Russia's state-run nuclear company owned Wyoming uranium assets until 2021. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that how that happened remains murky, but one piece of paper is to blame.

"During the Cold War, we signed that treaty with Russia, and what they were going to do is to unwind their nuclear warheads, take that uranium out of it. Russia put our uranium industry out of business over that treaty. Our uranium assets, which had once produced like 12 million pounds of ore, suddenly dropped to, you know, nothing where we were for a while there. So when things started to kick back up again for nuclear power with these AI centers."

Until recently, the fact that Russia owned uranium rights raised few eyebrows in the nation. But that's changed since the United States has been racing to rebuild its nuclear fuel supply chain.

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It's been a year since the last sighting of Raspberry, the "Grizzly 399 of Yellowstone." Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that she's usually highly visible from the road on the park's east side, but so far, not this year.

"Raspberry was last seen on May 23 last year. She hasn't been seen since. And a lot of people are going, you know, if she hasn't shown it, because she was like a clockwork, reliable bear, and she wasn't seen all last summer, and she hasn't been seen yet this spring. She's probably gone. There was a bear carcass found in that area, but there's some debate over whether it was hers."

The debate over Raspberry's mortality continues because tissue samples taken from the carcass could take up to two years to confirm a possible match.