SWEETWATER COUNTY — The Sweetwater County Board of County Commissioners will hear a presentation about fire restrictions during the group’s meeting Tuesday morning.

Originally placed on the commissioners’ agenda for their second August meeting, the presentation will be made by Alan Adams, the county’s fire warden. According to information from the Bureau of Land Management included in the agenda item, live fuels moisture values across lands administered by the BLM’s Rock Springs Field Office are at critical levels. Cheatgrass and perennial grasses have cured while conifers are now receptive to fire.

“All fuels in the zone have the potential for rapid rates of spread,” the document states.

The county commissioners initiated a fire ban in August, joining several similar bans in Wyoming

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