Medicine Bow

Burns will continue throughout the fall and winter as long as weather allows crews to get to the slash piles.

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.

Recent abandoned campfires and past spring wildfires on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland have prompted U.S. Forest Service officials to issue statements regarding fire safety to Forest users.

East Allen Lake Public Access Area near Medicine Bow is under an immediate emergency closure due to downed power lines and poles.

Laramie Ranger District fire crews will take advantage of favorable weather conditions in the next week or two to burn slash piles on the Pole Mountain unit of the Medicine Bow National Forest.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is seeking information on a poaching case involving the shooting of a trophy mule deer buck southwest of Medicine Bow.

Fire crews are beginning to burn slash piles at multiple locations across the Medicine Bow and Routt National Forests in Wyoming and Colorado in order to reduce the amount of dead fuels in the forests.