Thunder Basin National Grassland
The Bureau of Land Management has started revising the agency’s 1999 Newcastle Resource Management Plan, a document that guides the management of the 292,000 surface acres and 1.6 million acres of mineral estate in Niobrara, Weston and Crook counties, according to Tyson Finnicum, public affairs...
Fire restrictions lifted in forests
LARAMIE (WNE) — Fire restrictions on all National Forest System lands managed by the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland were removed on Friday.
The restrictions were lifted because of increased fuel moisture and favorable...
Forest visitors should always use caution with anything that could be an ignition source for wildfire.
(LARAMIE, Wyo.) September 22, 2022 – As of Friday, Sept. 23, fire restrictions will no longer be in effect on all National Forest System lands managed by the Medicine Bow-Routt National...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
Dry conditions across northeast Wyoming have contributed to more acres burning in 2021 — 1,270.7 acres — than in the last four years combined (1,096.7 acres), according to Weston County Fire Warden Daniel Tysdal.
“As of today, we have had 15 wildland fires already...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
U.S. Forest Service fire crews are planning a prescribed burn of 560 acres in the Upton/Osage area of the Thunder Basin National Grassland, according to a press release from the agency.
The vegetation treatment, named Clay Spur, will take place in March and early...
Alexis Barker
NLJ News Editor
Work to permanently fix Turner Reservoir, a popular fishing spot located seven miles northeast of Osage, began in January of this year following infrastructure failure that caused the four-acre fishing pond in the northeast corner of Thunder Basin National Grassland...
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland to enter Stage 1 fire restrictions, July 3
(LARAMIE, Wyo.) July 1, 2020 – Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect Friday, July 3, 2020 for the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland...
According to a press release issued last week, the U.S. Forest Service, Thunder Basin National Grassland, is in the initial stages of undertaking a Grassland Land and Resource Management Plan Amendment under the 2012 Planning Rule. Need for the amendment was collaboratively developed over the last...
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