Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse a long trend of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses.
Governor Gordon offered this proclamation as a way to acknowledge the ranchers and farmers of Wyoming and to show them that their efforts have not gone unnoticed.
Cameron Sholly replaces former Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk less than a week after he said he was being forced out as a possible "punitive action" over the park's bison policies.
Tuesday marked the first of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management's series of public comment sessions known as scoping meetings. A report on the comments will be published later this year.