1. Montana 2012 Wildfire Season
Bob Habeck
Montana DEQ
WESTAR Fall Business Meeting
Salt Lake City
October 30 ,2012

2. Before Wildfires
Meet with state agencies; health, school, commerce, etc.
“MT / ID Interagency Smoke Mgmt Coordination Strategy”
FLM RX-410 / RX-341 training course instruction / student
Northern Rockies Incident Mgmt Team winter meetings
ARM Subchapter 6 - Open Burning rules [prescribed fire]

3. During Wildfires
Monitor
Forecast
Communicate

7. After Wildfires
State MET reviews smoke forecast accuracy, websites, etc.
Communicate with stakeholders – FLMs, County HD, etc.
Flag wildfire smoke influenced monitoring data [document, analyze, public notice, & submit to EPA]

8. End of Presentation Bob Habeck Montana DEQ bhabeck@mt.gov
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