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For communities that face a high risk of wildfires, additional money is being released from the Forest Service. Up to $250 million in Community Wildfire Defense grants for selected vulnerable areas is earmarked to be dispersed, with $5.3 million of the total going to the Northern Region.
$5 million invested to strengthen the wood products economy across MontanaMISSOULA, Mont., May 14, 2024 — Today, the USDA Forest Service announced it is investi
Ochenski borrowed the title of his op-ed from a comment Gov. Greg Gianforte made at a Montana Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Helena on Jan. 11.
The heart of the Great Burn landscape is the Hoodoo Recommended Wilderness Area, spanning from west of Lolo Pass to Hoodoo Pass, southwest of Superior. The Hoodoo RWA, in the same shape since 1986, takes up most of the Hoodoo Roadless Area — the largest roadless area of Forest Service land in the Lower 48. The looming change in snowmobile access comes as the Nez Perce-Clearwater and Lolo national forests each revise their forest plans.
The USDA Forest Service announced that 60,000 acres were successfully treated with prescribed burns in the Northern Region in 2023.Ten U.S. forests in Montana,