AM 1240 KLYQ » National Forests http://klyq.com Hamilton's News Talk Leader Fri, 24 May 2013 16:04:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Western Montana Spring Smoke Season Starts http://klyq.com/western-montana-spring-smoke-season-starts/ http://klyq.com/western-montana-spring-smoke-season-starts/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:29:21 +0000 Steve Fullerton http://klyq.com/?p=36082 This is the time of year that the local National Forest and BLM crews conduct control burns.

Much like the column of smoke put up by the forest burn in the Blue Mountain area west of Missoula Wednesday, the fires burn hot for an hour or two, but then begin to die down, as the material burns up, usually piled in one general area of the forest

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]]> http://klyq.com/western-montana-spring-smoke-season-starts/feed/ 0 Smoke from a controlled burn west of Missoula. (KLYQ Photo) Beetle-Kill Logging Planned http://klyq.com/beetle-kill-logging-planned/ http://klyq.com/beetle-kill-logging-planned/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:28:49 +0000 Steve Fullerton http://klyq.com/?p=20807 The Pintler Ranger District of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest is continuing some travel interruptions due to logging south of Philipsburg at Georgetown Lake.
The trees were killed by the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB), who's populations have exploded throughout Northwest forests recently

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]]> http://klyq.com/beetle-kill-logging-planned/feed/ 0 "Red and Dead" is the result of the mountain pine beetle. (KLYQ File Photo)