After the bark beetle epidemic: Forest Service and UW Ruckelhaus Institute offer open house on forest recovery

The public is invited to attend a local informal meeting offered this month by the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and University of Wyoming’s Ruckelshaus Institute.

The open house highlights ecological dynamics as local forest service employees respond to and move beyond the bark beetle epidemic. Forest managers and their UW colleagues will provide insight on the past, present and future of the forests.

The meeting will run from 6 to 8 p.m., May 30 at the Platte Valley Community Center in Saratoga. The meeting with a presentation from UW researchers and U.S. Forest Service managers explai...