Starting on April 20, the East Side fire near Red Lodge burned around 1,200 acres and wasn’t listed as contained until the latter part of May. On a smaller scale there has already been an unusual amount of starts this year so we may be in for a bad fire year. Make sure you have your equipment and fire tools onsite and functional as you might be using them this season. The forest fire season in Montana is May 1st to September 30th and within that time frame we have forest fire rules and...

Well folks, we did it. The MLA has made it 50 years. What started out as an idea that the timber industry needed a unified voice way back in 1976 has just celebrated its Golden Anniversary in true style. Butte got to experience a bunch of loggers and representatives from DNRC, USFS, mills, and equipment manufacturers (just to name a few) come together and celebrate a half of a century of an association that has fought tirelessly for this profession called logging. Mom—I mean Coleen—and the...

Since its founding in 1976, the Montana Logging Association (MLA) has evolved from a small group of concerned contractors into a unified voice for nearly 500 timber related businesses. Founding and Early Advocacy (1970s) 1976: The MLA was formally incorporated in Deer Lodge, Montana. The original incorporators were John E. Bruns of Dillon, Donald Wozny of Townsend, Calvin Stokes of Deer Lodge, Don Moullet of Livingston, Art Perry of Belgrade, Donald Roedel of Dillon, and Don G. Buck of Deer...