."

Cat UrbigkitJuly 04, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: ‘Going Old School,’ With The Addition Of Man’s Best Friend To Uphold The Farce

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "We’d simply ran out of options. Golden eagles and bald eagles were preying on newborn lambs in our lambing flock, and for the past few weeks we were finding at least one new eagle-killed lamb every day."

Cat UrbigkitJune 27, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Hey, Keyboard Coward, Here’s Your Invitation To Enter The Arena

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes: “With few exceptions, I’m too thick-skinned to be bruised by words, but when vulgar emails are combined with an illegal impersonator on a news site last month … my hackles are raised.”

Cat UrbigkitJune 20, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Firefighters Wanted In Wyoming

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "Of 55 Wyoming fire departments responding to the recent survey, most reported experiencing challenges with recruiting new firefighters. All told, the responding fire departments reported the need for nearly 500 additional firefighters statewide to fill their rosters."

Cat UrbigkitJune 13, 2023

Cat Urbigkit: Animal Damage Control Isn't A “War On Wildlife”

Columnist Cat Urbigkit writes, "When Erik Molvar of the Western Watersheds Project tells the public that the livestock industry “still dreams of driving large carnivores extinct once and for all” and is working to “further their goals of accelerating predator extinctions,” how is anyone to know that he is telling a lie?"

Cat UrbigkitJune 06, 2023

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