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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, October 2nd. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake! From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols brings to life the latest news, weather, sports and in-depth conversations that matter to you.

Though it originally planned to pit its women's volleyball team against a California squad with a transgender player in its lineup, the University of Wyoming announced Tuesday it will forfeit instead.

State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that there was a progression of pressure on the University to forfeit their scheduled October 5th match with San Jose State, which has made headlines recently after a junior player was revealed to be transgender.

"First, we have an advocacy group, a women's rights group sending out a letter to Mountain West Conference president saying there could be… legal ramifications if you guys continue to entertain this… But then whether it played into southern Utah University's decision, and then Boise State University's decision, we don't know… as they both bowed out of their matches against San Jose… But then on Tuesday, some Republican lawmakers started circulating a petition-style letter, fixing their signatures, urging the university to bow out, saying this isn't the will of people."

The letter has overtones of negative financial consequences, pointing out that the University of Wyoming is a publicly funded land grant institution.

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Nestled at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains, the tiny town of Dayton is usually a quiet, peaceful place of about 830 people where everyone knows and helps each other.

Overnight Sunday, it was also on edge as locals watched an out-of-control wildfire burn down the face of the mountain overlooking the town. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson spoke to residents about what it was like to watch the fire approach.

"Dayton is kind of at the bottom of the Bighorns. And they just said, you know, the mountain face, the fire was just coming down…it was kept pretty much on the mountain face. But one of the town council members, described in a few areas it got pretty close, including, he estimated, within about a quarter mile of the high school. But for the most part, it wasn't really threatening the town enough that they ordered evacuations."

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Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the owner and a couple of workers at the Parkman Bar and Grill in Dayton were up early scrambling eggs and frying up sausages to make hundreds of breakfast burritos and sandwiches for volunteers helping fight the Elk Fire, which has burned more than 25,000 acres just to the southwest.

"They do lunch and dinner, and they're open till midnight some nights, 2am some nights. So breakfast is not really normally their thing, but they're making an exception this week… making burritos and breakfast sandwiches, packing snack bags and making lunches and dinners for some of the volunteer firefighters… these guys in the community are banding together to kind of help feed these guys… it's the Wyoming way right, to help each other out when times get tough."

Cases of Gatorade are also coming in to distribute to firefighters, along with all kinds of high-protein snacks, nuts, apples and granola bars for snack bags.

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