The Oregon Trail traverses the Green Mountain Common Allotment in central Wyoming. The Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment constitutes one of the largest unfenced ranges in the West, and has been a center of controversy for years. Photo by Chris Merrill, Star-Tribune.
Deirdre Stoelzle Graves carries her first son Eliot at her family's ranch located near Kaycee.
Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune Roy Roath, extension range specialist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, notes the height of some sage brush he has witnessed around Wyoming and Colorado.
Gary Amerine, Jenny Amerine, and Dustin Child, right, eat lunch Thursday, July 27, 2006, overlooking parcels in the Wyoming Range in western Wyoming that went up for lease to oil and gas companies Aug. 1, 2006. Child teamed with Amerine in his quest to protect the Wyoming Range from oil and gas leases that could, they say, turn the Wyoming Range into another Jonah Field, one of the densest gas fields in the nation. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News&Guide, Cory Hatch)
A fog bank fills the Hoback River valley as morning light hits the snow-capped peaks of the Wyoming Range. The remote western Wyoming mountain range has become something of a battleground between the energy industry and conservationists. Photo by Mark Gocke, Star-Tribune correspondent.
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, center, arrives to examine the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, center, arrives to examine the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, center, arrives to examine the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, center, arrives to examine the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, bottom center, leaves after examining the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, bottom center, leaves after examining the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, bottom center, leaves after examining the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
South Korean Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon, bottom center, leaves after examining the scene following a fire at an indoor shooting range in Busan, South Korea, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. The fire tore though an indoor shooting range in southern South Korea on Saturday, killing several people, including at least two Japanese tourists, and injuring six, police said. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Jo Jung-ho)
A bull moose enjoys a breakfast of willows in the Snowy Range of Southeast Wyoming. While moose populations throughout the West decline, moose numbers in the Snowy Range are on the rise. (Ken Driese, Star-Tribune correspondent)
A bull moose walks a dirt road in the sage flats of Teton Park. Moose populations are rapidly declining throughout western Wyoming. (Jim Laybourn, Star-Tribune correspondent)
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