Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'

Fire season in the Western states...and even up into Canada...has the potential to be one of the worst on record, this year. If/when a storm does appear in these regions, lightning strikes will likely cause a major eruption in fires.
 

Don M. said:
Fire season in the Western states...and even up into Canada...has the potential to be one of the worst on record, this year. If/when a storm does appear in these regions, lightning strikes will likely cause a major eruption in fires.
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My biggest fear has been realized.

Canada (as a whole) got off to an extremely dry spring, and that's never a good thing, but with these record setting temps, things have quickly taken a turn for the worse.
 
It's a tinderbox down here in southern Oregon

Up at the cabin, near Crater Lake, the whole north woods is filled with dead and dying lodgepole pine trees

A lightening bolt would be catastrophic

Now that we live in town, in the basin, we get the smoke
Its coming from the Siskiyou range south of us

Ashes were on the deck and lounges this morn

.....and its only June
 
SmoothSeas said:
Any SF members from this neck of the woods...?

Stay safe everyone and protect your fur babies.
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Thank you so much, SmoothSeas.

Not yet, and hoping it stays that way.

My heart breaks for everyone, both here and in the United States of North America.

I see this being a long hot summer, with raging fires intensifying in the weeks to come.

This is just the beginning IMO. Summer is young yet.
 
Gary O' said:
It's a tinderbox down here in southern Oregon

Up at the cabin, near Crater Lake, the whole north woods is filled with dead and dying lodgepole pine trees

A lightening bolt would be catastrophic

Now that we live in town, in the basin, we get the smoke
Its coming from the Siskiyou range south of us

Ashes were on the deck and lounges this morn

.....and its only June
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Why isn't forest management clearing those out?!
 
Jules said:
@Murrmurr Here’s a reasonable explanation. It’s a massive, almost impossible undertaking.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees

In urban interface areas, I believe the powers-that-be should mandate the removal of dead trees for fire or falling danger. Just darn ugly to seeing dead trees and knowing they’re a hazard.
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For sure. And removing dead wood used to be one of the main focuses of forest management. That's one of the top reasons people approved supporting them with tax dollars. It was part of their whole conservation program.
 
Jules said:
@Murrmurr Here’s a reasonable explanation. It’s a massive, almost impossible undertaking.

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees

In urban interface areas, I believe the powers-that-be should mandate the removal of dead trees for fire or falling danger. Just darn ugly to seeing dead trees and knowing they’re a hazard.
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Hey, I just remembered why forest services got into a habit of NOT removing dying trees and thinning live ones so as to increase crucial undergrowth - it was the EPA! They lobbied against it....you know, for the owls and tree-dwelling critters. And now it's backfired. Now there's so much that needs to be removed, after decades of no maintenance, they can't catch up. And that's literally killing people.
 
Murrmurr said:
For sure. And removing dead wood used to be one of the main focuses of forest management. That's one of the top reasons people approved supporting them with tax dollars. It was part of their whole conservation program.
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Big smoke, no fire, that's my mantra relative to big sell campaigns. Talk is cheap.

And may I add, no pun intended re: my mantra.
 

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