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Tim Seaman writes, "Healthy ecosystems are important to all Montanans. Unfortunately, a suite of projects which would meaningfully restore BLM lands in southwest Montana is now stalled due to a lawsuit by Alliance for the Wild Rockies."

The proposal comes in light of rising property insurance premiums and policy cancellations or nonrenewals across the country and much of the West.

Katie Bilodeau writes, "If discarding robust land-management plans that were developed with public participation under laws in existence for 50 years isn’t radical, then I don’t know what is."

Statewide, about 60,000 structures in Utah have been deemed “high risk” for wildfires.

Oregon’s U.S. senators are urging their peers on a powerful budgeting committee to send emergency funding to Oregon and other states where national lands and parks were recently burned by wildfires.

The steep costs of the fire season coupled with the sparse acres that burned have raised questions about the state’s approach to wildfires.

The Fix Our Forests Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate in April and co-sponsored by Sen. Tim Sheehy, along with Senators from California, Utah and Colorado.

The state and Missoula city and county have worked to log, thin and burn Marshal Canyon’s wildland-urban interface.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, of Melbourne, Florida, faces a charge of destruction of property by means of fire.

Isabella Oscarson, a seasonal employee from Minnesota, was assisting with the U.S. Forest Service’s Tinker Bugs prescribed fire in the Nez Perce–Clearwater National Forests.