Wyoming
Game and Fish’s Lutz earns national lifetime achievement award
By Wyoming Game and Fish
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Daryl Lutz, Wyoming Game and Fish Department wildlife management coordinator in the Lander Region, was recently awarded the prestigious Phillip W. Schneider Lifetime Achievement Award from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. Lutz received the award at WAFWA’s summer meetings in Provo, Utah, in June.
Lutz has worked for Game and Fish for 35 years. He began his career as a habitat biologist in 1990 in southwest Wyoming, and also was a wildlife biologist. Lutz has been a leader in Wyoming and regionally in efforts including the Wyoming Mule deer Initiative, co-chair of the Wyoming Bighorn Sheep Working Group and instrumental work with the Wild Sheep Foundation.
Lutz is the Wild Sheep Initiative Coordinator for WAFWA, and has driven population monitoring, harvest strategy development and test-and-remove initiatives for bighorn sheep throughout the West.
“Daryl’s service has been exemplary,” Game and Fish Director Angi Bruce said. “Daryl has been a leader in Wyoming and regionally. His role as the WAFWA Wild Sheep Initiative Coordinator, and his wildlife crossing work with the local partners and Wyoming Department of Transportation, have had a profound effect and reach in our conservation efforts.”
This award is named for Schneider, whose legendary commitment to fish and wildlife resources spanned more than 40 years in a career in which he served as director of Oregon’s game and fish agency, and later as a commissioner and commissioner emeritus of Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission. This award recognizes an individual who has dedicated his or her entire career to conservation of fish and wildlife resources in the West.
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A number candidates attended the Take Back Wyoming: Non-Freedom Caucus Republican Candidates Shop Party at Ryan Brothers Trucking last Friday. The event was hosted by and was a fundraiser for a House District 28 candidate.
The group was comprised of Wyoming Republican voters, who have become disenchanted with the Freedom Caucus, which currently controls the Wyoming State Legislature, and with actions taken in recent months by the State of Wyoming Republican Party to change the party’s By-Laws regarding support for candidates prior to the primary election.
Since moving to Wyoming many years ago, and having lived in a few towns around the state, I find that some town and city rivalries must be addressed. Some are based on past conflicts that still cause pain to this day. Some are unexplained.
For example, to this day, all of Johnson County still does not trust Cheyenne after the Johnson County War of 1892. Cattlemen in Cheyenne sent a hit squad hired by the barons to invade Johnson County to eliminate alleged rustlers. A shootout that lasted several days ensued.
Other town rivalries include:
Green River vs. Rock Springs: The two towns are close together and share one of the most intense and oldest community, cultural, and athletic rivalries in the state.
Lander vs. Riverton: Located in Fremont County, this rivalry dates back to 1922 and divides the area over high school football bragging rights. They talk a lot of smack about each other.
Cheyenne vs Casper: The towns just HATE each other. I’ve lived in both, and I can tell you that there is nothing wrong with either town. But I’ve come across people in both towns who talk about their hatred of the other.
There is not a lot of love across Wyoming for Jackson, mostly because of the mega-rich liberals who live there. Many of those mega-rich liberals look down on the rest of Wyoming.
Folks talk smack about Laramie, but in a very different way than people talk smack about Gillette.
Having traveled around Wyoming, I can tell you that most of this hate is just nonsense and a waste of time. In the end, we are all Wyomingites. Just one big bickering family who still have each other’s backs when it comes down to it.
The Charmingly Odd Town Of La Grange Wyoming
It is well worth the long drive to see one of the most interesting and quirky little towns in Wyoming.
Stay for lunch. You won’t regret it.
Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods
Jay Em, Wyoming, Frozen In Time
Jay Em, what an unusual name for a town.The few people who live there are proud of what their spot on earth once was, and they work to preserve it. They keep this little community frozen in time.
Gallery Credit: Glenn Woods
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