News from Wyoming FS re:pine beetle problem

[tcfifer]

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOC ... 337781.pdf

Update from Wyoming fs on pine beetle situation.

TC

[russau]

thankyou Tim for posting this!i hope this wont affect dredge season or camping somewhere!

[Hoser John]

Beetle 1 forest 0-never ever seen anything like it anywhere-like camping in a graveyard surrounded by death-- John

[tcfifer]

It looks like more of the same thing for next summer from Fox Park to Keystone. DAM BUGS!!

TC

[dickb]

If I read that link correctly, they aren't going to start at Douglas Creek till summer of 2013. Looks like the road east right now.

I went through a forest fire burn area in Canada north of Winnipeg and the smell still recked from the fire two years afterward. It was a very disturbing sight to see all that devastation, something you never forget. If those beetle killed pines ever caught fire, they would really be hard pressed to get it put out.

Keep your fingers crossed that you can go this July.

Dickb

[russau]

maybe if needed we can drive back in the back way. its off of 230 towards Albany.theres always somewhere to camp.it maybe a little rougher than the flats but.............................maybe even at the spring. it would be tight, but!

[tcfifer]

russau = eternal optimist!!

Somebody's gotta think positive...might as well be you. Keep up the good work Russ.

TC

[dickb]

If you look at the map on page 3 of the PDF, isn't site 2 along Douglas creek and site 8 & 9 on the road into the flats? If they set up their logging operation on the flats, won't that be just west of GO's claim? 8 & 9 are suppose to be worked this winter and 2 is suppose to start in 2013.

Dickb

[russau]

yes,they are supposed to setup their operation on the flats! the flats are S.East of Leoanrds claim.parking along Leonards claim maybe a big problem with those logging trucks. we may have to share-a-ride for parking possibilitys.

[tcfifer]

(LARAMIE, Wyo.) November 14, 2011 – Motorists driving on Wyoming Highway 230 between Woods Landing, Wyoming and the Colorado border are advised to be alert for flaggers and machinery. A logging contractor will be felling and removing dead and dying trees near the roadway. Work is being done to clear dead and dying trees that could impact the highway as well as trees that could damage the highway right-of-way fence. A damaged fence poses the danger of cattle getting loose on the roadway. In this first phase, work will be completed in the Fox Park area between mileposts 31.6 and 42. The mountain pine beetle epidemic in southeastern Wyoming has resulted in the death of mature pine trees along portions of Wyoming Highways 70, 130, 230, 210, and Interstate 80. Lodgepole pine is the primary tree species affected in the Wyoming Highway 230 corridor. Beetle-killed trees that are at risk of falling due to rotting roots are becoming a safety hazard to forest and highway users alike. Work will continue through the winter until spring conditions become too wet. Work is anticipated to resume in the fall of 2012. This project is being done in partnership between the Medicine Bow National Forest and the Wyoming Department of Transportation.

For more information on this project contact Kit Westbrook with WYDOT at 745-2123, or Sara Alberts with the Laramie Ranger District at 745-2338.