NYTs on the Wind River Casino

From the NYTs:

Last week I was in Wyoming, driving westward on the southern edge of a big winter storm. For dozens of miles, sheets of snow arced across the still-dry pavement. After a long while, I made out the welcome lights of Shoshoni. When you find yourself longing for the lights of Shoshoni — the glow of a gas station — you know the driving has been hard.

I joined a convoy of vehicles coming out of Riverton and up the hill past the Wind River Casino, which was shrouded in a nimbus of snow. We slithered along at school-zone speeds, barely 20 miles an hour. Across the highway, the drivers of two pickups climbed into the ditch to check on a car whose headlights were now pointing up at the overcast, snow corkscrewing down into the angled beams. At last, I came down the hill into Lander, where two feet of heavy autumn snow would fall in the next 36 hours.

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Ruby Pipeline Project — FERC Notice

From HR:

The proposed Ruby Pipeline project from Wyoming to Oregon will cross many traditional and important places for the Paiute, Shoshone, Modoc, and other Tribes. Please let others know about this FERC/BLM/PG&E project that will irreparably change and forever destroy a large swath of our beautiful homelands. http://www.summitlaketribe.org/Maps.html

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