HOLD YOUR FIRE! While guns are allowed in Yellowstone National Park, shooting them is not. MJ Clark photo

CO2 SINK? The UW Carbon Management Institute's CO2 storage site is near the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Sweetwater County.

A park ranger opens the South Gate of Yellowstone on May 10, as scheduled thanks to Cody and Jackson's plow-funding efforts. Photo by Al Nash, YNP

Parties involved with the new Coca-Cola, Hillcrest bottling facility ceremoniously break ground Tuesday at the location on Bentley Circle in the McMurry Business Park. They are from left: Bob West, Trevor Messinger, Neil McMurry, Garvin Westhoff, Bo Sabo, Greg Clark, Karen Satrang and Trask Messinger.

A park visitor shields his eyes through both a specialized filter and his sunglasses to view the May 20 annular eclipse in Grand Teton National Park. Photo by Mark Wilcox.

Cheyenne Botanic Garden's founder, Shane Smith, recently won a national gardening award. The Paul Smith Children's Village is in the botanic gardens. Here, a mother walks with her daughter past the water wheel at the park. Photo by Mark Wilcox.

A Wyoming National Guard UH-60 helicopter douses the Guernsey State Park Fire with water. Three choppers dumped about 70,000 gallons of water to contain the blaze. Photo courtesy Wyoming State Forestry Division.

Rapid Magazine called Casper Whitewater Park one of the three best in North America.

Onlookers watch as Yellowstone's most famous geyser, Old Faithful erupts right on time. Photo by AmberLynn Wilcox.

Author Craig Johnson wrote the books that became the "Longmire" series on A&E.

Visitors take in the new Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center during the Oct. 12, 2012 open house. Tourism is Wyoming's second-largest economy, and the new center serves as a gateway for the heavily traveled I-25 just north of the Colorado border. Photo by Josh Mitchell.

Yellowstone, NCAR-Wyoming's supercomputer, boasts about 12 miles of cable, only a small portion of which is shown here. The computer has 19 server racks that each hold 72 individual servers. Photo by Josh Cooley.

The crew at County10 Takes Five

Memorial Hospital of Converse County was one of four Wyoming hospitals chosen as a Top-100 Critical Access Hospitals for 2013. Courtesy photo.

A picture of the Ryckman Creek Storage Facility Saturday shortly after the fire started. Courtesy photo.

This afternoon crews responded to a report of an explosion at a Natural Gas Storage Facility north of Evanston in the Whitney Canyon area. No injuries were sustained and all employees were able to make it out safely. At this hour, the plant continues to burn and crews are staged about 1 mile away monitoring the situation and formulating a plan with facility managers. The situation will be monitored throughout the night and action taken if needed. Courtesy photo.

Protestor Leslie Glustrom is escorted by police officers after being arrested for misdemeanor trespassing charges at Peabody's shareholder meeting April 29, 2013. Courtesy photo.

A laborer works to install one of NCAR's 19 server racks at the Wyoming Supercomputing Center in Cheyenne. The 1.5 petaflop computer has nearly 75,000 cores. Photo by Josh Cooley.

Jacob Edwards, co-founder of EDTech Systems LLC, poses with computers he has purchased, refurbished, upgraded and turned into colorful computer art. Courtesy photo.

National Museum of Wildlife art CEO Jim McNutt unveils "Presidential Eagle" by Sandy Scott. The eight-foot sculpture is the first new monumental bronze on the museum's new scuplture pathway, and was named because the Bill Clinton Library also has a casting in Little Rock, Ark., though the museum got casting number one. Photo by Mark Wilcox.