From the Thursday, July 27, 2006 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .
Restrictions on campfires and smoking in non-developed areas are set to go into effect Monday (July 31) in Northwest Montana as the hot and relatively dry weather continues.
Called Stage I Fire restrictions, they generally restrict campfires out of developed campsites as well as smoking on state, county and federal lands in Northwest Montana. That includes Kootenai National Forests, Glacier National Park, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation lands, and Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, and Sanders Counties. This also includes the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex (Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Great Bear Wilderness) lands on the Flathead, Lewis and Clark, Helena and Lolo National Forests.
Stage I fire restrictions allow:
* Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire only in developed recreation sites or improved sites,
* devices solely fueled by liquid petroleum or LPG fuels that can be turned on and off, including backpacker stoves and portable gas grills,
* smoking only in an enclosed vehicle or building, developed recreation site or while stopped in an area at least three feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable materials.
Contained wood stoves with spark arrester screens are allowed only in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
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