The RIP Thread...

[Fiddler]

One of the best...

Ed Asner, Emmy-Winning ‘Lou Grant’ Star, Dies at 91

Seven-time Emmy-winning actor Ed Asner, who starred as Lou Grant on both sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and hourlong drama “Lou Grant” before a late-career rejuvenation through his poignant voi…

variety.com

 

[Steve Mack]

It hasn't been a good month that's for sure.

Tom T. Hall, Country Music’s ‘Storyteller,’ Is Dead at 85 (Published 2021)

Mr. Hall, who wrote hits like “Harper Valley P.T.A.,” helped to imbue country lyrics with newfound depth and insight in the 1960s and ’70s.

www.nytimes.com

Don Everly Dies: Groundbreaking Singer Of The Everly Brothers Was 84

Don Everly, who with his brother, Phil, was part of the Everly Brothers, a huge chart success in the late 1950s and early 1960s that grew into Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, died on Saturday at his …

deadline.com

 

[Jr DTS]

R.I.P

 

[Burnham]

Bull of the Woods lookout, lost to the Bull Complex Fire. One of the few that were left. I'll miss it.

Historic Bull of the Woods Fire Lookout burned in Bull Complex Fire (statesmanjournal.com)

 

[lxskllr]

That's too bad. This was in the article...

Allen said his father staffed the lookout after his junior and senior years in high school (1958 and 1959). The Bull was so remote, he said, that his father singlehandedly attacked a lightning-caused fire.

“There is a fire scar still visible along the trail where he was initial attack with an axe, Pulaski, shovel, and crosscut saw. It was pretty good-sized, but he was able to singlehandedly line it and contain the lightning fire which ran a few hundred yards and stopped at the ridge.

Can you imagine?
frig, frig, frig! Out in the middle of nowhere, no chance of backup, and a good chance things are gonna get crazy.

 

[Burnham]

That's the way it was for Forest Service rangers, back then. We don't make many like them, anymore.

 

[Burnham]

Link to another piece of news coverage, with some pics.

Losing an iconic wildfire lookout tower hits home for an Oregon family - OPB

Some of my most favorite memories from my first years working for the USFS, involve various duties associated with this lookout. A damn shame to have it gone.

 

[lxskllr]

Good article. What do they do without watchtowers; satellites?

 

[Burnham]

Mostly, these days, overwatch for fire starts is by humans flying small fixed wing aircraft...though there are still a minuscule set of fire towers still in use across the PNW. Not nearly enough of them, and not close to long enough each year to cover what now comprises "fire season". It doesn't even come close to being as effective as a widespread net of fire towers manned 24/7....but it is less expensive, I suppose.

Now comes the rub...I would be remiss in failing to note that this "early warning system" of fire lookouts, while accomplishing their assigned task, surely facilitated the quicker suppression of most wildfire here in the western US, for over 100 years. And we do now understand, that was not a good thing for long term forest management, and reduction of large scale cataclysmic forest fires.

It's a fookin' complicated subject, sure as hell.

 

[Jonny]

 

[Tree09]

friggin' cancer

 

[Jonny]

They should really disable the” autocorrect on cuss words” feature, at least on this thread. But I know what you meant. Cancer will just take and take and take.

 

[BlackSmith]

Norm was one of the best.

 

[pigwot]

Bob McConnell was quite active in our chapter. A very pleasant fellow.
As recently as a few years ago he was still playing his bagpipes to open the local Shade Tree Symposium conferences.
It's always a bit sad seeing the old timers passing on
R.I.P. Bob

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Penn-Del ISA Chapter Mourns the Loss of Bob McConnell

Image to the left: Bob McConnell and the late Hyland Johns dedicating a bicentennial tree in 1976.
Image to the right: Bob McConnell playing the harmonica at Fran Ward’s memorial tree planting in October 2021.

Our industry lost one of the great ones on Tuesday, August 24th. Bob McConnell accomplished a lot in his 94 years.
Professionally, he was a Charter Member of the Penn-Del Chapter of the ISA, served as chapter president in 1970, was president of the ISA in 1981, was a trustee for the ISA Memorial Research Trust (which later became the Tree Fund), and served as Director for Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. Bob was a colleague and mentor over the years, encouraging many young arborists. Many longtime attendees of the Shade Tree Symposium will remember Bob playing the bagpipes during the opening procession to start the annual conference. The Penn-Del Board of Directors will coordinate a tree planting in Bob’s memory for the Chapter’s Memorial Grove in Fairmount Park.

 

[Tree09]

Colin Powell

 

[Burnham]

An uncommon man, no doubt. Made himself into much, from little.

 

[pantheraba]

He had my vote for President...but he decided not to run.

 

[Burnham]

I heard a quote from Mr. Powell regarding that...said "I just didn't have the fire in my gut to pursue it". I think that takes a principled human being, to turn one's back on the real possibly of reaching that level of power.

I likely would have voted for the man too, Gary.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've said for years that the desire to be president should be the first disqualifier for the job.

 

[Burnham]

I could not agree more, Dave.

Of course, that leaves us with a mighty thin field of candidates, doesn't it .

 

[vharrison]

Colin Powell RIP

He was a great American man

 

[Jonny]

I've said for years that the desire to be president should be the first disqualifier for the job.

Ever read The HitchHiker’s Guide To The Galaxy? Very similar quote.

“To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. “

 

[Dave Shepard]

Haven't read that book.

 

[Altissimus]

Me too ...

 

[Grnjp]

Haven't read that book.

You should. It's a fun read. 42