ARTICLES BY JOHN BLODGETT HAGADONE NEWS NETWORK

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Lincoln Co. officials: 'This is our Harvey'

News of progress on each of the most threatening wildfires facing Lincoln County has been positive the past couple days — the Caribou’s two straight days of slow growth, the doubling of personnel assigned to the West Fork fire, the assignment of any personnel to the Moose Peak fire, not …

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

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Wildfire smoke continuing to slow Caribou fire

LIBBY, Mont. — The silver lining of the cough-causing wildfire smoke covering Lincoln County is that it is helping limit the growth of the very wildfires that are causing it. In the northern part of Lincoln County, a fact sheet released Thursday morning said the day-over-day increase of the Caribou …

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Caribou fire nears 17K acres

LIBBY, Mont. — After doubling in size from Saturday to Sunday, moving 8 miles in two and a half days, destroying an unknown number of structures and causing evacuations, the Caribou fire reached 16,812 acres in size by Monday morning.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Federal judge puts halt to Hecla's Montana plans

Hecla Mining Company’s plans to expand an existing underground copper and silver mine south of Libby hit a roadblock Tuesday when a U.S. District Judge overturned the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the project — a project Hecla estimates could eventually create 450 jobs.

SHOSHONE NEWS-PRESS | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO