“I don’t want to tell the counties to have fires early because we’re going to run out of money,”
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead, referring to his budget request for wildland fire suppression being cut in half.

The Wyoming  state Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee cut Governor Matt Mead’s $60 million request for wildland fire suppression this year in half. In 2012 the state spent $45 million to fight fires and the governor expects this year to be at least as bad if not worse than last year. The  committee told him that he can make up for the $30 million difference by taking money from other state agencies.