Montana/Idaho Airshed Group

Our Area

Our Area

Comprised of 29 “airsheds”

Each Airshed has a designated Coordinator as a point of contact

17 Impact Zones

3 “Units”

•Montana since 1978

• North Idaho entered 1990

• South Idaho entered 1999

Our AreaExecutive Board

Member Representatives

Monitoring Unit is located in Missoula

Our Membership

Some statistics…

Some statistics…

Some statistics…

Our Process…

Members build a pre-season burnlist online (smokemu.org)

Burns are submitted from this list by noon on the day prior to burning (Mountain Time)

All or a portion of the acres can be proposed

A priority (A or B) value is selected

Up to five days out

Our Process…Program Coordinator accesses this list just after the noon hour

Predictive Services Meteorologists provide input (they also post a ventilation forecast for the members by noon)

Program Coordinator accesses current AQ sensors, resolves any conflicts between members proposed burns, obtains input from DEQ offices

Our Process…Recommendations are posted back to the website by 4PM Mtn. that same day

Members must report any accomplishments back to the website on the following day

Our Website…Reports are available under various passworded levels

Airshed Coordinators

Member Representatives

Reports are offered as Excel file download or as HTML to screen

Map feature to be added in next version

BlueSkyRains has access to daily data

Our Website…Web Application was developed by the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis, University of Montana

A “toolbar” for ArcMap was also developed allowing direct access to the database for display (proposed, approved, accomplished by date), and to view and approve burns