Tag: Wyoming
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Hope hops: Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
One morning last week, a team of scientists and conservationists in long, rubber boots embarked into a wetland of southern Wyoming, armed with containers of toads. They included Jeff Baughman, representing Colorado Springs’ Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Like the others, he was careful where he stepped. “There might be toads from the previous season out there…
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LIFE | Colorado zoo helps in long effort to save imperiled toad
The morning of June 7, 2023 marked an annual, early summer tradition for Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and several other facilities tasked with raising the tiny, imperiled creature. June is typically when members of the Wyoming Toad Recovery Team converge at the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge outside Laramie, Wyo., to release toads to their only…
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Shipley Do-Nuts looks to expand in metro Denver
Meisternutscq, a Utah-based franchisee that already operates a portfolio of burger and chicken restaurants, says it plans to add 16 Shipley locations in the Denver and Colorado Springs areas over the next several years. Meisternuts has acquired two Shipley locations that were opened in recent years by other franchisees in Aurora, outside of Denver, and…
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U.S. Forest Service criticized for not banning wolf hunting in Wyoming
The Center for Biological Diversity sent a letter Wednesday to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and three other federal officials
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Polis says red flag law ‘can work better’ than assault weapons ban
Gov. Jared Polis believes Colorado’s red flag law is a more effective tool than an assault weapons ban, which General Assembly Democrats appear to be pursuing. Extreme Risk Protection Orders — which allow family members or law enforcement officers to petition a court to removing firearms from a person who poses an imminent threat to themselves or others —…
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Colorblind: Rodeo regulars form family regardless of race
As it does every year, the National Western Stock Show’s rodeo timed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday filled the Denver Coliseum Monday night with Black cowboys and cowgirls who roped steers, rode bulls and showed their prowess handling dangerous, careening animals. But at a rodeo that is themed around racial equality, a half…
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Citizen of the West Matt Mead celebrated at National Western Stock Show
Chief among the reasons that former Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead was selected to be the 2023 Citizen of the West was his deep respect for the land and the inhabitants of it. What might not have factored in — but became abundantly clear during Monday night’s Citizen of the West Dinner — is his ability to respect…
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Interim director appointed for VA Rocky Mountain Network
The Department of Veterans Affairs appointed Sunaina Kumar-Giebel as interim director of the VA Rocky Mountain Network, according to a Monday news release. Kumar-Giebel is currently the network’s deputy director and chief operating officer. She replaces the previous director, Ralph Gigliotti, who retired after a 40-year federal government career, according to the release. The role…
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Colorado approves nearly $7 million in economic development incentives
An electric plane company could grow its operations in Centennial or Jefferson County after landing almost $3 million in state economic development tax credits. The Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s Economic Development Commission Thursday approved almost $7 million in economic incentives for five companies to either locate, or grow, their businesses here.…
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Time-delay safes added at more than 50 CVS and Target pharmacies in Colorado
CVS Health has added time-delay safes at more than 100 locations across five states in the Western part of the country in an attempt to prevent pharmacy robberies. Fifty-four CVS and Target pharmacy locations in Colorado are among the locations that received the security upgrade. Fifty-two locations in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming also received…