Pray for Oregon

[Wildman]

What you said is pretty much what I have heard and read also. It's the damn ECO freaks keeping us out of the forests.

Let's hope for some rain to help all these fire fighters out.

 

[Chris]

@BuildBreakRepeat likely has some insight.

 

[BuildBreakRepeat]

Pretty much the perfect storm for all of this to happen recently. Very high fire danger this summer due to almost no rain all season, unusual high winds carried sparks and ash from other fires to a virtual tinder box, Labor Day weekend meant thousands of people ignoring the burn/campfire ban that was in effect. Spent all day today fighting grass fires popping up on rancher’s land in the Siuslaw NF. Brush clearing is always a controversial topic but like @Rubi04 said lack of management can turn healthy forest into a disaster really fast. Here is my morning view heading out to the line.

 

[Rick Flair]

Pretty much the perfect storm for all of this to happen recently. Very high fire danger this summer due to almost no rain all season, unusual high winds carried sparks and ash from other fires to a virtual tinder box, Labor Day weekend meant thousands of people ignoring the burn/campfire ban that was in effect. Spent all day today fighting grass fires popping up on rancher’s land in the Siuslaw NF. Brush clearing is always a controversial topic but like @Rubi04 said lack of management can turn healthy forest into a disaster really fast. Here is my morning view heading out to the line.

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Stay safe my friend.

 

[Wildman]

My example up here in WA is the forests in central WA like in the Rimrock area where the beetles have killed the trees but they still aren't allowed to come in and cut them out. Want to talk about fire danger!!!

 

[bobthetj03]

I had good intentions when I graduated high school to major in Forestry. Didn't take me long to change majors after getting some first hand experience of the political and economical implications plaguing the industry. That was back in 87.

 

[Wildman]

I had good intentions when I graduated high school to major in Forestry. Didn't take me long to change majors after getting some first hand experience of the political and economical implications plaguing the industry. That was back in 87.

Shit way back in 87 I had been in the Army for 9 years already..... I was in Germany again for the second time.

Now you want to talk about some forestry applied go visit Germany. After two world wars and they don't have a lot of forests left. So it is really taken care of.

 

[bobthetj03]

Shit way back in 87 I had been in the Army for 9 years already..... I was in Germany again for the second time.

Now you want to talk about some forestry applied go visit Germany. After two world wars and they don't have a lot of forests left. So it is really taken care of.

Neither will we if this keeps going. At least not in our lifetimes.

 

[Wildman]

Neither will we if this keeps going. At least not in our lifetimes.

Very true as tragic as it sounds. I wonder what it'll take for folks to wake up and see the trees thru the forest.

 

[bobthetj03]

Very true as tragic as it sounds. I wonder what it'll take for folks to wake up and see the trees thru the forest.

Everything in my neck of the woods looks like burnt match sticks, so I guess it depends on how much you want to close your eyes.

 

[Rick Flair]

Very true as tragic as it sounds. I wonder what it'll take for folks to wake up and see the trees thru the forest.

Some of my favorite camping, fishing and exploring has burned. This state won’t be the same after this is over. It’s heart breaking.

 

[bobthetj03]

Oh, sorry Eco dorks, you didn't save the spotted owl after all. Congrats! Whoops, did I say that outloud?

 

[Rick Flair]

Oh, sorry Eco dorks, you didn't save the spotted owl after all. Congrats! Whoops, did I say that outloud?

I lived in Southern Oregon about that time, fuckers would chain themselves to gates and trees. The worst ones would spike trees which caused a lot of injury and death. Fuck that owl. It’s one of my favorite birds but it’s a god damn bird and it wasn’t even indigenous. Lot of friends and family in logging. I worked in a mill for a while too.

 

[Wildman]

Oh, sorry Eco dorks, you didn't save the spotted owl after all. Congrats! Whoops, did I say that outloud?

Wonder what BAKED or BROILED Owl tastes like?

It's the dumper crap when they won't let won't let you into a area with mechanized equipment because it's closed but is now burning to the ground. I've seen it happen up here a few times and know it's happened in CA also.

 

[Chris]

Why is it all the wildfires seem to happen on the west coast but not the east coast?

 

[Thunderhead]

Why is it all the wildfires seem to happen on the west coast but not the east coast?

Rain. Humidity. My brother is in Virginia, freaking hade a fire in his pit over the weekend. Hell they just had hurricane Laura

 

[Wildman]

Why is it all the wildfires seem to happen on the west coast but not the east coast?

Because the east coast has been cleared of most of it's forests already and what is left isn't like what we have out here in the west. They still have fires but it isn't like our forests. And all this ECO crap of don't touch is gunna bite us all in the ass.

 

[Chris]

Because the east coast has been cleared of most of it's forests already and what is left isn't like what we have out here in the west. They still have fires but it isn't like our forests. And all this ECO crap of don't touch is gunna bite us all in the ass.

The upper east coat like Vermont for instance seems to be tons of forests, no?

 

[SaharaBound]

I did some wildand firefighting back in 2016 and 2018 for the U.S. forest Service and NPS, man is it tough work. Respect to all the men and women risking their lives. This fire season is a rough one and it doesn’t help that POTUS did hiring freezes and cut some funding for these public agencies....

 

[2001slvrstntj]

Yep never worry about that here in maryland, that I recall. We have had a lot of rain this year, but have been dry in the past but never anything like this has happened on the east coast that I am aware of in my 58 years.

Praying for all in the fight.