In 2024, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) which operated under the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began mandating electronic identification—or EID—tags for cattle and bison traveling across state lines to prevent disease outbreaks.

Yet another glorious green day of avoiding traps and causing mischief.  

Encampment K-12 students learned all things trout related during the inaugural Trout in the Classroom day on Wednesday, March 5.

Divided by grades, students made their way through six different classrooms and stations covering stream tables, prominent Platte Valley macroinvertebrates, river restoration, connections to literacy and art, watersheds and a trout migration obstacle course.

An hour before the first morning bell, elementary students and family members gathered at Encampment K-12’s library for Books and Breakfast two weeks ago. 

It’s a chilly, spring afternoon when a group of students and staff from Rawlins High School come off a bus and enter an undisclosed building.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, associate justice for the United States Supreme Court, once said “Speak clearly, if you speak at all. Carve every word before you let it fall.”