Author: rpalma
Source: Montana Public Radio Environmental conservation groups are suing to block a plan to log, thin, and prescription-burn about 2,900 acres in the Flathead National Forest. The groups say it violates federal.laws. The Beaver Creek Project borders Lindbergh Lake and the Mission Mountain Wilderness. Rich Kehr, the Flathead Forest’s Swan Lake District Ranger, says the biggest […]
My heart is broken for Montana. I am currently evacuated from my home town of Seeley Lake. Even without the threat of fire burning my home, I wake up daily to smoke so thick it chokes. Hazardous levels for health start at 150 ppm. We have daily awoken to numbers never before charted. 850, 950,1100. […]
Source: Missoulian by KIM BRIGGEMAN [email protected] Rice Ridge Fire Balloons to Over 100,000 Acres and is Growing OVANDO — North into the Bob Marshall Wilderness, south toward Kozy Korner, but mostly east, the Rice Ridge fire is out of control. The fire that started six weeks ago six miles north of Seeley Lake is now a […]
Source: Steve Daines, U.S. Senator Daines to Radical Environmentalists: Stop Blocking Forest Management Projects U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines today released the following statement on the Friends of the Wild Swan (FOWS), Swan View Coalition (SVC), Alliance for the Wild Rockies (A WR) and Native Ecosystems Council (NEC) 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue under the […]
Source: Missoulian by Rob Chaney FLORENCE — Two federal cabinet secretaries joined two-thirds of Montana’s congressional delegation at the Lolo Peak fire base to decry the effect of lawsuits on firefighting. “We can’t do anything about the weather, but we can do things about forest management that make sense so we can diminish forest fires in […]