C-PTPA responds to lightning fire
Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association (C-PTPA) responded to a holdover fire that was found today, according to Chief Fire Warden Howard Weeks. See the article...

Idaho has highest number of fires in nation
Idaho has the highest number of large wildfires of any state in the nation, according to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise (http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/nfn.html). See the article...

Meadow Fire reaches 6,400 acres
The Meadow Fire, located 12 airline miles southeast of Elk City in the Red River area of the Nez Perce National Forest, is currently 6,400 acres and 5 percent contained, according to a release from the Grangeville Interagency Dispatch Center. See the article...

Courthouse to close for parade
Clearwater County Courthouse will be closed from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, for the Orofino Lumberjack Days Kiddie Parade. See the article...

Weather Spotter training planned
National Weather Service-Missoula will hold Weather Spotter Training Thursday, Sept. 21 at 9 a.m. See the article...

PLAY elects officers for 2006-07
Public Lands Access Year-round (PLAY) elected a new slate of officers at its annual meeting Thursday, Sept. 7 in Orofino. See the article...

Anglers picking up steelhead
Anglers are picking up a few steelhead around Lewiston. See the report...

Grizzly bears doing well in Yellowstone ecosystem
BOZEMAN, MT - Mark Haroldson, Wildlife Biologist for the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center reports that whitebark pine cone production was good this fall, averaging 34 cones per tree on 19 transects that the Study Team and cooperators monitor annually throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. See the article...

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