Janet Milek

The host, the Muley Fanatic Foundation has donated four lifetime licenses for youth to be given away at the open house.

Officials say most folks who are bitten are the ones who have gone back to kill the snake.

Yesness Pond will be stocked with more than 2,000 catchable-sized trout along with channel catfish in advance of the event.

The Expo, which was discontinued in 2012, is back this year with an expanded focus to many different outdoor activities.

The babies are rarely abandoned, and interference could prove fatal to them.

The bear apparently followed Garden Creek from Casper Mountain and found itself in off guard and in unfamiliar territory.

Wyoming Game and Fish Department investigators have not found evidence of a mountain lion north of Casper, a spokeswoman said Monday.

A yearling black bear was captured east of Casper on Friday morning, a Wyoming Game and Fish spokeswoman said. The department began receiving reports from residents of a bear visiting east Casper after dark on Saturday, and it confirmed the reports on Wednesday, said Janet Milek of the department's field office...

A young and frightened black bear that wandered through east Casper on Wednesday has been tranquilized and is being taken to his new adventure, a Wyoming Game and Fish spokeswoman said.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will let a scared, if not sleeping, bear lie, at least for a while.