In rural Wyoming, economic diversification is more of a challenge

When the recent population figures for Wyoming were released earlier this spring, they showed a dramatic drop — more than 8,000 people had left the state in total during the energy bust that began two years ago. That was the largest fall since 1989 and translated to a roughly 1 percent decline in the number of Cowboy State residents.

But the population loss was not uniform. Eight counties actually saw a slight increase in residents, while a handful of others — Campbell, Weston, Niobrara — lost more than 3 percent of residents.

Arno Rosenfeld 307-266-0634, [email protected]

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