Wyoming Range wildfire’s considerable size doesn’t portend extreme season, officials say

Wyoming Range wildfire’s considerable size doesn’t portend extreme season, officials say

A wildfire burning in the Wyoming Range due west of Pinedale grew to more than 1,300 acres as of Wednesday afternoon, five days after a lightning strike ignited it. Though the fire is sizable for the time of year, a U.S. Forest Service spokesperson and the Wyoming State Forester told WyoFile the blaze wasn’t an early indicator of a difficult fire season. Instead, they attributed the fire’s growth to a bounty of dead and downed trees in that part…