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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, November 25th. I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is "Brought to you by the University of Wyoming Center on Aging. Did you know that 1 in 3 Wyoming adults have pre-diabetes, and most don't realize it? Are you tough enough to know your numbers? Take the quiz at: Find Out WY dot org."

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Three hunters with bull elk tags, are claiming that after they helicoptered into an isolated public land area in the Bighorn Mountains and killed bull elk, an adjacent landowner tried to swipe one of their trophy elk heads. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports there was a confrontation between the hunters and the landowner.

"They were headed back out from camp to go retrieve one of the elk, the elk quarters. And here's this dude, apparently trying to walk off with one of the elk heads. And so they went down and they confronted the guy and found out, at least this guy claimed that it was one of the adjacent landowners, one of the ranchers had come up with trying to steal this elk head. They're not really sure why, but he expressed to them that he didn't want them there."

The alleged incident is under investigation, so Wyoming Game and Fish can't comment on it, Sheridan region spokeswoman Christina Schmidt stated in an email response to Cowboy State Daily.

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After truckers complained of illegal immigrant counterparts, Wyoming law enforcement and ICE conducted an operation last week targeting truckers bypassing the port of entry near the Colorado border. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that authorities are saying that out of 205 contacts made, 40 truckers are being processed.

"Colorado has laws that limit the extent to which its local law enforcement can work with ice, whereas Wyoming has the opposite, a very ice permissive environment, and several sheriff's agencies that actually have agreements with ice. And so if you are trying to crack down on undocumented truckers, for example, that border between Wyoming and Colorado is probably a pretty right place to do it, and that's what they did."

Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak tells Cowboy State Daily that his office, ICE, and Wyoming Highway Patrol collaborated for three days in Laramie County, specifically targeting commercial drivers who use county roads to avoid the port of entry.

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Wyoming ranchers say the closure of Tyson's Lexington, Nebraska, plant is a distress signal for cattlemen and consumers. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that ranchers are saying that fixing things will require rewriting the Meat Inspection Act.

"What they're looking for is the ability to sell across state lines right now, and we've talked about this before, even though state inspections follow the same laws that federal inspections do, even though they have to meet the same kind of criteria, they have to make sure the meat is safe, right? …Even though it's safe to eat in Wyoming, when it's state inspected, as soon as it crosses the state line. It's illegal. Somehow it's not safe to eat in Montana, even though it was safe in Wyoming."

Tyson Foods announced that it's closing the Nebraska meat packing plant in January. That is a big distress signal for the industry, Wyoming cattle ranchers say, a red flare for trouble ahead, not just for meat packers but also for cattlemen.

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