Wildfires
Due to dry conditions and local fire restrictions, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is banning open fires on all Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered lands within Hot Springs and Park Counties. These lands include Sunshine Wildlife Habitat Management Area west of Meeteetse and Sunlight Wildlife Habitat Management Area northwest of Cody. Open fires…
Started by a lightning strike on July 19th in the Shoshone National Forest, the Clearwater Fire continues to consume trees and undergrowth at a slow pace. Cooler temperatures and some light rain within the fire area have allowed for containment to increase to 62%. Yesterday, fire crews continued cleaning up brush and downed trees in…
The future of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is unknown due to longer wild fire seasons and shorter recovery periods between fires, according to a renowned landscape ecologist. Monica Turner, a Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology, says that due…
LAME DEER, Mont. (AP) — A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states. Several thousand people in Montana remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire advanced across the sparsely-populated Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. Meanwhile, California’s…
As wildfires stretch federal resources and personnel to their limits, the U.S. Forest Service moves into PL5 – with potentially dire consequences for Wyoming. Considering the massive wildfires burning in Wyoming and throughout the United States, the U.S. Forest Service made a sobering announcement. As of last week, the agency has entered Preparedness Level 5…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened California’s power supply. Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Arizona, Idaho and Montana accounted…
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