Regional wildfire mitigation efforts OK'd for more than $2M
Libby Volunteer Fire Department firefighters attack a wildfire burning along Route 37 near Libby. (John Blodgett/Daily Inter Lake file)
Last July, lighting struck a remote stretch of wilderness in the mountains north of Ovando.
The resulting brush and timber fire, the most recent major Northwest Montana wildfire, then scorched some 3,700 acres of Flathead and Lolo national forest over roughly three months until heavy snows finally doused the last of its embers in mid October...
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