wildfires

The conditions could aggravate the growth of and the fighting of wildfires in much of the state.

Shane Murphy, assistant professor in the UW Department of Atmospheric Science, is specifically examining the effects of black and brown carbon emitted from wildfires.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A group of Wyoming firefighters is in New Mexico to help with fires there. Two large fires in Northern New Mexico have displaced families from their homes. The Wyoming team includes crews and equipment from Albany, Natrona and Washakie Counties along with a group from the Wyoming State Forestry Division...

2012 was an extremely difficult wildfire year not only in central Wyoming, but statewide. Multiple wildfires raged throughout the state last year, including the 15,500-acre Sheep Herder Hill Fire that destroyed 37 homes atop Casper Mountain...

DENVER (AP) — Senators from Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota are encouraging federal officials to use the timber industry to help thin forests prone to wildfires, like ones that raged across their states this summer. In a letter Thursday to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the senators said overgrown forests, drought, vast stretches of trees killed by beetles, and more people living in fire zo

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — Fire officials say a wildfire burning about 30 miles west of Pinedale in western Wyoming is 10 percent contained. The Chall Creek Fire was burning on about 400 acres Tuesday. It ignited Sunday and has prompted evacuation orders for Timberline Lodge and some homes near Merna...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The National Weather Service says cooler weather and lighter winds will help lower the risk of fires starting and growing in Wyoming on Friday. However, dangerous conditions could return Sunday or Monday. Several large wildfires are still burning in the state, including a 16,401-acre blaze in the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — More warm, dry, windy weather is keeping the fire danger high across much of Wyoming. Red flag warnings were in effect through Tuesday evening. The National Weather Service said an approaching Canadian cold front would produce gusty winds from the north in south and central Wyoming...

RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Hunters are being asked to avoid areas burned by two wildfires in Carbon County this summer. The Ferris and Seminoe wildfires burned over 12,000 acres 30 miles northeast of Rawlins this summer, including popular hunting areas on the east end of Ferris Mountain and north and west of Seminoe Dam...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two Wyoming Air National Guard transport planes have returned to fighting wildfires this week. The increased fire activity in the West prompted the U.S. Forest Service to call for the C-130s, which are specially outfitted to drop up to 3,000 gallons of fire retardant slurry or water...