Gazette opinion: USDA must let Montana helicopters fight fires
Story from Billings Gazette The U.S. Forest Service ought to be renamed the U.S. Fire Service. Over the past 20 years, the costs of...
Montana Governor complains that some state helicopters are barred from working on USFS fires
Story from FireAviation.com Montana’s governor on Friday [August 21] called on federal officials to lift what he called nonsensical...
Bullock, Daines ask feds to let DNRC helicopters fight all fires
Story from Bozeman Chronicle While wildfires spew smoke into the air, Gov. Steve Bullock is asking the federal government to get...
Montana helicopters sidelined from fighting federal fires
Associated Press Story HELENA — In a fire season plagued by equipment shortages across the West, five Montana helicopters used for...
