Mineral County solicits survey on wildfire plan
Heavy smoke pours off the Thorne Creek Fire Friday evening after fire crews used aerial ignitions in strategic locations to moderate fire behavior. (Scott Shindledecker/Valley Press)
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan is designed to assist the county and property owners in mitigating wildfire risk by assessing areas at risk and recommending measures to decrease those risks.
Mineral County has one that needs to be updated, and the public is encouraged to participate in a short survey. Mineral County has contracted SWCA Environmental Consultants to work in collaboration with municipal, state, and federal land management agencies to develop the 2025 Mineral County plan update.
This comes at the time where the Lolo National Forest is slowly ramping down their revision and the projects sound like they may overlap.
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