Disclaimers
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DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY |
This is a United States Government web site
produced and maintained by the Northern
Rockies Coordination Center (NRCC). Information
presented on this website is public domain and may be distributed
or copied freely. Use of appropriate byline, photo or image
credits is requested. The NRCC website is designed to provide
general fire information for the public and as a source of fire
intelligence for the wildland fire community pertaining to wildland
fires occurring in Montana, North Dakota, northern Idaho, and
Yellowstone National Park. Various components of the website
are updated throughout the day from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (April
1 - September 30). |
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This website IS
NOT a "real-time" website, nor
is it designed to be an "incident-specific" website.
Although we strive to get information to the site as quickly
as we receive it, we completely rely upon the unit or team responsible
for managing the fire to provide us with information. The NRCC
website covers all large fires throughout the Northern Rockies
Geographic Area and is not the "official" website
for any individual fire. The NRCC provides no warranty, expressed
or implied, as to accuracy, reliability, timeliness, or completeness
of the information furnished. |
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The Predictive Services Group at the Northern
Rockies Coordination Center utilizes the most recent data available
to produce daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal Fire Weather
/ Fire Danger Outlooks. The intent of the Outlooks are to provide
fire managers with as much detailed information to assist them
in being prepared for the forthcoming period. Although the Group
adheres to a policy of being as accurate as possible in their
Outlooks, the variability in weather can change over a course
of time causing the possibility of mis-calculations. Therefore,
use of these products is at your discretion. |
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DISCLAIMER FOR EXTERNAL LINKS |
The appearance of external hyperlinks is provided
with the intent of meeting the mission of the NRCC. It does
not constitute an endorsement by the United States Government
nor any of its employees, including the NRCC, of the linked
web sites or of the information, products or services contained
therein. Unless otherwise specified, neither the United States
Government nor any of its employees, including members of the
NRCC, exercise any editorial control over the information that
may be found on these external sites. Please let the NRCC know
of any external links you believe are inappropriate or about
specific additional items you believe should be included on
this web site. |
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DISCLAIMER OF NON-ENDORSEMENT |
Reference herein to any specific commercial
products, processes or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer
or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement,
recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or
its employees, including members of the NRCC. Views and opinions
of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect
those of the United States Government, and shall not be used
for advertising or product endorsement purposes. |
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SECURITY NOTICE |
For site security purposes and to ensure that
this service remains available to all users, this government
computer system employs software programs to monitor network
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts
to upload information or change information on this web site
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act |
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Except for authorized law enforcement investigations,
no other attempts will be made to identify individual users
or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes
and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with
National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule
20. |
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PRIVACY STATEMENT |
Information presented on this website is considered
public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise
indicated. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credit is requested.
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For site management, information is collected
for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses
software programs to create summary statistics, which are used
for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and
least interest, determining technical design specifications,
and identifying system performance or problem areas. |
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For site security purposes and to ensure that
this service remains available to all users, this government
computer system employs software programs to monitor network
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts
to upload information or change information on this service
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1987 and the National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act. |
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Except for authorized law enforcement investigations,
no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their
usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes than
those stated in this notice. |
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If you have any questions or comments about
the information presented here, please forward them to mtnrc@dms.nwcg.gov.
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To protect your privacy, this site does not
use persistent "cookies." |
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Example of Information Collected from
this web site for Statistical Purposes |
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Below is an example of the information collected
based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document.
xxx.yyy.com - - [ 28/Jan/1997: 00:00:01 -0500]
"GET /news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704 Mozilla
3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) -- this is
the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester
(you as the visitor). In this case, (.com) the requester is
coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requester's
method of network connection, the host name (or IP address)
may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via
many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses
for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP.
The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer
if that computer has a fixed IP address.
[ 28/Jan/1997: 00:00:01 -0500] -- this is
the date and time of the request
"GET /news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0"
-- this is the location of the requested file on the web server
200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was
filled
16704 -- this is the size of the requested
file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies the type of
browser software used to access the page, which indicates
what design parameters to use in constructing the pages
www.altavista.digital.com - this indicates
the last site the person visited, which indicates how people
find our site
Requests for other types of documents use
similar information. No personally-identifying information
is collected. |