WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to three cooperative agreements for plant conservation and restoration management in Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $1 million with a ceiling of $200,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; i  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it expects to award up to 12 cooperative agreements for applied science projects to develop hydrologic information and water management tools and improve modeling and forecasting capabilities in Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Vi  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to three cooperative agreements for fisheries and aquatic resources management in Wyoming. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $5 million with a ceiling of $500,000 for each award in the program. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to state, county, city, township and special district governments; inde  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $500,000 grant to the Northern Wyoming Community College District of Sheridan, Wyoming, to purchase Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) equipment needed to support workforce training initiatives at Gillette College. This EDA grant will be matched with $500,000 i  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland - issued the following news release: On Monday, July 8, volunteers will give Pole Mountain a much-needed clean-up after the Fourth of July holiday. The Laramie Ranger District and Wyoming Department of Transportation have partnered with Common Outdoor Ground (COG), a community organization in southeast Wyoming, to host a second-annual  more

F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyoming, July 1 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: By Ashley N. Sokolov Sunbaked skin presses against the butts of rifles, as sweat runs down foreheads, brimming along chin straps and soaking into shirt collars. Their eyes scan the urban terrain, searching for enemies from the surrounding grassy hills of Camp Guernsey, Wyoming. Marines and Airmen from around the globe trained together for the first time in the advanced tactical course from June 9-20.   more

WASHINGTON, July 4 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $58,900 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for research to understand the consequences of fire regime changes at the forests of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho Montana and Wyoming; Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming; and Glacier National Park in Montana. The agency description of the grant states: "It will explore how these changes will affect futu  more

WASHINGTON, July 4 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it intends to award $500,000 cooperative agreements to the University of Wyoming for research on species of conservation concern. The agency description of the grant states: "Funding through this agreement will be used to support collection, compilation, analysis and sharing of data and information on all species that may be of conservation concern not listed under the Act (e.g., Species of   more