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New fire restrictions are to be imposed on Uinta-Wasatch-Cache and Ashley national forests starting Friday.

Stage 1 restrictions affect U.S. National Forest land across northern Utah.

Worsening drought and recent wildfires appear to have prompted restrictions.

SALT LAKE CITY — New fire restrictions are being implemented at Uinta-Wasatch-Cache and Ashley national forests, leaving some level of restrictions in place across nearly all public lands in Utah as the state's drought worsens.

Stage 1 fire restrictions will begin Friday across U.S. Forest Service land from the Utah-Idaho border to Nephi, and into northeast Utah and even a sliver of Wyoming, including the Wasatch Mountains and High Uinta Wilderness. Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest supervisor Kelly Orr signed on

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