Wyoming - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

  • Upton-Osage Stewardship Project, Medicine Bow and Routt National Forest
    The Upton-Osage project is designed to reduce hazardous fuels adjacent to communities in the wildland urban interface. This project will treat approximately 1,000 acres.
  • Rattlesnake Canyon Stewardship Project, Shoshone National Forest
    This 76 acre project aims to reduce wildfire risk in the wildland urban interface and protect wildlife habitat.
  • Ryan Park/Ten Mile, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest
    The Ryan Park project is primarily designed to treat and reduce fuels within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and restore those forest communities that are dependent upon periodic disturbance. The project also aims to improve forest health and forest resiliency. Two contracts were awarded in FY 2004 and 2005.
  • Battle Hazardous Fuels Collaborative Stewardship Project, Medicine Bow Routt National Forest
    The Battle Hazardous Fuels Collaborative Stewardship Project will utilize prescribed burning and thinning to reduce fuels in a high-priority Wildland-urban interface area. Prescribed burning will also promote and maintain fire dependent plant communities. This project was awarded in FY 2004.
  • Homestead Park II Stewardship Project, Shoshone National Forest
    The Homestead Park II stewardship project will improve forest health and decrease fuels on approximately 1050 acres of National Forest System lands adjacent to the Homestead Park subdivision. Through this project the Forest Service will also work with homeowners through Fire Wise to reduce fuel loadings within the housing development.
  • Bench, Bighorn National Forest
    The Bench Project area has seen extensive mortality in Douglas-fir from Douglas-fir beetles. The mortality has exacerbated the fire hazards. The fuels in this area will be an extreme hazard in the near future. The project objective is to reduce the fuel loading through mechanical and prescribed fire means and protect watershed conditions from short and long term threats. A contract was awarded in FY 2006.
  • Woodrock, Bighorn National Forest
    The Woodrock Project will harvest lodgepole pine stands that were high-graded in the early 1900’s to create openings of various size to improve forest structure and improve forest resilience to pests and wildfires. The project will also improve watershed conditions in the South Tongue River Drainage by improving maintenance of the existing transportation system, by improving dispersed recreation sites, and controlling invasive weeds. Fuel reduction activities will also occur. The number of acres proposed for treatment is approximately 1,800.
  • Star Valley WUI, Bridger-Teton National Forest
    The goals of the Star Valley WUI project are to reduce hazardous fuels in the wildland-urban interface, risk of insect infestation, and reduce conifer encroachment on aspen stands, native grass, and sagebrush meadows on approximately 112 acres.
  • Blackrock Hatchet, Bridger-Teton National Forest
    The Blackrock Hatchet project will reduce fuels in order to reduce the risk of high intensity wildland fires, especially in the wildland-urban interface, and reduce the risk to wildland firefighters involved in suppression activities. This project will treat approximately 317 acres.

Bureau of Land Management

  • Dorn Draw, Worland Field Office
    The project removal beetle infested trees & thinning of heavily stocked stands of timber on approximately 200 acres of ponderosa pine & mixed conifer. The project also includes fuels reduction of invading juniper & treatments designed to increase aspen growth and vigor on approximately 300 acres.
  • Shirley Mountain, Rawlins Field Office
    This project is a hazardous fire fuels reduction operation on diseased and insect infested forested land over the next 10 years consistently treating between 20 to 60 acres per year for approximately 400 acres. This project consists of the salvage of a woody biomass, reduce fuel loading and improve wildlife habitat.
  • Willow Creek, Lander Field Office
    The Willow Creek aspen regeneration project is a hazardous fuels reduction that has an additional benefit of improving wildlife habitat. The project area is on the west side of Green Mountain in Fremont County and is approximately 50 acres in size.

Location: http://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/stewardship/wy.shtml
Last modified: Thursday June 14 2007