Cloud seeding set to end next month

The five-year study investigating the impact of seeding storm clouds in the Snowy Range and Sierra Madre Mountains will come to an end next month.

During the Upper North Platte Valley Water Users Association’s annual meeting last week, Barry Lawrence, project manager for the Wyoming Water Development Commission, said the study would end April 30.

“This was our final year of the project, and we can expect to get final report to the state by Dec. 31,” Lawrence said.

Around 60 people, including ranchers, irrigators and members of Trout Unlimited and the Saratoga-Encampment-Rawlins Cons...