Power lines stretch west toward the Absaroka Mountains along U.S. Highway 20-26 east of Dubois as the sun sets. Construction of more electrical transmission is one of the goals of the Western Governors' Association, meeting this week in Jackson Hole. Ken Driese, Star-Tribune correspondent.
Lara Azar and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger review some of the correspondence that Azar will send to constituents. (Courtesy/University of Wyoming)
Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune The Jim Bridger power plant near Rock Springs is a conventional coal-fired plant. The state and GE is working on a demonstration project that would focus on clean coal and coal-gasification projects.
Dave Freudenthal took office as Wyoming's 31st governor on Jan. 6, 2003. Gov. Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis in 1950, the seventh of eight children. He grew up on the family farm north of town. Farm life taught him to fix things by himself and to reuse every scrap of wood. To help pay for college, he worked construction jobs, including welding tanks. After graduating from Amherst College in 1973,he returned to Wyoming. While working for the state first as an economist for the Wyoming Department of Economic Planning and Development and then as the state planning coordinator, Freudenthal simultaneously earned a law degree from the University of Wyoming. He practiced law in Cheyenne from 1980 until he was appointed United States Attorney for Wyoming in 1994. Dave and his wife Nancy have four children: Don, Hillary, Bret and Katie. He enjoys spending time with his family, hunting, fishing and restoring sheep wagons, Airstream trailers and antique furniture.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, center, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Kirk Kempthorne, right, listen as Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal speaks during the Western Governors' Association meeting this week at Teton Village. Huntsman took over from Freudenthal as chairman of the group on Tuesday. Photo by Bradly J. Boner, AP.
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford listens to remarks during the Budget and Control Board meeting in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford listens to remarks during the Budget and Control Board meeting in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford listens as his attorney Butch Bowers talks about the actions of the Ethics Commission during a news conference, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, began debating a measure that ultimately would remove him from office. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 file photo, South Carolina's Gov. Mark Sanford listens as his attorney Butch Bowers talks about the actions of the Ethics Commission during a news conference, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, began debating a measure that ultimately would remove him from office. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford attends a meeting in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina lawmakers say they'll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford attends a meeting in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina lawmakers say they'll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 13, 2009 South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford attends a meeting in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina lawmakers say they'll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
Rep. F.G. "Greg" Delleney speaks before a legislative panel in Columbia, S.C. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 about Gov. Mark Sanford's dereliction of his duties by leaving the state in June to see his lover. In background is Rep. James H. Harrison and Patrick Dennis, chief counsel for the impeachment committee. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)
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