The Bureau of Land Management says it is putting partial fire restrictions on its lands in Wyoming's Weston, Crook and Niobrara counties due to dry conditions and high fire danger.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Casper Field Office is removing the partial fire restrictions imposed in early August because of recent moisture and lessening fire dangers, according to a news release.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, citing dry conditions and high fire danger, has placed partial fire restrictions on public lands it administers in Natrona, Converse, Platte and Goshen counties beginning today.
The BLM imposes these restrictions in coordination with the counties:
Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire except within agency-provided fire grates at developed
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has ordered fire restrictions in Weston, Crook and Niobrara counties beginning Friday, according to a news release from the BLM's Newcastle Field Office.
Wyoming hasn't had any big wildfires so far this year but several weeks in a row of warm, dry weather have led to the state's first widespread fire restrictions this year.
PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is lifting fire restrictions in some areas of western Wyoming beginning at midnight on Friday.
The agency announced that its High Desert District is lifting fire restrictions implemented by the Kemmerer, Pinedale and Rock Springs field offices within Fremont, Lincoln, Sublette and Uinta counties...