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 one of the orders Thursday, a day after Ashley National Forest supervisor Kristy Groves ordered the other.

Stage 1 fire restrictions

Igniting, building, maintaining, attending or using a fire is prohibited unless it's located within a permanent metal or concrete fire pit or grate that the U.S. F

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