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Whitefish Range among regional wildfire mitigation efforts recently OK’d for more than $2M

by JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
Hagadone News Network | February 9, 2022 1:00 AM

Last July, lighting struck a remote stretch of wilderness in the mountains north of Ovando.

The resulting brush and timber fire, the most recent major Northwest Montana wildfire, then scorched some 3,700 acres of Flathead and Lolo national forest over roughly three months until heavy snows finally doused the last of its embers in mid-October...

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