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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, October 24th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

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A Wyoming elk hunter said things likely would have ended badly for her if she had been wearing her usual lace-up hunting boots when she was charged by a grizzly in the Beartooth Mountains. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports the type of boot and her law enforcement training may have saved her life.

"It's one of those things that was wet that day…when she was out hunting elk. …this female grizzly with a cub came at her, and of course, she went down on her back, and, you know, raised her feet up, kind of in a defensive position, and the bear bit into one of her feet, bit into boot, and then started to tug. And of course, she wasn't wearing her lace up boots that day. She was wearing pull-on boots. The boot just came off, slid off her foot, and I guess that startled the bear enough that the bear just dropped the boot and ran off."

Celia Easton lives in Thermopolis and has hunted elk in the Beartooth mountains for several years. She tells Cowboy State Daily that she knows it's bear country, and added that the level of grizzly activity in the area is higher than usual this year.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming beef ranchers are joining the national outcry over President Trump's plan to import more beef from Argentina, arguing it threatens U.S. producers. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports the ranchers are saying they have solutions, but it's a complex industry.

"Trump's solution is, let's boost the supply. Let's bring Argentinian beef inn that produced an almost immediate backlash from the Ranch community. Trump made those comments on Sunday…He said, you know, you guys, you ranchers, just don't understand things. But it's the cattle ranchers are saying, hey, Trump is the one who doesn't understand this industry. It's a very complex industry. It's a global market."

Beef producers tell Cowboy State Daily that lowering the high price of beef should start with cutting domestic regulations, not boosting imports.

Read the full story HERE.

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A truck driver was arrested for DUI after his semi full of potatoes veered off the I-80 and crashed into the Medicine Bow River on Tuesday morning. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that the Carbon County Sheriff's office says driving semis is dangerous enough on I-80 when people aren't impaired.

"It's incredibly reckless to drive with a DUI, let alone behind the wheel of a semi. But the interesting thing that the Wyoming Highway Patrol revealed is that as they were clearing the truck out of the Medicine Bow River, they found a cat that had apparently been riding with the male driver and the Unidentified Female passenger at the time of the wreck, and miraculously, the cat was uninjured and taken to the Rollins animal shelters, as I thought, it probably exchanged at least one of its nine lives or survived that crash, which was incredibly horrific. I mean, driving while intoxicated is a bad idea in general, let alone when you're behind the wheel of a fully loaded tractor trailer. So it's fortunate that no lives were lost in this incident, because there was an incident in Californ