As temperatures drop, prescribed burns may be in the forecast - Wyoming Public Media
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FILE: A prescribed fire in the Yellowtail Wildlife Management Area in northwest Wyoming in 2020. Though prescribed fires are meant to revitalize wildlife habitats, uncontrolled ones can cause both immediate and long-term damage to them, in addition to affecting public access and even the hunting season. National Interagency Fire Center
With lower temperatures in the forecast, the U. S. Forest Service has begun planning for prescribed burns in Wyoming. The Medicine Bow National Forest in southeast Wyoming will burn about 2,000 acres across the Pole Mountain area east of Laramie. “Prescribed burning is a part of our normal program of work,” said Aaron Voos, the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland public affairs specialist. “It's a very valuable tool that we have to treat and be proactive with management of the landscape.”According to Voos, the goal of the Pole Mountain burn is to reduce overgrown vegetation so less fuel is available to burn during a wildfire. But there are also other reasons for reducing vegetation. “When we do treatments across the landscape, we're looking to sometimes change the vegetation. Maybe it's undesirable.
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