J L Gray Rock Shop

05/27/2025

🔷MEETING NOTICE🔷

Please mark your calendars for our next meeting on Thursday, June 5th at 6:00 PM at the Daniel Community Center.

We hope to see you there!

01/13/2025

Reminder ☝️ Public meetings for the Newcastle and Nebraska Draft Resource Management Plans start tomorrow in Sundance. Attend any of the following meetings to learn more about the draft plan and provide input. Each in-person meeting will be open house-style from 3:30-7:30 pm.
- Jan. 14: Crook County Courthouse - Community Room, Sundance WY
- Jan. 15: Newcastle Lodge & Convention Center, Newcastle WY
- Jan. 16: Niobrara County Fairgrounds, Lusk WY

Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/BLMWyoming/events OR
https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2013064/530

Can't make it in person? We'll offer virtual options via Zoom on Jan. 22 and 23.
To register in advance for the virtual meetings, see the following links
January 22 from 3:30-7:30 pm (Nebraska RMP specific): https://empsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_78ZxQsDxS6aIng82TW5rhA

January 23 from 5-7 p.m. (Newcastle RMP): https://empsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CLmh5aVtQXCWZvmbGOYP8Q

07/26/2024

12/25/2023

All of us at J L Gray Rock Shop wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

09/15/2023

06/07/2023

Gray-yellow paleosols (fossil soils) in the Paleocene Fort Union Formation overlain by reddish paleosols in the Eocene Willwood Formation near Worland. These rocks span the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a spike in Earth's temperature around 55 million years ago. The shift from gray-yellow to reddish paleosols reflects changes in soil moisture.

05/12/2023

Handmade Wyoming Jade map for sale. Each piece is individually cut out, many are translucent. Measures approximately 12"x17". Price is $750 + shipping from Casper, Wyoming. Contact Mac Goss

04/07/2023

With the quiet weather last night, we crunched some numbers on the historically cold past 4 months we have had across western and central Wyoming.

This table shows an average of daily temperatures from December 1st through March 31st. (The average temperature for a day is sum of the high temperature plus the low temperature, which is then divided by two). These are then added together and divided by the number of days in the period, in this case 121 days.

We compare these to the historical average temperature of the most recent 30 year climatological normal temperature, which spans from the years 1990 through 2020.

All of the main reporting sites had at least their 4th coldest temperature through this period. (Rock Springs could be colder, but the site went offline during the late December Arctic Outbreak). The coldest temperatures relative to average were in the central and southern basins, where persistent deep snowpack allowed inversions to form and kept bitterly cold temperatures locked in for extended periods.

NOTE: If your town is not listed here, official records do not go back far enough. There are older records kept for other locations, but they usually have stretches of missing data that make comparisons difficult.

04/07/2023

Come check it out,lots going on.

Gemstone Junction is April 7-9, 2023. Stop by and see us Easter weekend for a fun family event.

03/23/2023

Gemstone Junction is only a few weeks away. We are so excited to see everyone there.