Plum Creek Restricts Land Access Due to Fire Risk

Plum Creek is restricting public access and activities on all of its lands in Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Missoula, Sanders and Ravalli counties due to the extremely high wildfire risk.

According to the report we've received from Columbia Falls, Plum Creek has announced that it is restricting public access and land use activities on all of its lands in Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Missoula, Sanders and Ravalli counties due to continued hot and dry weather, and the extremely high wildfire risk.

With stage II fire restrictions in effect on all Plum Creek lands in the state. The following current and newly imposed recreational use restrictions are in effect until further notice.

• Motorized vehicles (on or off-road, unless the road is an “open” public designated road)
• Camping
• Campfires or fires of any kind
• Firewood cutting (firewood permits are not valid at this time)
• Internal combustion engines
• Smoking (in or out of vehicles)
• Fireworks
• Cutting, welding or grinding
• Grass cutting
• Target shooting, exploding targets or tracer ammunition
• Driving on grass-covered roads (public or private)
• Parking in tall, dry grass

Tom Ray, vice president of Northwest resources and manufacturing says:

Plum Creek appreciates the public’s continued cooperation in helping to protect it's timberlands from the risk of wildfires. The current fire risk situation is extreme and suppression resources are stretched to the maximum.

 

Under normal conditions, Plum Creek encourages members of the public to use it's timberlands as outlined in it's Plum Creek Open Lands Policy and under the Montana Fish & Wildlife’s Block Management Program.

For further information you are asked to contact Plum Creek offices in Kalispell at 751-2400, Libby at 293-6204 ext. #227 and 293-6209 and Missoula at 728-8350.