Fire Restrictions Lifted for The Beaverhead-deerlo
Incident: Pattengail Creek Wildland Fire
Released: 9/20/2007
DILLON, MONT., Sept. 19, 2007-Fire restrictions will be lifted the first thing Thursday morning, September 20, for many parts of Southwest Montana.
Restrictions are lifted for the entire Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, for lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management's Dillon Field Office in Beaverhead and Madison counties, and for state and private forested lands under the Anaconda Unit of Montana DNRC in Granite, Deer Lodge, and Silver Bow counties and the south half of Powell County.
Recent moisture and cooler temperatures at higher elevations led officials to drop the restrictions.
"Stage I" fire restrictions remain in effect, however, on state, private forested and some federal lands Jefferson, Beaverhead and Madison counties.
Stage I restrictions ban campfires outside of designated recreation sites and prohibit smoking except in buildings, vehicles, and areas cleared of vegetation in a three-foot diameter.
Lands under county jurisdiction in all seven counties remain at Stage I.
Lands administered by the BLM's Butte and Missoula field offices in Granite, Powell, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow and Jefferson counties remain in Stage I as well.
For more information, call the agency that interests you.
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