How SNOTEL sites provide crucial data about local snowpack and river health By Mario Carr EBS CONTRIBUTOR As a resort community, measuring snow is an important...
Local first responders confident in their ‘great working relationship’ with various partners going into wildfire season By Hudson Willett EDITORIAL INTERN Southwest Montana is expected to...
By John Hooks MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO Smoke from dozens of wildfires in Alberta, Canada reached southwest Montana on Wednesday morning, pushed south by a cold front....
Fire danger in Montana is ramping up with hot and windy days forecast in late July, and smoky skies from an Idaho fire. By Keely Larson...
By Gabrielle Gasser EBS STAFF BIG SKY – On the sunny Saturday morning of May 1, a group of volunteers gathered outside the Big Sky Fire...
By Char Miller WRITERS ON THE RANGE We should not be surprised that much of the West is on fire. Or that more than 3.1 million...
Town Crier “Briefs from the Region” (2) – 9/3/20 On Wednesday, a grass fire started shortly after 4:30 p.m. that burned through fields and threatened structures...
By Bella Butler EBS STAFF BIG SKY – Part of working in emergency planning is dealing with hypotheticals—considering the perfect storms of cataclysmic disasters that aren’t...