The Custer Gallatin National Forest finalized a plan on Friday that will guide forest management over 3 million acres in Montana and South Dakota for the next 10 to 15 years.
Recreationists and hunters are being encouraged to avoid the Line Creek Trail outside of Red Lodge after a hunter encountered a grizzly bear in the area over the weekend.
For the second straight day helicopters and air tankers working the 64-acre Shedhorn Fire in the Custer Gallatin National Forest have been grounded because of drones.
Update 5:30 p.m. Fire crews continue to patrol the containment lines on the Robertson Draw and Crooked Creek Fires burning in the Custer Gallatin National Forest in south-central Montana.
The Robertson Draw Fire burning 24,273 acres south of Red Lodge has been identified as human caused, according to the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office. The fire is 0% contained.
The Robertson Draw Fire burning south of Red Lodge in the Custer Gallatin National Forest is seeing increased fire activity Tuesday afternoon as temperatures approach record highs. The fire was estimated at 2,000 acres as of this morning.