By Stephen Camelio EBS Contributor The fires of 1988 that burned 1.4 million acres in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—including 793,880 acres in the national park—were the...
By Todd Wilkinson EBS Environmental Columnist Thirty years ago, following the spring warmup, a storm pattern rolled into the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, leading many to believe...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) – The cost of fighting wildfires in Montana is approaching $400 million at the tail end of the state’s worst wildfire season in...
By Steven Dubois Associated Press A wet winter and spring in the Western U.S. brought predictions that the 2017 wildfire season would be mild. It was...
By Matt Volz and Sudhin Thanawala Associated Press HELENA (AP) – Firefighters across the U.S. West struggled with wind-driven flames, hot temperatures and dry conditions even...
HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) – Three teens who were charged with failing to fully extinguish a campfire that days later blew up into a wildfire that burned...
By Todd Wilkinson EBS Environmental Columnist Former Vice President Al Gore is back on the big screen with a follow-up to his 2006 Academy-award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient...
HELENA (AP) – Montana National Guard officials say 15 troops and a Chinook helicopter are being sent to fight a fire burning the in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge...
By Matt Volz Associated Press HELENA (AP) – Montana’s worst fire season in years is expected to scorch the drought-stricken landscape well into fall, long after the...
By Matt Volz Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) – Crews and equipment from 34 states arrived Monday to help fight four massive wildfires that have destroyed a...
