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The ground has been broken for a Menards store in Cheyenne, Wyo., according to an article in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle. The 202,948-sq-ft. megastore will become the Midwestern retailer’s second location in the state. Menards' first store in Wyoming opened in Casper.

Menards is building the store on 24 acres it purchased from the city of Cheyenne for $5.35 million. The targeted opening date is in the spring.

Mead Lumber has signed an agreement to purchase the Truss Craft division of Dakota Craft Inc., a Rapid City, S.D.-based chain of component manufacturing plants. The purchase price was not disclosed.

Truss Craft serves the southeastern Wyoming building community. The acquisition will give Mead a leading market share in Wyoming, according to the announcement. The transaction is expected to be completed by Jan. 31, 2012.

The damage done by the mountain pine beetle to the forests in British Columbia has received much attention, given the billions of dollars already lost to this pernicious pest. But Dendroctonus ponderosae knows no borders, and now the western United States is grappling with the same epidemic. The pine beetle has spread to Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado. 


A group of city and council officials met without public notice to discuss a possible $5.3 million land sale to Menards, according to an article in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.

A number of sawmills under contract with the U.S. Forest Service -- but no longer in need of timber because of the housing slowdown -- caught a break last week when the federal government allowed them to cancel their contracts. But the deal struck with the Forest Service, according to an article in the Denver Post, will also help clear out some of the acres of dead and dying lodgepole pine trees. 

Home Depot has partnered with Southwest Windpower, a manufacturer of residential wind generators, to offer the Skystream 3.7 wind turbine at select Home Depot stores. 

The installed program will be offered in Home Depot stores in Texas, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and California. The company said it plans to expand the program to windy locations across the United States.

Ace Hardware storeowners across four Rocky Mountain states unveiled an interactive new website, myhelpfulace.com.

The new site features several ways for consumers to more easily interact with their local Ace Hardware store in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.

Zeeland Lumber Holdings acquired the former North Pacific distribution facility near M-6 and US-131 in the city of Wyoming, Mich.