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The U.S. Forest Service recently announced a 10-year plan that includes a dramatic increase in treating forests through thinning and prescribed burns. That plan includes treating 20 million acres of Forest Service land, and 30 million acres of other federal, state, tribal, and private lands.
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Proponents of the plans say herbicides will help fight invasive species while opponents are concerned it will negatively impact small bird and animal habitats.
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Wildfire activity generally slows at night as winds die down, temperatures drop and humidity rises. But a a new study suggests that's changing.
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Three conservation groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service to reverse the 2020 amendment to the Thunder Basin Management Plan. The amendment was announced in December. Western Watersheds Project, Rocky Mountain Wild, and WildEarth Guardians say it will have devastating effects on prairie dogs.
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Next summer, officials with the Bighorn National Forest will begin tree thinning and natural habitation restoration projects in northeastern Wyoming's Goose Creek Watershed as part of its recently approved management plan.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department plans to continue feeding elk in the winter at the Dell Creek Feedground in Northern Sublette County. A recent court decision found that the department's previous permit to winter feed elk, granted by the U.S. Forest Service, expired at the end of 2017 and there was no record of renewal, despite the department continuing to feed there in the years since.
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A U.S. District of Wyoming Court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) improperly permitted two of the three feed grounds that were reviewed because they conducted improper environmental analyses.
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This past month, the Bighorn Climber's Coalition held a meeting updating area residents and climbers on the upcoming Ten Sleep climbing plan. The management plan is the first of its kind for the U.S. Forest Service. It's needed because the Ten Sleep Canyon has exploded in popularity for rock climbing, but that popularity has also caused stress on the area's natural resources.
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The pay initiative is part of the Biden administration's plans to improve working conditions for federal wildland firefighters.
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Scientists still aren't sure what maintains the Great Plains Grasslands and keeps them separate from forests. A very common hypothesis is that there are climatic differences between the areas where each type of ecosystem forms. But the boundaries between the two ecosystems have been slowly disintegrating since around 1850, which caused a U.S. Forest Service research ecologist to wonder if something else was responsible for keeping them separate.