Pinedale Wyoming Local News
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Celebration of Life for Pete Teller June 11 (posted 5/10/2024)

BLM to conduct prescribed fires in Sublette and Lincoln Counties (posted 5/10/2024)

Sublette singers join Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir for Spring Music Festival (posted 5/6/2024)

Pinedale Half Marathon changes name to ‘Race to Raise’ (posted 5/6/2023)

Pinedale Anticline Project Office Board of Directors meeting May 14, 2024 (posted 5/6/2024)

Museum of the Mountain Man opens for the summer season (posted 5/3/2024)

Notice of North Piney Cottonwood road closure (posted 5/3/2024)

Sublette County Democrats pot luck dinner May 10 (posted 4/18/2024)

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May 12: Mothers Day -
May 13: Sublette County Conservation District Local Workgroup meeting - PUBLIC NOTICE: The Sublette County Conservation District Local Workgroup will hold a meeting on Monday, May 13th at 4:00PM at their office at 217 Country Club Lane in Pinedale. The purpose of the meeting is to receive input from a broad range of local stakeholders, individuals, organizations, businesses, and agencies that have an interest in natural resource conditions and needs in Sublette County, and to provide that information to the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).
May 14: Pinedale Anticline Project Office Board of Directors meeting - This will be an in-person meeting with a Zoom option. The Board will review and make decisions concerning overall budget and projects 2024. 1:00 p.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m. at Sublette County Library, 155 South Tyler Street, Pinedale, Wyoming. The meeting is open to the public. For those not able to attend in-person, they can join via Zoom. The meeting agenda for the PAPO Board can be found at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/77515/510. For more information, please contact Amber Robbins at 307-367-5321 or arobbins@blm.gov.
May 18: Midnight in Paris - Enjoy a night of entertainment celebrating the 1920s a la Paris with the Jazz Foundation of Jackson Hole. Saturday from 7-10PM in the Lovatt Room of the Pinedale Library. Dress like the 1920s! Music for entertainment and dancing. 30-piece band, costumes, specialty cocktails on tap. Free event. Please RSVP, 307-367-4114.

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Celebration of Life for Pete Teller June 11 (posted 5/10/2024)
A Celebration of Life for Pete Teller will be held on Tuesday, June 11th at 3:30PM at the Branding Iron in Bondurant, Wyoming. Please come and share your best memories and stories of Pete.

BLM to conduct prescribed fires in Sublette and Lincoln Counties (posted 5/10/2024)
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fire crews will conduct prescribed fire operations west of La Barge, Wyoming between mid-May and July as part of a multi-year project. Fire operations will begin only when conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn on public lands managed by the Pinedale Field Office.

Prescribed burns will take place in two distinct project sites. The Burdick prescribed fire project is located approximately 13 miles west of La Barge, Wyoming on the east face of Miller Mountain, south of the La Barge Creek drainage. Within this area, 398 acres of slash and standing conifer are targeted to burn. The Deadline Ridge prescribed fire project is located approximately 12 miles Northwest of La Barge, on the east face of Deadline Ridge. The BLM has targeted 493 acres of slash and standing conifer to burn on this ridge.

This prescribed fire is part of the Wyoming Range Mule Deer Habitat Project, which was developed as part of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wyoming Range Mule Deer Initiative in 2011. The project will reduce hazardous fuels and improve vegetation conditions in crucial mule deer winter range, transition range, and fawning ranges. Prescribed fires improve vegetation conditions by stimulating new aspen growth and reducing conifers that are encroaching on native aspen stands.

Fire crews will use several burning tactics to safely start and control the burns. Smoke will be visible to the public during the operations. Fire crews will remain on scene and monitor the burn areas until the fires are out.

Prescribed fire is a beneficial management tool that replicates natural wildfire. Many land management agencies use prescribed burns to improve the overall health of the land, vegetation, and wildlife. They can help return an ecosystem to its natural composition and healthiest function.

For more information, contact High Desert District Fire Management Officer Mark Randall at (307) 367-5350, Fuels Specialist Ross Dary at (307) 367-5317, or visit the Pinedale Field Office located at 1625 West Pine Street in Pinedale, Wyoming. For more information about BLM Wyoming, visit https://www.blm.gov/wyoming.

Sublette singers join Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir for Spring Music Festival (posted 5/6/2024)
Singers from Pinedale were excited to join the Cathedral Voices Chamber Choir in Jackson, Wyoming, for their Spring Music Festival at the Center Theater on Saturday, May 4th. The Festival Concert was called "East Meets West." Music featured was Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and the Korean folk song Arirang under the direction of visiting conductor Dr. Reed Criddle with piano soloist Dr. Stephen Thomas. Vocal soloists for the Beethoven came from the University of Wyoming.

Sublette County participating were: Mark Kerback, Don Cain, Greg Allen (PHS/PMS Choir Teacher), Reuben Allen (student), Kyle Donaldson (student), Leslie Hagenstein, Travis Donaldson (student), Valerie Lee.

Pinedale Half Marathon changes name to ‘Race to Raise’ (posted 5/6/2023)
Foundation23 added a new 5K to the suite of race events
Registration is now open for the 2024 Race to Raise (formerly the Pinedale Half Marathon). Join Foundation23.org on September 21st for a day of fun, fitness, food and philanthropy. This is the culminating event for the Foundation 23 Race to Raise Community Fundraiser that helps raise money for nonprofit organizations in Sublette County.

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the race, event organizers have added a 5K to the list of available race options. Sign up today to participate in the half marathon, 10K, 5K, or 1-mile fun run.

Half marathon, 10K, and 5K racers will receive an event shirt, finisher medal, and a free drink ticket. All are welcome to stay for a free community BBQ following the event.

To register or for more information, please visit www.foundation23.org.

Pinedale Anticline Project Office Board of Directors meeting May 14, 2024 (posted 5/6/2024)
Bureau of Land Management
PINEDALE, WYOMING - The Pinedale Anticline Project Office (PAPO) Board of Directors will hold an in-person meeting on May 14, 2024, with a Zoom option. The Board will review and make decisions concerning overall budget and projects 2024. The meeting will take place from 1:00 p.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m. at Sublette County Library, 155 South Tyler Street, Pinedale, Wyoming.

The meeting is open to the public. For those not able to attend in-person, they can join via Zoom with the following information:
https://blm.zoomgov.com/j/1601462868?pwd=UDVLOGowaHgzR3B6Z0U3R3V2YmZndz09
Meeting ID: 160 146 2868
Passcode: 589662
Phone: 833 435 1820 US Toll-free

The meeting agenda for the PAPO Board can be found at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/77515/510.

For more information, please contact Amber Robbins at 307-367-5321 or arobbins@blm.gov.

Museum of the Mountain Man opens for the summer season (posted 5/3/2024)
Special mountain man art exhibit on display
Dawn Ballou, Pinedale Online!
The Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale opened May 1st for the summer season. The Museum preserves and interprets the history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade era, 1820-1840.

New this season, is a special mountain man art exhibit in the downstairs rotunda. The exhibit is entitled: "One With the Land: The Mountain Man’s Journey Into the Unknown."

This exhibit features more than 70 original pieces of artwork from 38 artists all depicting historic mountain men on the landscapes they explored and lived. The display is on loan from the Peterson Family Foundation in Boston.

Artists whose work is in the exhibit include: Barry Eisanach, Charles Fritz, Chris Calle, Clark Kelly Price, David Wright, Don Crowley, Don Meiduch, Ernie Cselko, Frank Hagel, Frank Magsino, Frank McCarthy, Gary Carter, Gary Metz, Gerald Farm, Gordon Snidow, Harry Johnson, James Bama, Jeffrey Watt, Jim Norton, Joe Abbrescia, Joe Beeler, Joe Velazquez, Juan Dell, Judy Allen, Ken Riley, Lee Teter, M. C. Paulson, Maynard Dixon, Michael Coleman, Michael Dudash, Paul Calle, Richard Iams, Robert Lougheed, Russell Houston, Steve Devenyns, Tim Shinabarger, Todd Conner, and William Ahrendt. This impressive art exhibit will be on display through October of 2024.

In mid-May, the American Mountain Men (AMM) will be at the Museum for three days, May 7-9, for Living History Days. Schools from all over western Wyoming will bring classes of children to see demonstrations and hear talks by the mountain men about the daily life in the mountains during the early 1800s. The public is welcome to attend the talks during the day and visit with the mountain men at their camp on the Museum lawn in the evening. The AMM will return July 10-14 for Green River Rendezvous in Pinedale. There will be over 38 living history programs and demonstrations at the Museum, all free to the public. Additional presenters include talks by Native American historian Bad Hand, and children’s programs by Lapita and Dan Frewin. The schedule of events is posted on the Museum website here. Visitors are strongly advised to make their room reservations well in advance of rendezvous in July, as lodging in town fills up for that event. For information about lodging, see www.visitpinedale.com.

In the fall, the Museum of the Mountain Man will be the host for the National Fur Trade Symposium, September 12-15, which is held every three years around the country. This year’s symposium will launch the ‘Eve of Rendezvous’, and the 200-year anniversary of important fur trade era dates that will occur over the next twenty years. During the four-day symposium in Pinedale, there will be presentations by leading fur trade historians who will explore the evolution of rendezvous, discovery of South Pass, the events of 1824, Jedediah Smith, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Andrew Henry, John Weber, William Clark, John Colter, elk hide tipis, food & booze of the fur trade, and a debate on the greatest mountain man of all time. Special programs include keynote speaker Jim Hanson, a visit to the Green River rendezvous grounds, living history mountain man camp, a rendezvous meal, auto tours and special art exhibits. Registration is open for this conference. See www.MuseumoftheMountainMan.com/symposium for more about presentations, programs and speakers.

2024 Calendar of Events at the Museum of the Mountain Man:
May 7–9: Living History Days with the American Mountain Men
July 11: Annual Western Art & Wine Auction
July 11–14: Green River Rendezvous (American Mountain Men, Bad Hand, Lapita & Dan Frewin)
Sept 1: Sommers Homestead Living History Museum Open
House & Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame Celebration
Sept 12-15: National Fur Trade Symposium
Oct TBD: Halloween at the Museum
Nov 1: Museum closes for the Season
Dec 6: Wreath & Chocolate Auction

The Museum is located at 700 E Hennick St. They are open daily, including weekends, from 9AM to 5PM through October. Admission is $10 for adults (age 13 and up), $8 for senior citizens, children 12 and under are free. Phone: 307-367-4101, www.museumofthemountainman.com

Click on this link for more pictures: Museum of the Mountain Man opens for the summer season (24 pictures)

Notice of North Piney Cottonwood road closure (posted 5/3/2024)
Sublette County Road and Bridge
PUBLIC NOTICE:
County Road 23-143, North Piney Cottonwood, will be closed
from 1000 hrs to 1500 hrs, Monday through Friday starting May
1st, for the next two weeks.
Access to 1st and 2nd North Roads and the Bill Budd Road
areas can be accessed using the Guio cutoff/Mickelson Lane
County Road 23-141. Please plan accordingly.

Sublette County Democrats pot luck dinner May 10 (posted 4/18/2024)
Sublette County Democrats and friends are invited to a pot luck dinner on Friday, May 10, 2024 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the Daniel School House, 18 Schoolhouse Lane in Daniel, Wyoming. Bring something to share, BYOB. Come talk politics.

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