Several Forest Service Roads in the Bozeman Ranger District are undergoing repairs or closures this July, the Forest Service said in a press release on Thursday.
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Fairy Lake Road Reopens For Public Use
The Custer Gallatin National Forest announced the road to Fairy Lake was reopened on Friday, July 30.
One of the many benefits of implementing forest health projects, like the N. Bridger Forest Health project, is conducting important road work and maintenance. It also helps to improve drainage features and helps minimize impacts to stream habitat.
Corey Lewellen, Bozeman District Ranger said.
Plus, maintained roads make for a much better user experience for all that visit Fairy Lake. If you ve ever driven the road to Fairy Lake, you know that it can get treacherous, especially if you don t have a capable vehicle.
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more than 20 fires burn in Montana, a debate over how to manage forests to prepare for burns flared up in a Bozeman City Commission meeting Tuesday night. Commissioners narrowly passed a measure to support a controversial logging project.
The commission voted 3-2 to file an amicus brief in support of the decade-and-a-half in the making
Bozeman Municipal Watershed Project.The Cottonwood Environmental Law Center sued last summer to stop the project, but a federal judge dismissed the case in December. The environmental organization appealed that decision a couple months later.
The project calls for nearly 5,000 acres of prescribed burns, thinning and logging near Bozeman and Hyalite creeks to protect the city’s water supply in the event of a catastrophic wildfire.