We here in Sheridan, and around Wyoming may think we’ve been hit pretty hard with fires this year. For 2007 we are at 13 incidents total, three of which have been contained for a total involved acreage as of the time I write this of 52,685. Compare this with our neighbor to the north, Montana, [...]

Update: We can all rest easy. According to Steve Seguin, Public Affairs Specialist with the US Forest Service, there are no new fires or flare ups in the area. The smoke is coming from Montana and from Bone Creek, and the concentration of smoke we are experiencing here in Sheridan is due to an inversion; [...]

InciWeb finally has an update posted on these fires on their website. Since it appears they are either having problems or are limited on bandwidth, I am quoting all the information I find regarding these fires here on my blog. Hopefully this will reduce the load on their site, and also minimize the frustration of [...]

Well, InciWeb is still very slow and has not posted an update on the Little Goose fire, however Sheridan Media is reporting the Little Goose fire is now 85% contained, and has not grown in size from the 4827 acres reported yesterday and the day before. The lightning last night was not in the area [...]

For those of you wondering where the Bone Creek fire is, Hunt Mountain is in the area of Baldy Pass about 12 miles west of Burgess Junction on highway 14A on the south side of the road. A little further west is Bald Mountain and Medicine Mountain (where the medicine wheel is). The Garland Gulch [...]

While looking around on the InciWeb website, I found this picture, which is credited to Dick Bodine. It was taken on Sunday the 12th when it was 102 degrees and windy. We should be counting our blessings on this one friends. Think how bad it could have been if the high temperatures and winds had [...]

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Steve Segin, Public Information Officer for the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team for sending me the link to the InciWeb website, which has up-to-date information on all of the fires around the country. According to a news release this morning posted on InciWeb: Sheridan, WY – [...]

If you hadn’t had time to notice, the skies cleared considerably today and from the reports this morning things are looking up. I drove up to the roadblock southwest of the town of Big Horn this evening and chatted a little with the man stationed there. He, along with four others have been working the [...]