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Shoshone officials say the One Mile Fire is located three miles west of the junction between U.S. Highway 212 (the Beartooth Highway) and Wyo. Highway 296 (the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway). That's southeast of Cooke City, Montana.
Smoke was …
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A small wildfire has started in the Shoshone National Forest.
Shoshone officials say the One Mile Fire is located three miles west of the junction between U.S. Highway 212 (the Beartooth Highway) and Wyo. Highway 296 (the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway). That's southeast of Cooke City, Montana.
Smoke was reported Tuesday afternoon. A responding Shoshone National Forest crew found an estimated five-acre fire burning in a rugged area known as One Mile Creek. It’s in the same area as the 1988 Clover Mist Fire.
A helicopter from Yellowstone National Park was dropping water on the wildfire as of late Tuesday afternoon, but “due to steep terrain, snags falling in the burn area and thunderstorms, the crew is not actively engaging the fire at this time,” said a Shoshone news release.
Kristie Salzmann, a spokeswoman for the Shoshone, said there are some private ranches in that general part of the forest, but she said none are currently being threatened by the One Mile Fire.
“It is just on forest (land),” she said Tuesday evening.
