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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, October 31st. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by 4 Wyoming Pack. 4 Wyoming Pack says, "This November, Wyoming will vote to allow residential homes to be taxed at a lower, fairer rate, even the playing field, and give families a much-needed break." 4 Wyoming Pack wants you to Vote Yes on Amendment A.

However the world remembers Wyoming's beloved Grizzly 399, some of her most devoted fans said a full-body taxidermy mount of her in a museum isn't the way to do it.

Outdoors reporter Mark Heinz has been fielding comments from fans of the most famous bear in the world, who was killed last week when it was struck by a car south of Jackson. He reports that many of the bear's followers are opposed to the idea of displaying her remains.

"A lot of her fans or admirers don't like the idea of taxidermy. They think it's too gaudy, too fake and too cheesy. They don't want to see that… the people I talk to mostly they favor cremating her and spreading the ashes back up pilgrim Creek, where she used to hang out. So it's just differing points of view."

Heinz said there are also those who feel that returning her remains to the wild for scavengers and insects to feed on is an honorable way for 399 to be returned to nature.

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A ballot measure that would shut down the only slaughterhouse in Denver, operated by Superior Farms, goes far beyond being an issue local to Colorado's capital city. Opponents of the measure told Cowboy State Daily's Jackie Dorothy that they feel it's part of a concentrated attack on the agriculture industry that would directly affect Wyoming.

"What the animal activists actually said in a statement to Cowboy State daily was that they are looking at this as the beginning of the end for agriculture. It's the industry of eating meat. They say it's cruelty to animals. It's cruel to people. They say it pollutes. And I've talked to the Wyoming ranchers and those in charge of the sheep Association, and they counter that meat protein belongs in our diets, and until they can come up with something that will replace it, meat is part of the American culture and is part of our rights, and unfortunately, that involves these slaughterhouses ...About 50% of our lambs go to this slaughterhouse, in Wyoming."

If the plant were to close, opponents say it could be devastating financially for ranchers to ship their sheep to slaughterhouses farther away.

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The winter weather system that moved across Wyoming overnight Tuesday into Wednesday dumped a lot of wet, heavy snow across much of Wyoming.

Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that it's the first significant snowfall of what's already anticipated to be a colder, snowier season.

"The heavy wet snow is pretty typical this time of the season, especially for the first significant snowfall of the season… This was the sign of the seasonal change, that it's finally cold enough that not only can this kind of weather happen, but the snow sticks around, the cold temperatures stick around, and that's what we can expect moving forward."

One impact of the storm that will remain is the drop in temperature that the system helped usher in. It will be bone-chillingly cold on All Hallow's Eve, with overnight temperatures ranging from the mid-30s to the low 20s.

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