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Pending favorable conditions, firefighters on the Lolo National Forest are planning to conduct pile burn operations today to reduce hazardous fuels from previous vegetation management operations. 

Missoula Ranger District: Firefighters will continue burning up to 26 acres of piles located .5 miles east of Forest Service Road 33 and Howard Creek Road on the Granite Graves Shaded Fuel Break project.  Smoke may be visible from Highway 12.Prescribed fire is implemented in compliance with Montana air quality standards and coordinated with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and the appropriate county health departments to minimize the impacts of smoke. 

Pile burning efforts will continue today across many districts on the Lolo NF to reduce hazardous fuels from previous vegetation management operations. Missoula Ranger District: Firefighters will continue burning up to 37 acres of piles at the junction of Fish Creek and Forest Service Road 33 on the Granite Graves Shaded Fuel Break project.  Smoke may be visible from Highway 12. 

Lolo NF fire and fuels staff completed 207 acres of pile burning yesterday across many of our districts, work will continue today and throughout the rest of this week, as conditions allow. Missoula Ranger District: Firefighters will continue pile burning up to 60 acres, 3.5 miles northwest of Lolo Hot Springs .5 miles south of Wagon Mountain and Howard Creek junction. Smoke may be visible from Highway 12. 

Conditions permitting, several districts on the Lolo National Forest are planning to conduct pile burning today to reduce the fuel loading created from previous management operations.Missoula Ranger District: Firefighters will continue pile burning up to 66 acres, 3.5 miles northwest of Lolo Hot Springs off  Forest Road 33 at the junction of Wagon Mountain Road and Howard Creek Road. Smoke may be visible from Highway 12 and Lolo Hot Springs. 

Missoula Ranger District: Firefighters will continue pile burning up to 40 acres, 3.5 miles northwest of Lolo Hot Springs off  Forest Road 33 at the junction of Wagon Mountain Road and Howard Creek Road. Smoke may be visible from Highway 12 and Lolo Hot Springs. Superior Ranger District: 

Pile burning will continue today across the Lolo National Forest. Pile burning reduces the amount of fuels that are available to burn, lowering a wildfire’s intensity and reducing risks to firefighters and communities, a key component of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. 

Yesterday was a successful day of prescribed fire operations across many of our districts, work will continue today and throughout the rest of this week, pending conditions. Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District:  Prescribed fire operations will continue on the River Road East Fire piles located near Pats Knob west of Paradise.  Smoke may be visible from Paradise, Knowles, Quinns, Highway 200 and Highway 135. 

Pile burning efforts will continue today across the Lolo National Forest to reduce hazardous fuels from previous vegetation management operations. Seeley Lake Ranger District: Seeley Lake Ranger District: Firefighters will conduct up to 2 acres of pile burning on the Morrell Falls project area located 8 miles north of Seeley Lake. Smoke may be visible from Seeley Lake and Highway 83. 

Conditions permitting, several districts on the Lolo National Forest are planning to conduct pile burning today to reduce the fuel loading created from previous management operations.Superior Ranger District: Firefighters will conduct up to 20 acres of prescribed fire operations on the Green Breen Timber Sale/Grapple Piles project, located 7 miles north of Cabin City in the 12 Mile Creek drainage.