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oil star Wyoming Bl Sunday, May 1 1 988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Pre-hitoric Bairoil sites excite scientists Paleo-Indian village may be among area discoveries UP N'T- which ranged from 10,000 to 12,000 years ago; and Folsom which ranged from 9,000 to 10,000 years ago. The sites already located and features identified are "tantalizing clues" for scientists who believe they "may come up with Paleo-lndian occupation" in the area, Berrigan said. The findings are important because "early man sites are very rare indeed." The chances that archaeologists will find a Paleo-Indian site are rare and an intact, sub-surface house pit is even more rare, she said. But in the Bairoil archaeological district, which encompasses the Wertz and Lost Soldier oil fields and town of Bairoil, three definite kinds of house types have been identified.

At least 70 surface sites have led archaeologists to a large number of stone circles, known as teepee rings, conical pole lodges and house pits, Berrigan said. Most of the house pits are below the ground surface. They were excavated into the ground by early man and could have been roofed with skins or willows. Others, known as wickiups, were probably covered with brush, grass or willows and resembled small domed huts, she said. The house pits were "probably, actually just small brush huts," Ted Hoefer, Western Wyoming College manager for archaeological Services, said.

Those house pits were about 3'i By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent BAIROIL Ancient native campsites found near here date back 10,000 years and may be the remnants of the only known Paleo-lndian era village in the world, some independent archaeologists say. While other scientists do not believe the sites found here over the past two years constituted a village, they agree that the sites will make a large contribution to Wyoming pre-history because they are extremely rare. More than 70 surface sites, 34 sub-surface sites and 400 features have been found during construction of the Amoco carbon dioxide (C02) project near Bairoil during the past two years. The sites include what are believed to be rare Paleo-Indian house pits and the only mastodon bones ever found in Wyoming, archaeologists say. "Paleo-lndian structural remains are extremely rare.

They're about as common as black-footed ferrets," Kemmerer archaeologist Doug McKay said. "This will make a very large contribution to Wyoming prehistory," archaeologist Dianne Berrigan said. Berrigan is conducting a research study for Amoco to assess the significance of the findings near Bairoil. Archaeological sites and features identified in studies being done by Amoco date back to two early Paleo-Indian cultures: Clovis Ring marks the site of a pre-historic dwelling with a prepared clay floor, according to Amoco's consulting archaeologist Mavis Greer. Archaeologists believe the hole in the floor was a cooking pit.

LOST I WERTZ SOLDIER FIELD FIELD 1 I claimed that there is just no precedence in the Rocky Mountain region (for that) other than real recent teepee rings," Hoefer said. "Those sites out there are nothing less than the fossil record of our species in Wyoming," McKay said. McKay and other archaeologists also suggest the number of house pits identified may mean the area was actually the site of a Paleo-Indian village. He said he is not aware of any known Paleo-lndian village anywhere in the world. But Berrigan said she doesn't think the house pits mean there was a village at the site.

Instead she believes there may have been encampments. In her mind a village is more permanent, something she likened to present-day towns, while an encampment was more likely to be set up for a time and then moved. Berrigan believes "it is very possible and probable, even, that house pits were constructed and used part of the year." She said in Wyoming even until 100 years ago people mostly lived by hunting animals and gathering plants. That Bairoil' irnil' Sweetwater County 1-80 COLORADO CEE opposes 'Quest in Riverton school RIVERTON (AP) A program designed to give Riverton Middle School students greater self-discipline and self-respect is meeting with opposition from parents who are concerned the effort invades families' privacy. "It invades the privacy of the home and influences children in the areas of values and standards that may, in some instances, be contrary to those taught at home," said Gueleta Osborne, one of the opposing parents.

Citizens for Excellence in Education, a group that has examined the school's "Quest" program and other similar efforts, insists that in its drug and alcohol education unit Quest teaches students to establish their own values. "It's wrong," said Osborne. "We should teach an absolute of and it should be based upon how the parents feel, and their standards and values in their own home." But Middle School Principal Terry Statton argued that Quest is not much different from others already used at the school. "The material is of a higher quality, and it involves parents, which we haven't had in the past, and specific training for teachers, i which we haven't had in the past," he said. Sullivan endorses Sharratt for Congress CHEYENNE Gov.

Mike Sullivan Friday endorsed Democratic congressional candidate Bryan Sharratt, who managed Sullivan's own successful 1986 campaign. Sharratt, a Wheatland attorney and University of Wyoming trustee, is the only announced Democratic candidate for the U.S. House. He is seeking the congressional seat now held by Republican incumbent Rep. Dick Cheney.

In a prepared statement, Sullivan said he is endorsing Sharratt because "he follows through on commitments, and he knows and cares about the people of this state." "I have worked very closely with Bryan," Sullivan said. "He is very thorough in his research of the issues. He makes fair and informed decisions. He solicits people's opinions and listens when they give them." Powell parents can preview AIDS class POWELL (AP) Parents of Powell High School students will get a chance to preview a class on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome before it is taught to their children in early May. The AIDS awareness program will be taught to freshmen and sophomores during physical education classes, while juniors and seniors will be taught in United States History and American Government classes.

Juniors and seniors not enrolled in those classes will receive the training in audio visual rooms. Parents wishing to preview the class will be able to attend a screening Tuesday when two parts of the three-part video series on AIDS will be shown. Parents will also be asked to sign permission slips allowing their children to participate in the class. UW's Berger to head Missouri museum SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Jerry Berger, assistant director and curator of the University of Wyoming Art Museum, has been named director of the Springfield Art Museum.

Berger, 45, was selected by the Springfield museum board of directors from four finalists. He is scheduled to start work June 1. Berger, a native of Wyoming who has a degree in art history from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, joined the school's art museum as curator when the museum was established in 1972. He was named assistant director even years ago. Ohio lottery millionaire finds seclusion in Moran will bow to demand, restrict some basin hunting Backs 4-point rule near Meeteetse I Dwelling floor meters square in size, Hoefer said.

When Amoco put in a 20-mile pipeline spur to transport carbon dioxide (C02) from the Exxon project in southwest Wyoming to its new C02 plant near Bairoil, 34 sites, many believed to be house pits, were bisected, he said. Sub-surface cultural resources were found at 31 of 32 oil well pads put in place last year, BLM Casper District Archaeologist Jude Carino said. Berrigan said the information collected shows the house pits in the Bairoil area will double the number of structures like them known of in the entire state. In addition to the house types, the only mastadon bones ever found in Wyomine were located in the Wertz oil Herd in 1986, Berrigan said. Those large animals ranged during the late Pleistocene era, from 25,000 to 75,000 years ago.

Archaeologists differ on the significance of the materials found in the Bairoil area. "It definitely has a regional significance in the fact that if there are as many house pits as are being MIKE SULLIVAN Disagrees with Sen. Stroock Legislature's cuts not overly kind to UW budget LARAMIE (AP) The Legislature was not overly generous with the University of Wyoming's budget, according to Gov. Mike Sullivan. Sullivan, in a news conference in Laramie, said he disagreed with statements by state Sen.

Tom Stroock that the Legislature had been generous with Wyoming's only four-year university. "I looked at all the agency budgets and I cut the university, I think, ($2 million) or $3 million, looking at some priorities the university had given me," he said. "I submitted a budget to the Joint Appropriations Committee, they went through the same set of priorities and cut the budget again. I think they picked some of the same things I did except it got doubled up." Sullivan said he feels the university's budget may have been trimmed once too often. "But if the trustees are able to accommodate those changes without compromising the educational programs here, I think, then I could be wrong," he said.

The Democrat added, however, that he is not surprised he and Stroock, R-Natrona, a co-chairman of the JAC, did not agree on the cuts. 4-- John and Mavis Greer meant they were nomads, following game or growing seasons, she said. The most significant aspect of the Bairoil site according to Berrigan is the abundance of material spanning such a wide time period from Clovis to present-day in such a small geographical area. The area is located in the northeast corner of the Continental Divide Basin which separates the southern and northern Rocky Mountains. Because of the natural pass in the area, people have been able to move from the plains into the basins of Utah and Colorado and also hunt and gather in the mountain zones, Berrigan said.

"For hunters and gatherers any place that offered ecological diversity in terms of both plant resources and animal resources would be highly valuable," Ber rigan said. The location of the ar-chaeoloigical features is at a major pass through the Rockies into the great basin, Berrigan said. "I think that is why there are so many sites concentrated where we're finding them." MOUNT MORAN Attracts lottery winner "It's Ed's thing," she wrote. "Spotting wildlife conies naturally to his Daniel Boone instincts. Down the road apiece at Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, the ice has melted enough to create a small open pond where he's discovered fat beavers and their babies hanging out with loons, swans and Canadian geese.

We go there evenings just to sit awhile and watch as the sun sets behind the mountains." Springtime in the Rockies, however, can be a littler-harsher than in the Midwest, the couple has learned. The water pipes in the cabin were frozen when the Halls arrived on Easter and they have had to get used to living with an outhouse, without a shower and without insulation. But Mrs. Hall said the two are enjoying their stay despite the problems. When Mrs.

Hall picked the winning numbers of the lottery, she won $1.4 million, doled out in 20 annual payments of $56,000. The winnings have been put in a Cincinnati bank and the money has not changed life for the family, she said. "The secret to being rich is not that you have money," she said. "The real secret is knowing how to be broke." Lamont Carbon County Rawlins AREA SHOWN WYOMINpy Corsi said the Game and Fish decided to endorse the outfitters and landowners' request because of "strong public opinion" in favor of the restrictions. But Corsi said state game managers still do not believe limiting kills to older animals will increase the number of trophy anifnals in the area.

Corsi said the department believes the 4-point rule simply increases the hunting pressure on larger animals. "It is still our contention that if you exert pressure on older age groups, those are the ones you are going to kill," he said. Despite that belief, the Game and Fish will endorse the recommendation because it will not harm deer and elk population in the area, Corsi said. He said limiting the hunting harvest to trophy animals will actually reduce hunting pressure in the area. 'Many hunters may choose to hunt in another area, Corsi said, because the 4-point restriction will the number of animals a hunter may kill, reducing a hunter's chances of success.

That reduced hunting pressure will allow the elk and deer herds in the area to build up, Corsi said, then the number of hunters will increase again. Corsi said the Game and Fish believes the best way to increase the number of trophy animals is to keep hunting areas open to all sizes of deer and elk so the hunting focus is not on older animals, and then simply limit the number of hunters allowed in an area. Generally, the big game herds in Wyoming are in good shape, Corsi said, although deer herds on the eastern slopes of the Big Horn Mountains have still not completely recovered from the larger winter kill that occurred five years ago and seasons in those areas are still abbreviated. MORAN (AP) Living in a secluded area in Wyoming's mountains and doing without normal luxuries such as showers and insulation does not seem to be the kind of experience that would be attractive to a millionaire. But for Chris Hall, whose win in the Ohio Lottery made her an instant millionaire, her daughter's cabin north of Moran between the Grand Teton National Park and the Teton Wilderness is the perfect place to stay, at least for six months.

"We're having a wonderful time," she said. "We're loving it. For being in the middle of nowhere, this is a beautiful nowhere." Mrs. Hall and her husband Ed sold their home in Cincinnati this month to move to the rustic cabin, where they plan to remain until October to see the "four seasons of Wyoming." Their neighbors in Cincinnati were divided over the idea. "We received two reactions from the neighbors when we said we were going to Wyoming in the middle of April," Mrs.

Hall said. "One was 'You're The second was 'It's everybody's The Halls did not know that winter conditions can continue in western Wyoming into the summer months and arrived on Easter to find the cabin's door covered with 4 feet of snow. "What if we had known how deep the snow would really be?" she asked in a letter to friends. "We've never been noted for having good sense, and anyway, this time there are no regrets. Think what we might have missed and never known.

It's turned out to be an adventure, exciting some of the time and much more fun than we expected." Mrs. Hall hopes to become a newspaper columnist, writing about motherhood and perhaps a bit about nature. She describes trips to the post office in Moran, 5 miles away, as scouting expeditions. By SCOTT FARRIS Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to bow to the wishes of Big Horn Basin outfitters and landowners and restrict most of the elk and deer harvest near Meeteetse to animals with antlers having four-points or more. Landowners and outfitters complained the hunting areas around Meeteetse are short of large trophy animals attractive to their customers, and petitioned the Game and Fish to limit the hunting harvest in the area to deer and elk bulls whose antlers have at least four points.

That request was endorsed by Terry Killough, supervisor of District 2 which enompasses the Big Horn Basin, and Rex Corsi, the department's chief of game, said the department staff will concur with that request. The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission is scheduled to meet Monday to set next fall's hunting seasons. REX CORSI Chief Game Warden mm a yj.