Incident: Jocko Lakes
Released: 9/17/2007
Operations resources are being released from the Jocko Lakes fire as rehabilitation work begins to wind down. Predicted cool weather Monday and Tuesday has allowed rehabilitation activities to be completed ahead of managers' expectations.
About 40 miles of roads and dozer lines remain to be scarified (roughened up), and have brush spread across them.
Crews are making sure that any fire near the edge of burned areas is 100% out. Fire suppression resources are finishing mop-up of the fire, and removing their equipment and hose from firelines.
The Type 2 Management Team has agreed with all cooperating agencies that remaining areas of active fire, in rocky slopes high above Jocko divide, will be monitored to ensure that there will be no threats to private property.
Helicopters remain available in Missoula, but it is unlikely they will be needed for suppression activities. Helicopters may be used to spread grass seed as an essential part of rehabilitation, as conditions allow.
Weather: Cool and rainy weather is in the forecast through Thursday.
COOPERATING AGENCIES & PARTNERS: Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation; the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Lolo National Forest; Missoula County Sheriff's Office; Seeley Lake Fire Department; Missoula Rural Fire; Missoula County; Montana Department of Transportation; Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; National Weather Service.
