OFFICER: FRANCIS GRADERT

DEPARTMENT: Wyoming Game and Fish Department

DATE OF INCIDENT: April 24, 1973

DETAILS: Warden Gradert was live-trapping a beaver on Crow Creek, south of Cheyenne, Wyoming.  After the beaver was trapped Warden Gradert pulled the trap to his truck.  While inspecting the beaver for injuries Warden Gradert died of a sudden heart attack.