75th Smokejumper Reunion - Information

To all friends, family, and smokejumpers past and present,

Please join the National Smokejumper Association and jumpers young and "oldish" to celebrate 75 years of smokejumping on the University of Montana Campus and locations around Missoula on

Friday, July 17th to Sunday, July 19th.

For a complete schedule of events go to:

https://smj2015reunion.wordpress.com/schedule-of-events/

We look forward to seeing you there!

Ram Air Transition Letter Signed

On July 1st, Forest Service Director of Fire and Aviation, Tom Harbour signed the long awaited Ram Air Decision Memorandum.

"The U.S. Forest Service will begin a measured transition to a ram-air parachute delivery system at smokejumper bases, to replace round FS-14 parachutes currently in use. A change management and implementation plan will be developed to start transition at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2016. There will be continual assessment and management the associated risks of this transition."


























For more information on the decision and upcoming transition visit:

http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/smokejumpers/index.html

Follow links under In The Spotlight on the right hand column.

New AC Units in the Loft!

The mounts have been returned to the Loft walls and the new Air Conditioning units are installed!

R1 FS Web

The Region 1 FSWeb has migrated to a sharepoint site. You can get to it from the R1 FSWeb link to the right, if you are on a government network.

If you want to go to the old site, you should still be able to hit it at http://fsweb.r1.fs.fed.us/index-legacy.php


Thank you and good day sir(s).