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Primal Pairings Herbs can bring out the flavor (or help to tame it) when cooking wild game. Huber Farms’ Megan Huber walks us through the history of pairing herbs with wild game and shows us how to spice it up a notch—and just in time for hunting season.

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Life After the Storm

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department look at data from a University of Wyoming study on how hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing are substantial economic drivers for Wyoming.

For every outdoor adventure, there’s great gear. Steph’s inside look at the Wyoming optics company has cut out the middleman to deliver innovative products including custom binoculars and spotting scopes—for less.

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Way of the Longbow For Joel Hoenk, hunting is all about identifying a set of challenges and finding creative ways to overcome them with the end goal being a freezer full of meat.

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America’s culture war has reached a tipping point. While our politics have always been divisive, an underlying commitment to civility has usually held citizens on both sides together. As the partisan divide deepens, it becomes clear that we need to take meaningful steps toward deescalation. Is a call for the end of the culture war in order?

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Denver native Lisa Shrefler went from big city beginnings to home where the antelope roam when hunting for a new lifestyle in Gillette, Wyoming.

She’s found contentment in the beauty of the city and encourages others to do the same.

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5 Reasons Hunting with Kids ROCKS My kiddo just turned 11 in the spring of this year, which means it’s the last season she’ll have to sit on the sidelines as the tagalong during hunting season. She’ll get to experience hunting as the hunter next season after she takes hunter safety this winter and applies for her tag in 2019. Let me tell you, she is stoked.

It’s something she has been looking forward to since her first hunting trip five years ago. My husband is pretty excited too, meticulously testing reduced velocity .308 Winchester rounds, and even shopping for a smaller stock to put on it so she can graduate from her own .22 and get some good practice in this fall.

I’m not much of a hunter myself, but I am beyond thrilled that she has such a keen interest.

This is something that she and her step-dad can do together and create lasting memories. There is so much value in this time-honored tradition beyond the blessing of filling your freezer.

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Here are 5 Reasons Hunting Rocks for Kids:

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These days, more often than not, a good portion of our time is spent staring at a screen in a room with fluorescent lights. Recent studies have shown that spending time outdoors is critical for human health, even lowering blood pressure, as well as activating and exercising your senses much more than a phone or a video game ever could. So, peel your kid off the couch and show them the workout they can get by scouting for an animal or hiking through the woods, and that you don’t have to live in a gym to stay fit!

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They Learn Gun Safety This is

hands down one of the most positive things that comes from teaching your kids to hunt. Part of the hunting experience is learning how to properly handle and respect firearms – in turn, taking the mystery away and stifling any misplaced curiosity that could lead to tragedy.

They Learn Valuable Life Skills

We all want our children to grow into well-rounded adults, and hunting can help your child be more patient and build endurance (when scouting for an animal), as well as learning the art of discipline (in waiting for the perfect moment to take their shot), responsibility and ethics (in the brevity of taking an animal’s life), and dealing with disappointment when things don’t go as planned.

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They Learn About Conservation

Hunting is a great privilege, and something humans have been doing for millennia. When kids hunt, they learn about balance, taking and giving. It’s an important lesson to learn how to take only what you need. They also discover that they play an important role in terms of population control, as well as their contribution in funding wildlife conservation when they purchase their tags.

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They Grow Up to Be Hunters

You are doing the sport a great service by teaching your child (and future adult hunter) sportsman etiquette and proper hunting skills. They are the hunters of the future, and you are helping keep the tradition and sport alive by getting them involved early.

So, do yourself and your kid a favor and get them out in the field this fall and make some memories!

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My monthly take on Our Community, Our State, Local Events & Politics With election season fully upon us, I think it’s important browse the internet, cookies and “pixels” feed information to talk about the importance of primary news sources back to the social media platforms we are logged into, such and the inner-workings of social media, algorithms, and as where we are going, how much time we’re spending on analytics. Getting your news entirely from social media the site and particular page, what we are searching for, is a bad idea. etc. All of this feeds in to your profile with the platform Social media is designed to keep your attention. where they apply algorithms to the data to custom tailor Companies derive revenue from ads, and advertisers information and advertising to you. want analytics and data to prove that their advertising If I regularly share things that are extremely is effective. To drive up add revenue, they need to make conservative and when I occasionally see something sure people stay engaged and that they spend time on the more liberal that I indicate I don’t like, the algorithm platform. This is part of the reason will make sure I don’t see it again, that social media platforms give you a because the platform wants to make feed of material as opposed to forcing sure I stay engaged. If I’m not getting you to click on a bunch of individual what I want, I won’t stay engaged and pages to get information. That would advertisers won’t get good results in take too much effort and most users their analytics – that’s bad. If I end would likely move on or only focus up liking a lot of content that may on a few very specific people or not be accurate or credible, I will keep organizations. Social media appeals getting more of the same content to our desire for quick feedback – just from the same people – regardless of like a slot machine does in Las Vegas. its quality – because the algorithm Humans love instant gratification knows those are my interests, not that and what better gratification than the content is “no-good”. It’s not the providing us with a list of things that algorithm’s fault – it’s literally giving are going to reinforce our own beliefs us what we want. and ideas, along with those of our

You end up in an friends? Social media literally gives echo-chamber where you never hear us a constant list of information to any other point of view. You are Photo: Jenny Lee Lorenz/Jenny Lee’s Photography support what we think is right – right bombarded with constant instant or wrong. How does this happen? gratification that everything we like Algorithms are constantly looking at what your and believe is 100% right, because we are being provided interests are. Some of this comes directly from our own with all of this “information” that says we are correct. profiles where we voluntarily turn over our interests, You might as well be talking to yourself – because the hobbies, and demographics. That instantly allows the algorithm makes sure you don’t ever hear anything that platform to target advertising – and other non-paid doesn’t fit your own biased beliefs. My simple example content, which is what keeps us going back – to us directly. is too easy…this is down to fine details based upon not We provide the algorithm even more information by only what we like and don’t like, but how long we watch clicking ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ on things that do end up in our a particular video, read a particular story, at what point feeds. We also share information from other sources we stop watching it, who the author is, how many people directly which further adds to the data available for we are associated with that also follow the author, and targeting us. We willingly make connections with other things none of us probably know or understand. people, which allows the algorithm to figure out who we The fact that many people and groups spend a lot of have things in common with. It stands to reason that the time designing their content and media to look like “real people we are friends with share similar interests. As we news” makes it hard for anybody on the platform

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to identify fake or misleading content. This all feeds into the current issues in the U.S. surrounding political conversation and discourse, “Why would I carry on a conversation with somebody with a different opinion?

I’ve spent hours seeing content showing how right I am.”

Like anyone, I have my own biases which influence the publications and sources I go to for information.

With that said, however, I do my best to look to other publications. Part of this is to make sure I’m getting both sides of the story and part of it is simply to make sure I can understand other points of view. With County 17 and County 3, I regularly tell our staff to just report the story. We try to keep our stories quick and easy to read.

We also focus on the story – which is why you don’t see editorial content on our news streams.

Every person is unique, but here are my personal “go-to” places for news and information, with hundreds more visited each month.

• County 17 (obviously – good local information for northeast Wyoming) county17.com • The Gillette News Record (I like to keep up with my competition – also, we are fortunate to still have a good daily paper in Gillette and the GNR is a good source for local information) gillettenewsrecord.com • The Wall Street Journal (for nearly 15 years this has been my favorite news source – it provides great U.S. and global coverage and the best opinion of any publication) wsj.com • The Casper Star Tribune (the best option for state-wide coverage in Wyoming) trib.com • Wired (keeps me up-to-date on what’s going on in the world of technology – and their opinion pieces provide a different point of view than my traditional sources) wired.com • Time (good global insight and opinion – I usually skim the publication and maybe read 10% of it) time.com (I read it in print) • Forbes (same as Time) forbes.com (I read it in print, too) • E&E News (Energy & Environment) (I skim this regularly for information on energy policy) eenews.net

Unsurprisingly, most of these sources require a membership – or for you to pay – for your news. It’s become commonplace for us to feel everything should be free, but as I learned in economics, There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (TINSTAAFL – tin-stoff-el).

News is just like anything else. If you want the best, you have to be willing to pay for it. With County 17 and County 3, we are fortunate to have advertisers that see value in our platform and their revenue allows us to make the news free to our readers. So, the next time you are complaining about one of our advertisers, remember

that without them, you’d be paying for good local news each month.

Lastly, when you sit down regularly to read a number of different sources, you occasionally find things that are so well written that not only do you want to mention them, you want to reprint them in whole.

The piece included this month was written by Senator Orrin Hatch and is one of the best opinion pieces I have seen in some time. The piece originally ran in The Wall Street Journal and is reprinted here with the permission of Senator Hatch’s office.

Mr. Christensen is a Gillette real estate developer, owner of a holding company which owns this publication, and member of the Campbell County Board of Commissioners. Mr. Christensen is married with two children and lives in Gillette.

He has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Wyoming and M.S. in Real Estate and Construction Management from the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

Mr. Christensen’s opinions do not reflect the opinions of this publication, the boards upon which he sits, or any organizations or agencies referenced within his comments.

Geneva Conventions for the Culture War By: Orrin G. Hatch

An angry mob recently cornered Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a Washington restaurant, jeering and chanting until she left. That same week, a Virginia restaurant refused service to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Days later, a group of angry men came within inches of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s face, screaming and posturing in an attempt to physically intimidate her.

America’s culture war has reached a tipping point. While our politics have always been divisive, an underlying commitment to civility has usually held citizens on both sides together. As the partisan divide deepens, it becomes clear that we need to take meaningful steps toward de-escalation. Something must change before anger succumbs to violence.

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tactics. We need a détente in partisan hostilities, an easing of tensions that can be realized when both sides adopt certain rules of engagement—norms to rein in the worst excesses of the culture wars.

Foremost among these norms should be a commitment to preventing communal spaces from becoming politicized.

Even in our most divided times, there have been places we could go to escape the partisan clamor—places where we could leave politics at the door and come together as one, including restaurants, theaters, sports arenas and houses of worship.

Insulating such spaces from politicization is a matter of urgent necessity. A concerted effort is under way to transform these neutral zones into partisan battlegrounds. Consider the calls from progressive groups to boycott Chick-fil-A or even ban it from certain cities; the controversy surrounding the National Football League’s national anthem policy; or the wholly unoriginal acceptance speech-cum-political jeremiad of every Hollywood awards show.

The assault on communal spaces is a subset of the politicization of everything—the culture war equivalent of a scorched-earth policy. It is an attempt to burn away the last vestiges of civility and common cause along the march to political domination. Everything—from chicken sandwiches to prom dresses and even cartoon frogs—can be weaponized for political purposes. In this world, there is no neutral territory: Every place is a battlefield, everything is a weapon, and everyone is a soldier in the great culture war.

Activists on both sides of the political spectrum can turn back the tide of war by adopting certain conventions for cultural combat.

As an analogy, consider the norms regulating armed conflict. The Geneva Conventions have been enormously effective in restraining the terrors of modern warfare.

Among other things, these treaties ban the use of certain weapons and accord special protections to civilians, prisoners of war and the infirm. They stipulate which actions are and are not appropriate in wartime, instituting an infrastructure of norms that has saved millions of lives.

In similar fashion, our society could benefit from adopting certain conventions to limit the scope and severity of the culture wars—a general set of guidelines clarifying acceptable tactics in political warfare. By necessity, such norms would in substantial part be socially, not legally, enforced. Their purpose would be to limit the damage the culture wars do to our civic health.

First, we must agree on the need to shield communal spaces from politicization—just as schools, hospitals and places of worship are protected from military strikes in times of armed conflict.

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politicization of everything. Just as the rules of war prohibit military attacks that inflict undue burdens on civilian life, we should condemn culture-war tactics that cause unnecessary damage to civil society. Denouncing those who politicize things that should not be politicized— even when we agree with their political cause—is the only way to ensure proportionality in the culture wars.

Third, we must discourage harassment of public figures and incursions into their private lives. Just as combatants and POWs are accorded certain rights in wartime, government officials and others who participate in politics deserve privacy and respect, no matter how intense the culture wars become. I applaud Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for upholding this principle last month, when he roundly condemned harassment of Trump administration personnel. Reinforcing this norm, as Mr. Schumer did, is essential to creating a safe environment that continues to attract good people to public service.

Fourth, liberals and conservatives alike should commit themselves to rhetorical disarmament. During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union signed treaties to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In a culture war, in which words are weapons, both sides need to ease their inflammatory language.

Leaders from both parties play a critical role in setting appropriate boundaries for political speech. The effect of incendiary statements is especially harmful when they come from political leaders—be they members of Congress or the president himself.

That’s why, even as a strong supporter of President Trump, I have repeatedly encouraged him to use Twitter as a tool for good rather than as a cudgel for division. I have likewise discouraged him from calling the press “the enemy of the people.” Even with its flaws, the media is indispensable to our democracy. Insofar as reporters are committed to objective journalism and not political advocacy, they should be treated as noncombatants in the culture wars.

To restore decency and balance to public dialogue, both left and right should embrace a laying down of rhetorical arms. Tough political speech has its place, but mainly on the campaign trail.

All Americans, regardless of partisan affiliation, have a stake in containing the fallout from the culture wars. By working together to instill these norms, we can revive civic life and set our nation on a path to health and healing.

By: Orrin G. Hatch Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, is president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate.

This article, which originally appeared in the July 28, 2018, print edition of The Wall Street Journal, has been reprinted with the permission of the office of Sen. Hatch.

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A H IS TORY OF Herbs &Wild Game By: Contributor

Megan K. Huber of Huber Farms

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Herbs Make a C O MEBACK ! erbs are not just for your cocktail!

With hunting season approaching, pairing Old World herbs and wild game together in a savory combination is a must! Cooking brings the family together and provides a history lesson or two as well as adding health benefits and learning how to experiment with new flavors!

Bonus- Some herbs help aid with digestion as well as contain immune boosting properties!

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HOW IT ALL STARTED Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans. It may have started around 2 million

years ago, though archaeological evidence for it reaches no more than 1 million years ago. Herbs have been used since prehistoric times. Carbon dating traces the Lascaux cave drawings of herbs in France back to between 13,000 and 25,000 B.C. In the Middle Ages, herbs were often used to preserve meat as well as cover the rotting taste of meals that couldn’t be refrigerated. Aren’t you glad you didn’t accept an invitation to that kind of dinner party in those times! Ancient Romans and Greeks crowned their leaders with dill and laurel and also used dill to purify the air. In the 5th century B.C., Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician, listed approximately 400 herbs in common use. As many of us already know, many of the early settlers grew

herbs for seasoning their food, as well as, for their medicinal properties. American Indians often used herbs for tanning and dyeing leather.

WHAT HERBS TO PAIR WITH WILD GAME The first of the powerhouse herbs is dill. Dill is an Old-World herb from the parsley family. Widely available and very simple to grow, dill is kept well in a glass of water on the counter or placed in a Ziploc and frozen. The soft fern-like leaf or frond before the dill blooms are best to use for fish and tartar sauce. The head is best used for canning dill pickles.

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on the grill or top off a baked potato with sour cream. Dill is a staple ingredient in tartar sauce and is very easy to make at home. It also makes a mean red potato salad for that family picnic coming up!

My husband’s German grandmothers’ taught him to add it along with green beans from the garden to a large jar and pickle them in vinegar for fresh eating all summer long.

Basil, part of the mint family, packs a punch in nearly every way it is used and in any type of cooking. It is also a great digestion aid. Esteemed for flavoring iced tea, lemonade, and cocktails, it is also very easy to cook with. It is really good in this Basil Tai Chicken recipe linked at the end of the article.

Guaranteed to clear the sinuses! This recipe would

Sage pairs well with wild birds. This potent herb is best known for its appearance in the dressing of your Thanksgiving turkey. Prairie chickens, pheasants, and even duck would all be a great choice to try with sage. Sage is traditionally used in meat rubs and for flavoring sausage. It is most commonly found as a dry cooking seasoning, but if you are lucky enough to grow this herb, then you know how big of a difference in flavor there is between the dry and fresh.

Thyme is also related to the mint family and in Old World cooking was incorporated into meat pies. Thyme has anti-viral properties so it is no surprise that they utilized it in ancient cooking to help keep sickness at bay. In history, it was used for

lend itself to any wild game bird, especially Cornish hens. Fresh basil from the garden is best kept in an airtight container or plastic bag in the fridge to prevent wilting. Using a stronger herb compliments the stronger flavor of the wild game, whereas chicken is a milder meat and pairs better with a less savory choice of herb.

A Gardener’s Note Here, herbs are at their peak and should be picked in the early morning or evening hours when the oils are at their highest levels. (E.L.D. Seymour, B.S.A. - New Garden Encyclopedia 1936) No need to wash until right before you use them to prevent spoiling. I personally keep them in a jar of water on my counter until I need to use them for dinner.

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embalming the Egyptians and to protect from the Black Death. Thyme pairs well with all meats in my opinion, lending its sweet and savory flavor to the dish and looks pretty as an embellishment, too.

Wild game is best cooked with some kind of fat because of its lean content. I like to wrap bacon around deer steak to add flavor and keep the steak moist when grilling. In fact, this practice has also been around since the beginning of man gathering and cooking wild game. Fat was the number one ingredient used in medieval cooking as it helped enhance the taste of the meat and kept the meat moist while being prepared. Butter was also widely used as it was readily available to those with milk cows.

Seems the more butter the better, which is a complete flip flop on the way we cook everything low-fat today.

River, used the local natives' knowledge to save their men who were dying of scurvy. They boiled the needles of the tree to make a tea that was later shown to contain 50 mg of vitamin C per 100 grams.

Vitamin C happens to be the only vitamin our bodies are not capable of providing on their own.

Seafaring men especially suffered this affliction as fresh fruit and vegetables were not kept on the boats that would be out at sea for months at a time without refrigeration. The disease was later shown to be prevented by citrus fruit in an early controlled trial by a Royal Navy surgeon, James Lind, in 1747, and starting in 1796 lemon juice was issued to all Royal Navy crewmen.

So, dried fruits were utilized in the pies and would help alleviate the unsightly symptoms, as

well as the use of certain vegetables that contained vitamin C. Cabbage, potatoes, and onions in addition to one or more of herbs like cilantro, chives, thyme, basil, and parsley which high in vitamin Cwere incorporated if available, fresh or dried.

Onions and garlic were also essential to the kitchen garden and cooking with wild game. They were grown by farmers dating all the way back to the Mesapotomia era in 3,000 B.C.! Utilized and found readily in most cooking recipes even today, onion and garlic are the perfect addition to any meat recipe and were and still are a staple in most kitchens! They stored well during the winter months when kitchen gardens were on hiatus due to the inclement weather and helped fight off colds and flus among a plethora of other things. Onions and garlic were both dried

CAN’T LIVE ON MEAT ALONE Meat and fruit pies were used in historical cooking because cook stoves were either not available at that point in history, or they were cooking over open fires and the heat was very inconsistent.

Pies were used as a tool to combat the heating issue, as well as providing a well-rounded meal and utilized the parts of the game that were, shall we say less desirable to see on the plate alone. Herbs, potatoes, onion, and butter or cream were also incorporated to enhance the flavors of the wild game.

The women in my family kept bacon grease in a jar beside the stove to cook with for generations.

Bacon grease was readily available and was used heavily during the Great Depression and all throughout history. In fact, tthroughout WWII, butter was rationed, and the variety of cooking fats we have today didn’t yet exist, so housewives often saved bacon fat for cooking. It was also valued for the war effort—homemakers were asked to give their bacon grease to the local butcher, who turned it into the government because it was needed for the production of glycerin used to make bombs. (Farmer’s Almanac) The need to include fresh plant food or raw animal flesh into the diet to prevent disease was known from ancient times. Native people living in marginal areas incorporated this into their medicinal lore. For example, spruce needles were used in temperate zones in infusions, or the leaves from species of drought-resistant trees in desert areas. In 1536, the French explorers Jacques Cartier and Daniel Knezevic, exploring the St. Lawrence JUNE / JULY 2018

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in the sun to prevent molding and then braided and hung in cool, dry “root cellars”.

They would reconstitute onions and garlic into stews and soups and traveled easily as they didn’t spoil and were also used medicinally. I have also had success with freezing whole onions from the garden and then using them as needed throughout the winter months. This was not an option for our ancient friends without freezers.

TIP AND TRICKS TO TRY Locally speaking, my friend Sellenee Sich likes to cook with wild game. She has been cooking this way for four years and especially enjoys making sausage.

They have four boys to feed at home and wild game for their family is a cost-effective way to keep their boys fed and happy without breaking the bank.

“Hunting is a great opportunity for us to build character in our boys and feed our family.

Most of the time, the meat is very cost effective because we process it ourselves.”

Her top three tips for successful wild game cooking are to add some kind of fat to tenderize or marinate before cooking, and to use fresh herbs and seasonings. She adds that because bird meat is either very dry or greasy, an easy way to combat the gamey taste is simply to marinate the meat in buttermilk beforehand. She also cautions the use of the sage with wild game as it tends to bring out the sage flavor in the meat and can make it taste more gamey. Not the case for wild birds, but the vegetation our deer and elk eat is made up of a lot of sage so this totally makes sense to me.

Brining is an old-fashioned technique that involved soaking meat or poultry in a flavorful saltwater solution to enhance its moisture and taste. The proper ratio is two tablespoons of salt to four cups of water. It is especially good with breast meat and other lean cuts like the loin.

(Georgia Pellegrini-NRA American Hunter.org)

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Grilling tends to dry out leaner cuts of meat. So, a meat with more fat would lend itself better to this cooking technique. However, pan frying is a good way to add fat while cooking and is a time sensitive way to get a meal on the table in a pinch.

Oven Roasting - Duck is a fattier meat and is not one you want to put on the grill as it will flare up, so roasting is the way to go with this wild

game bird. Add any herb and some garlic and onion and treat your favorite guests to a tender and juicy feast.

Don’t forget the good old crock pot! Elk chili, deer chili, buffalo chili... I’m seeing a trend here. But all kidding aside, duck and pheasant are also easy to cook this way. I choose the crock pot as my go-to on a crisp fall day because it’s the easiest way to feed my family after a long day of work. We also like to make jerky using a dehydrator to take on camping and backpacking trips during the summer because it is easily transported and fits into a backpack without needing to be kept refrigerated.

As I contemplated how to cook the pheasant we had in the freezer, I came across a pheasant recipe in the Outlander Kitchen Cookbook I received as a gift and nod to my Scottish heritage. It was filled with Old World recipes using wild game and, as I had learned from my research, combined both butter and fruit with the wild game. We first brined the pheasant in saltwater for a day to promote extra flavor, then rolled up our sleeves and got to work. We pan seared the meat in butter and garlic, then drizzled an apricot and wine sauce over the top and served with fresh greens from the garden. The kids were apprehensive about this mystery meat, but kept an open mind and ended up really liking it! In fact, they liked it so much that they plan on going pheasant hunting with their Dad and I this fall!

I’m counting that as a win in my book!

Old World herbs and wild game are a great way to explore cooking in a historical and fun way.

Getting the hubby and kids involved make for an interesting, if not a wild evening! I’d like to think that while channeling my inner Julia Child, that cooking with these ancient herbs and eating wild game like a caveman is our primal right! I like to teach my kids where food originates and how it was prepared because it connects our past with our present, plus it gives our food some context and relatability in a time where everything is instant, pre-packaged, or disposable. My hope is that while learning about history in school, they can add some interesting fun food facts, and make those important connections between food and history.

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Hunting, Fishing & Wildlife Viewing are Economic Drivers for Wyoming n March, a press release from Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) Public Outreach Specialist Sara DiRienzo outlined new findings from an analysis conducted by the University of Wyoming (UW), which show that hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing activities make a significant impact on the state’s economy.

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According to UW Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, David ‘Tex’ Taylor, who spearheaded the analysis, 2016 data was used to demonstrate that hunters, anglers and wildlife watchers spent an estimated $788 million in Wyoming, with the total economic importance of up to $1 billion in business activity.

The 2016 data also shows that wildliferelated activities account for an estimated 9,600 Wyoming jobs and a total labor income of $262 million. These jobs represent those directly connected to wildlife and those tied to the service and hospitality industries, as well.

“Hunting, fishing and wildlife watching are all good economic drivers for the state,” said Taylor.

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It’s a significant amount and is very impactful on the people of Wyoming.

“The impact is important for the workforce.

Imagine if 9,600 jobs were missing from the state’s economy. We’d notice.” - Taylor The $788 million estimate is lower than previous numbers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

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Service (USFWS), which were gathered in 2011.

At that time, the USFWS had estimated the impact of the same activities at a total of just $1.1 billion.

The discrepancy, said Taylor, can be attributed to errors present in the USFWS report and a small angler sample size.

To improve upon the past analysis, his team

at UW were sure to utilize several local data sources in an effort to better document spending related to wildlife activities. Those sourced included statewide license sales data and annual harvest surveys from WGFD, as well as USFWS reports and other information sourced from relevant economic studies conducted on the state of Wyoming.

Taylor says his team’s analysis more accurately depicts the economic diversity of the state, and that these types of activities are now more accurately shown to have exponential potential to generate more dollars and jobs.

UW’s findings also work to support data made available from Governor Matt Mead’s Task

Force on Outdoor Recreation, which similarly illuminated the potential for further growth in the outdoor industry for Wyoming.

“Thanks to UW and Dr. Taylor for doing this analysis. We believe that the economic information is a reminder that wildlife contributes to our quality of life here in Wyoming and it creates jobs,” said

Scott Smith, deputy director of WGFD. By: Stephanie L. Scarcliff with Sara M. DiRienzo for 82717 Photos courtesy of Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Editor’s Note: 2016 is the most recent year from which all aforementioned data is available.

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Creating an Atypical Tourist Destination hen you ask people where they’re going on vacation, Wyoming destinations include Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, and sometimes even a stopover at Devils Tower National Monument on the way to or from Mount Rushmore.

But, unless they have family here, Gillette and the rest of Campbell County aren’t very popular in the destination vacation market.

Hearing people say Campbell County is not a destination is something Gillette native Terry Sjolin takes offense to.

“That’s not true,” said Sjolin. “We are a destination. We’re just an atypical destination.”

Sjolin is the Destination Marketing Organization Sales Manager for the Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau.

With three full-time employees, Executive Director Mary Silvernell said the Campbell County

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Convention and Visitors Bureau spends 90 percent of their funds to promote Campbell County and everything our community has to offer. The remaining 10 percent of the budget is being put aside to relocate and build a new visitor’s center.

So, where you may ask, does the funding for the CVB come from? The simple answer is the lodging tax.

In Campbell County, a two percent lodging tax is levied on overnight stays in hotels and campgrounds.

Like the optional one percent tax, the lodging tax is on the ballot every four years.

“Just because there has been so much discussion about taxes in general, people are hyper-sensitive and they’re not thinking about what the tax does and who pays it,” said Silvernell. “It’s not 100 percent paid for by out of town people, but a big majority is.”

Silvernell explained that prior to 2006 the lodging tax was only levied within city limits. In 2006, the lodging tax was voted down, but was approved

by voters again in 2008 and now levies a two percent lodging tax countywide.

The Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau is one leg of a three-legged stool that promotes tourism in our community. The other two legs are the Wyoming Office of Tourism, which does their part at the state level. and local businesses with their own advertising budgets. The three legs all share a common goal of bringing people into our community to enjoy what we have to offer.

In April, the Wyoming Office of Tourism released a report from Dean Runyan Associates that breaks down the impacts of tourism on each county in Wyoming. Campbell County generated nearly $1.8 million in travel spending in 2017. Statewide, travel spending brought in $3.6 billion.

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“It’s our job to make sure people understand this is a great place to come and live and participate in all the stuff we have going on.”

million in state taxes for total tax revenues of $5.8 million. In the last decade, 2014 showed the highest revenues at $7.2 million in Campbell County. Since that time, revenues have continued to decline, but still show a 5.7 percent increase from 2007 to 2017.

“So, it’s not little numbers,” said Silvernell speaking about the tourism industry’s monetary impact.

The Runyan report focuses on destinationspecific impacts including national and international travelers and also in-state travelers whose destinations are within Wyoming. The report does not include Wyoming residents whose destinations are out of state.

Last summer’s solar eclipse was a driving force for tourism in Campbell County, even though not directly in the outlined path. According to the Runyan report, statewide travel spending focused solely on viewing the eclipse was around $63.5 million.

On its busiest day last summer, around 500 people visited the Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau, mostly to pick up a pair of eclipse glasses. However, Silvernell said a lot of those visitors were locals who remarked about how unchanged the CVB has remained over the thirty years it’s been located in the parking lot of Flying J.

Silvernell said although Flying J has been a great partner over the years, the CVB is due for an upgrade.

IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME. A study commissioned several years ago determined that the best location for the Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau would be, “with the flow of traffic, westbound on I-90, with a right hand exit, on the right,” said Silvernell.

As a result, the Campbell County Commissioners contributed a 2.7 acre parcel of land located east of WYDOT off Garner Lake Road.

“It is a fact that when people pull off and stop, they stay and at least eat and spend money,” said Sjolin.

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That’s why we want a new building.”

Both Sjolin and Silvernell pointed to nearby examples of such attractions located at the South Dakota Border, in Deadwood, and in Lead.

The CVB is setting aside funds for the project, but is still looking for additional support from the three governing bodies that oversee the Lodging Tax Joint Powers Board. The seven members of the board represent the City of Gillette, Campbell County, and the Town of Wright.

No solid plan has been approved for a new visitors center. However, the CVB is still doing their best to make Campbell County an atypical destination, exploring sports tourism.

Going on name alone, it sounds like a project anyone in our community would get behind. Sports tourism is simply defined as travel for which the prime motivation is sporting activities, either as active participants or spectators.

“30 percent of vacation travel is sports-related, usually to do with their kids and grandkids,” explained Sjolin of the over $115 billion industry.

The wide range of competitive sports activities and the community’s amazing facilities are just a few of the many reasons the CVB has chosen to delve deeper into attracting these types of events.

The leisure travel season, like Wyoming summers, are relatively short, which cuts down on the time period that makes Campbell County an attractive stop.

“We could do so many things in the winter time to bring people in to help offset the leisure travel,” explained Silvernell.

There are around 2,000 hotel rooms in Campbell County, which is unusual for a city our size.

The occupancy rates for those hotels dips dramatically as fall sets in. However, the number of available rooms also makes Gillette an attractive destination for sports tournaments and events.

“There’s a lot of out of the box sports that we can chase that would have a really big impact here,” said Sjolin.

Some of those non-conventional sporting

events include lawn mower racing, nitro circuits, monster trucks, and motorcycle stunts.

Taking the next step forward, the City of Gillette and Campbell County both recently agreed to contribute $10,000 to help fund a sports tourism study that will evaluate the resources our community already has and determine which events would be a good fit.

The CVB has already budgeted $18,000 for the study.

Four companies submitted bids to perform the study. After analyzing each proposal, Silvernell narrowed the field to two and presented her findings to the Lodging Tax Joint Powers Board.

The board chose to hire the Huddle Up Group of Phoenix, AZ, to perform the study. The company got a head start on the project before they were even chosen. Founder and CEO Jon Schmieder visited Campbell County in May and has already toured the facilities that will be included in the study. The price tag on the study is $27,000 and includes a year of additional support after the study.

“We’ve got too many great assets here and great people,” said Silvernell. “It’s our job to make sure people understand this is a great place to come and live and participate in all the stuff we have going on.”

The Campbell County Public Land Board also recently made a contribution to the sports tourism team with the the purchase of enough sport court flooring to cover two-thirds of the Cam-Plex Wyoming Center.

The Huddle Up Group is also thrilled about the decision to purchase the sport court flooring.

“This will enable us to work with CAM-PLEX to market and sell to many different sports events rights holders, to bring in any number of new events to Campbell County,” said Silvernell. “Adding this asset is another piece of the puzzle in the future success of Campbell County’s sports tourism sales focus.”

A GLOWING REVIEW The Newmar Kountry Klub chose Gillette, more specifically Cam-Plex, as the location for their

2018 International Rally, drawing in around 400 motorhomes the last week in June.

“This is Newmar’s fourth time here,” said Bonnie Krieger. “The facilities, the people, the area, the beauty of it — this was the perfect choice.”

Bonnie and her husband, Bob, are the international directors of Newmar Kountry Klub.

“Cam-Plex is the gold standard we measure every other facility or fairground by,” said Bob Krieger.

Bonnie said in addition to providing all the proper camper sites, the facilities at Cam-Plex also offer ample rooms for seminars and a location to feed around 1,000 people three times a day.

Gillette’s geographic location also allowed these road-wise travelers to visit Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Devils Tower, and the Vore Buffalo Jump. The Kountry Klub also lined up tours for their members at the Durham Buffalo Ranch and Eagle Butte Coal Mine.

FOCUSING THE LENS

As the old saying goes, sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees. The same adage holds for those of us that have grown up around here or have lived through enough boom and bust cycles to call it home.

“People who grew up here, don’t see anything special,” said Silvernell, who says she loves living in Gillette, event after living in Pittsburgh, PA and Orlando, FL.

“We’d love for everyone in Campbell County to experience what’s here through a visitor’s eyes,” explained Silvernell. “Then be as excited and have the ‘hometown pride’ that is exhibited in so many ways when they talk with folks from out of town, and do so in a positive way.”

The goal is to show off the best of what Campbell County has to offer to visitors, who then come and make an economic impact and that cycle just continues to improve our community.

By: Charity D. Stewart for 82717

Let’s Show ‘em a Great Time!

Hosting out-of-town guests, an event or reunion in Campbell County? Call the CVB! We’ll provide you with info, help and options on group activities, coal mine and buffalo ranch tours, as well as any other assistance we can provide for you and your guests.

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The Way of the Longbow or Joel Hoenk, hunting is all about identifying a set of challenges and finding creative ways to overcome them with the end goal being a freezer full of meat. He’s well versed in the practice, having hunted in several states over the course of 40 years, 30 of which have been spent chasing the elusive wild turkey.

But five years ago, he identified the ultimate turkey hunting challenge that opened up so many

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more avenues for him to explore—traditional archery equipment.

IMMERSED “The thing about archery hunting, is you become immersed in the hunt and being out there,” Joel said. At some point or another, the insatiable urge to find and harvest an animal as quickly as possible simply goes away.

“I want to enjoy it while I’m out here and I want to make it last longer,” he explained. “And so far, I’ve been able to do that.”

Joel initially switched to non-traditional archery equipment—a compound bow—several years earlier after deciding to forgo using a shotgun for turkeys. However, he quickly discovered that compounds have a draw back—the sight pins.

“When you’ve got a compound, you can shoot long distances but, when it comes to

turkeys, it’s kind of a different deal,” he said.

“You’ve got a smaller vital area and you’ve got to be pinpoint accurate.”

A few years ago, he was sitting in a blind on public land in Iowa, staring at a mature male turkey, a tom, just on the extreme edge of his range. Joel was turkey calling, trying to get the bird to move a little closer. Whether it was because the bird was wise to Joel’s efforts or some other reason, it stayed where it was.

So, deciding to change up his tactics a little, Joel adjusted his pitch to a more aggressive call, thinking that would galvanize the bird into action. What he wasn’t expecting, however, was for another tom to gobble directly behind his blind.

“I nearly crapped my pants,” Joel recalled with a laugh.

His heart beating a million miles an hour, Joel heard and then watched the bird walk around his blind, heading for a set of turkey decoys only a few yards away.

But, when the bird stopped it was far too close. Joel’s sight pins were set up for distances of 20 to 60 yards. It was so close, yet so far.

When he loosed his arrow, it soared over the bird’s back, barely ruffling its feathers.

“All I did was give him a crew cut over the top of his back,” Joel said ruefully.

It was then that he decided it was time for a change.

Nowadays, Joel steps into the woods with a custom, 70-inch longbow crafted at the master hands of Rich Wormington, of Yellowstone Custom Longbows. The bow is absolutely stunning, but it presented Joel with two more challenges he needed to overcome if he was going to be a successful hunter—practice and practicality.

Shooting a traditional longbow without any sights — an approach referred as instinctive shooting — requires hours upon hours of practice and excellent technique before the arrow will strike the intended target. With traditional archery, the only sight pin is the human eye which, with enough practice, will determine where the

arrow will go time and time again.

Joel also had to determine if the bow would function properly in the confined space of a blind.

“Part of my practice was actually setting the blind up in the yard and making sure that I could physically draw and shoot with a longbow,” said Joel.

After overcoming both sets of challenges, he set off with high spirits and has since experienced varying degrees of success. During a recent hunt on private land in the Powder River Basin, Joel’s luck was nothing short of incredible.

THE HUNT Days of scouting and preparation had all led to that single moment—Joel sat, concealed in his

turkey blind, as he watched a group of 23 turkeys meander along a fence line. He had his eye set on the lead male, a mature tom with the longest spurs and beard, and started calling.

The large bird studiously ignored him and continued on its way, before it realized that the flock was no longer following his lead and was trotting toward Joel’s decoys.

“He went ‘Oh my gosh, they’re not following me!

I better get over there!’”

Joel laughed.

In Joel’s experience, mature male turkeys are intolerant of his jake (young male turkey) decoys and go on the attack. After watching the smaller toms “beat the daylights” out of his decoys, the large tom that Joel had his eye on simply wondered off.

Joel had to make a second choice.

His eye settled on the next likely bird, another mature tom that was slightly smaller than the other Joel had been watching.

With instinctive shooting, it’s literally pick a spot and let the arrow fly, and that’s what Joel did. The bird didn’t travel more than ten yards before it stopped moving. Interestingly, it turns out that turkeys willingly savage not only decoys, but their fallen brethren as well.

They amassed on the turkey that Joel had just shot, beating it viciously. The hens then moved to a set of hen decoys and went on the attack, as well.

The hens lured another male turkey within range of Joel’s longbow. He ended up making another great shot and harvested another great bird.

“I got both with a longbow,” Joel said proudly. “That was a pretty exciting and a pretty enjoyable hunt.”

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Hunting for a Home IN THE GILLETTE REAL ESTATE MARKET he homebuying process can be a very exciting and fun time in your life, but can also be stressful and perhaps even discouraging. How will you choose the perfect home? Can you even afford to be a homeowner? What will your monthly payments be? Do you qualify? What neighborhood meets your needs? Where do you even start?

By understanding the homebuying progression and learning the key tactics for house hunting and negotiating, you can reduce the stress and betterposition yourself to enjoy the excitement of the process.

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THERE ARE MANY GOOD REASONS TO BUY A HOME Pride of ownership gives you and your family a sense of security and stability. It’s a place to make your own, decorate with your style, and an investment in your future. Even though real estate has seen both highs and lows, over time it has consistently appreciated. Owning your own home has its tax

benefits as well, allowing homeowners to deduct the interest on annual taxes and build equity as the years of ownership pass.

The length of the homebuying process varies for each individual. The average buyer will spend anywhere from 3-5 months thinking about buying a home, 30-60 days house hunting, less than a week in making an offer and negotiating terms and typically 30-45 days to close. It all starts with shopping for a mortgage and ends with the closing on a home.

KNOW WHAT YOU CAN SPEND As soon as you have decided to invest in a home, find out what you are qualified to spend. This will give you a better idea of the home you can afford and will narrow your home search.

Once you are pre-approved, sellers will know that you are ready to buy. To get prequalified, you will need to find a mortgage lender. Mortgage lenders can be found at your bank or at a mortgage

brokerage. Shop around; after all, a mortgage is a product, just like a car, so the price and terms may be negotiable. Compare all of the costs because shopping, comparing and negotiating may save you thousands of dollars in the end.

To get pre-qualified, your lender will require certain documentation from you such as your income, money you have in savings, and any investments.

Upon review, your lender will determine the amount you qualify for. Later on, your lender will require that you provide financial documents such as paystubs, W-2 statements, bank account statements, etc.

This will verify to the lender your current financial status. There are many types of loans made available for home buyers, from First Time Homeowners, to RD (Rural Residential), Conventional and more.

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Remember, your agent can show you any home listed on the MLS, even if they are not the listing agent.

After you have been pre-qualified, finding the right real estate agent is a crucial part of the process. There is no benefit to going at it without an agent because buyers don’t pay the agent’s commission — sellers do!

Agents have knowledge of the housing market and current market trends, are experts in negotiating on your behalf, and will make the transaction of buying a home less stressful.

When finding a realtor to work for you, ask around. Ask your family or friends to refer you to one they have had a good experience with, read reviews and, most importantly, schedule a face-to-face appointment with them to see if you connect. This will help you finalize your important decision on who you want to work with.

FINDING YOUR DREAM HOME Let the fun begin! Now that you have taken care of getting qualified and have hired an agent, it’s time to find your dream home!

To make the home buying process more efficient, write down a list of your needs and wants.

What type of home: single family, townhome?

What area of town: downtown, country? Do

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you want an area that is close to certain schools, neighborhoods, or close to your job? How many bedrooms and bathrooms do you want and need?

Identifying these factors will better guide you and omit the homes that don’t meet your checklist, which can quickly reduce the time and amount of stress that you invest in your search.

Homes listed for sale have a huge online presence. According to NAR (National Association of Realtors) 51 percent of home buyers in 2017 found the home they purchased on the internet.

Searching for homes online can be a bit overwhelming, but having a list of your wants and needs and knowing what you qualify for can narrow the search a great deal. Make a short list of the homes that you are interested in and your real estate agent will set up all showing appointments so that you can look at the potential homes. Your real estate agent can also search all current listings through the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) that help meet your criteria. And remember, your agent can show you any home listed on the MLS, even if they are not the listing agent.

Open houses are the most convenient way to get a sense of what you want and like in a house. Typically, open houses are held on Thursday

evenings and on Sundays, because these days prove most successful for offers. Choose to view homes that most closely meet your criteria and visit as many as possible. “Comparison shopping” is very important, and you will learn more about the housing market with every house you walk through.

YOU FOUND THE PERFECT HOME Now what? You found the perfect home, the one that has the exact number of bedrooms and bathrooms, in a desirable neighborhood, close to the school of your choice, in your price range! Your real estate agent will guide you on what sort of offer to present to the sellers. Several factors can come into play when making an offer on a home, such as the current market conditions, listing price, days the home has been on the market, value of comparable homes in the same neighborhood and how much you want the home. Once you and the seller have come to terms on a price, the house will go under contract for a period of time until all steps have been completed.

After the home has gone under contract, you will want to set up a home inspection. Your real estate

agent will usually help you arrange to have the home inspected to check for structural damage or things that may need replaced or repaired. Having your home inspected protects you by giving you the opportunity to renegotiate or withdraw your offer if the inspection reveals substantial material damage. Your inspector will give you a report on their findings. At that point, you may ask the seller to repair or replace anything on the property before closing. Typically, one day before closing occurs you will have a walk-through with your agent to ensure that all of the agreed-upon repairs have either been accomplished or arrangements have been made for them to be done.

While the house is under contract your lender will order an appraisal. A bank will not finance a home for more than it’s worth, so obtaining your loan depends on the appraisal. An appraisal is an expert’s determination of what the home is worth.

If the appraisal comes in lower than the price you offered, chances are you will have to renegotiate or bring cash to closing. If it come in higher, you already have some built-in equity.

CLOSING DAY It’s finally here, that day you have waited for; time to close on your new home. At closing, you will sign all of the paperwork required to complete the purchase. This paperwork includes all loan documents as well as the title documents. After signing is completed, the keys are yours and it’s time to make your house a home!

Buying a home is a long-term commitment and requires spending a large amount of money.

Never hesitate to ask questions! Ask as many questions as needed, whether it be to your mortgage lender or to your real estate agent, to help you better understand the entire home buying process. You will feel much better about the transaction if you stay informed and you have a clear understanding of each step along the way!

HAPPY HOUSE HUNTING! By: Jaelene Ritterhouse for 82717

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Some of us come to the Cowboy State to hunt for a new way of life — a new lifestyle.

Hunting for Something Different yoming… when you think of hunting here, you generally think of elk, antelope, moose, and Bighorn sheep … just to name a few! Hunting is a lifestyle in this great state and people travel from far and wide to experience it. Hunting for food, hunting for trophy, hunting as a family tradition, or hunting with your buddies … it’s what you do.

You may (or may not) be surprised to know that some of us come to the Cowboy State to hunt for a new way of life — a new lifestyle. One that includes wide open spaces, a relaxed way of life, and more. Take me for example.

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“BIG CITY GIRL” BEGINNINGS I grew up in the Denver metro area, where I lived in neighborhoods with houses too close to each other. I learned to drive on the crazy highways of

I-25 and I-70 (including the disastrous ‘mouse trap’ where the two conjoined!), the twisting and turning roads of the Rocky Mountains and in the ever-increasing congested traffic found all over the suburbs including Westminster, up and down Wadsworth (aka highway 287) and – wait for it – Boulder (home to the University of Colorado).

As my life changed and I moved around the city, I found myself growing evermore impatient with the ridiculous traffic, over-crowded neighborhoods and ‘I-have-to-pay-what!?’ housing costs.

In 2008, I had the pleasure of meeting and working with a Gillette-native at a website design and internet marketing company in Golden, Colorado. She and I got to be good friends and stayed in touch when she moved back to Gillette to marry her dream guy.

Fast forward to 2011, and they called to offer me a job in Gillette. I considered myself a liberal “big city girl,” but was looking for a change, so I

said WHY NOT! I had nothing and no one tying me to Colorado so, after a short weekend look-see trip, I moved – lock, stock and television – to the small town of Gillette.

TALK ABOUT CULTURE SHOCK! There were a few things that I instantly appreciated like affordable housing and hardly any traffic – traffic jams here consisted of two pickup trucks and me! Antelope that wandered by our office every day (and proceeded to cross the highway … YIKES!) were also something new, different and wonderful.

But I could never figure out which direction I was going (the mountains are still to the west but you can’t SEE them from most parts of this city). Plus, I was the bluest (read liberal) person I knew living in a decidedly red state. If that weren’t enough, I had to drive a couple hours to do any JUNE / JULY 2018

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‘real’ shopping. Nothing against big box stores, but when you’re used to have 20 of them close by, only having two was rough. I was a fish out of water and longed for my comfy lifestyle back in Colorado.

(Or so I thought at the time.)

After about 18 months, I sadly told my friends and employers that I was moving back to the lifestyle I once knew and was decidedly more comfortable with. Once again, I pack up my worldly belongings and headed south to the metro area and comforts of where I thought was home.

When I moved back to Colorado, I spent the better part of three years feeling completely unsettled. I moved from place to place around the north end of the metro area hunting for the lifestyle I was craving. Hunting for a home, a town, a neighborhood where I could be truly at home and relax at the end of a long day. Where I could feel a certain serenity in my surroundings and lifestyle.

GIVE ME A HOME WHERE THE ANTELOPE ROAM I finally landed in Erie, Colorado (a suburb of

Boulder). After about two months living there, as I was driving home from the grocery store one afternoon, I suddenly realized what my problem was: I was living in the wrong place.

I stopped at the top of the hill, looked out over the city and thought … pick this town up, move it farther away from the Rocky Mountains and I’d be in Gillette. I’d be living a laid back, slow, contented lifestyle that would feed my soul and my need for open space – breathing room, if you will.

I spent several months online checking the job ads for Gillette, as did my friends on my behalf.

Then, about eight months later … BAM! I got the call. Yep – my friends … my sweet, caring, youknow-you-should-never-have-left-Gillette-in-thefirst-place friends … called and offered me a job with them, again.

THE HUNT IS OVER Three months later, I’m BAAACK! I couldn’t be happier. The slower pace of this little burg is exactly what my soul had always needed. The weather is very comparable to Colorado and, no, the wind is not always blowing!

I see pronghorn antelope, horses and cows on my drive to and from work pretty much every day. I can get across town in 12-15 minutes. If the local big box stores don’t have what I need, I order it online. I can drive about 45-minutes and be at an amazing Devil’s Tower National Monument. A little farther on and I’m in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Life is slow here. Slow and steady and perfect. This little town includes a wonderful range of white-collar, blue-collar and what I like to call striped-collar workers (a cross between the two, of course). Folks that work hard and play hard. There are lots of community events to attend, including concerts and parades, that really bring the community together.

It took me moving out of my comfort zone to realize what my TRUE comfort zone actually was. I had to hunt for the lifestyle I longed for and found it in Gillette.

Whether you come here to hunt as a lifestyle or for a lifestyle, Wyoming – especially Gillette – will not disappoint.

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Life After the Storm n a Friday afternoon, the first of June, thunderstorms rolled in as they often do in summer.

No one thought much of the storm as it developed; even Campbell County Emergency Management Coordinator David King, who was out of town at the time, didn’t expect any problems.

It wasn’t until shortly before noon that the National Weather Service put out its first warnings, which at that point were just a severe thunderstorm watch.

A little more than 90 minutes later, a storm spotter reported a tornado at the Eight Mile subdivision, west of Gillette. It would be one of four that day.

A smaller tornado nearly hit Dry Fork Station, but the county was lucky to only incur minor damages to some equipment and a mine control room. The Oriva Hills subdivision was not so lucky.

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NO WAIL At 1:37 p.m., King triggered the county’s tornado sirens, but nothing happened. “The sirens did not go into (a) wail,” King said at a press conference in June. The problem, King explained, turned out to be a battery that supplies electricity to the siren system.

When the power went out, it had malfunctioned.

The system never lost power although, somehow, the battery that is supposed to keep it running when it loses power had actually prevented the system from receiving the power it never lost.

The problem has since been addressed, and King said the county is going to be providing an app that will allow citizens to report the response of siren tests. This will allow further improvements to the system.

The tornado that hit Oriva Hills — the

second to spawn that day — was the strongest of the four. Winds inside the twister were estimated to be around 136 mph. It touched down about 10 miles northwest of Gillette at 1:41 p.m. and moved across the subdivision in an east-northeast direction.

No major injuries or deaths were reported, but 25 homes sustained damages. Four of those were completely destroyed.

DEBRIS FIELD In the morning after, residents of Oriva Hills found themselves surrounded by a field of debris: insulation, splintered wood, household items, shingles, and clothes. All of which was spread out over acres of arid hill country.

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information coordinator for Campbell County.

The Salvation Army is facilitating cash donations, which provide the greatest flexibility for what the victims need, and all the money is going directly to the victims.

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adjusters to finish their assessments.

As these initial steps towards a full recovery were being made, there was still a question as to what to do with all the wreckage that was spread out over the hills west of Gillette.

Campbell County immediately stepped in to offer assistance with free landfill disposal for the materials. But to avoid a free-for-all, the county sent out a letter that appeared to limit each affected resident to four free dumps. The letter also stated that the free dumps were limited to a total of four tons.

Saundra Phillips spoke for the impacted residents at a county commission meeting four days after the tornado hit, saying that four free dumps wouldn’t be enough. A single modular home could easily take 30.

The commission explained to Phillips that the county was willing to accommodate any of the impacted residents, they merely had set some boundaries to accompany the offer in an effort to keep things from getting out of control. “We didn’t want to say unlimited dumps in perpetuity,” Environmental Services Manager Matt Olsen said, speaking after the meeting.

VOLUNTEERS Even though the county was willing to provide landfill services to the impacted residents, the job of getting the detritus from Oriva Hills to the landfill was a wholly separate task that would require hundreds of volunteers to pick up the trash by hand, piece-by-piece. The Salvation Army and The Red Cross, along with several other groups, stepped in to help. It was a massive undertaking.

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Eleven days later, county officials, along with organizers of the volunteer efforts, held a press conference to provide information and solicit help for the recovery efforts. “This is my serious call for volunteers,” local Salvation Army Director Jenny Hartung said at the conference. By that point volunteers had put in 2,500 hours of cleanup time and managed only to cover about two percent of the entire debris field.

In addition to getting people to help pick up trash, they also needed people with ATVs and side-by-sides, as well as skilled, experienced fencers.

Miles of fencing had been destroyed and residents of the area were eager to get their livestock back out in the fields. Often, insurance doesn’t cover the cost of such repairs.

At the conference, the message was not only that the victims of the tornado need help, but they would need that help well into the future. “The families are going to have needs for quite a while to come,” said Ivy McGowan-Castleberry, public

Cleanup and fence-repair efforts have continued through the month of June and into July.

Scott Drown, one of the affected homeowners, said that after the tornado his home was “totally gone.” He said he’s grateful for everything people are doing to help him get his life back on track.

For work, Drown commutes between Wyoming and North Dakota and is gone for long periods of time. He said he takes some comfort in knowing the help continues while he’s away trying to earn a living. “That was cool just to have people still on it while I was gone for work,” he said.

Drown is especially appreciative of the efforts made by Steve Barbour, who has been a leading organizer throughout the endeavor. During the cleanup period, Steve’s wife, Georgia Barbour, passed away. She had also been volunteering her time and efforts. “I really felt bad for him,” Drown said. “He’s one of those people who kept going after the initial phase of the cleanup.”

As Drown looks to rebuild, he said it could be a lengthy process. With the economy of Gillette much improved, contractors can be harder to come by.

“Things could be strung out for a while,” he said. And while there are many challenges ahead for Drown, he said it’s people like the Barbours, and the hundreds of other volunteers, who have made the going a lot easier.

“I just can’t thank them enough,” Drown said.

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