Council to look at wildfire, water supply

The next meeting of the Seeley Lake Community Council promises a full agenda. The first half of the meeting will be devoted to wildfire smoke and its consequences.

Christopher T. Migliaccio, Research Assistant Professor at UM, has been studying the health effects of smoke on a group in Seeley Lake following the Rice Ridge fire of 2017. His team collected data in the fall of 2017 and then twice in 2018 for follow-up assessments. They studied local residents for lung function, blood pressure, heart rate, behavioral/depression and respiratory infections. They are planning to present their data on...

 

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