The Hotel Terra in Jackson is the state's first, and thus far only, LEED-certified hotel. (Courtesy photo.)
Lauren Huntington, Casper Star-Tribune Police Sgt. Steve Freel, right, assists Officer Scott Jones with his Miles Gear on his gun at Kelly Walsh High School on Friday morning during an emergency drill. The gear detects blank rounds fired from other guns and simulates being hit by beeping.
Body builders Matt Jordan, left, and Marc Bennett practice their poses earlier this month in Worland. The two agree the most difficult part of their sport is dieting. As the athletes prepared to compete in this weekend's Rocky Mountain Body Building Championships in Denver, they decreased their body fat to around 3 percent. Bob Vines, Northern Wyoming Daily News via AP.
In this photo taken March 31, 2009, a solar-powered lamp representing the eternal flame hangs above the Ark of the Covenant that is made from recycled woven metal in the sanctuary at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation synagogue in Evanston, Ill. The one-year-old structure is the only worship building in the country to be awarded the U.S. Green Buildings Council's highest green rating. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Donna Murphy climbs down through a narrow panel in the floor of the Kistler Building on Center Street to a small room that was once part of a tunnel system under downtown Casper on Tuesday morning. The building, owned by Murphy's mother, Eva Babcock, may be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Head Start teacher's assistant Kim Gedrose goes through learning materials before packing them to be moved from the Oregon Trail Elementary School building on Tuesday afternoon. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett/Casper Star-Tribune.
These wooden seats in the balcony of the theater at the Odd Fellows Building are about 120 years old. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Investors are warming up to the idea of wind power, from sources such as these windmills in Uinta County, as a form of energy for the state.
Photo by Paul Ng, Star-Tribune correspondent
Scott McDonald, owner of McDonald Homes, answers a call on his cell phone while working to complete an unfinished home in his development, Windsor Heights, on Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Wheatland assistant coach and state wrestling historian Spencer Condie works at his booth at the Casper Events Center on Friday. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Valerie Hedlund, 4, watches and listens to a book being read on the Peek-A-Book machine at Natrona County Library on Wednesday morning. Photo by KERRY HULLER, Star-Tribune.
Investors are warming up to the idea of wind power, from sources such as these windmills in Uinta County, as a form of energy for the state.
Photo by Paul Ng, Star-Tribune correspondent
Habitat for Humanity laborer Ralph Kilpatrick helps a customer find a heavy door for her home Saturday morning. The Restore on West Collins is actively marketing its self to raise money and to assist home remodelers. Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune
Standing in a room that was once John B. Kendrick's office, Wayne Baumann points out features that he renovated into a second-floor apartment overlooking historic downtown Sheridan. The apartment was featured during "Living Upstairs in Wyoming," a workshop focused on renovating the upper floors of downtown commercial buildings as residences. (Lisa Bisbee/Star-Tribune correspondent)
A police officer guards the underground entrance to a Brampton, Ont., courthouse on Tuesday June 6, 2006, as a police van esscorts accused terrorist suspects into the building. Twelve men accused of scheming to blow up Canadian targets in a terrorist plot that authorities say was inspired by al-Qaida faced a formal hearing Tuesday on the charges against them. Police expect more arrests, while intelligence officers sought ties between the 12 men and five other teen suspects and Islamic terror cells in the United States and five other nations. (AP Photo/CP, Nathan Denette)
Joe Whitfield, with 3D's Construction & Design, works on the framing of a house in the Ponderosa section at Eagle Estates in Evansville on Tuesday morning. Despite a continuing downturn in the national economy, Casper officials say building remains strong. (Kerry Huller/Star-Tribune)
Demonstrators are barricaded on the second floor of a closed off University of California, Berkeley building as authorities surround the building on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Chief Justice Barton R. Voigt unlatches a hidden computer monitor compartment in the redesigned Wyoming State Supreme Court courtroom Tuesday. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Workers construct a pipeline in the Jonah gas field south of Pinedale in this 2006 file photo. (Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent)
Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune Donny Williams, left, and Jack Williams unload pieces from a trailer home Friday afternoon at the Casper landfill.
University of Wyoming Athletics Director Tom Burman poses on the field on Friday morning in Laramie. Work on War Memorial Stadium continues in the background, which will add more luxury box seats when finished. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Wyoming's Brandon Stewart carries the ball for some yardage in the fourth quarter of their game against UNLV on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
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