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.
A full coal truck motors out of the pit at Black Thunder recently. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Jamie Harkins prepares to vaccinate yearlings as her mother, Peggy Price, adjusts the chutes at the Miles Land and Livestock ranch southwest of Casper on Wednesday afternoon. The Prices have four daughters, two of whom still work on the ranch. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
A pronghorn antelope buck pauses for a quick look on the Cottonwood Ranch north of Big Piney last fall. (Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department)
Assistants Paul Dailing, left, and Makoto Takigawa carefully examine an area for dinosaur fossils recently on Mike Harris's ranch near Newcastle. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
What appears to be a dinosaur fossil is exposed on the ranch of Mike Harris near Newcastle recently. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Jeff Meyer, managing partner of Pathfinder Renewable Energy LLC, and Mark Doelger, an adviser with Barlow & Haun Inc., stand next to a meteorological tower used to measure wind speeds and direction on Monday afternoon at the Pathfinder Ranch. Meyer, who owns the historic ranch, is developing a 'master plan' for wind development in central Wyoming. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Robb Howe, left, and Chris Dalin prepare dessert plates on Thursday for lunch guests visiting Trapper Creek Lodge and Supper Club in Shell. The historic building has become a popular dinner spot after an extensive restoration. (Billings Gazette)
Shawn Burtenshaw, right, signs brand inspection papers last month while two of his children wait after they helped him gather cattle that will be shipped the next day. Burtenshaw leases a ranch near Spotted Horse and says he is working toward owning a ranch he can pass to his children when they are of age. (Nathan Payne/Gillette News-Record via AP)
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