Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune Uinta County SWAT team members hold the door open to allow a mechanical search robot to enter Evanston High School. The robot was being used during a mock hostage drama in August. The state bought the $150,000 robot using federal homeland security funding.
Colorado filmmaker Jim Bowman narrates the first episode of 'Wild West Scenarios' from a private ranch near Medicine Bow for a new series he's producing. (Courtesy/Way Out West Productions)
Spent .44 caliber Henry rifle shells and a .48 caliber round ball were collected from a battle site in Colorado as part of filmmaker Jim Bowman's 'Wild West Scenarios.'
Halliburton's massive $30 million facility in Rock Springs opened in 2004 to serve southwest Wyoming's growing oil and gas industry. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
What is hydraulic fracturing? (Courtesy/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States)
Antelope move across a road near gas-production facilities in the Jonah field last summer. EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc. will overhaul 32 of its gas-condensate production facilities in the field later this year. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
The sun sets along the banks of the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in southwest Wyoming last week. Rock Springs city officials decided during a meeting Tuesday to join a coalition that aims to fight a proposal to divert water from the reservoir and move it by pipeline to Colorado's Front Range. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
Changes could come to the Green River landfill, seen in this 2007 file photo, if local solid waste managers decide to move to a regional landfill system in southwest Wyoming. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune file)
Steam rises from the boilers at General Chemical's trona mine and soda ash plant located west of Green River in Sweetwater County. The company is one of four multinational corporations operating soda ash facilities in the Green River Basin. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
South Pass City State Historic Site officials say vandals broke several windows and caused an estimated $30,000 in total damage at the Carissa and Atlantic City mine sites on or around Feb. 8. (Courtesy South Pass City State Historic Site)
The Bitter Creek meanders through downtown Rock Springs during the summer of 2007 in this file photo. Game and Fish biologists found an array of fish species in the creek during a fish trapping project this spring. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
A complex system of hoses moves hydraulic fluid to the jack manifolds attached to the side of the McAffee home in Rock Springs on Wednesday morning. The jacks lifted the structure to better stabilize it. The home was damaged by an ill-fated subsidence project in 2007. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
Atlas Piers worker Brian MacArt, right, and foreman Sam Perry prepare a hydraulic jack as part of a subsidence repair project Wednesday morning at the historic McAffee home in downtown Rock Springs. Workers used a hydraulic lift system to raise and stabilize the home impacted by a subsidence project two years ago. (Jeff Gearino/Star-Tribune)
Ernie Vigil walks onto his porch at his home in Rock Springs in January. Vigil is one of many residents who noticed serious damage to their homes after a process called 'dynamic compaction' was used to seal old underground coal mines. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune file)
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