The Sioux Ranger District, Custer Gallatin National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management, Miles City Field Office are planning for a series of fall burns starting as early as October 7, 2019. Prescribed burns will be dependent upon proper fuel and weather conditions.

The Forest Service and the BLM are working jointly on multiple burn units, 500-800 acres in the Needmore-Russell Prescribed Burn, located approximately six miles southeast of Ekalaka near the Camp Needmore campground and the MacNab Pond campground (T1N R58E Sec. 24, 25, and 26). The area surrounding Camp Needmore was thinned i...