Cowboy State Daily Video News: Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, May 20th. I'm Mac Watson. – Fremont County ranchers say roaming Great Pyrenees have killed livestock and terrorized neighbors for years in a rural feud that's now spiraled into criminal charges. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that court records show Kerri Johnson was charged with property destruction last week in the latest development of an escalating feud. "Two ranch families in Kinnear, Wyoming, have been telling authorities for years that a neighbor's dogs have been coming onto their property and killing their calves. Over the last several years, Kerri Johnson has been charged with an animal at large. Last week, she was charged with property destruction over $1,000 that is a felony, which carries a potential sentence up to 10 years in prison. Rancher Chris Eberline says that her husband was confronted by Johnson when he was fixing fences. Eberlyne said things escalated at a court hearing in December when she told the judge, 'Somebody's gonna get hurt.'" Ranchers living near the Johnson property tell Cowboy State Daily that the legal fight barely scratches the surface of the last several years' struggle. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/you-shoot-my-dogs-ill-shoot-you-wyoming-feud-over-ranch-dogs-explodes/] – It took about 36 hours, but most of Rawlins had power restored Tuesday as a fast and furious spring snowstorm wreaked havoc in southcentral Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that the Carbon County Sheriff's Office spent the day rescuing residents and helping snow-stranded drivers. "Rawlins just had a rough time of it on Monday. They had a power outage that lasted nearly 36 hours. They were still trying to get power back to some places in Rawlins on Tuesday afternoon. So the Carbon County Sheriff's Office and the Medical Center down there, they had the deal not only with the calls of residents, but dozens of people who were stranded on I 80 because I 80 was closed for most of the day, and they were having problems with their cell phones throughout this whole period, too." Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken tells Cowboy State Daily that he knew he was in for a tough day when he set out to start coordinating the response to the power outage, his truck got stuck in the snow. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/rawlins-slowly-reopens-after-36-hours-with-no-power-stranded-motorists-on-i-80/] – A man found dead in a car in the parking lot of the Cody airport after being missing for two weeks died of blunt force injuries and exposure to the elements. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that the family still wants answers as to how their relative ended up in that car. "Sean Ezekiel Hughes was found in a car that was not his at the Cody Airport. He disappeared on April 5, and he had been missing for 11 days when he was ultimately discovered in that vehicle by police. Autopsy reports show he died of a shoulder blunt force shoulder injury, likely from a fall, and also that combined with the elements, and the coroner said that the fall would have caused internal bleeding that combined with cold temperatures ultimately what killed him." Park County Coroner Cody Gortmaker tells Cowboy State Daily that the timeline of the man's death is unclear as to when exactly he got into the vehicle and ultimately died. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/missing-man-found-dead-in-car-at-cody-airport-died-of-injury-and-exposure/] – Cheyenne's Public Service Committee didn't endorse or reject a 12-month moratorium on new data centers after hours of emotional testimony Monday. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that state legislators say the clash exposes issues the Wyoming Legislature may need to address. "It really exposed a lot of issues that are at the state level, so you know, more guard rails around water use, more transparency. Should these things be going through the industrial siting commission right now? They have a different process that's kind of governing how they function, different people who are kind of going over whether they fit in a community, maybe the industrial siting commission needs to be part of that layer, that's, you know, some of the questions that lawmakers were asking after listening to all the testimony in Cheyenne." The committee's Monday decision highlights deep divisions over the rapid growth of data centers in Cheyenne, as nearby residents worry about water use, noise, rising electricity demand and the pace of development. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/cheyenne-city-committee-wont-support-or-reject-data-center-moratorium/] – I'll be back with more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily news continues now… – Wyoming groups that host hunts for disabled veterans fear a proposal to change Game and Fish regulations on what counts as a disability could freeze out some vets. Outdoors Reporter Mark Heinz reports that the change could disqualify vets with PTSD or disabilities that aren't apparent. "Nothing has been decided yet, but there's a proposal to, well, the big one is to change what would qualify someone as disabled to get special disabled hunting access. Currently on the books, if you have a qualifying letter, if you have a letter from the VA stating that you are 100% disabled, you are allowed to do that, but what they're talking about getting rid of that and having it just be straight up, you have to have a blindness or some sort of full physical disability. These veteran groups that host these hunts for disabled veterans are a little bit concerned about that, because they're saying if you cut that out, a lot of the people we host might not qualify for special disabled hunts." The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission is considering several changes [https://wgfd.wyo.gov/media/33644/download?inline] to hunting regulations, including removing a provision for counting a "100% service-related disability," based on a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/wyoming-veterans-fear-changing-disability-hunting-regs-could-freeze-them-out/] – The federal government looks likely to reject Wyoming's plan to invest roughly $1 billion in projected Trump-backed grants for rural medical services. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Wyoming has to spend the money quickly instead. "Wyoming wanted to invest the money and live off the interest to support these structures over like a three decade or more timeline, and the Fed said, 'No, you got to spend it within a year.' Governor Gordon did go ahead and announce that the feds approved the grant for the first year in that tighter deployment timeline that doesn't involve a long-term investment." Wyoming had planned to invest the majority of a roughly $1 billion projected federal grant for rural hospitals, ambulances, baby delivery and other health care so the state could benefit from gains beyond the five-year grant cycle. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/looks-like-feds-wont-let-wyoming-invest-trump-backed-health-care-grants/] – Yoder breakaway roper Hadley Thompson could make history this weekend as the first to earn $2 million with one throw of a rope. Cowboy State Daily's Julie Mankin reports that the 18-year-old could get a huge payout for beating the best in the world. "Hadley Thompson is only 18 years old, still in high school, and she's got experience winning first over the best in the world at breakaway roping. She's a phenom. This is not your typical rodeo. This thing is in Globe Life Field, Arlington, Texas, home of the Texas Rangers. She's the only breakaway roper from Wyoming in contention. There are also a couple of team rompers and a saddle bronc rider from Wyoming that have a chance for the big money." What could an 18-year-old do with $2 million? Thompson tells Cowboy State Daily that it's been hard for her not to think about that. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/torrington-18-year-old-breakaway-roper-to-compete-for-historic-2-million-payout/] – After a mama duck panicked when her ducklings fell into a Sheridan storm drain this past weekend, a big bearded hero climbed in to get them. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that one woman who watched the rescue says it restored a little of her faith in humanity. "A Sheridan mother named Franny Blackwell was on her way home from Home Depot on Saturday when she saw a large gathering by a drainage off to the side of the road. She flipped a U-turn, and when she pulled over, she saw a large bearded man going into the sewer to rescue baby ducks. There were about six ducks in total that he pulled out. At first, Mama Duck seemed very suspicious, but by the end it was as if she knew that her babies had been rescued by this mystery man. We never learned the identity of the hero in this story, although several people said that their faith in humanity has been restored again." Blackwell tells Cowboy State Daily that she never learned the names of the people who stopped to rescue the ducklings. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/05/19/stranger-with-big-beard-climbs-into-sheridan-storm-drain-to-save-ducklings/] And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com [https://cowboystatedaily.com/] - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZ6-7-Nv-0ycvqgTIttIFQ] channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app. Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Tuesday, June 23, 2026

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, June 23rd. I'm Mac Watson – Black Hills Energy says it's ready for data centers that draw as much power as small states. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that Vice President Wes Ashton says its large-load tariff makes cost-causers pay their full cost, even as AI demand has jumped from megawatts to gigawatts. "The question is, how well is it going to scale when we go from megawatt to orders of magnitude greater gigawatt scale? Black Hills tells me they're very confident that this large load tariff is going to scale, they're not worried about that at all. In fact, they think that folks might see that their rates are continuing to be held back, because as these large companies are building this infrastructure there's economy of scale there, and it's resulting in less cost for regular rate payers, because these guys are paying for ginormous upgrades to the right reliability and efficiency and overall capacity of the grid that serves everyone, and so they, they only see benefits from this down the line as we continue to build this out." Project Jade, as just one example, will come into Wyoming with a "bring-your-own-power" mentality for an initial 2.7 gigawatts of power, which is nearly three times what industry analysts have said Wyoming uses now. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/how-black-hills-energy-is-preparing-for-surge-of-power-hungry-wyoming-data-centers/] – Demand for nuclear fuel, a ban on imports from Russia and booming data center-driven electricity needs are sending uranium producers back into Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports that mining association chief Travis Deti says, "We need the fuel, and the fuel starts with Wyoming uranium. "There's a renewed interest in this mineral nationwide, and the need globally is huge, and Wyoming has a lot of uranium and a lot of exploration to be done, so companies are at work in the Powder River Basin. I talked to the CEO of a smaller company, he is from Australia, but owns American Uranium Limited, and they have an operation in Wyoming that is ongoing and expects to be producing in the next few years. Uranium is key for energy development and could also play a role in data center build out in the future." Nuclear energy still supplies about 20% of the nation's electricity, and the United States operates more nuclear reactors than any other country in the world, according to the U.S. Energy Information Association. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/wyoming-uranium-surges-as-nuclear-demand-national-security-concerns-align/] – Almost a week after a semitruck carrying millions of bees flipped over in Yellowstone National Park and destroyed hundreds of hives, bees are still swarming on trees in the area. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that one Wyoming beekeeper calls it " a swarming mechanism." "Bee trees are kind of like staging stations for bees, as they're trying to find new homes. So, when you see a tree covered with bees, it's most likely that there's a queen there, and the other bees are swarming around her, while scouts go out to find a suitable location to build a new hive. If you see those trees, beekeepers know that they can still collect that colony and relocate it to an apiary or another beehive safely, but if you stop seeing those trees, it means the bees have moved on." The fact that bee trees can still be seen along U.S. Highway 191 six days after the June 16 crash might indicate the bees are having trouble finding an ideal place for a new home. But it definitely means the colonies can be safely recovered. Read the full story HERE [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/millions-of-bees-swarm-on-trees-in-yellowstone-after-hives-smashed-in-semi-crash/]. – Data from the National Weather Service revealed the last three months have been the driest spring on record for most of Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that's following one of the driest winters on record, which doesn't bode well for the summer months ahead. "After one of the driest winters in Wyoming's recorded history, it makes sad sense that it was one of the driest springs in recorded history. Many Wyoming communities got less than half, in some places barely more than a quarter of the moisture they typically receive between March 20-first and June 20, but there could be some potential salvation on the horizon. It's been a very active weather week in Wyoming, and there could be more moisture moving in. The downside to that is if we get that moisture, it's going to most likely come in the form of thunderstorms, and with the thunder comes the lightning, and if we get a thunderstorm that doesn't produce much rain but does produce some lightning, then we're talking about a heightened risk of wildfires on a landscape that's already deep in the drought." Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day tells Cowboy State Daily, "March was so bad, April was not great, May was really bad in places, and June has been a bust. Those months are so critical, and they didn't come through for us." Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/summer-drought-in-forecast-after-record-dry-winter-driest-spring-in-decades/] – I'll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily News continues now…. – When a bull moose wandered into Wheatland on Sunday, wildlife agents drugged it, then rolled the massive animal onto a tarp to move it into a waiting horse trailer. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that one fire-rescue responder said, "Once he woke back up, he was not too pleased." "The moose was getting spookily close to I-25 and a lieutenant from the Wheatland Fire and Rescue told me that they've had a lot of deer get hit in that same area, so they really don't want that moose hanging out there. So Game and Fish came in and tranquilized the moose, and they called in Wheatland Fire Rescue to assist. Then they managed to get it rolled onto a tarp, and they just had like eight or 10 guys getting a circle around the tarp, he lifted up and carried into a horse trailer, and then once it got in the horse trailer, they took it up to the Snowy Range Mountains and released it back out into the wild." Jeff Herb of Wheatland Fire-Rescue tells Cowboy State Daily that no one is sure where the moose came from. He speculates that the moose might have wandered out of the Laramie Range because it's been so dry lately in those mountains. Read the full story HERE [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/tarp-provides-a-lift-as-game-and-fish-rescues-moose-flirting-with-i-25-disaster/]. – The Natrona County Commissioners approved an agreement to keep the College National Finals Rodeo in Casper for the next 10 years. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports the CEO of Visit Casper says the economic boost to Natrona county is huge. "It's become a tradition. Annette Pitts with Visit Casper said that this brings about $3 million in economic impact to the Casper community. Casper College's head rodeo coach, Faith Anders, said that Casper is a great place for the CNFR because people in Central Wyoming really understand rodeo culture. In other states, there are some misconceptions about animal cruelty, whereas in Wyoming, there are ranchers, farmers, veterinarians, people who care about animals and really understand livestock production, so it's a great place to celebrate Western culture." The CNFR has been a fixture in Casper for more than a quarter-century, bringing hundreds of the nation's top college cowboys and cowgirls to Wyoming every June. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/casper-keeps-college-national-finals-rodeo-for-next-10-years/] – Terlingua, Texas, crowns the world's chili champions, but many say their favorite contest is in Chugwater, Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that for 40 years, the Chugwater Chili Cook-off has been a Father's Day bucket-list contest for the best chili cooks on the planet. "Many of them are former Terlingua winners. Terlingua is the competition that crowns the world's chili champion every year, and talking with some of these guys who came up here from Texas, this is a bucket list competition for them right here in Little Old Chuck Water, Wyoming. A lot of these folks who do this, who are from Wyoming, do it as a family activity. They get together kind of like families do over the holidays for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Well, they get together over chili, and there's some fantastic chilis here. If you don't find something that you like at this festival, well, then you just don't like chili, because there's some really good chili at this event." Many contestants pair their chili fest trip with subsequent Yellowstone and Devils Tower adventures. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/why-world-chili-champions-flock-to-tiny-chugwater-for-its-annual-chili-fest/] – Mount Rushmore expects a huge turnout for the nation's 250th Independence Day celebration that will feature fireworks returning for the first time in six years. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports that you'd better have a lottery ticket to get in. "The idea of celebrating Fourth of July at Mount Rushmore for America's 250th birthday was so popular that the National Park Service had to implement a lottery system for tickets. Nearly 103,000 people vied for 4800 tickets, and the lottery closed in April. So there will be 4800 people at Mount Rushmore, and many more people who would love to be there. They are showing up all over the Black Hills and Keystone, which is the community nearest Mount Rushmore, has reported an increase of 127% in visitors over last year." There is also speculation that President Trump will attend this event, but the White House has not confirmed. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/22/4-800-win-lottery-to-attend-mount-rushmore-fireworks-display-for-nations-250th/] — And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com [https://cowboystatedaily.com/] - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZ6-7-Nv-0ycvqgTIttIFQ] channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app. Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

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Cowboy State Daily Radio News: Monday, June 22, 2026

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, June 22nd. I'm Mac Watson – Wyoming needs tens of thousands of new homes, but only a fraction of the need is under construction because builders say the math doesn't work. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that even middle-class wages aren't high enough to afford to buy houses while home-building costs just continue to rise. "They're building homes that are 400,000 and up, and so why not any affordable units for regular working class people who have a median income of 75,500. When I went to developers about why aren't people building homes in this range, that would be the affordable range for Americans, and they basically can't pencil out below $400,000. So we have this huge gap, between $300,000 and $400,000. They can't make the numbers work." Scott Hoversland, who heads up the Wyoming Community Development Authority, puts the number of homes the state needs somewhere between 28,000 to 38,000 by 2030 — roughly 2,070 to 3,680 homes annually to keep up with population growth and aging infrastructure. Read the full story HERE [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/21/why-a-shortfall-of-more-than-20-000-homes-isnt-enough-to-get-wyoming-building/]. – A Cheyenne judge Friday ordered the Wyoming Board of Equalization to apply a law capping residential property tax increases at 4% annually, for now, despite the board's claim the cap violates the Wyoming Constitution. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Gov. Gordon sued the board last week. "Gordon's office, through the Attorney General's personnel, asked Judge Hibben, 'Hey, make the tax board follow the law real quick while we sort through these tax values.' And Judge Hibben granted that request. The judge basically said, 'Look, we're going to sift through the constitutional issues. The court's going to look at those and decide, but for now you just follow the law.' So, this is what we call a temporary restraining order. It's generally a very quick court order telling people what they're supposed to do while the controversy is going on in court." The Wyoming Constitution calls for equal and uniform property taxes within each tax category, and this tax cap creates stark disparities in how some homes, despite being nearly identical, are taxed in different regions, the report says. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/19/judge-orders-wyoming-board-of-equalization-to-enforce-4-property-tax-cap-for-now/] – A tornado made a rare appearance in Sublette County on Saturday, bringing with it more than 700 power outages. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that Meteorologist Don Day calls it a "landspout" tornado. "It's not a true tornado in the sense that it comes down from the clouds, rather it's a spinning closer to the surface that winds its way up to the clouds, and it lasted probably no more than 30 minutes, and even that's really long. They tend not to be long-lived, and they're not as destructive as tornadoes. So it was literally just a perfect storm of circumstances as thunderstorms and a cluster of thunderstorms was moving through Wyoming on Saturday that brought rain to some places and thunderstorms to others." Meteorologist Don Day tells Cowboy State Daily that landspouts tend to be more common in the spring and summer, especially when Wyoming's area gets humid. When summer thunderstorms carry moisture into Wyoming, the likelihood of landspouts increases. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/john-bear-one-of-the-freedom-caucus-most-powerful-members-has-a-challenger/] – A Casper man says his wife is making him sell his beloved Bigfoot-hunting rig. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that the car is a lifted, 1984 AMC Eagle wagon with 150,000 miles that owner Austin Griess says attracts too much female attention. "Griess posted the car online last week, and it got a lot of attention, especially from males who commented that maybe he should keep the car and get rid of something else. According to gearhead Ron Gordon in Sublette County, who spent a lifetime admiring station wagons, this AMC Eagle would have been the perfect family car. It is all-wheel drive, so it was made to go camping, especially lifted." Griess found the 1984 AMC Eagle 4X4 Wagon on Facebook Marketplace during the dead of winter. During the cold months he worked on it, installing a lift kit, tuning it up and making it reliable enough to serve as a daily driver. Then he said he turned it into a true "chick magnet" by adding a modern stereo. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/20/casper-man-selling-his-1984-amc-eagle-chick-magnet-because-wife-wants-it-gone/] – I'll have more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cowboy State Daily News continues now…. – Laramie's Erika Babbitt-Rogers considers herself to be a professional "worm wrangler." Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that she says anglers and pet owners are regular customers, but the real demand is for worm poop. "She has discovered that really worm castings, which is just a fancy way of saying worm poop, is a huge seller, and the reason is that it makes really good, highly nutritious, slow release fertilizer for plants or lawns and whatnot. She says sells mass amounts of worm poop to people, and she said some people turn it into tea, and don't get the wrong idea, it's not tea you drink. What they do is they make like a tea mixture that they can spray on their plants or spray on their lawn, so it's tea for plants, not for people." Erika Babbitt-Rogers grew up in agriculture and always figured livestock would be part of her life, but she didn't expect that "livestock" would be worms. Around 2009, she got the idea to raise worms on a larger scale and sell them for fishing bait and food for people's pet reptiles and, of course, worm poop for gardening. Read the full story HERE [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/21/wyomings-worm-wrangler-sells-nightcrawlers-for-bait-worm-poop-for-fertilizer/]. – The American Dream in Powell is Wyoming's last operating drive-in theater and has survived since 1949 as a retro experience for movie-goers. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the current owner, Kathleen Heny, bought it in 2004 just to save it. "One day her husband came home from the hardware store, and, 'Oh, honey, our drive-in theater is for sale.' They kind of had a soft spot for this theater, and they just decided that they were afraid that somebody's going to buy this and, you know, knock it down and build something else, and they didn't want that, and so they bought it themselves. They operated themselves.There are 370 drive-in theaters left in America. These guys are the Iron Man of an era that is long gone, the 1950s and 60s. These were fueled by the post-war boom. Everybody had their automobiles with their flashy chrome fenders. They needed places to show it off. The drive-in theater was perfect." Some of the locals go so far as to bring full-size couches in their pickup beds and camp stoves to make s'mores and other snacks as the overhead sky darkens and a sweep of stars begins to shine. Read the full story HERE [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/20/wyomings-last-drive-in-theater-powells-american-dream-open-for-78th-season/]. – Wyoming's prisons have 109 vacant positions, despite years of recruiting. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that now, the Wyoming Department of Corrections is turning to a certain group of people because of their training. "Former retired director of the WDOC, Bob Lambert, said that these positions are incredibly hard to fill. It's a demanding job. There are a lot of safety concerns. Inmates, as he puts it, are not usually there for singing too loud in church. Prison officials are currently recruiting active duty military members to serve as correctional officers in these prisons, so it's a pipeline that would help members who are nearing the end of their contract with the military to quickly start a new career with the Wyoming Department of Corrections." Through a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense's SkillBridge program, transitioning service members can train with the Wyoming Department of Corrections before separating from active duty, creating what officials hope will become a new pipeline into correctional careers. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/hageman-barrasso-wont-support-democrat-bill-to-stop-federal-land-sales/] – Yellowstone rangers resorted to using a front-end loader and a bit of creativity to get a 2,000-pound bison carcass away from a busy road near Canyon Village on Friday. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that a wildlife photographer said a grizzly was circling the area determined to have the roadkill for breakfast. "First they tied a chain around the bison's neck and lifted it, but then they couldn't get it up high enough to get in the dump truck, so they had to tie up one of its legs and lower it in that way, and this was all within public view. Most things that die in the park stay in the park. So when there's a bison carcass that people see near the road and the parks move it, they take it to a secret location where it can be dumped, and then it's free for all the animals in the park to utilize, because that's a big source of food for a bunch of animals." Photographer April Mead has seen and shared images of Yellowstone's carcass removal process before, but this one was notably different. It seemed as if the park's experienced staff were improvising the best way to get the job done quickly and safely. Read the full story HERE. [https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/19/yellowstone-rangers-bulldoze-2-000-pound-bison-roadkill-while-grizzly-circles/] — And that's today's news. Get your free digital subscription to Wyoming's only statewide newspaper by hitting the Daily Newsletter button on Cowboy State Daily Dot Com [https://cowboystatedaily.com/] - and you can watch this newscast every day by clicking Subscribe on our YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZ6-7-Nv-0ycvqgTIttIFQ] channel, or listen to us on your favorite podcast app. Thanks for watching - I'm Mac Watson, for Cowboy State Daily.

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