Aug 30 2011
It sounds like the usual late-season bear attractants are causing some problems in the valley. The Missoulian has a write-up . . . State wildlife officials worked through the weekend to capture a trio of apple-eating grizzly bears visiting homes near Columbia Falls, but as of Monday they had succeeded in penning just two of [...]
Aug 30 2011
Here we go. Wolf hunting season opened in Idaho. Montana is next. From today’s Missoulian . . . It’s open season for hunting wolves across much of Idaho’s backcountry. The state’s second public hunt started Tuesday in the 13 separate hunting zones across the state. Continue reading . . .
Aug 29 2011
It is still a fairly quiet fire season in this corner of Montana. The Daily Inter Lake has an overview . . . The National Weather Service is forecasting a weather front that should cool down Western Montana fires, including a new one that recently emerged northeast of Libby. A weather system is expected to [...]
Aug 26 2011
From an AP article posted to today’s Flathead Beacon . . . A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a request by environmental groups to halt wolf hunts that are scheduled to begin next week in Idaho and Montana. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies [...]
Aug 26 2011
The month is not complete without at least one road-related post. This one is courtesy of the Daily Inter Lake . . . The road dust control project in Flathead County has wrapped up for the season, county Public Works Director Dave Prunty recently told commissioners. Magnesium chloride was applied to 43 miles of county-maintained [...]
Aug 26 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . The Hammer Creek Fire appears to have doubled in size over the last two or three days, according to updated reports on three active fires in Northwest Montana. The Hammer Creek Fire, now estimated at 2,800 acres, has burned northeast from the South Fork Flathead River basin into the [...]
Aug 24 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake (with photos) . . . Firefighters continued to tangle with a new fire east of Stryker while two fires in the Bob Marshall Wilderness were mostly unaffected by stiff winds Tuesday. Soon after the Fitzsimmons Fire was detected Monday near the confluence of Fitzsimmons Creek and upper Stillwater Creek, it [...]
Aug 24 2011
The Missoulian posted this item late yesterday. I’d take it with a grain of salt, especially the “extended summer” bit . . . Although September is but a week away and students are returning to school, summer weather and wildfire season in Montana is far from over. In fact, “we are hitting our peak right [...]
Aug 23 2011
The various Glacier Park concessionaires — from restaurants to outfitters to bus and boat services — start closing down in September as temperatures and tourist traffic drop. The park office has posted the fall schedule for these various operations. You can view it here: http://www.nps.gov/glac/parknews/news11-67.htm
Aug 22 2011
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . Fire crews scrambled Monday to two new fires: one north of Whitefish and one southwest of Tally Lake. One new wildfire is in the Stillwater State Forest at the junction of Fitzsimmons Creek and the Stillwater River… Elsewhere, about six initial attack firefighters responded to a fire [...]
