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Growth slowed on a wildfire near Martin City over the weekend with cooler and more humid weather moving into the region.

Northwest Montana’s wildfire activity is expected to moderate over the next seven days with wetting rain and below normal temperatures increasingly likely beginning Friday evening.

A dry lightning storm July 29 lit up as many as 17 new wildfires on the Flathead National Forest.

A few small wildfires cropped up in far Northwest Montana over the weekend, continuing an uptick in incidents over the last week as forest fuels begin to dry out.

Fridays ruling allows Flathead National Forest logging projects that had been stalled in development to proceed.

Flathead National Forests' initial proposal to not review potential environmental impacts is raising questions about how forest managers decide which projects deserve a closer study.

Prescribed fire projects on the Flathead National Forest area planned this spring as weather, fuel conditions and air quality conditions allow.

U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana grilled the chief of the U.S. Forest Service last week about its initial decision — since reversed — to give an expansion plan at Holland Lake Lodge an exemption from a thorough environmental review.

Forests regenerate on their own naturally, sometimes through wildfire. In 1929, the Half Moon fire burned more than 100,000 acres in the Flathead Valley and Glacier National Park, leaving the woods around Coram and Lake Five scorched black.

Montanas senior senator, a Democrat, zeroed in on the Flathead National Forests intent to shepherd a massive expansion to the historic Condon-area lodge via a categorical exclusion.