Smoke
What started as a bit of haze and a whiff of smoke on Wednesday has smothered Cody, northern Wyoming, and several other states with the kind of hazardous conditions usually reserved for the worst days of summer. And it’s all billowing from the nation’s northern neighbor. The National Weather Service Office in Riverton has issued…
Shoshone National Forest officials are planning to burn thousands of acres in the northern half of the forest this spring. While exact times and dates aren’t avaialble, regional residents night see some smoky skies earlier than they might anticipate. Weather will dictate when and where fire management personnel complete the prescribed burns. During these yet-to-be-determined…
Both the Cody and Worland Offices are planning prescribed burns between March and May to improve landscapes and habitats near Lovell, Meeteetse, and Ten Sleep. The Bureau of Land Management Wind River/Bighorn Basin District plans to conduct prescribed fire projects within the Cody and Worland field office areas this spring as part of the B.L.M.’s…
Officials say that the Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Field Office plans to burn slash piles this fall and winter on BLM-administered lands in the Bighorn Mountains and Campbell County. Burning may begin mid-November and continue through April 2023. All prescribed burn projects are conducted in accordance with approved burn plans and burning is contingent…
Can the western U.S. beat the heat? Not according to this week’s forecasts, which means Wyoming will remain hot and wildfires will keep burning. For most of the summer, the word in the western and northwestern U.S. has been heated. Wyoming and several other states continue to struggle with record-breaking heat and severe drought conditions.…
The Bighorn Basin is under an Air Quality Alert until Tuesday afternoon due to persistent wildfire smoke in the air above western and central Wyoming. The National Weather Service Office in Riverton has issued an Air Quality Alert for western and central Wyoming. Issued at 11:52 a.m. Monday morning, the alert will remain in effect…
Thanks to a combination of large wildfires in Idaho and Oregon, the Bighorn Basin is likely to be covered in a dense smoke plume for the discernible future. The skies of the Bighorn Basin continue to be hazy and full of smoke. With only one minor wildfire in Wyoming, it means the smoke is blowing…
Several factors are contributing to the hazardous atmosphere surrounding Cody, which means residents need to be extra careful to stay safe and avoid wildfires. The National Weather Service (N.W.S) has two Hazardous Weather Outlooks in effect for Cody and northwest Wyoming on Friday, July 9. Normal summer conditions mix with abnormal phenomena in the current…
The Robertson Draw Fire in Custer Gallatin National Forest is over 20,000 acres and 0% contained, and the smoke is making the skies of Cody hazy and hazardous. Efforts to fight the ongoing Robertson Draw Fire continue. In three days since it was first reported, the wildfire has consumed 20,000 acres, and the results of…
By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday. Even as pollution emissions declined from other sources including vehicle exhaust and…