Northeast Wyoming Already Blowing Up As Wildfire Hot-Spot

By Mark Heinz
Cowboy State Daily
March 25, 2024
Category: Forest Fires
Region: United States, US West

Most of Wyoming appears to be relatively safe from massive wildfires — at least through June — but the northeastern corner of the state is already in trouble. “We’ve already burned more acres so far this year then we did all of last year,” said Charles Harrison, fire warden for the Crook County Volunteer Fire Department. And it hasn’t been just prairie grass fires. There’s already been two roughly 200-acre forest fires in the county, one near New Haven, and another near Moorcroft, he told Cowboy State Daily. …There’s no shortage of potential fuel for forests fires. There are vast swaths of beetle-killed timber, either standing or already down on the ground. …“There’s acres and acres of standing dead trees,” spokesman Evan Guzik said.

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