U.S. Forest Service

The dry and hot conditions, along with forecasts for strong winds, are raising the danger of wildfires this weekend.

The fire in Converse County has consumed more than 2,500 acres since Sunday

On June 5, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack  named the members who would be on the advisory committee for guiding and making recommendations to the U.S. Forest Service in implementing the recently adopted Planning Rule. Wyoming Stock Growers Association Executive Vice President Jim Magagna will be representing private landowners and grazing...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Officials say a state-run feedground in northwest Wyoming for a time intruded on the Gros Ventre  Wilderness area. After the U.S. Forest Service surveyed the site in 2009, the Alkali Creek feedground's size was reduced by 14 acres...

Last year the U.S Forest Service introduced a strategy to battle the expansion of the Pine Bark Beetle, an infestation that's destroyed timber in a number of areas across Wyoming. U.S. Forest Service Chief, Tom Tidwell has requested funding in the proposed fiscal year 2013 federal budget to help fight the infestation...

An outreach campaign from the U.S. Forest Service and the new Universal Picture's film, The Lorax, looks to entice kids and their parents out of the house and into the forest.

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Jackson officials want to purchase 10 acres of U.S. Forest Service property in the community's downtown area. The town of Jackson recently submitted a final application to Bridger-Teton National Forest in which the town requested a direct sale of the parcel...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is asking the public to weigh in on an early version of a draft management plan for the Shoshone National Forest in northwest Wyoming. Comments are due Feb. 2 and officials will take them into consideration as they work on the official draft plan, which will be released in June...

A conservation group is suing the U.S. Forest Service over a corral in the Gros Ventre drainage in northwest Wyoming. The Western Watershed Project says the corral blocks the migration of pronghorn from Grand Teton National Park to the upper Green River valley...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says people headed into national forests in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado should be on the lookout for falling trees. Strong wind has toppled numerous trees in the Medicine Bow and Routt national forests over the past week...