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Two groups have filed a lawsuit to halt a Red Lodge-area logging project, approved by the Forest Service this spring, claiming it will be conducted in âsome of the best remaining wildlife habitat in the landscape.â
Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed the suit in District Court in Missoula on Monday, the second suit they have filed against a project that dates back to 2012. It s unfortunate to have to take a federal agency to court a second time over this logging project, but federal agencies have to follow the law, just like the rest of us,â said Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, in a news release.
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Hot weather could grow Robertson Draw fire past perimeter
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By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-07-22 18:10:29-04
Firefighters are concerned that the Robertson Draw Fire burning south of Red Lodge could break its current perimeter in some areas if dry weather and wind continues, and they re planning to stick around until the weather turns.
The Custer Gallatin National Forest said on Thursday morning that the northwest side of Mount Maurice is of particular concern because of difficult terrain that prevents firefighters from safely building containment lines in some areas.
The fire has been at 85 percent containment for several days and is currently listed at 29,841 acres,
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Smoke coming from the Robertson Draw Fire Tuesday, June 15th.
The afternoon of Sunday, June 13, was a normal one for Red Lodge, Montana s Fire Chief Tom Kuntz until he got a phone call. The call came in for smoke in the area of the Robertson draw, he recalled.
The Robertson Draw is along the Montana and Wyoming border. In his 30-year career of fighting fires, Kuntz said he had never seen a large wildland fire in the beginning of June. Our expectation was that this would be a fire that could be extinguished with a few engines and some people, he said.