All last summer Montana’s air was filthy from forest fires in Idaho. This year has been much better, but enough fires have now been started by lightning in central Idaho and central Oregon that Montana is getting pretty hazy.
Smoke from wildfires turns air ‘unhealthy’ in region. By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian
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Continue Reading →This is very good news!! They were almost extinct 15 years ago.
Sockeye numbers reach highest level in decades. A total of 386 sockeye salmon had arrived in the Sawtooth Valley by Tuesday [August 19]. By JASON KAUFFMAN, Idaho Mountain Express Staff Writer
Continue Reading →Rocky Barker has written extensively about the Yellowstone fires and fire policy in general with a book (Scorched Earth) on the role of forest fires fighting and the history of the public lands.
Today he has a feature article on how the lessons from ’88 have been learned […]
Continue Reading →There have been a number of retrospectives on the great fires of ’88 on their 20th anniversary. Here is one from the Salt Lake Tribune summarizing the effect on wildlife.
How wildlife fared in the Yellowstone fires.
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