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A study by the University of Southern California estimates hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic metals have been dumped onto forests during aerial fire retardant drops during the past decade, and, ...

President Trump is trying to merge government efforts to fight wildfires into a single agency, despite warnings that chaos ...

Some fear President Donald Trump’s effort to merge the government’s wildland firefighting into a single agency could sow ...

The move would mean shifting thousands of personnel from the U.S. Forest Service into the new agency with fire season already ...

Michael Howell A lawsuit was filed in Federal District Court in Missoula on May 7 accusing the U.S. Forest Service of ...

The fishing access and camping closures remain in place, however, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park said in a release that the Fish Trap Fishing Access Site will reopen on Thursday.

Containment on the Sawlog Fire has increased to 65 percent on Sunday morning, while the fire slowly grew to 2,020 acres over ...

Crews expect the incident command post to be taken down by the end of Wednesday given the current fire activity and its high ...

Containment on the Sawlog Fire has increased to 65 percent on Sunday morning, while the fire slowly grew to 2,020 acres over the weekend. That growth shows what has been burned on both sides of Sawlog ...

Friday’s estimate for the fire had it at 1,412 acres and 30% contained. The fire is in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National ...