Feds authorize Roosevelt fire mitigation funds

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection Program has authorized more than $500,000 to help fix erosion and land destabilization in the wake of the Roosevelt Fire in Sublette County, Wyoming last summer.

Wyoming’s Congressional delegation is pressing all federal agencies to provide appropriate forms of assistance. In a letter to USDA, the delegation wrote, “we urge you to review the request for EWP assistance as quickly as possible and provide any assistance appropriate so that plans to mitigate hazards caused by the Roosevelt Fire can be developed and executed as soon as possible.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has already provided Wyoming a $425,000 mitigation grant to repair fire-damaged areas.