The National Barrel Horse As-sociation conducted its Wyoming finals in Rock Springs this past weekend. Though there were no local riders competing, many who travel to compete in the NBHA races throughout the year were at the state competition.

Below are the results from our District 3 riders; all times in State races are averages:

Jerrie Slagle: Friday Warm Up Open 1D fifth, 15.880; State Open 1D eighth, 16.125

Nick Comes: State Open 1D (Average) 14th, 16.361; State Open 2D third, 16.564

Jody Campbell: Friday Warm Up Open 4D third, 18.384; Fri-day Warm Up Senior 1D first, 18.384; State Open 4D 16th, 219.155; State Senior 3D fifth, 219.155

Missy Givens: State Open 2D sixth, 16.689; State Open 3D 13th, 17.765; State Senior 1D seventh, 16.689; State Senior 2D seventh, 17.765

NBHA state resultsSeptember 26, 2019 www.thermopir.com PAGE 11

House moversBritton VanHeule keeps an eye on the student-built tiny cabin as it’s moved to near the high school main entrance.

photo by Mark Dykes At the direction of the United States Fish and Wildlife Ser-

vice, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department captured and relocated an adult male grizzly bear on Friday, Sept. 20, as well as a sub-adult male grizzly bear on Sept. 22.

The adult male bear was captured for killing cattle on pri-vate lands northwest of Thermopolis. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Shoshone National Forest, the bear was relocated to the Fox Creek drainage ap-proximately fifty miles northwest of Cody.

Luke Ellsbury, the large carnivore biologist in the Cody re-gion for Wyoming Game and Fish, said the Bear was located up on Owl Creek and had killed at least four head of cattle from one landowner. The bear was a five-year-old male, Ells-bury said, that had never been caught. He further explained captured bears are tagged, tattooed and chipped, and adult bears also have radio collars put on.

This particular bear was caught in a large box trap and taken to Cody, where it was immobilized while all the identi-fying work was done.

The sub-adult male was preemptively captured and moved for habituated behavior along a state highway south of Cody. In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Shoshone National Forest, the bear was relocated to the Mor-mon Creek drainage approximately five miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park.

Bears that are considered a threat to human safety are not relocated. Grizzly bear relocation is a management tool afford-ed to large carnivore biologists to minimize conflicts between humans and grizzly bears and is critical to the management of the population. When other options are exhausted or un-attainable, Game and Fish will attempt to capture the bear. Once the animal is captured, all circumstances are taken into account when determining if the individual should be relocated or removed from the population. If relocation is warranted, the selection of a relocation site is determined taking into consid-eration the age, sex, and type of conflict the bear was involved in as well as potential human activity in the vicinity of the re-location site. These particular site were chosen due to the lack of human presence in the area. Consultation with the appro-priate personnel and agencies occurs to minimize the chance of future conflicts and maximize the survival potential of the relocated grizzly bear. Bears that are deemed an immediate threat to human safety are not released back into the wild.

Bears are relocated in accordance with state and federal law and regulation. Game and Fish continues to stress the importance of the public’s responsibility in bear management and the importance of keeping all attractants (food items, gar-bage, horse feed, bird seed and others) unavailable to bears. Reducing attractants available to bears reduces human-bear conflicts. For more information on grizzly bear management and reducing the potential for conflicts please visit the Bear Wise Wyoming page: https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Wildlife-in-Wyo-ming/More-Wildlife/Large-Carnivore/Grizzly-Bear-Manage-ment/Bear-Wise-Wyoming

For further information please contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator, Hilary Cooley, at (406) 243-4903.

Grizzly bear relocated from area west of Thermopolis

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Hot Springs County High School’s ca-reer/technical education program has been working on a tiny cabin for the last two years and now its ready to find its new home.

The tiny cabin was moved near the foot-

ball field before the Homecoming game last Friday so folks could take a look at it.

If you would like to make a bid on the tiny cabin, the starting bid is $8,000 which covers the cabin’s construction costs.

Sealed bids for the project will be tak-

en through Tuesday, October 15 at 5 p.m. by contacting Britton VanHeule at 921-9044. You may also contact him for an in-person tour of the cabin.

All proceeds will help fund future ca-reer/technical education programs.

Student built tiny cabin goes up for auction

By Katie RoenigkThe Ranger

Via Wyoming News Exchange

RIVERTON — The Fremont County Cor-oner’s Office will hold a public inquest into the officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of Anderson Antelope, 58, of Riverton, on Saturday at Walmart.

Officials said the Riverton Police Depart-ment officer who shot Antelope was not in-jured, despite being “stabbed… in the center of the chest” with a six-inch knife, accord-ing to a Monday statement from Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun.

LeBrun said the knife failed to penetrate the officer’s body armor.

Antelope then “continued the assault, with knife in hand, and was shot,” LeB-run said.

He died at the scene.The Division of Criminal Investigation

is conducting the investigation into the shooting. The agency has not responded to requests for information.

In a press release Monday, Fremont County Coroner Mark Stratmoen said it is his policy to convene an inquest to de-termine cause and manner of death when-ever a fatality is caused, or suspected to be caused, by a law enforcement agency in his jurisdiction.

“The family of the deceased in these circumstances deserves an independent, outside and public inquiry in order to as-

sess the truth of the matter regardless of appearance,” Stratmoen has said in pub-lished reports.

“Otherwise there is room for doubt, justi-fied or not, (or a) feeling in the public that something was covered up.”

He estimated, however, that it would take “more than a month at the earliest” to schedule the inquest, which will take place after the investigation into the inci-dent is complete.

Until then, Stratmoen said, his office will issue no further comment on the shooting, or the circumstances surrounding it.

On Tuesday chief deputy coroner Erin Ivie said she would not even confirm Ante-lope’s name or age until the inquest takes place.

The proceeding involves three jurors whom Stratmoen selects to examine the information collected in the course of the investigation into Antelope’s death.

The jury and Stratmoen also may ques-tion witnesses during the inquest.

Antelope’s death took place after the RPD responded to a report of intoxication at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Walmart, police records show.

Witnesses said Antelope had been in the area for some time, but when the RPD ar-rived he was sitting on the sidewalk outside of the south entrance to the store, creating an obstacle for shoppers.

Witnesses said the responding RPD of-ficer approached Antelope, who remained

seated while the two spoke.Witnesses said the officer appeared to be

asking Antelope to vacate the area around the store, and Antelope appeared to refuse. The officer then bent over and grasped An-telope’s shoulder, witnesses said, and Ante-lope attacked the officer with a knife. The officer, who was protected by his body ar-mor, drew his sidearm, pointing the gun at Antelope and ordering Antelope to drop the knife, witnesses said; when Antelope failed to comply – one witness said Ante-lope moved toward the officer with the knife again raised – the officer fired once, shoot-ing Antelope in the head.

Antelope’s body was fully visible for sev-eral minutes before officers covered him with a sheet that still left his right hand and part of his right arm protruding, wit-nesses said. He was lying face down, and there was blood on the sidewalk.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office strung yellow crime-scene tape around the area, and law enforcement vehicles, expand-able metal barriers and shopping carts were used to block the public’s view of the body.

Walmart remained open throughout.A Saturday press release from the North-

ern Arapaho Tribe indicates that Antelope was a tribal member.

“We are working diligently with local and federal officials to learn more details regarding this incident,” the press release states. “Our prayers are with the family and loved ones of the tribal member.”

Man shot by Riverton officer identified