Jonathan Ratner wasnât pleased to read a public notice that the Bridger-Teton National Forest is looking to change how it protects wild bighorn sheep from catastrophic diseases spread by domestic sheep.
A former employee of the 3.4-million-acre forest, Ratner now watchdogs the Bridger-Teton for Western Watersheds Project, an advocacy group thatâs fought public lands livestock grazing for decades. He sees the national forestâs proposed revision to its 1991 Forest Plan as doing the opposite of what it claims.
âI am revolted by the fact that the Bridger-Teton lied in its scoping notice,â Ratner said. âThe average person who doesnât follow these things carefully, what they would see is, âOh, the Bridger-Teton is doing something good for bighorn sheep.â That is simply a lie.â
Canyon geology
Commuters who live in Alpine but work in Jackson probably have another word for it, but Highway 89 from Hoback Junction south to neighboring Lincoln County passes through a true geologic wonder.
Alpine Canyon, aka the Grand Canyon of the Snake River or just the Snake River Canyon, slices through hundreds of feet of sedimentary rock to mark the boundary between the Snake River Range on the north and the Wyoming Range on the south. The topography includes precipitous cliffs, avalanche-prone gullies, and peaks topping out at over 9,000, 10,000, even 11,000 feet. And the Snake River, the force that continues to carve the landscape, attracts tens of thousands of rafters, kayakers, anglers and others each year.
BLM to conduct prescribed fire in Sublette and Lincoln Counties
PINEDALE, Wyo
. –Bureau of Land Management High Desert District fire crews will conduct prescribed fire operations between May and July as part of a multi-year project. Fire operations will begin only when conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn on public lands administered by the Pinedale Field Office.
The Burdick prescribed fire project is located approximately 13 miles west of La Barge, Wyoming on the east face of Miller Mountain, south of the La Barge Creek drainage. There are 470 acres of slash and standing conifer targeted to burn on the Burdick prescribed fire project.
PINEDALE Bureau of Land Management High Desert District fire crews will conduct prescribed fire operations between May and July as part of a multi-year project.
Fire operations will begin only when conditions are favorable for a safe and effective burn on public lands administered by the Pinedale Field Office.
The Burdick prescribed fire project is located approximately 13 miles west of La Barge, Wyoming on the east face of Miller Mountain, south of the La Barge Creek drainage. There are 470 acres of slash and standing conifer targeted to burn on the Burdick prescribed fire project.
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This prescribed fire is part of the Wyoming Range Mule Deer Habitat Project which was developed as part of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wyoming Range Mule Deer Initiative that was completed in 2011.
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