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 [...]
Tags: Bob Marshall Wilderness, Stillwater state forest, Swan Lake, Tally Lake, Whitefish Range, wildfire information
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 [...]
Tags: Bob Marshall Wilderness, Stillwater state forest, Tally Lake, wildfire information
Dec
11
2008
From the Thursday, December 11, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . The Stillwater State Forest, citing considerable public opposition, has denied a request to allow helicopter skiing on parts of the Whitefish Mountain Range. Brian Manning, manager of the Stillwater and Coal Creek state forests, said his office received 316 [...]
Tags: Coal Creek state forest, heli-skiing, helicopter skiing, Montana DNRC, Stillwater state forest, Whitefish Range