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Overall, Montana has so far experienced a well below-normal wildfire season, at least in terms of acreage burned. Over the past 20 years, wildfires burned an average of about 395,000 acres annually in Montana. As of Wednesday, the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation reported that 114,324 acres had burned in Montana this season.
The Telegraph’s critic Richard Last described Gayle Hunnicutt as having ‘the most luminously beautiful face on television’
Chuck Kabrehl, a Forest Ranger based in Warren County, recently served as a task force leader in Lake County, Montana, where he supervised a crew of wildland firefighters from across the country. He embarked on a two-week assignment at the Big Knife fire in Montana, departing on August 4.
Here's a roundup of a few of the many stories Missoulian reporters put out this week.