How green was your Wyoming valley in 2014?

Wyoming has rarely gotten the reputation as a wet place. Perhaps except only when ski areas get buried or back when Cheyenne was inundated by a horrific super cell thunderstorm, our state is generally known as semi-arid.

A tour of the state this spring, summer and early fall shows that Wyoming, incredibly, is still green in a great many places.

Although snowpack levels in the mountains this past winter were not that high, a constant stream of rainstorms ever since has kept the landscape verdant and the grass growing.

Hay farmers have enjoyed record harvests and even local gardeners have basked...