The Campbell County Fire Department is asking that people be patient during the ongoing wildfires, understanding that these past several days have been stressful on landowners and firefighters alike. And it’s caused some high-tension situations between residents and firefighters. “Our members have been threatened with bodily harm while standing their ground and completing their assignments,” the fire department wrote in a Facebook post. [Fire department asks residents to be understanding and patient with firefighters]As of Friday Wyoming wildfires have cleared nearly a half million acres of fences, power lines, dry grasses, sagebrush, ponderosa pine and juniper in Republican ranch country even as the Biden administration reaches out to ranchers who rely on moral hazard to survive. Northeastern Wyoming is under a fire weather watch through Sunday as wind gusts reach thirty five miles per hour, low humidity prevails and temperatures rise to as much as twenty degrees above normal.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation tribal members are furious as Earth haters Hageman and Senator John Barrasso advance a land and water grab within Eastern Shoshone boundaries without council consultation.
