The project called for a network of clear-cuts, logging and prescribed fire across a 40,000-acre swath of the Custer Gallatin ...

BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST — Crews are attacking two fires in the Bitterroot National Forest. The Dominic Point Fire is burning 28 acres, 8 miles east of Corvallis in the Sapphire Mountains. There is ...

DARBY, Mont. - Lightning caused fires continue to pop up in the Bitterroot National Forest keeping crews there busy. Firefighters are on the scene of 12 new wildland fires in the area, but quick ...

HELENA — Montana's major forest fires remained mostly quiet Thursday, but a lightning barrage earlier this week — and forecasts for more lightning in coming days — has firefighters worried about the ...

Clear skies and October snow have signaled the end to another wildfire season in Montana, but efforts to overhaul the way fires are fought in the West are set to continue through the winter. Signs in ...

A key strength of the training program is the instructors’ proficiency with prescribed burning. The cadre of instructors ...

Mikaela Balkind, a UM graduate student, created the training to empower young women to join the wildfire profession, where women make up less than 15% of the national workforce.

Headwaters Economics suggests new strategies to deal with fire risk as property insurance rises both nationally and in ...