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The Wyoming Highway Patrol says alcohol may be to blame in a motorcycle crash that claimed the life of a Great Falls, Montana man Sunday evening.

The Patrol says the use of alcohol and unspecified controlled substances are being investigated as contributing factors in the crash.

The agency says the condition of native vegetation for wildlife and livestock on Pole Mountain is in decline.

Permits to cut Christmas trees on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests are now available at multiple locations in Colorado and Wyoming. Each permit costs $10 and allows for the cutting of one tree on National Forest System Lands. The...

SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — Crews on the Medicine Bow National Forest are hoping to conduct two prescribed burns in the Sierra Madre range beginning as early as this week. Both planned burns will be west of Encampment, on the Brush Creek-Hayden Ranger District...

The state has extended a permit for a planned coal-to-liquids plant near Medicine Bow.

Officials on the Medicine Bow National Forest say motorists on I-80 between Cheyenne and Laramie and along Happy Jack Road will see logging operations over the next year or two as crews work to remove hazardous trees from along the roadways.

Recent snowfall is allowing U.S. Forest Service crews to burn slash piles on the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests in Wyoming and Colorado.

A research project underway in the Medicine Bow National Forest in southern Wyoming might help slow the spread of white pine blister rust, which has been killing trees across the West.

The U.S. Forest Service has lowered the maximum daily limit for dispersed camping on the Medicine Bow National Forest in southeastern Wyoming from 21 days down to 16.