Re: Looks like fire season is in full swing


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [108.162.245.23] on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 17:31:15 :

In Reply to: Looks like fire season is in full swing posted by John in Utah [108.162.244.12] on Monday, June 27, 2016 at 17:10:53 :

First big fire of the season in the Bitterroot right now. They're on it and it doesn't look like it will get much bigger. The catch-22 is that at least in the pine forests, each year that we put out all the forest fires means that next year any fires that start will be even worse. The bug-killed lodgepole and rust-killed white pine keep accumulating, soaked with pitch, and it's just a matter of time before something sets it all on fire. I remember as a boy, the year of the big Hells Canyon fire, how the woods smelled like turpentine and there was dry lightning every afternoon. I haven't seen a fire year that scary since then, at least not in North Idaho, but there will be another one some day.



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