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 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 [...]
Aug 21 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Fire activity was relatively quiet Saturday, with fires in Northwest Montana gaining little ground. The South Fork Lost Creek Fire, which is burning southeast of Swan Lake, grew just 60 acres from when it was sized Friday afternoon. That is due in part to a burnout operation [...]
Aug 20 2011
As in past years, the Daily Inter Lake is leaning into its wildfire coverage. Here’s the latest write-up . . . Two large wildfires in the Bob Marshall Wilderness settled down somewhat Friday, while a burnout operation was initiated on a fire just outside the wilderness seven miles southeast of Swan Lake. Continue reading . [...]
Aug 18 2011
Another report — with photos — from the Daily Inter Lake on the area’s fires . . . Wildfires in the Bob Marshall Wilderness have spread rapidly over the last couple of days, and an aerial burnout operation is planned today on a fire burning just outside the wilderness southeast of Swan Lake. In just [...]
Aug 17 2011
Today’s Daily Inter Lake has a pretty good report on the wildfire action in the Flathead Valley . . . Flathead Valley residents got to take in a familiar summer spectacle Wednesday: Smoke columns towering over the Swan Mountain Range. The smoke was pouring from two fires burning in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It was [...]
Sep 09 2010
This week’s Hungry Horse News has an interesting write-up on forest recovery after a wildfire . . . On a hard hot day in August, Scott Lang, Alison Lay and Mike McClellan are standing in a young forest in Glacier National Park, taking note of the trees. The forest doesn’t look like much. The trees [...]
Aug 07 2010
From today’s Missoulian (we *ahem* covered this four days ago) . . . The smoke we’re seeing in western Montana is coming from wildfires in British Columbia Bridget DeRosa of the National Weather Service in Missoula said that while it was hazy in the Missoula and Bitterroot valleys, visibility was still more than 10 miles [...]
