Teton Interagency Fire

LOCATION: Star Valley Ranch, WY

PROJECT SIZE: 196 acres

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Interagency Fire personnel burned 9 acres in the south of Lost Creek drainage, project area map. 2018: Contractors finished thinning and piling slash on the National Forest System Land along the southern half of the town of Star Valley Ranch. The continuation of burning these piles may be implemented in the spring, late April to mid-May and/or fall, late September to late October. news release and map. Valley Ranch. Burning of those piles may be implemented in the spring, late April to mid-May and/or in the fall, late September to late October.  map

LOCATION:  Basin Creek off the Green Knoll/Big Spring cutoff, Kemmerer Ranger District

Prescribed burning will be used to develop a diverse mix of vegetative composition and structure and increase a mosaic pattern on the landscape of different fuel types, fuel loadings, forested communities and stand age-classes to decrease the proportion of the landscape that would be affected by high intensity wildfires. The primary objective of this burn is to stimulate regeneration of aspen plant communities, reduce conifer encroachment, and reduce hazardous fuels within the Hams Fork Vegetation Project area.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  News Release 05/19/2023,  Unit Map,