The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is beginning to spread fertilizer in and around a gas field in western Wyoming to try to get sagebrush to grow faster. The BLM said Friday it will spread fertilizer by airplane over about 1,000 acres of sagebrush over the next few weeks. The goal is to improve forage for mule deer. A study out last year showed dwindling numbers of mule deer in an area just south of Pinedale. Mule deer numbers were down up to 60 percent compared to several years earlier. The Pinedale Anticline gas field south of Pinedale is among the top-producing gas fields in the United States.
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