With drenching rains and high-elevation snow this weekend, fire management officials in Northwest Montana are finally calling the historic 2015 fire season over.
Bear interactions have been on the rise in Western Montana, with reports of bears popping up in houses, on highways, at fishing access sites and even wandering the halls of Bozeman High School.
Bluetongue disease, a virus that has been killing deer in the Northwest U.S. recently, has now shown up in Northwestern Montana, according to state wildlife officials.
Pointing to this summer’s historic fire season in his home state, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., says he is working to advance a bill in the Senate that would attempt to increase forest fuel treatment and harvest while making federal emergency funds available to the Forest Service for wildfire suppression.
Cool, rainy conditions in the Fortine area were favorable enough on the Marston Fire that the fire management team and Flathead and Kootenai national forests have lifted most of the land closures in the Whitefish Range.
Fire investigators have determined that lightning caused the 18,845-acre Thompson Fire in the Nyack drainage in the south-central area of Glacier National Park.
This weekend, the Citizens Equal Rights Foundation will host a conference in Kalispell billed as an “instant training center” for citizens and public officials to learn about federal Indian policy.
A red flag warning is in effect today as three rounds of thunderstorms are forecast to hit Western Montana with potentially dramatic impacts on the fast-growing Thompson Fire in Glacier National Park.
