you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past american history tv on c-span 3 created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story since 2011. we've been to more than 200 communities across the nation like many americans our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next a look at one of our city's tour visits. the 51st district encompasses. it's the western half of sheridan counties all the way to the montana border. so it's a we've got a little bit of everything. there's there's blue color neighborhoods in my district. there's you know, there's there's lots of miners that live

in my district. there's also a lot of ranchers as well. how would you describe to someone, you know living in a different state some of the things that you're concerned about regarding this this district? i think the concerns i share are similar to a lot of people throughout the county and the rest the state. i mean we're facing issues of you know, economic diversity. how do we ensure that? we've got good quality high-paying jobs for for the next generation one of the things i was reading about was people concerned about in the state is the economy sure. and so can you describe for us what it is their concerned about and what is going away that you know, they need things to be replaced. it's no secret that we are an extractive industry state and by and large they've been really good to us for for many many years coal oil. natural gas there's also there's bentonite there's trona there's some other ones as well, but those are the ones that have really paid kind of paid the bills for the last 50 plus years and it's been great because we've got brand new schools. we've got this really good

infrastructure, but you know right now kohl's best days are are behind us and we're trying to figure out how we adapt as a as a county as a state as a community to really be prepared for the economic future that we all want. and so there's kind of those growing pains. i think that as a community and it's a state that we're certainly going through i mean, just last week at bel-air and eagle butte mines about 600 700 miners were laid off. and so there's some serious anxiety and growing pains about what is the future look like. there are a couple of different factors that have come to to really hurt the coal industry. i think certainly just an extent there was there was pretty heavy-handed regulation out of dc in the previous administration, but probably the biggest driver for for the the reason why coal is the way it is is it's natural. -- it's so incredibly plentiful and incredibly cheap price that that utility companies and these generation facilities are finding that code generation are using natural gases in a really cheap and viable alternative. that's very reliable whether

you're trying to produce base load or or peak load or otherwise that's one of the biggest drivers and how we adapt is is kind of the big question that we're asking yourself in the legislature. wyoming has a problem. where a lot of our young folks leave especially our youngest and are best in our brightest. you know, they go to where the jobs are so that's you know, big metropolis is like denver or houston or california or new york city, and i certainly don't blame them, but i think one of the great things that sheridan has going forward is that we are a relatively diversified economy at least in comparison to the rest of state. we've got some great light manufacturing outfits here like weatherby firearms just opened up here. we've got keena designs. we've got email vacuum tech. we've got these light manufacturing companies that are contributing in a big way to the locally economy what i was reading about and is the big game migration corridor sure describe for our audience is to why migration is an issue sort of the conservation and how does it affect like infrastructure

sure. we're also concerned about things like the environment and making sure you know, we've got this beautiful place for generations to come a lot of just average folks from wyoming communities really care about having a healthy environment that they can recreate in that they can hunt in and fish and all the other stuff and you know, we're really proud of our big game here in wyoming yet. we've got all sorts of different species some of these species like the mule there have been hurting for for quite a while the last 25 or 30 years vehicle collisions are a big problem and they're really hurting populations in wyoming. it's about 4,500 meal deer die a year and that's just mule deer from from vehicle collisions. the bigger game species is when it's a really big safety concern for for humans. i usually two or three people die a year and teaching has a moose one of the things that's been really effective to that is building these these kind of these mitigation sites where it's either an underpass or an overpass where these migrating herds when when the migrate into the mountains in the summertime and then back down to the feeding grounds and their winter grounds during the winter seasons building the structures kind of a huge impact on these

herds and and helping them maintain a healthy population level. so that's that's kind of working on they're very expensive which is kind of the thing. they're very fact that they reduce mortality in a given site by about 90% but they're very expensive to build. so right now as a legislature, we're trying to figure out creative ways to come up with the money to build them. we want to make sure we want to have, you know, large swaths of contiguous high quality habitat for mule deer and for everything else that inhabits land but also strike that balance with our needs is as a human species to have communities where we can build homes, but i know lots of people from across wyoming communities are paying attention to this and they want to see they want to see a great outcome as well because you know, they care about the species whether it's hunting them or just wildlife enthusiasts like seeing them seeing them do doing well and being healthy. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. this is american history tv only

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