Friday, January 2, 2026
The year in Wyoming wildlife: Fed cuts, critters, CWD, cheatgrass and tensions over development
Thursday, January 1, 2026
The 2026 Resolute Edition:
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From last year:
The 2025 Resolute Edition.
I posted elsewhere that I was going light on New Years Resolution posts, and I basically, kind of sort of, have.
None the less, I have some out there.
New Year's Resolutions for Other People, sort of.
New Years Day. Looking at 2024 through the front of the Church doors.
This blog has a completely different theme, rather obviously. So what I'd normally do is post some personal and more universal items. I'll just do both here, in the worried sort of way both of the above posts are.
This blog is heavily invested in the concept of Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic, which is:
The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In short, a land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow-members, and also respect for the community as such.
Aldo Leopold.
We also have a very holistic view of things, in the true meaning of the word. That is, everything is connected. And we also, as people here know, have a very Agrarian, Wendell Berry, view of the world. We are part of nature and we need to acknowledge that, and be true to our natures.
We haven't been acting like that for quite some time. And both the political left, and the political right, are guilty of that.
The populist right, of course, just came into power. And much of its political ethos is based on ignorance combined with the love of money. At no point in American history since 1860, when the Southern wealthy lead the Southern yeoman into a fight to preserve something that benefited the rich, and not the poor, has one class so fogged the intellect of another such that those who stand most to be hurt by developments are fully backing them.
Nearly everything those who love the outdoors, use the outdoors, or depend on the outdoors will be under full out assault in the next four years.
Sportsmen, agrarians, conservationist, farmers, ranchers and environmentalist will have to be very much on guard the next four years. Sadly, many in some of these categories vote for the very forces that stand to hurt, or even destroy them.
Why would I repeat that?
Well, everything I said last year is still true, and even more so.
We have there member from this state in Congress who were ready to completely screw public land users in spite of an overwhelming protest from Wyomingites. One of the three, Harriet Hageman, is now running for the Senate. This is the chance to retire her and send her back to the state and family she cites as her guiding lights.
It's also a chance to get rid of Californian Chuck Gray, a figure who washed up on shore here some time ago to try to advance his political career and who has proven that Wyomingites have a rampaging inferiority complex. He needs to go, and by going, I mean he needs to go back to California and be deprived of family money and busy work and find out what its like to actually have to work for a living.
Lots of people who have washed up in Wyoming, I'd note, and ended up in the Freedom Caucus fit that exact same description .They need to go back to where they're from. We can wish them well at the Natrona County International Airport and play Dixie for them as they depart, and then adjourn to the bar for drinks thereafter.
The sooner the better.
In short, we need to start living, behaving, and acting like we actually value the things we claim we do.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Rep. Bill Allemand arrested for drinking and driving
Rep. Bill Allemand arrested for drinking and driving: Wyoming Freedom Caucus member allegedly admitted that ‘he drinks while driving for anxiety,’ Johnson County Sheriff’s Office report says.
I suppose its an example of Schadenfreude, but Allemand is a an enemy of sportsmen and public lands, as well as being a central figure in an effort to kill a proposed industrial project north of Natrona County's Bar Nunn.
He's notably a Wyomingite, albeit one who spent most of his working life in Kansas, whose positions on things match the Freedom Caucus's, anti public lands, anti nuclear for some reason and pro whatever goofball thing the Freedom Caucus is for. In his first run for office he was downright nasty to his opponent, and frankly the residents of his House district are not to be admired for voting for him in that election.
During the last legislature he sponsored a bill to really jack up the penalties for trespassing while hunting. On that, it's notable that he's from a large ranching family in northern Natrona County, although he's not a rancher himself.
The drinks "for anxiety" comment suggests that he probably should be pitied, however, and that he might have some sort of a problem.
Anyhow, if he goes, and he might have been on the way out due to his role in torpedoing the project north of Bar Nunn anyhow, it may be a good thing for public lands users and sportsmen, depending upon who replaces him.
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