Chris Cochran, left, and Kevin Atack, 20, play football at the Evansville Elementary School playground on Tuesday evening. Behind Cochran and Atack is where the new Evansville Elementary School will be built. Photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune
Mike Kwiecinski, left, and Becky Steele hack out part of a creek bank to build a bridge for foot traffic at the Duncan Ranch. The two are spending the summer with the Wyoming Conservation Corps, which is helping the Office of State Lands and Investments fix up the ranch near Glenrock. Photo by Rena Delbridge, Star-Tribune correspondent.
Two expansion projects planned at the Jim Bridger power plant in Sweetwater County have been set aside, PacifiCorp officials say. Star-Tribune file photo.
This map shows the planned routes of the Gateway West, Gateway South and Gateway Central electrical transmission upgrades. (Courtesy, Rocky Mountain Power)
Laborer Reyes Fores, left, and Superintendent Dave Fedirko of Colorado Contractors work Wednesday morning on the cap for an entrance to the tunnel that will allow pedestrian and bike traffic under Storey Boulevard when the 2.2-mile road extension across Cheyenne is completed this fall. Photo by Bill Luckett/Casper Star-Tribune.
A flagger directs oncoming traffic at the Hat Six Road overpass near Casper on Friday afternoon. Wyoming leads the country in putting federal stimulus money to work, much of which is being sent to road construction projects. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Steve Thull, chief wastewater operator for the city of Cody, stands next to a pump that will divert treated wastewater for use in irrigating a new expansion of Riverside Cemetery. The project will significantly reduce wastewater flows into the Shoshone River as well as irrigation water drawn from the Cody Canal. Photo by RUFFIN PREVOST, Billings Gazette.
A wind farm is shown under construction near Glenrock in this file photo from August. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Wyoming Conservation Corp crew leaders Theresa McGinty, left, and Patrick Richards check out an area along Coal Mountain Road on Monday afternoon where they will be picking up trash and building a parking area. The state legislature gave money this past session to fund the crew.
Wind projects move forward, despite stormy economy
Wild horse advocate Marshall Dominick, far right, discusses a project to create a wind-driven well that feeds a stock watering tank that also provides water to sage grouse and other birds in the McCullough Peaks. (Ruffin Prevost/The Billings Gazette)
Ernie Vigil walks onto his porch at his home in Rock Springs. Vigil is one of many residents who noticed serious damage to his home. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
Skye Fricke, 6, uses a computer Friday at the new Laramie County Library in Cheyenne, which was funded with a voter-approved special-use tax. Natrona County voters will be asked to support a similar tax this fall to build a new library in Casper. Photo by JARED MILLER, Star-Tribune.
Casper wind project nears completion last week. The 880-acre property northeast of Evansville will be home to 11 turbines that will be generating electricity in Nov. 2009. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
A group of 260-feet tall wind towers are silhoutted against a bright orange sky at the Elk River Wind farm near Beaumont, Kan. The spinning blades atop 200-foot towers might appear to the naked eye as … well … spinning blades. But to Doppler radar, wind farms appear as a splatter of green, yellow, orange and red _ much like a violent storm or even a tornado. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
This drawing released by NASA shows the Mars Science Laboratory, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. The mission to land a nuclear-powered, next-generation rover on Mars is facing development problems and ballooning costs that could threaten its scheduled launch next year. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told a congressional hearing this month that engineers had to redesign the heat shield after tests showed the protective layer would not survive entry through the Martian atmosphere. AP Photo/NASA, HO
In this image, the team developing the landing system for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory tested the deployment of an early parachute design in mid-October 2007 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, in Mountain View, Calif. AP Photo/NASA, HO
Components for a 1.5-megawatt General Electric wind turbine await assembly at Duke Energy's Campbell Hill wind farm in Converse County earlier this summer. Electricity generated from that wind farm and Duke Energy's planned Top of the World wind project nearby will be purchased by PacifiCorp. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
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