Fire

[Metals406]

Yeah, Warshington got hit pretty bad this year. I'm actually fairly surprised I didn't get called over.

I got 10 days so far, 4 in Idaho and 6 in MT. We had Canuckistan poo all over us now, so we're cool and wet. Without a warmer/drier September October, fire season is pretty much over for me.

Old Farmer's Almanac is saying a warm spring and dry summer next year, so maybe then?

Here's a pic of our 2 falling mods, I'm the guy on the far left. Sam ('Rounder' on here) is to my left, he was my cut'n pard.

 

[slowp]

Warshington is starting to sound like Cali. Fires and mudslides.

No earthquakes yet...knock on wood, cross fingers and toes...

 

[2dogs]

No earthquakes yet...knock on wood, cross fingers and toes...

And believe me you don't want any earthquakes. I was working the aftermath of the 1989 quake, the losses were dreadful.

 

[slowp]

Nope. Don't want earthquakes.

There is a distant rumbling going on in the east of here. I hope that a doghair patch of poorly growing lodgepole gets hit and fries. It was once a great huckleberry patch.
Please, please, please....

 

[slowp]

Short video about the Methow fires AKA Carlton Complex.

 

[slowp]

Hmmmm. How does one post a Vimeo video?

 

[RandyMac]

http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/

Elk Creek is mentioned, I lived and worked in that area in the late '70s. It is a beautiful stream, I fly fished several miles of it.

 

[RandyMac]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/27/feds-allows-logging-after-huge-california-wildfire/

 

[slowp]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/27/feds-allows-logging-after-huge-california-wildfire/

Good news but they need to get on it fast. Meanwhile, wait for lawsuits and injunctions.

 

[madhatte]

Pretty sure the FS calculates court costs in as an expense for every timber sale these days.

 

[Metals406]

So do the state and private landholders. Stoltze is one if our last surviving mills. Now, in part because of the terrorist Judge Malloy, they're laying off 10 employees -- & cutting the hours of the rest.

I have family and friends that count on the mill fir a paycheck. The mill has posted "log shortage" for the reason for the layoffs. Many of you have been here. . . We ain't short on logs.

We are however, short on judges and politicians willing to do the right thing. But then who would the greenies pay off?

 

[slowp]

If they are interested, the local mill is often hiring folks. Must be lots of turnover?

 

[RandyMac]

Yesterday the Feds had a containment date of Sept 8th, now it is Sept 20th. Hwy 96 is closed, they are evacuating the North side of 96.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24217/

 

[2dogs]

I have been watching this fire since it began however I don't know that country at all. What is the terrain like?

 

[RandyMac]

Very steep in general, heavy growth, regen, brush, lots of snags and decadent timber. Rocky in some drainages, like Elk creek, thick soil elsewhere, good handline dirt.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/

 

[RandyMac]

 

[Double_Diamond]

[QUOTE=" What is the terrain like?[/QUOTE]
Kind of like Big Sir with more trees.

 

[RandyMac]

This one might keep burning until the rainy season, assuming we get one.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/

 

[Gologit]

This one might keep burning until the rainy season, assuming we get one.
http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/

That's mostly government ground. Any bets on when/if it gets salvage logged?

 

[slowp]

It might get salvaged if the Karuks were assured of being able to get the contracts. Otherwise, they'll be against it, unless the relationship between tribe and others has improved.