BHC receives grant for Forest Service Road

At the July 16 County Commissioner meeting, the commission learned of a grant for a Forest Service Road in the Bighorns when County Engineer Willie Bridges told the commission that the county received a grant from the Federal Highway Administration. The Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) grant, which awarded $6 million to the county, will be used for work on Forest Service Road 17. No match from the county is required. The grant is for fiscal year 2030.  
Bridges explained that the grant is to reconstruct the road: the cattle guards will be replaced and/or reset, pipes would be replaced and new culverts would possibly be constructed. The road surface would receive six inches of road base.
“The road going up the hill where it is so rocky, we would get a reclaim machine in there and work that over so it’s not so bad,” Bridges explained. “That is the scope of the work.”