prescribed fire

Land management agencies across the state are starting on prescribed burning projects across western Montana. Prescribed fires reduce hazardous fuels and can be beneficial to forest ecosystems.

Firefighters are taking advantage of Montana’s unusually warm weather to ignite some controlled burns to reduce forest fuels. The goal is to prevent or minimize the impact of more destructive fires later in the summer.

Several prescribed burns are planned in western Montana this week.

Forest officials are asking people to avoid the Rodney Ridge trail during the burn, and be cautious around fire personnel and engines.

Firefighters are conducting prescribed burns on both the Lolo and Lewis & Clark National Forests. Area residents may notice the smoke.Missoula residents…

A prescribed burn is responsible for a large plume of smoke in Pattee Canyon just outside Missoula Thursday."We don’t want anyone to be alarmed," Lolo…

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It’s fall and that means it’s prescribed fire season in Montana. Wildland managers are now intentionally setting fires to reduce forest fuel buildup or to…

The Custer Gallatin National Forest Monday postponed several controlled burns in southwest Montana due to an incoming winter storm.

The U.S. Forest Service has begun prescribed burn projects for thousands of acres within the Lolo National Forest. A press release from the Forest Service…