Just before school started this week, a mountain lion was killed near a Missoula neighborhood. Bears and mountain lions are moving into the valleys and river bottoms where game is plentiful.
Will the Montana Grizzly - North Dakota State football be cancelled by the dense smoke from area wildfires? The chances are slim and none...and slim just left town.
Missoula air quality deemed unhealthy by the Missoula City County Health Department. Sarah Coefield said it could worsen to Very Unhealthy later today.
Wildfire smoke continues to plague western Montana valleys. Air Quality is at unhealthy levels throughout the area, and worse in the Bitterroot Valley.
The Missoula City County Health Department said yesterday that west winds have brought dense smoke into the Missoula and Bitterroot Valley, making air quality unhealthy.
So many fires are burning in the Northern Rockies that fire officials are allowing some to burn because all the manpower and equipment is committed elsewhere.