The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rawlins Field Office (RFO) anticipates optimal burn conditions and will initiate a 2,000 acre prescribed fire at Marking Pen Creek on the south-southeast portion of the Seminoe Mountains today. Located 25 northeast of Rawlins and west of the North Platte River and Seminoe Dam and Reservoir, the 7,000 acre Marking Pen Creek project area is included in the 26,000 acre Seminoe Mountain prescribed fire project area and is part of a multi-phase treatment over a 10-year period. The treatment is intended to reduce the potential for catastrophic wildfire by eliminating existing fuel loads, creating natural fuel breaks, rejuvenating decadent aspen communities and improving upland vegetative health and diversity. Mountain mahogany, bitterbrush, sagebrush, aspen and conifers will be burned. The Seminoe Mountain project area is a popular recreation and hunting destination and includes antelope, elk, mule deer, and bighorn sheep crucial winter ranges which will benefit from the prescribed fire.
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