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[00:00:01]It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, May 26th. I'm M. Watson. On Memorial Day, Bill Parr remembers the men he served with during a 22-year career in the Navy who never came home, but he won't talk about them. Cowboy State Dies Greg Johnson reports that he spoke with Parr at the Cheyenne National Cemetery.

[00:00:22]Carr told me basically what veterans usually tell me is that it's a day for remembering those who died, those who paid that ultimate sacrifice for America's freedom, and that he doesn't want to talk about himself. And when I asked him if there's anyone in particular that he was at the national cemetery to remember, he kind of got quiet and tears kind of came to his eyes and he just said, "Yeah, but I'm not going to talk about him." Pretty common response. Parr tells Cowboy State Daily he enlisted in 1969 at the age of 18 and was quickly sent to Vietnam. He served two tours on riverboats providing supply interdiction coming down the Mikong River. It's grizzly mating season in Yellowstone and a pair of popular bears were too caught up in courtship to notice gawking crowds. But Cowboy State Dailyy's Mark Hines reports that the sweet scene isn't common behavior for grizzly bears. People got a lot of really adorable pictures of them cuddling together. And I did talk to a wildlife biologist. Don't mistake any of this for human concepts of romance.

[00:01:24]Grizzlies don't fall in love. They don't pair bond over any great length of time.

[00:01:28]In fact, it's not unusual for female grizzly to mate with multiple males over the course of of a mating season because their eggs don't start to gestate right away. Usually, the gestation doesn't start until they actually go into their hibernation den to time it. So, the babies are born around January. The amorous grizzly seen near Yellowstone Lake caused a bear jam for at least a/4 mile in each direction last week.

[00:01:51]Meteorologist Don Day says the reports of a super El Nino brewing in the Pacific Ocean are ludicrous. Cowboy State Dies Andrew Rossy reports an El Nino is coming and it will likely be beneficial for Wyoming. Why Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Dond Day is skeptical is because a lot of people are trying to anticipate what the impacts of this El Nino will be 6 months from now.

[00:02:15]And that's based on long range weather modeling. And we have 7 months now of examples of how bad long range weather modeling can be when it comes to predicting these trends. El Nino historically has meant wetter weather for Wyoming in the late fall going into winter and then the next spring. And if there's a super El Nino, there's reason to believe that there would be more of that, just more precipitation.

[00:02:39]>> A super El Nino is a stronger than normal El Nino, meaning the surface waters of the Pacific are warming up along the equator. Kelly Marshall was on track for a violent death when eagle-eyed cops recognized she was being trafficked. Cowboy State Dies Jen Coker reports that one trafficking expert says that quote, "People think it doesn't happen in rural states like Wyoming, but it does." Kelly Marshall wants people to understand that for sex buyers that transaction that they think is an equal financial transaction and most cases probably isn't probably that person is being trafficked. And secondly, she really wants people to understand how they can help. And that's the whole point of Truckers Against Trafficking.

[00:03:21]They want to mobilize people on the front lines to help not only recognize it, but report it. Marshall has channeled her own experience into educating others as a training specialist and survivor leader for truckers against trafficking, a national nonprofit that prepares truckers, law enforcement, truck stop employees, port workers, and other individuals and groups to identify and report human trafficking. I'll be back with more news from Cowboy State Daily right after this. Cheyenne Frontier Days. The 130th Frontier Knights lineup is locked and legendary. Starting with Treaty Oak Revival and Jesse Murf, Alex Warren with Noah Cyrus, the Red Clay Strays with Wyatt Flores, Riley Green and Trace Atkins, Blake Shelton with Averyana Hardy and Cameron Witcom, and Zack Top with Jod Msina. 10 Days, one legend.

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[00:04:18]>> Cowboy State Daily News continues now.

[00:04:22]Judge Andre Rudolph grew up in Cheyenne played running back for UW and once ran down a defendant to earn the nickname Batman. Cowboy State Daily's Zack Sag reports that before the judge's sudden death last week at the age of 59, he also changed the lives of lawb breakakers willing to take his help and accountability. Judge Rudolph had a very human touch in the courtroom. He had a philosophy of justice that was more about life direction than punishment. He wanted people to be the best version of themselves. And he wanted them to see that they were not defined by their worst mistakes. And as a result, his courtroom, according to his clerks and according to other witnesses, could feel a lot more like a mentorship conversation than a legal proceeding.

[00:05:13]And he had a outsized personality, just very gregarious, agreeable, sociable, but firm and intelligent. Raised by his grandmother and without the support of his biological parents in a Cheyen home of meager means, he nonetheless thrived as a star athlete, honoral law student, and then became one of the youngest judges appointed in Colorado.

[00:05:36]Wyoming's Catholic Carmelite mountain monks are using computers, heavy machinery, and robots to build a massive Gothic monastery in the mountains of the Big Horn Basin. Cowboy State Daily's Jackie Dorothy reports that it's a stark contrast to the simple lives these men of faith live, making coffee and raising cattle.

[00:05:54]>> The reason the monks are building their monastery in the rural mountains far from civilization is because they're seeking a life of prayer and solitude, but they also want to build something beautiful for God. And the way they're doing it is building the monastery in the old Gothic medieval style, and they're doing it themselves. The quote they had gotten before was for 20 million to a hundred million and they've done it for a fraction of the cost using modern technology. Another thing that comes up is why use modern technology?

[00:06:27]Your medieval monks. But that is what monks do. They seek modern technology so that they can spend more time in prayer.

[00:06:35]Wyoming's Carmelite Monastery began in 2007 with $400 and a dream to build the Gothic style monastery in the mountains of the Big Horn Basin. Today, it's estimated that the monastery's church located along Matiti Creek will be finished in the next 6 years. A 70-year-old tourist was killed after being thrown 6 feet in the air by a bull bison on a popular hiking route in Kuster State Park in South Dakota.

[00:07:03]Cowboy State Dy's Kate Meadows reports that the sheriff says this is the first fatal attack from a bison in over 20 years.

[00:07:10]>> They were ahead of him about 1500 ft.

[00:07:13]According to a law enforcement report, one of the bulls turned around and charged the woman. The husband called 911 from behind the tree and help did arrive fairly quickly. However, by the time they arrived, the husband was performing CPR according to reports and the woman had already stopped breathing.

[00:07:32]So there was nothing that rescuers could do to save her.

[00:07:35]>> Michelle Mroy tells Cowboy State Daily that she took video of the same trail of two bull bison and turned around. She adds that if her family had known someone died on the same trail just a day before, quote, "I wouldn't have taken my five kids on it had I known."

[00:07:52]Wyoming's looser liquor laws and higher elevations make for some memorable nights and steady business in Evston on the state line with Utah. Cowboy State Dailyy's Renee Gene reports that some call it Utah's sin city where people can go for booze, place bets, and buy fireworks.

[00:08:10]>> General manager happened to mention how funny Utah drinkers are in Evston because it's like suddenly the shackles have come off of them. You know, they could buy a beer and a shot. They could buy a whole line of shots. I was told by three different ones that they generally can spot the Utons because they're the ones that are kind of looking over their shoulder as they're ordering a beer in a shot feeling like they're doing something wrong that they're going to get in trouble for. Utah had for a long time 3.2% beer. And in 2019 they finally got rid of that requirement that beer had to be under that amount. and they actually had the Clydesales came and did a funeral procession for 3.2% beer.

[00:08:55]>> A new Utah law that went into effect January 1st bans people convicted of DUIs with a blood alcohol content of.16 or greater from buying alcohol. That makes Evston's bars and liquor stores enticing for those who can't buy alcohol close to home. And that's today's news.

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[00:09:29]Watson for Cowboy State Daily.