Montana, local firefighters head to California According Montana Public Radio, nine western states, including Montana, have sent firefighters and other resources to California in an effort...
By Jessianne Castle EBS ENVIRONMENTAL & OUTDOORS EDITOR BIG SKY – Sixty-four percent of homes in Montana are tucked among trees and sage, within an area...
Big Sky’s wildfire heritage By Bay Stephens EBS LOCAL EDITOR This is the sixth installment of “Growing Pains,” an ongoing series centered on Big Sky’s growth,...
By Chief William Farhat EBS CONTRIBUTOR On May 4, the Big Sky Fire Department hosted the Big Sky Community Wildfire Preparedness Day in the loft of...
By Dustin Tetrault EBS CONTRIBUTOR Last year, three large wildfires burned dangerously close to Big Sky. The Bacon Rind Fire to the south and the Monument...
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...
