Them on Us: Bees

Thursday, June 25, 2009

By Jake Nichols

Separated at Birth: Sen. John Barrasso – George Clooney?
Thoroughly bored and flipping through channels, Them On Us landed at CSPAN. President Barrack Obama was cracking jokes in his opening address to a gathering of media types at a dinner for Radio & TV correspondents. After joking that the event had no A-listers in attendance, Obama conceded there were SOME dignitaries.

“The junior senator from Wyoming John Barrasso is here,” Obama told the crowd. Someone then approached the podium and whispered in the President’s ear. “I’m sorry, John Barrasso skipped this evening. Let me tell you, though, for those of you who haven’t met him, John Barrasso is the George Clooney of junior senators from Wyoming.”

‘Green’ ideas at JH Airport
The Jackson Hole Airport continues to creep into national headlines. The only airport located within a national park is currently looking to extend its lease beyond 2030, prompting a solicitation period from officials with Grand Teton National Park. Several ‘green’ groups have come forward with their two cents.

A proposed $5 surcharge by the Nature Conservancy received some attention from USA Today. The Conservancy’s program director Paul Hansen, picked to take over as executive director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, did the math, estimating the airport squats on 900 acres of private in-holdings within the park – worth about $80 million, according to Hansen. The $5-tax would help the airport pony up for property that Hansen said is a “total loss” for park critters.

JH wolverine wanders out of state
M56 just up and waddled right out of Wyoming … and into Colorado. The wolverine named M56 was captured and radio collared last December in GTNP. Since then, the rambling rodent topped over Togwotee Pass into the Wind River Range and across sagebrush areas of central Wyoming to the Shirley Basin.

“From there, he went across I-80, Friday night of Memorial Day weekend. Between midnight and 4 a.m., we think,” Robert Inman told the New York Times. Inman directs the Greater Yellowstone Wolverine Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Inman believes M56 crossed into Colorado on June 1, but wouldn’t tell the Times reporter exactly where. “We don’t need to have people chasing him around,” he said.

The Wyoming wolverine became the first of his species in Colorado in nearly a century. The headline read: “After 90 Years, the Wolverine (Just One) Returns to Colorado.” The fierce mammal is one of an estimated 250 to 500 wolverines that still roam the lower 48 states.

KJWY heads east
Just a week after KJWY-TV switched over its programming to an all-digital signal as mandated by the FCC, word out of Philadelphia is Jackson’s only television station is moving.

WWW.Philly.com and Delaware Online reported last week that PMCM TV LLC, the New Jersey-based owners of KJWY, are planning to move the station to Wilmington, Del., pending FCC approval.

Never heard of a TV station moving to another market? It’s fairly rare. This would mark the second time in history it has happened. PMCM TV also plans to move its station in Ely, NV to Monmouth County, NJ.

Spell “Social Security”
Aging ‘word nerds’ gathered in Cheyenne last weekend for the AARP National Spelling Bee. A 64-year-old Virginia man beat out 45 other spellers from 25 states at the Little America Hotel. The Bee lasted a record-breaking 46 rounds until Michael Petrina Jr. correctly spelled “woad.” The AARP spelling bee began in 1996. Hometown boy Dr. Kent Stockton, 67, of Riverton, tied for eighth place.

THIS is Jackson Hole?
Idaho’s Local News 8 team unraveled the mystery of the missing travelers. Two women and two boys from Nevada never arrived at their destination in Jackson, prompting ‘attempt to locate’ broadcasts from local radio stations last week.
According to the TV news team, the foursome took a wrong turn and ended up in Cokeville, Wyo. They spent a cold night in their Chevy Duramax cursing their Tom-Tom before locals pointed them north. JHW
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