How the forest is already recovering from the Yellow Lake Fire

How the forest is already recovering from the Yellow Lake Fire

On Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, a logging crew wrapped up a day of harvesting timber in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, putting their machinery to rest and heading home for the weekend. It was a Friday like any other, though a little warmer than most, with a high hovering around 81 degrees in Heber by late afternoon, six degrees above average. But it had been a warm, dry fall statewide, nothing special to worry over. The workers packed up th…