Thursday, June 17th, 2021
This Tuesday, June 15, 2021, aerial photo released by the Bureau of Indian Affairs shows the Buffalo Pasture fire burning south of St. Xavier, Mont., on the Crow Indian Reservation. Record-high temperatures and gusting winds stoked a rapid expansion of major fires across central and eastern Montana. On the Crow Reservation, officials reported a new fire in the Bighorn Mountains near the Montana-Wyoming border. The fire was burning in steeply sided Little Bull Elk Canyon, with flames up to 150 feet (46 meters) high that threatened to spread the blaze rapidly, officials said. (Karl Big Hair/Bureau of Indian Affairs via AP)