Stimson Lumber Company Lands to Close due to Fire Danger
Education and Program Manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Dillon Tabish told KGVO on Friday that all Stimson Lumber Company lands will be closed to public use starting next week due to extreme drought conditions and high fire danger.
“Up here in northwest Montana, we ve got lots of large corporate timberland owners who are very generous with allowing public access and recreation on their lands, which is great,” said Tabish. “It opens up hundreds of thousands of acres up here in northwest Montana for public access and recreation and we re very appreciative of that. Right now the wildfire danger is extreme, and it s so dry and the conditions are so ripe for trouble that one of those large landowners Stimson Lumber Company has decided to close its land here in northwest Montana to public access and recreation.”
Stimson Lumber Company Lands to Close due to Fire Danger
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Fire danger closes Northwest MT private timberlands to public
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New restrictions on building a campfire or smoking on public lands start Monday across new portions of northwestern Montana.
The Stage II fire restrictions will take effect as the state faces a severe drought, continued forecast for hot, dry weather and firefighting resources stretched thin across the western U.S.
Beth Pargman is with the Flathead National Forest:
“It’s important for folks recreating on public lands to do their part. Each year, 70-80 percent of wildfires are human-caused, and anything that we can have the public’s help in doing to prevent those human starts is greatly appreciated.”
Earlier this month Gov. Greg Gianforte declared a wildland fire state of emergency in Montana. In that announcement, Gianforte said about 78 percent of the wildfires that had burned over 141,000 acres in the state at that time were human-caused.