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Emergency forest project aims to protect Butte's drinking water

The lingering stacks of jackstrawed deadfall beyond the project’s current boundaries provide a hair-raising glimpse of the catastrophe that could have been and could still be. Mountain pine beetles decimated lodgepole pines in the vicinity of Basin Creek Reservoir in the early 2000s. Today, skeletal trees remain standing.

How Bobcats can prevent forest fires this summer

How Bobcats can prevent forest fires this summer

Many students look forward to outdoor excursions over summer break. Few activities are more popular than camping — specifically sitting around a campfire. However, according to the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), this warm and inviting hallmark of summer — if left unattended — is one of the leading causes of wildfires. Through

Great Burn Conservation Alliance offers summertime stewardships and seasonal work

Great Burn Conservation Alliance offers summertime stewardships and seasonal work

In the summer of 1910, dry timber, fierce wind and sparks from railroad tracks set off a series of historic fires in Northern Idaho and Western Montana known as the Great Burn. In three days, over 80 lives and almost three million acres of land were lost. As a result,

Pallet possession banned in Bozeman Ranger District

Pallet possession banned in Bozeman Ranger District

Popped tires and forest fires are no fun for anyone, and pallet fires have become such an issue in the Custer Gallatin National Forest — especially in Hyalite Canyon — that the Bozeman Ranger District (BRD) has implemented a new ban on possessing pallets within its jurisdiction. Before Jan. 1, anyone who

Professor from Arizona State provides a picture of humanity’s past, present and future with fire

Professor from Arizona State provides a picture of humanity’s past, present and future with fire

If you have spent a summer in the Gallatin Valley, you know that the dry months between July and September are synonymous with smoke and haze from wildfires. Until last week, smoke from the large Remington fire — which has burned 196,368 acres in southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming since