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Title Section Last update
Moore, Lucy Morrison Encyclopedia 10/12/2011
Green River Basin natural history Encyclopedia 1/31/2012
Guernsey State Park Encyclopedia 11/20/2011
Fossil Butte National Monument Encyclopedia 12/8/2011
Grand Teton National Park, Establishment of Encyclopedia 3/13/2012

Recent Articles

Essay | Stand on South Pass: Wallace Stegner, the Wind and the West
Noted western historian Will Bagley, drawing on the work of Pulitzer-Prize-winning author and conservationist Wallace Stegner, offers a passionate plea for the preservation of South Pass, a crucial...
Essay | The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920: The law that changed Wyoming’s economic destiny
The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 established the modern system by which oil and coal companies may lease federal land. This system has proven enormously beneficial to Wyoming’s state coffers since it...
Encyclopedia | The Establishment of Grand Teton National Park
Largely forgotten today is the stiff local resistance that arose in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the creation and later the expansion of a national park there. The story covers 31 years of controversy,...
Encyclopedia | Fossil Butte National Monument
The abundant vertebrate fossils of the Green River formation in western Wyoming have been known to science since the 1860s. Most are fish, buried in lime-rich mud at the bottom of freshwater lakes...
Encyclopedia | Guernsey State Park
Guernsey State Park, near Guernsey, Wyo., boasts an elegant group of stone, timber and iron buildings built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and overlooking scenic Guernsey Reservoir.
Encyclopedia | The Green River Basin: A Natural History
Western Wyoming’s Green River drains 4,000 miles of forested mountains and high desert, home to migrating wildlife, grazing cattle, a few thousand people, and in recent decades a booming natural-...
Encyclopedia | Lucy Morrison Moore, 'The Sheep Queen of Wyoming'
Lucy Morrison Moore, “The Sheep Queen of Wyoming,” was a leading sheep producer during the heyday of public-land sheep ranching from the 1880s to 1920s. Smart, tough and slightly eccentric, she and...