February 18, 2026
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Local Lookout: Mudsnails close fishing pond | Nutrition education keeps cooking | Smithsonian preserves Yellowstone fireweed

A popular Casper fishing hole closes after an invasion of voracious New Zealand mudsnails. Nutrition classes that teach budgeting, cooking and healthy lifestyle choices carry on despite federal budget cuts. A president picked a stalk of fireweed in 1883; the Smithsonian has it.

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