ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, July 18 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: * * * - Measure Would Save Human, Grizzly Lives * * * The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will meet on July 18 and 19 to decide whether to require hunters to carry bear spray in grizzly bear habitat, in response to a petition from conservation groups. The commission will also consider how to control the spread of chronic wasting disease and whether to adopt regulations for wolf hunting.   more

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, July 17 -- Geisinger Health issued the following news release: * * * A name synonymous with excellence in oncology now has a home on two Geisinger hospital campuses in northeast Pennsylvania. Since 1992, the Henry Cancer Center at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre has provided high-quality care to patients. The center has grown to offer advanced, comprehensive and state-of-the-art services, and Geisinger leadership announced recently that the Hen  more

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, July 19 -- The Humane Society of the United States issued the following news release: A coalition of organizations has pressed the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to require hunters to carry bear spray in grizzly bear habitat. The Commission will meet on July 18 and 19 to decide on this question, as well as to consider proposals concerning methods for controlling the spread of chronic wasting disease, regulations for wolf hunting, and other topics. In April, the organiz  more

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyoming, July 18 -- The Sierra Club Foundation issued the following news release: * * * - Groups stress bear spray requirement would save human and grizzly lives * * * The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission will meet on July 18th and 19th to decide whether or not to require hunters to carry bear spray in grizzly bear habitat, how to control the spread of chronic wasting disease, and adopt regulations for wolf hunting, among other topics. In April, a coalition of organizations sub  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, July 17 -- The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute issued the following news release: The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute's Mountain States region's Board of Directors has named Jim Schneider as the region's new executive director. Schneider was most recently with VT Industries, a leading door manufacturer. Since 2015, he had been the territory sales manager for the mountain states, working with architects in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. S  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, July 18 -- The Wyoming Business Council issued the following news: By Baylie Evans Wyoming has a new and unique tool for enhancing its broadband coverage in rural areas: an interactive map that shows the results of internet-speed tests and broadband availability across the state, detailed down to individual parcels. "This tool is going to make an enormous difference in improving broadband coverage in rural Wyoming," said Wyoming's broadband manager, Russ Elliott. "What gets  more

MEDFORD, Massachusetts, July 16 -- Zoonoses and Public Health, a journal that says it features integrated and global approaches to zoonoses and public health, published eight research articles on the following topics in its August 2019 edition: * Discrepancies between self-reported tick bites and evidence of tick-borne disease exposure among nomadic Mongolian herders * Economic and health burden of brucellosis in Kazakhstan * Epidemiological investigation of Leptospira spp. in a dairy farming  more