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When disaster strikes, many communities have emergency plans to get help to the people who need it.But some parts of rural Montana still struggle with gaps in coverage that slow
The U.S. government can keep using chemical retardant dropped from aircraft to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law, a judge ruled on Friday (May 26th). Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in g
A legal dispute in Montana could drastically curb the government’s use of aerial fire retardant to combat wildfires after environmentalists raised concerns about waterways that are being polluted with the potentially toxic red slurry that’s dropped from aircraft. A coalition that includes Paradis
Early summer moisture and unstrained resources for aggressive suppression kept Montana’s 2022 fire season mostly quiet.
Underground coal seams can burn unnoticed for years. They can also spark raging wildfires. Funding to extinguish them is limited, but a mapping effort is underway to plot the smoldering coordinates.