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A series of events in Laramie are focusing on what living with wildfire really means in the future. Mullen Days is looking at this through the lens of the Mullen Fire, which was Wyoming’s largest single-source fire in the fall of 2020. It burned more than 170,000 acres in the Snowies.
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New federal funding may help with forest and wildfire management, but there are still hurdles. Increasing firefighter wages still can’t always contend with skyrocketing housing costs and burnout from long seasons. Funds may also help pay for supplies, but supply chain issues still make certain supplies hard to get.
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In late 2020, the Mullen Fire scorched 176,878 acres of land in the Snowy Range 28 miles west of Laramie. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has been closely monitoring the area and the wildlife that call it home since then.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making over $480,000 available to help landowners recover from the Mullen Fire that occurred in the Medicine Bow National Forest last fall.
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The Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) team assembled by the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland has completed its…
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Fires are raging across the West. So far this year, 46,416 fires have burned over 8 million acres across the U.S. That's actually less fires than usual…
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Every four years there's a near universal complaint that western issues get passed over in presidential elections. Not this year, which is mostly because…
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Firefighters battling the Mullen Fire in the Medicine Bow National Forest continued to struggle with dry, gusty winds.As of Tuesday afternoon, the fire…
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The Mullen Fire continues to be very active with increasing smoke in southern Wyoming and northern Colorado. Most fire activity is along the Pelton Creek…
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As the Mullen Fire continues to burn throughout southern Wyoming, the rest of the state is still in the midst of fire season."We've had an incredibly…