The US Forest Service has begun issuing permits to cut Christmas trees on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests.
Each permit costs $10 and allows for one tree to be cut on National Forest System Lands. Trees taken with permits must be for personal use and not for resale...
Forest personnel surveyed conditions over the weekend and found most roads impassable due to snow,especially in shaded areas and on north-facing slopes.
The Wyoming State Forestry Division and the U.S. Forest Service announced Thursday that the Pine Beetle epidemic has decreased significantly. That’s according to the annual aerial forest health survey conducted in Wyoming.
For 2013, the Pine Beetle spread to only 29,000 acres specifically in the southern Wind River Range...