Officials move problem grizzly

CODY - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has trapped and relocated a 15-year-old female grizzly bear that killed a cow on a national forest grazing allotment west of Dubois.

The game department trapped and relocated the bear on Thursday.

It was released in the North Fork of the Shoshone River drainage, on U.S. Forest Service land about five miles east of Yellowstone National Park. The release site is within currently occupied grizzly habitat and inside the Grizzly Bear Conservation Area.

NWC offers bachelor's in ed

P O W E L L - Northwest College has teamed up with Valley City State University in North Dakota to offer a bachelor's degree program in elementary education on the Powell campus, according to a release.

Students will take their first two years of coursework through NWC to earn an associate's degree in elementary education, then continue in Powell their final two years taking VCSU classes. As VCSU graduates, they will be licensed as teachers in North Dakota, as well as meeting licensure requirements in Wyoming.

The first pilot group of students is taking core courses for the VCSU program at NWC this fall.

More details about the VCSU elementary education program at NWC are available online at {M7www.northwestcollege.edu/transfer or by contacting Pete Gjovik, an NWC faculty member, at (701) 845-7565 or {M7Pete.Gjovik@northwestcollege.edu.

WCC marks second year

LANDER n Wyoming Catholic College welcomes 32 new students and all the students from its inaugural class at its second annual Convocation Mass of the Holy Spirit on Monday, according to a release.

The freshman class returned to Lander this week from a 21-day backpacking excursion into the Wind River Range.

"Wyoming Catholic College offers a traditional liberal arts education that schools the whole person in all three human dimensions n the physical, intellectual and spiritual," said WCC President Rev. Robert Cook. "The freshman orientation is a healthy dose of the physical."

The school's interim campus is located on the grounds of Holy Rosary Church in Lander, where the Convocation Mass will be celebrated and which is serving as the location for classes. The mass begins at 10:30 a.m. and the public is invited to attend.

The College's permanent site is located on the 2,300-acre Broken Anvil Ranch 15 miles south of the city. A capital campaign is under way to finance construction of the new campus.

West Nile cases down

Seven human cases of West Nile virus have been reported to the Wyoming Department of Health this year, indicating a slower rate of infection across the state compared to the previous season, according to a release from the department.

Five cases have been reported among Fremont County residents, and one each from Goshen and Platte counties. There have been three males and four females; all have been adults.

WNV is spread by mosquitoes after they feed on infected birds and then bite people, other birds and animals.

In 2007, 184 WNV human cases and one death were reported in Wyoming.