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State, U.S. Forest Service use new agreement to target 400,000 acres of forest for management

Montana and the U.S. Forest Service announced last week they were moving ahead on a shared agreement between the two to do forestry work in large swathes of the state. Last summer, the state and Forest Service signed an agreement formalizing closer cooperation between federal forest management operations and

Less snow, new strategies: How Bitterroot businesses are adapting to weather uncertainty

For the past four years, Elizabeth Griffin’s daffodil buds she grows for her flower farm, Bizzy Blooms, haven’t come out of the ground until April. This year, the warmer weather pushed the buds up early, already emerging by about 3 inches in late February. But instead of feeling

Basin Creek Reservoir fire contained at 6.7 acres in concern area for fire, water managers

A cataclysmic wildfire in the vicinity of Basin Creek could affect reservoir, drinking water

Basin Creek Reservoir wildfire grows to 3 acres near Butte

Basin Creek Reservoir wildfire grows to 3 acres near Butte

BUTTE, Mont. – Firefighters from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (BDNF) are battling a wildfire in the Basin Creek Reservoir area, located 11 miles south of Butte and one mile southeast of the Basin Creek Picnic Area. The fire was reported late Saturday afternoon. Initially estimated at one acre, the fire

Fire near Basin Creek Reservoir reported Saturday afternoon; crews working to extinguish

A wildfire that started Saturday afternoon in the Basin Creek Reservoir area south of Butte had grown to an estimated 6.7 acres as of Sunday afternoon, and crews were still working to get the fire extinguished late Sunday. According to the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, the fire was reported

Missoula 4-H club collects pinecones for DNRC reforestation efforts

Missoula 4-H club collects pinecones for DNRC reforestation efforts

The Potomac Valley 4-H club may not speak for the trees, but it is aiding in efforts to replant them. In January, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) partnered with the club to collect pinecones from state land outside Missoula. The goal of the collection was

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.