Red Shale Fire- Lewis & Clark National Forest (MT)
Date Started: 7/18/13, 4:30pm by Beartop Lookout. Lightning Caused.
Location: Within 1988 Gates Park Fire. 37 miles W of Choteau, MT.
Acres burned: 12,400.
Personnel: 12
Fire Status: Fire monitoring and water drops. Fire working its way up Frazier Creek and Route Creek. Crossed East of North Fork Sun River in the Bob Marshall wilderness. It has reduced some new pines regenerated from previous fire, downed and still standing damaged trees.
Growth Potential is high.
Closures:
Trails closed as of Aug. 21 and Sept 7th: #108 Route Creek (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #109 East Side Sun River Tr. (from Jct. w/ Tr. #165 north to jct. w/ Tr. #108); #110 North Fork Sun River Tr. (pack bridge north to jct. w/ Tr. #116 Open Creek.); #111 Rock Creek; # 117 Washboard Reef (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #125 Moose Ridge Lookout; #130 Red Shale #132 Moonlight Peak; #151 N. Fk. Lick Creek; #157 Nesbit-Oley Creek. (w/in the Wilderness boundary); #162 Gates Creek; #163 Ray Creek Cut-off; #164 Ray Creek; #166 Gates – Moose Creek; #174 North Wall Tr. (south of #132); #175 Chinese Wall (from jct. w/#131 Moose Creek. Tr. To Larch Hill Pass); #187 Wrong Ridge; #188 Monroe Cutoff; #194 My Lake.
Roads: Forest Road 108 (South Fork of the Teton River Road) from a point beginning immediately west of the Mills Falls Campground to the road’s terminus. This closure will be in effect for two separate time periods with the first beginning on September 9 2013 at 8:00 AM and continuing through Friday September 13 2013 at 5:00 PM and the second beginning on September 16 2013 at 8:00 AM through September 20 2013 at 5:00 PM.
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