Category: Wyoming

Three hazardous mines in the Bighorn Mountains that were abandoned a half-century ago were successfully reclaimed last year through the work of government agencies and private contractors. – Read more –

Canadian equipment company K-Tec Earthmovers recently shared a mini-documentary video and article titled “Cleaning up the Cold War.” – Read More –

The Wyoming Abandoned Mine Land Division will create nearly 800 jobs and generate about $200 million just this year in economic benefits with its mine land reclamation projects, it has announced. -Read More-

Thousands of abandoned mine sites sit idle, waiting for cleanup across the country. For over four decades, the federal government has been gradually building a pot of money to devote to the reclamation, or cleanup, of these hazardous swaths of land disturbed by mineral extraction. -Read More-

RAWLINS – Large, subterranean voids scattered throughout two defunct mining sites in Carbon County discovered by experts with Brierley Associates, a Denver-based geotechnical consulting firm, pose bit of a problem. -Read More-

Restoring sagebrush where it has disappeared isn’t as easy as just scattering seeds and waiting for them to sprout. In order to coax the iconic Wyoming plant to grow on sites where it was removed, The Nature Conservancy is using science, ingenuity and an industrial pasta machine. –Read More-

RIVERTON, WY. – In the spirit of shared conservation stewardship on public land, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) collaborated for the second year with Lander Middle School and other partners to plant sagebrush seedlings in a reclaimed mine site in the Gas Hills Uranium Mining District east […]

Recently our AML staff, OSMRE, Wyoming Nature Conservancy and the Bureau of Land Management – Wyoming worked with students to plant nearly 450 sagebrush seedlings near a Uranium Abandoned mine in central Wyoming. Thank you KTWO-TV #WYOLeadingTheWay