In its fourth year, Wyoming's $8.8 million cloud-seeding experiment is drawing big-time attention

Bruce Boe, director of meteorology for Weather Modification Inc., looks over various parts of a device called an acoustic ice nucleus counter to make sure everything is in working order. Boe, pictured in late January, is working on the five-year Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project from a cabin west of Centennial in the Snowy Range. (Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune)