With the dry conditions and local fire restrictions in place, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is banning open fires on all Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered lands within Fremont County.

These lands include Red Canyon, Ocean Lake, Sand Mesa, Whiskey Basin, Inberg/Roy, Wildlife Habitat Management Areas (WHMAs), and Spence and Moriarity Wildlife Management Area, as well as the following Public Access Areas (PAA): Little Middle and North Fork Popo Agie, Luckey Pond and all Wind River PAAs near Dubois. 

Habitat and Access Supervisor Brian Parker said, “As long as the dry conditions continue across Wyoming, the potential for human-caused fires, including catastrophic fires threatening Commission-owned and administered lands is very high.”
           
Parker continued, “The effects of wildfire can conflict with the wildlife and wildlife habitat purposes of the Game and Fish Commission-owned lands.  Therefore, the Department has instituted the fire ban to follow suit with current Fremont County fire bans.”
           
The following acts are prohibited on all Wyoming Game and Fish Commission-owned and administered lands:

• Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal grill, coal or wood burning stove.
• Smoking except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material.
• Fireworks are always prohibited on Wyoming Game and Fish Commission lands.

Check for fire bans across the state on Wyoming Game and Fish Commission lands. For a complete listing of all Game and Fish administered lands refer to https://wgfd.wyo.gov/public-access


Photo Courtesy of Tom Toman, RMEF