The Swan Lake Ranger Station is located in the town of Bigfork, MT on the northeast corner of Flathead Lake. The District is broken into two geographic areas; the 50,000 acre Island Unit west of Flathead Lake and the 500,000 acre Swan Corridor that extends from the north along the Swan Mountain Range to the south, bordered by the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex to the east and the Mission Mountain Wilderness and Flathead Lake to the west. The Mission Mountain Wilderness area has approximately 75,500 acres that are approved for managing fire for resource benefit and the Swan Face has about 40,000 acres that are approved. Approximately 240,000 acres of the district are in wildland urban interface or adjacent to the wildland urban interface. The District Fire Management Program covers a full range of fire management practices from suppression, mechanical fuels reduction, prescribed fire with a target of 2500 acres/year, to managing fires for resource benefit. The District has a two 6-8 person Engine Crews that staff two Type 6 Engines and a chase trucks throughout the season. There are two fully functional caches; one at Bigfork and the other located down the Swan Corridor in Condon.
