PROTECT YOUR HOME FROM WILDFIRE  -  This brochure has been prepared for all homeowners and landowners who live in Wyoming. The guidelines offered in this brochure apply to all residential and urban areas, farm land, ranches, open fields, hillsides, and mountain areas alike. The information contained inside will not make you an expert on wildland firefighting. The guidelines, tips and recommendations are designed to help prevent your home and property from being lost to a devastating wildland fire, and have been developed as a result of many years of actual experience by agencies, firefighters and others, who have carefully identified the factors that have been successful in minimizing the risk to property from wildland fires.

FIREWISE STRUCTURES  -  This Guide offers design and construction strategies that can minimize property losses from wildland or forest fires. It is intended for architects, engineers, planners, contractors, builders, homeowners, landowners, or anyone considering building or modifying any structure in a Wildland-Urban Interface environment. The publication offers measures for reducing the fire risk, recognizing that you can “trade-off” various design features of the building’s exterior and its surroundings to meet FIREWISE requirements, depending on the property owner’s goals for their property.

THE MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE  -  Mountain Pine Beetles (MPB) are one of the most damaging insect pests of Wyoming's pine forests. The MPB has caused extensive damage to trees on mountains, and in urban or urban-interface areas. All pines are susceptible. They have resulted in the loss of millions of trees annually. The problem exists Statewide in any forested area. MPB develop in all mature pine species, especially in ponderosa, lodgepole and limber pine. This brochure offers valuable information about the signs and symptoms of MPB, its history and habits, evidence of infesttation, control and prevention options, and treatment methods.