Burnham, what is this?

[FireFighterZero]

They have cross arms that come down and close the road in Wyoming. In Montana, we rely on the radio to tell people to stay home. It is especially helpful when they did not have the radio on and can learn about what they did wrong upside down in a ditch.

 

[sotc]

 

[Fiddler]

No chains or studs allowed here in MI. A road will close after the accident for a while.

 

[sotc]

Our passes have chain requirements for everything that isn't 4x4 or have traction tires. When those guys spin out or a big rig and cause several others to spin out they shut the road down till it's cleared and the plows start to catch up again

 

[stig]

Thanks for showing the pics, Willie.
Fun to see.
I got a chance to work on a burn salvage like that during my wet-back days in Idaho.
I can testify to the fact that one changes color as the day goes on

 

[Tucker943]

I did a several year dead oak salvage cut once but that's not half as cool as a burn salvage cut. I will say its about as dangerous as heck though.

 

[sotc]

My first logging job was the 64,000 acre fountain fire in Burney CA. The whites of your eyes and part of your teeth are the only things white at the end of the day

 

[sotc]

These guys have over 11 million board feet to log as a result of these fires. Going to bee a crazy year

 

[gf beranek]

Who's responsible for replanting in a situation like that, Willie?

 

[cory]

Great pics, Willie, thx for posting. Beautiful landscape, even if some of it is burned up

 

[sotc]

Jerry, I'd imagine each land owner is. I know these guys hired a helicopter to seed some grasses in select areas. Other areas the native grasses are coming in nicely.

 

[gf beranek]

Thanks, Willy. Beautiful hardwood / conifer habitat. Shame to see it burn. Even if it is natural.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pretty amazing what comes in after a good fire. Our native grasses do better and are just lovely. Tall needle grasses. And the poppys.. lots and lots of Lupin and poppys. Not to mention all the little carpets of white and yellow. Every thing else takes over and competes some of the nicer things to death until a fire. Seems to me they find new species up in Yosemite right after a fire.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mer...AAsLloATKjYKoCw&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1024&bih=624

 

[sotc]

Yeah, kinda nice it didn't scorch down low at his place. Some old growth manzanita groves got hot up there. Be awhile before things look great again

 

[FireFighterZero]

Looks beautiful Stephen.


Shouldn't be too many mud slides.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

On some of the older manzanita, we had a lot of new growth out of the root burl and flares. We cut a lot of just the dead stuff off above the flare and it is coming back.
Sad to see the old big ones go though. You figure some of them have been around before the US was discovered by the Europeans.

 

[gf beranek]

A friend turned some of the root flares into bowls and they were beautiful.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks beautiful Stephen.


Shouldn't be too many mud slides.

Actually a lot of mudslides after the first year, first winter can be a real issue since any growth would be in spring.

 

[FireFighterZero]

That makes sense. That fire was last year. My bad!

 

[FireFighterZero]

I would like to see this some day. Fire weed in Alaska.

 

[Reddog]

Fireweed can color up a blackened area pretty nice.


But it hides a lot of snags if you need to walk through the area.

 

[gf beranek]

I've never seen fire weed so dramatic as in that pic. Beautiful in the starkness of a burn. Little blessings.

 

[sotc]

Those are quite nice

 

[squisher]

I've logged burnt wood before. Highlead as the choker pig, you get real up close and personal to the charred bits hooking beads. I recall it infected/affected my eyes so that they oozed puss out of the corners. Good times.

 

[gf beranek]

Burn salvage is brutal logging. Yet there is some romance in it.