North Glastonbury resident Bob Sones, left, and his son Ryan Sones prepare for the worst as they work diligently to fill up a water well at Bob's home as the Big Creek wildfire encroaches near Emigrant, Mont., Sunday, July 30, 2006. Ryan filled up a large water tank from a local creek and took it to his fathers residence while Bob prepared to pack important belongings in case of an evacuation. The pair planned to fight the fire if necessary in order to save their home from burning. "This is all precautionary," said Ryan Sones. "We're better off safe then sorry." (AP Photo/The Livingston Enterprise, Garrett Cheen)
New leaves emerge on a young cottonwood tree along the banks of fast-flowing Lake Creek, a tributary of the Snake River, in Grand Teton National Park recently. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
New leaves emerge on a young cottonwood tree along the banks of fast-flowing Lake Creek, a tributary of the Snake River, in Grand Teton National Park recently. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Mindy A. Besaw, curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, works at an interactive computer station that allows visitors to create, print and email Western landscapes. The gallery, which opened 50 years ago at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, has been redesigned and updated. It opens to the public today. (Ruffin Prevost/The Billings Gazette)
Black smoke rises from the demolished headquarters of Hezbollah, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, following Israeli air strikes early Sunday morning, July 16, 2006. Israeli war planes bombed a major power station south of Beirut on Sunday as Lebanon reeled under five days of air and sea strikes that have killed more than 100 people, mostly civilians, and damaged much of its infrastructure.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
This undated photo provided by Gail Nordlund shows Melody, a 12-year-old border collie mix, that was found huddled under a pickup in Sheridan, Wyo. She had been inside a car when it was stolen in York, Neb. The three-week search for the companion dog of an Oregon man battling depression ended happily in Wyoming, more than 700 miles from where the dog went missing in Nebraska. (AP Photo/Courtesy Gail Nordlund)
Clifford Hansen speaks with an unidentified student reporter at Casper College in this undated photo. (Casper College Western History Center/courtesy)
Afternoon light highlights power lines beneath a wind farm near Arlington. The need for more electrical transmission in the West was identified as the region's No. 1 energy issue by participants in the Western States Energy and Environment Symposium. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives
Map locates Farah, Afghanistan, where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives
Casper College sophomore Langston Banks drives for a basket against Western Wyoming Tuesday night. (Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune)
Tom Brokaw of NBC addresses the Western Governors' Association on Sunday in Teton Village. Listening to Brokaw are, left to right, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, Utah Gov. John Huntsman, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. Photo by Bradly J. Boner, AP.
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