Bridger-Teton National Forest

An all-female trail crew maintains trails in the wake of federal firings. Is the worst still to come?

But it isn’t easy since she never knows when she could lose her job again. The Supreme Court recently approved the mass firings.

With the Fourth of July and hot and dry weather this week, fire managers are asking Wyomingites to be considerate of fire potential. Check your county’s emergency services website to sign up for evacuation and other emergency alerts delivered to your cell phone.

More than 200 people are working from the air and on the ground to suppress the fire despite erratic winds.

The National Interagency Fire Center predicts Wyoming will have an average fire season until August, when the likelihood of big fires will increase in the northeast part of the state.

The fire is about 35 miles west of Pinedale and is roughly 900 acres as of midday Monday.

Five employees of Friends of Bridger Teton will work alongside forest staff.

Friends of the Bridger-Teton is hiring five former forest workers. They’ll help complete projects the forest can’t get to this summer – an accumulation of years of lack of funding and more recently, DOGE cuts.

Several former employees of the Bridger-Teton National Forest and other forests received emails on March 18 that have left them “cautiously optimistic” they may have their jobs back. But the uncertainty of the future remains.

The layoffs come as Wyoming struggles with an affordable housing crisis.