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In this Tuesday, June 27, 2017, photo, Amy Smith, front, moves branches as Darren Bressler cuts them down from a large tree that fell in Laramie, Wyo. Wind gusts of up to 90 mph knocked out power and downed trees in Laramie on Tuesday. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this Tuesday, June 27, 2017, photo, people look at an uprooted tree at La Bonte Park in Laramie, Wyo.in Laramie, Wyo. Wind gusts of up to 90 mph knocked out power and downed trees in Laramie on Tuesday. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this Tuesday, June 27, 2017, photo, Song Win Kempany, left, and her mother, Hephzibah Tate, right, survey a damaged tree in Laramie, Wyo. Wind gusts of up to 90 mph knocked out power and downed trees in Laramie on Tuesday. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this June 21, 2017 photo, Alex Kristiansen explains the fabrication process of morphing a flat piece of aluminum into a motorcycle gas tank at WyoTech in Laramie, Wyo. About nine years ago, Kristiansen was sitting at home in Fredrikstad, Norway, watching Chip Foose rebuild a ’56 Chevy Bel Air on the TV show “Overhaulin” “We don’t have a lot of car shows in Norway, but I loved to watch ‘Overhaulin’’, when I saw they were at a school, I said, ‘I’m going,’” Kristiansen said. (Ike Fredregill/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this June 21, 2017 photo, peering through the trunk cavity of a 1970 Ford Maverick, Alex Kristiansen checks his welds on a roll cage he built for the soon-to-be drag racer at WyoTech in Laramie, Wyo. About nine years ago, Kristiansen was sitting at home in Fredrikstad, Norway, watching Chip Foose rebuild a ’56 Chevy Bel Air on the TV show “Overhaulin” “We don’t have a lot of car shows in Norway, but I loved to watch ‘Overhaulin’’, when I saw they were at a school, I said, ‘I’m going,’” Kristiansen said. (Ike Fredregill/Boomerang staff/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this May 27, 2017, photo, Dan Watson looks down at the calf branding from atop a horse at the Cow Camp Ranch at the Cow Camp Ranch outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this May 27, 2017, photo, a "W" is branded onto the side of a calf at Cow Camp Ranch outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this May 27, 2017, photo, Pennie Cowdell rides with her son Spade as her daughter Ravada follows behind at the Cow Camp Ranch outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Ike Fredregill/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this May 27, 2017, photo, Laramie Boomerang reporter Ike Fredregill vaccinates a calf during Branding Day at Cow Camp Ranch outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this May 27, 2017, photo, participants in Branding Day at the Cow Camp Ranch bow their heads for a prayer prior to the start of the calf branding outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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With barbless wire, Karl Lankford said less wildlife will get tangled in his fence located at the base of Sheep Mountain outside of Laramie, Wyo., meaning more animals for the rest of the public to enjoy. (Ike Fredregill/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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01_Karl Lankford tests the tension of his new wildlife-friendly fence on May 15, 2017 as Wyoming Game and Fish Senior Game Warden Bill Brinegar talks with him about how the new fence will reduce the number of elk, deer and antelope affected by the cow pasture barrier at the base of Sheep Mountain outside of Laramie, Wyo. (Ike Fredregill/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Feb. 22, 2017, photo, Milton Ontiveroz holds three pencil sharpeners - including his favorite, a nose-shaped sharpener, and given to him by his children - in his office at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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This photo taken Feb. 3, 2017, shows the shop of Tom Mattimore where he works on shoes at his shop on Third Street in Laramie, Wyo. The shelves, walls and floors are filled with decades-old equipment used in practicing a trade — handcrafting shoes and boots — whose heyday has come and gone. But the new creations that leave the workshop find their way to customers around the world thanks to that modern invention, the internet. (Shannon Broderick /Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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This photo taken Feb. 3, 2017, shows Tom Mattimore working on a shoe at his shop on Third Street in Laramie, Wyo. The shelves, walls and floors are filled with decades-old equipment used in practicing a trade — handcrafting shoes and boots — whose heyday has come and gone. But the new creations that leave the workshop find their way to customers around the world thanks to that modern invention, the internet. (Shannon Broderick /Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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This photo taken Feb. 3, 2017, shows shoes sitting on a shelf in Tom Mattimore's shop in Laramie, Wyo. The shelves, walls and floors are filled with decades-old equipment used in practicing a trade — handcrafting shoes and boots — whose heyday has come and gone. But the new creations that leave the workshop find their way to customers around the world thanks to that modern invention, the internet. (Shannon Broderick /Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 photo, Anistyn Holt, a student at Laramie High School, pets Henry the hose at the Ark Equestrian Center in Laramie, Wyo. Ark has expanded its equine program to include classes from the Albany County School District. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 photo, Kelby Woolf, right, reads a story he wrote while Ark Arena Manager Ed Ulrich looks on at the Ark Equestrian Center in Laramie, Wyo. Ark has expanded its equine program to include classes from the Albany County School District. (Shannon Broderick/Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP) /Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)

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In this April 30, 2014 photo, University of Wyoming assistant professor of computer science Jeff Clune, right, points out various components of a test model robot to undergraduate student Tyler Hughes, left, and Laramie High School student Jingyu Li, at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Laramie, Wyo. (AP Photo/Laramie Daily Boomerang, Jeremy Martin)

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In this Thursday, April 10, 2014 photo, Sally Palmer, a University of Wyoming department of religious studies adjunct assistant lecturer, walks on a footbridge over Spring Creek in LaPrele Park in Laramie, Wyo. She teaches classes about life beyond death, how religion and science can coexist, and how religions compare to one another. (AP Photo/Laramie Boomerang, Jeremy Martin)