We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
For Immediate Release
Contact: Lee Black Crow, Fire Management Officer
Phone number: 406-353-4874
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:30 a.m.
Warm autumn days after a frost are fall prescribed burning season. Saturday, October 20, we plan our first prescribed fire in many years on the Fort Belknap Reservation, to help protect the town of Hays from a larger summer wildfire.
Ponderosa pine forests in the Little Rockies depended on occasional fires every decade or two to keep their presettlement condition: large, widely spaced grandfather trees with clear ground between.
Prescribed burns are small,...
