Bill Sniffin

 It has been awhile since we updated readers about our most amazing adventure of 2012 – the publishing of the book Wyoming’s 7 Greatest Natural Wonders.

Some 63 percent of the 579,000 residents in Wyoming own guns.  This is the highest percentage of any state in the USA.

Perhaps it makes some sense to describe what living in the heart of America’s “gun culture” can be like during this time of national debate about guns and whether or not there is a need for national registry of gun owners.

The name Lester Hunt is not that prominent in Wyoming these days.

Oh, it can be found on a building at the Wyoming Life Resource Center in Lander.  Our local airport is named Hunt Field, although most folks think it was named after the world-renowned One Shot Antelope Hunt.

But Lester Hunt was a great citizen of our state.  At times, he was even heroic.

For some reason, “moose have been in the nooze” this winter in my part of Wyoming. There have been some good news stories, some crime news, some locked antler battles and even two moose rescue stories.

Some months ago in this space, we repeated a fantastic rumor about a Machu Picchu-type place deep in the Wind River Mountains. The story was far-fetched, and it just could not be verified.

That 34-minute power blackout during the Super Bowl gave the world a glimpse of the future of how electrical power outages will be occurring in the United States

Our old family dog, Shadow, had been listless and seemed not well. A Wyoming native, this dog had been with us for 14 years.  In dog years, she was  pushing 90.

Elk harvests, a Cold War state park, a governor laments and lots of other news kept popping up for me over a two-day period last fall at a meeting in Casper.

My reporter nose was twitching with all this news.