BigFoot is a skidgen (a BIG skidgen), that is run by Kurt Spencer from Libby during the day shift and his son, Cody Spencer, on the night shift. Kurt, a logger, converted a logging forwarder, which is a forestry vehicle that carries felled logs from the stump to a roadside landing, to one of the newer mechanized tools in the wildland firefighting arsenal called a skidgen. They have the versatility of bringing water over rough terrain and using it with a fire crew in remote …

August 11, 2021