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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, August 2nd. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by Wyoming Senior Olympics! Don't miss the action at this year's summer games from today through August 4th in Cheyenne, Wyoming. For more info and a schedule of events, visit Wyoming Senior Olympics dot org.

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Historic Fort Laramie, Wyoming's first settlement, nearly went up in flames when an out-of-control wildfire nearly burned through it the past couple of days.

The flames from what's now being called the Pleasant Valley Fire reportedly came to within about a mile of the site that's on the National Register of Historic Places. Cowboy State Daily's Pat Maio spoke with residents of the town of Fort Laramie, who had been told to prepare for evacuation late Tuesday evening.

"I interviewed one lady who works for the city government there and she was telling me that she lives literally in the center of the town and it's a town of like 200 people, right? … They loaded up two chickens in a carrier into their orange dodge 1976 van … And then they had two cats, they put them in carriers and threw them in the back of the van as well. And then they brought their German Shepherd Dog and tossed it into the back of the van as well… But they just kind of kept watching and you know, the firefighters in that neck of the woods, were able to draw the line at the canal … to the west west of town about two miles out."

There are a handful of other fires burning around the state, as well, in the northwest, the northeast, and the south-central part of Wyoming.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Wyoming Legislature this year did not entertain any budget or bill action featuring language about keeping former President Donald Trump off the ballot.

Yet, a handful of mailers sent to Wyoming residents last month claim that several Republican Wyoming House incumbents voted for such a measure.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray is defending those mailers.

"This all stems back to a footnote, the appropriations committee put on Chuck Gray's budget, which said that he wasn't to spend Wyoming taxpayer dollars on out of state lawsuits without the legislature's permission… And so those mailers essentially equated people who voted not to delete that footnote, it equated that vote to a vote to scrub Trump from the ballot."

Among those who have spoken with Cowboy State Daily, the legislators whom the mailers target disagree wholly with Gray's claim that their votes equate to an attack on Trump.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Colorado Parks and Wildlife plane that apparently looped into Wyoming airspace Tuesday has raised speculation that the aircraft was tracking wolves that had crossed the state line into Wyoming.

But Wyoming and Colorado wildlife agencies told outdoors reporter Mark Heinz that there isn't any active tracking of wolves in the area.

"Colorado Parks and Wildlife, it did confirm that they are doing some counts of pronghorn antelope. They're, they're they're doing some, you know, of their herd counts, which happened about this time of year anyway."

Wyoming Game and Fish spokeswoman Breanna Ball stated that her agency wasn't involved in tracking wolves near the Colorado state line.

Read the full story HERE.

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