As some of you may have noticed, the pace of blog entries here has slowed in recent months, and I’ve made a mutual decision along with my editors to put the Basin Beat Blues out to pasture for a while.
Things started with a bang, as I was anxious to write [...]
A few folks have asked where the photos are of the 27th Annual Plains Indian Museum Powwow at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center.
Apparently, there is some kind of Gazette web site glitch with photos, and what was supposed to be a collection of a few shots from the event [...]
I’m not sure why this photo didn’t make it onto the web site, but that’s the upside of having a blog. Even when editors don’t use a photo, you can still post it where folks can find it.
You may have heard about National Geographic’s plan to create a geotourism map of the region around Yellowstone National Park.
The idea is to promote sustainable tourism by focusing public attention on the unique and special places in the area, and offering visitors a guide made by people who [...]
If you’ve been following the public debate over the building an event center in Cody, you might be surprised at the number of diverse options for to where to build it, and exactly what kind of center to build — not to mention the option of not building one at [...]
You might recall some earlier coverage The Gazette had of the tilapia farm in Lusk during last year’s Governor’s Natural Resource Tour. Now we have news from the prison of the first shipment of the fish:
The Wyoming Department of Corrections made its first tilapia fish shipment [...]
The “Between Fences” exhibition on display through May 10 at the Meeteetse Museum has some material on barbed wire and coalbed methane specific to Wyoming. But part of the fun of an exhibit like that is seeing both how other folks use fences and how things were [...]
Still wondering whether gas prices will deter folks from taking their
major summer vacations?
Not a single one of more than a dozen toursim bookers I spoke too said
their reservations so far this year are below last year. Yellowstone
Park has more bookings than this time last year, and it [...]
Almost every city has an odd or outdated law on the books. But Cody’s law requiring licenses and bells for bicycles seems a little silly, even considering it may have been drafted in the 1940s, when war-rationed gasoline meant hundreds of people commuted by bike.
But there are even [...]
Stewart Brand, an Internet pioneer and editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, coined the famous phase “Information wants to be free” more than two decades ago at the first Hackers’ Conference, talking about how advances in technology were making it possible to disseminate information more cheaply and easily than [...]
A lot of people call and ask me about getting “free publicity” for an event in The Billings Gazette.
Your best bet is always to buy an ad. That ensures you control over what appears in the paper, when it appears and how it’s presented.
But unless your event is particularly newsworthy [...]
This isn’t likely to make sense to anyone but one person, but if you recently sent me a self-destructing e-mail, be aware the link to it was inadvertently deleted before I was able to read the e-mail. So please resubmit it, whoever you are.
[...]The talk around Cody over the last few weeks had been that the final Record of Decision on winter use in Yellowstone National Park will include language approved by locals and National Park Service managers aimed at negotiating over the next six months to find a way to keep the [...]
Sneaking up on a deer is difficult for a bear or a wolf, and seems practically impossible for a human hunter (or photographer).
Once you get close, you can see a big part of the reason why: ears. These animals have gigantic ears that swivel independently like [...]
