Paul, I have been reading a book by Nora Roberts called Chasing Fire. So I googled Montana fires. Lots of stuff to read about forest fires there, every year. Funny. No mention of global warming. Just fires that happen every year. Our fires are the consequence of accumulated fuel from gum TREES, leaves and branches full of eucalyptus oil. Then hot temperatures that are cyclic going back 100 years and more, hot wind.