Montana Wildfire Potential: ‘Very Similar’ To Last Year – Houses Can Grow Back After Fire. Lives Cannot.

This year’s fire season is off to a slow start, but it could ramp up in July. That’s according an update Montana’s State Forester gave to state lawmakers Wednesday.

Rivers across Montana are running high and fast with snowmelt now, but by mid-summer parts of the state are expected to face above average dryness. State Forester Sonya Germann says that during this wet spring far fewer acres have burned at this point than the recent annual average.

"We were in this very similar position this time last year," Germann says.

By Corin Cates-Carney

http://mtpr.org/post/montana-wildfire-potential-very-similar-last-year

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Houses Can Grow Back After Fire. Lives Cannot.

Communities need to better protect themselves and their firefighters

Andie Creel

http://prairiepopulist.org/houses-can-grow-back-after-fire/