La Sal News

A man from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources recently found a rare Native-American pot in Utah.

A pot discovered under a rock in one of the canyons in the Manti-LaSal National Forest in early December may be between 800-1000 years old.

An overnight winter storm hit Grand County early Tuesday morning, blanketing the area with snow and causing local schools to shut down for the day.

Nine black bear cubs rounded up by Utah wildlife biologists last spring will be released back into the wilds next week.

Lessons learned from a failed attempt to rebuild the La Sal Mountain Loop Road in 2001 were rehashed as officials from Grand and San Juan counties, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Federal Highway Administration, met last month to begin a process to repair the road before the cost of maintaining it gets out of hand.

If there's one single natural feature that's been chosen to represent the state of Utah most frequently, it is Delicate Arch in Arches National Park .

In many places, private tree farms are the place to go if you want to select and cut your own Christmas tree.

Christmas tree permits will go on sale Nov. 23 at the Ferron District Office and Price Supervisor's Office of the Manti-La Sal National Forest.

As scoutmaster Mearl Sheldon readies the catapult, a local Boy Scout Troop member prepares to launch a pumpkin during the 2007 Moab Pumpkin Chuckin' Festival.

Lightning from thunderstorms on September 15 ignited a fire at Buck Ridge on the Manti-La Sal National Forest, near Wagon Road Ridge in Sanpete County.

Two funnel clouds were spotted over southeastern Utah late Wednesday afternoon. The first was spotted by a trained National Weather Service weather spotter approximately 25 to 30 miles northwest of Bluff, UT from 4:11 PM to 4:16 PM Wednesday.

Crews and helicopters have made good progress on containment of this fire. Yesterday afternoon the fire transitioned from the joint jurisdiction of Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands and the Manti-La Sal National Forest to a local Type 3 Incident Command Team under the Command of Steve Rutter.

Many Utahns travel the rugged 87-mile dirt road from Salina to Spanish Fork Canyon known as Skyline Drive.

A wildfire burning in central Utah has forced the closure of another national forest road and trail.

A wildfire burning in central Utah has forced the closure of another national forest road and trail.

A wildfire in Utah County has burned more than 1,000 acres over the last month. The fire has been burning since it was started by lightning July 2 in the Manti-La Sal National Forest.

The United States Forest Service has in recent times been plagued by user created trails on the forest.

Join us for a day of restoring trails at La Sal Pass! No experience necessary! We work side-by-side with Forest Service recreation crews.

A lightning-sparked wildfire near the Sanpete and Utah counties' border will be allowed to burn, U.S. Forest Service officials said.

A small wildfire in central Utah will be allowed to burn, at least for now. Officials with the Manti-La Sal National Forest say the fire -- which had burned less than acre by Sunday evening -- will be monitored and fought if it threatens lives or property.