forest fires

The U.S. Forest Service anticipates burnings in the Pole Mountain area to continue on and off throughout the spring and summer.

Casper Mountain, for example, is barely visible from downtown Casper.

The Weather Service passed the warnings along on behalf of the Wyoming Department of Health.

Measurements show soil and plants are much drier, making trees and brush more likely to ignite and fire to spread.

Firefighters have had to contend with dry, breezy weather and the fact that the fire is burning in an area with an abundance of dead trees.

Even among wildfire experts, understanding of health impacts from smoke was elusive until recently.

Campfires are only permitted in fire rings in the campgrounds and some back country campsites.

At NASA, they recently shared a satellite image of the recent Badger Creek Fire. It gives us a global perspective of this natural disaster.

Cabins remain evacuated in the Keystone area of Medicine Bow National Forest between Centennial and the Colorado line.

The wet spring could be a good news/bad news situation for the summer fire season.