Northern Wyoming News July 9, 2020 — B3

There is 1968 Bell Camper Trailer VIN#152458 being sold at the Sheriff ’s Public Auction on the Front Steps of the Washakie County Courthouse on July 10, 2020 at 10:00 am. This sale is to satisfy a lien against Jim Jones for Storage on the above listed trailer by RC Properties, LLC in the amount of $500.00

July 2-9, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED BUDGET

TEN SLEEP RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing for Ten Sleep Rural Fire Protection District for the fi scal year ending June 30, 2021, which is currently being considered by the Board of the Ten Sleep Rural Fire Protection District, will be held at Ten Sleep Fire Hall 417 5th Street, Ten Sleep, Wyoming on the 15th day of July 2020, at 8:00 p.m., at which time any and all persons interested may appear and be heard respecting such budget. A summary of such budget follows:

SUMMARY OF BUDGET

Administration ........................................................$ 6,300.00Operation ................................................................$ 90,000.00Indirect Costs ..........................................................$ 18,600.00Capital Outlay ........................................................$ 62,000.00 TOTAL EXPENDITURES, CASH REQUIREMENTS $ 176,900.00

TOTAL GENERAL FUND REQUIREMENTS $ 176,900.00

Total Cash, and Anticipated Revenues ................$ 86,059.00Financial Support Required ..................................$ 90,841.00

TOTAL GENERAL FUND REQUIREMENTS $ 176,900.00

Purpose: 1. Hearing on FY 2020-2021 Budget.

Myles Bush, Chairman

July 9, 2020

Change of Meeting Date

The regular meeting of the Washakie County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees has been changed to Wednesday, July 15, 2020. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. with the budget adop-tion hearing. The regular business meeting will follow. Adminis-tration Building, 1900 Howell Avenue.

July 9, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICEIn accordance with Wyoming Code, Section 21-3-110 (a) (ii), the fol-lowing list of warrants over $500.00 paid in June 2020 by Washakie County School District No. 1 is published as follows. From the General, Lunch, Activity,, Major Maintenance and Federal Funds:

AMAZON.COM, 6,235.80; BASIN MECHANICAL, INC., 57,483.40; BEHAVIOR ADVANTAGE, LLC, 4,900.00; BEN-NETT’S BODY CONSTRUCTION, INC., 4,265.00; BIG HORN CO-OP, 1,093.69; BLAIR’S MARKET, 643.92; BSN SPORTS LLC, 1,644.00; CAPITAL ONE BANK, 6,824.02; CDW GOVERNMENT, INC., 946.55; CENTRAL MAINTENANCE INSULATION, INC., 1,131.67; CITY OF WORLAND UTILITIES, 4,378.37; CODY WINNELSON CO., 1,819.98; COLLEGE BOARD, 4,080.00; COLORADO SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF & , 26,032.00; BLIND, ; COMPUCYCLE, 1,654.00; COWBOY SUPPLY HOUSE, 821.00; CUSHING TERRELL, 5,165.98; EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES, 5,240.00; ENGINEERING DESIGN ASSOCIATES, 1,700.00; FAS-TENAL COMPANY, 1,615.11; FIRE PROTECTION & SAFETY, 1,925.00; FLINN SCIENTIFIC INC., 954.62; GOTTSCHE RE-HAB CENTER, 1,032.00; GRANITE PEAK PUMP SERVICE, INC., 502.59; HEINEMANN, 26,571.65; HERRERA, EDWARD , 4,050.00; INSTRUCTURE, INC., 2,805.00; JOEL M. VINCENT LAW, 993.00; JOSTEN’S, 1,219.50; JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD, 1,405.60; KENNEDY ACE HARDWARE, 2,407.09; KING’S CAR-PET ONE, 8,839.09; LIFESTEPS OF WYOMING, 5,227.32; LONG BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC., 7,731.27; M-F ATHLETIC CO, 1,099.80; MID-AMERICAN RESEARCH CHEMICAL, 606.80; MONTGOMERY, STEPHANIE , 1,353.00; NAPA MOTOR SUP-PLY, INC., 1,273.38; NASCO - MODESTO, 1,069.79; NORCO INC., 4,520.81; NORTHERN WYOMING NEWS, 533.87; NORTHWEST COLLEGE, 12,987.00; NORTHWEST WY BOCES, 38,605.00; OR-GANIZATION FOR EDUCATIONAL , 8,831.20; TECHNOLOGY & CURRICULUM, ; OWL CREEK GRAPHICS, 1,028.40; PAVE-MENT MAINTENANCE, INC., 95,859.00; PINE COVE CON-SULTING, LLC, 42,939.00; RAKNESS, JODY , 3,078.56; REGION V BOARD OF COOPERATIVE, 47,187.50; RIDDELL, 2,663.69; ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER, 18,746.04; ROCKY MOUNTAIN STEAM CLEANING, 6,450.00; RT COMMUNICATIONS, INC., 1,813.16; RUDIS, 1,133.00; SCHOOL RISK RETENTION PRO-GRAM, 150,948.00; SERLKAY PRINTING, 2,571.00; SLOSSON EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, , 598.00; INC, ; SOLUTION TREE, INC., 10,880.00; STEP PUBLISHERS, LLC, 901.42; STERLING, 3,870.00; STEWART & STEVENSON POWER, INC, 510.18; STOTZ EQUIPMENT, 1,542.29; SUNSHINE OF-FICE PRODUCTS, 2,546.37; SWI LLC, 6,370.00; SYSCO FOOD SERVICES OF MONTANA, 52,833.85; TWEED’S WHOLESALE CO., 2,897.77; UNIVERSAL ATHLETIC, LLC, 9,443.55; VERIZON WIRELESS, 541.21; VIRILE ELECTRIC, 3,349.89; VOYAGER SOPRIS LEARNING INC., 6,910.20; WORLAND AQUATIC CEN-TER, 12,000.00; WORLAND STEAMWAY CARPET CLEANING, 2,440.00; WORLAND YOUTH LEARNING CENTER, 20,368.03; WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF , 6,000.00; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, ; WYOMING GAS COMPANY, 2,415.15; WYOMING SCHOOL-UNIVERSITY , 2,244.00; PARTNERSHIP, ; WYOMING STATE LIBRARY, 957.44; Y & S TECHNOLOGIES, 36,850.00.

July 9, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICENOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED BUDGET

WORLAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT #1

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing for Worland Fire Protection District #1 for the fi scal year ending June 30, 2021, which is currently being considered by the Board of the Worland Fire Protection District #1, will be held at the offi ce of the Dis-trict at 200 S. 5th Street, Worland, WY on the 16th day of July 2020, at 5:30 p.m., at which time any and all persons interested may appear and be heard respecting such budget. A summary of such budget follows:

SUMMARY OF BUDGET

Administration ........................................................$ 136,194.00Operation ................................................................$ 562,673.00Indirect Costs ..........................................................$ 163,451.00Capital Outlay ........................................................$ 1,000.00Expenditures Paid by Reserves ..............................$ 114,755.00 TOTAL EXPENDITURES, CASH REQUIREMENTS $ 992,472.00

TOTAL GENERAL FUND REQUIREMENTS $ 992,472.00

Total Cash, Reserves, and Anticipated Revenues Required .........................................................................$ 491,113.00Financial Support Required ..................................$ 501,359.00

TOTAL GENERAL FUND REQUIREMENTS $ 992,472.00

Purpose: 1. Hearing on FY 2020-2021 Budget.

Brad Horath, Chairman

July 9, 2020

CALL FOR BIDS—TECHNOLOGY Washakie County School District No. 1 is now accepting bids for the purchase of 150 Touchscreen Chromebooks. Specifi cations are available at the District offi ce, 1900 Howell Ave, Worland, WY 82401, phone 307-347-9286, or by contacting Jack Stott at jstott@wsh1.k12.wy.us. Bids will be due Tuesday, July 14, 2020 by 2:00 p.m. July 9, 2020

PUBLIC NOTICE

100 ways to inspire a kid to get outsideCHEYENNE — Kids

need the outdoors, now more than ever. The Wy-oming Game and Fish Department is officially announcing the launch of Director Brian Nesvik’s In-spire a Kid initiative with a checklist of 100 ideas and activities to help families have fun all year long. It’s called the WYO 100: An In-

spire a Kid checklist of out-door activities.

“I’m proud to officially launch the Inspire a Kid initiative to encourage people to take the time to show kids outdoor opportu-nities and mentor them in learning outdoor skills. It is meant to provide help and inspiration for families to head outdoors for fun - and

the WYO 100 checklist is a great resource to start off,” Nesvik said.

The WYO 100 is a launchpad for families to find fun activities they can do together outside. The list is suited for all levels of out-door experience. The goal is to give kids and adults ideas and resources for ac-tivities and trips to explore

Wyoming’s abundant wild-life and outdoor resources.

The checklist has activi-ties like: find a shed antler, learn to tie a new knot, find a bird feather or cook and eat a fish you catch. Down-load the full list to get start-ed.

“Nowadays, fewer kids are getting hands-on with nature and not as many

families are choosing to wander in the woods in search of a mountain stream. As a parent, I un-derstand the competition for time and the effort it takes to carry out a fami-ly outing, especially a new or unstructured activity,” Nesvik said. “However, kids need nature just as much as dance lessons or baseball, if

not more. It’s time to show our future generations why wildlife, outdoors and con-servation means so much to Wyoming.”

Families can find more activities, how-to guides and places to explore in Wyoming on the Inspire a Kid website. Sign up for an e- newsletter for monthly inspiration.

UW researchers look for answers as to why western bumblebees

are decliningA University of Wyoming

researcher and her Ph.D. student have spent the last three years studying the decline of the Western bumblebee. The two have been working with a group of bumblebee experts to fill in gaps of missing infor-mation from previous data collected in the western United States. Their goal is to provide information on the Western bumblebee to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service while it considers listing this species under the U.S. Endangered Spe-cies Act.

“The decline of the West-ern bumblebee is likely not limited to one culprit but, instead, due to several fac-tors that interact such as pesticides, pathogens, cli-mate change and habitat loss,” says Lusha Tronstad, lead invertebrate zoologist with the Wyoming Nat-ural Diversity Database (WYNDD). “Western bum-blebees were once the most abundant bumblebees on the West Coast of the U.S., but they are much less fre-quently observed there now. Pathogens (or parasites) are thought to be a major reason for their decline.”

Tronstad and Christy Bell, her Ph.D. student in the Department of Zoology and Physiology, from Lara-mie, are co-authors of a pa-per, titled “Western Bumble Bee: Declines in the United States and Range-Wide In-formation Gaps,” that was published online June 26 in Ecosphere, a journal that publishes papers from all subdisciplines of ecological science, as well as interdis-ciplinary studies relating to ecology.

The two are co-authors because they are members

of the Western Bumble Bee Working Group and serve as experts of the Western bumblebee in Wyoming, Tronstad says.

Other contributors to the paper are from the U.S. Geological Survey; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Cana-dian Wildlife Service; Xerc-es Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Ore.; British Columbia Min-istry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy; University of Hawaii-Hilo; U.S. Department of Agricul-ture; The Institute for Bird Populations; University of Vermont; Utah State Uni-versity; Ohio State Univer-sity; Denali National Park and Preserve; and the Roy-al Saskatchewan Museum.

This paper is the result of the Western Bumble Bee Working Group, which is a group of experts on this species who came togeth-er to assemble the state of knowledge on this species in the United States and Canada, Tronstad says. The paper shows both what is known and knowledge gaps, specifically in the lack of samples and lack of knowledge about the species. Some prime exam-ples of where spatial gaps in limited sampling exist include most of Alaska, northwestern Canada and the southwestern United States.

“Some areas in the U.S. have less bumblebee sam-pling in the past and pres-ent,” Tronstad explains. “This could be for a variety of reasons such as lack of funding for such invento-ries, lack of bee expertise in that state, etc.”

Using occupancy model-ing, the probability of de-tecting the Western bum-

blebee decreased by 93 percent from 1998-2018, Tronstad says. Occupan-cy modeling is a complex model that estimates how often the Western bumble-bee was detected from sam-pling events between 1998-2018 in the western United States.

“The data we assembled will be used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to inform its decision on whether or not to protect the Western bumblebee un-der the U.S. Endangered Species Act,” Tronstad says. “At WYNDD, we collect data, and that data is used by managers. Our mission is to provide the most up-to-date data on which man-agement decisions can be based.”

Tronstad says there are several things that home-owners or landowners can

do to help this species of bumblebee survive and thrive. These include:

-- Plant flowers that bloom throughout the sum-mer. Make sure these flow-ers have pollen and produce nectar, and are not strictly ornamental.

-- Provide a water source for bees. Tronstad says she adds a piece of wood to all of her stock tanks so bees can safely get a drink.

-- Provide nesting and overwintering habitat. Most bumblebees nest in the ground, so leaving patches of bare ground cov-ered with litter or small mammal holes will benefit these bees. Be sure not to work these areas until af-ter you see large bumble-bees (queen bees) buzzing around in the spring, usual-ly in April for much of Wy-oming, so you can find out

where they are nesting.Tronstad says Bell’s re-

search will continue this summer, as Bell will in-vestigate pathogens in the Rocky Mountains of Wyo-ming that affect Western bumblebees there. Max Packebush, a UW sopho-more majoring in microbi-ology and molecular biol-ogy, from Littleton, Colo.;

and Matt Green, a 2018 UW graduate from Cam-denton, Mo., will assist Bell in her research. NASA and the Wyoming Research Scholars Program will fund Packebush to conduct his work.

The U.S. Geological Sur-vey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funded the research for this paper.

COURTESY/ Lusha Tronstad PhotoChristy Bell sets up traps to collect Western bumblebees in southwestern Wyoming.