Clearwater fire

nfh · Friday at 7:05 PM

Well this is going to shut down some sheep hunts, late season elk hunts. Elks fork is main hub to access several areas.

mightyhunter · Saturday at 6:03 AM

Why is this the Clearwater Fire? The Clearwater drainage is North of the road and river. Anyway, will they let it burn to remove beetle killed lodgepole pine or will they actually make an effort to put it out? You never know around here. NFH is right about the fire possibly altering sheep (Area 3) and elk hunts and especially access into other areas. No telling how many USFS administrators and supervisors are standing around watching this fire.

nfh · Saturday at 7:36 AM

mightyhunter said:
Why is this the Clearwater Fire? The Clearwater drainage is North of the road and river. Anyway, will they let it burn to remove beetle killed lodgepole pine or will they actually make an effort to put it out? You never know around here. NFH is right about the fire possibly altering sheep (Area 3) and elk hunts and especially access into other areas. No telling how many USFS administrators and supervisors are standing around watching this fire.

Had this same discussion on the fire name. My guess was since Clearwater campground is near.

Going to be a interesting fire to watch. Lot of dead crap to be burnt

mightyhunter · Monday at 5:10 AM

138 acres at the last report.

Soccerdude · Monday at 11:06 PM

Must be growing. Highway getting shut down.

mightyhunter · Tuesday at 6:26 AM

70 firefighters on site and 0% contained. That would indicate another let the dead lodgepole burn and watch. Just sayin…mh

SDBugler · Tuesday at 6:53 AM

Hopefully they will get the trail opened up to the public again before the season opens. As NFH said, that is a pretty major trail to access a lot of country!

nfh · Tuesday at 9:33 AM

just letting it burn is what it looks like to me.
Did I read right about 1,000 acres now?

mightyhunter · Tuesday at 11:03 AM

Nfh, 1,000 acres was reported by the Powell Tribune today.

nfh · Tuesday at 12:20 PM

mightyhunter said:
Nfh, 1,000 acres was reported by the Powell Tribune today.

I see it almost took out elks fork campground. Spreading up to grace creek and looks like cougar creek is in danger. Should make for a good late season cow elk hunt.

grosventrehunter · Tuesday at 7:19 PM

Not much of a fire if it's only burned 1,000 areas in eleven days. Seems to me if they were serious about putting it our there would be fire crews coming in from all over the state/country.

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eelgrass · 2024-07-31T21:25:31-0600

Maybe you need firefighters like we have in California. So far, they've held the Park fire to around 400,000 acres with 18% containment.

BuzzH · 2024-07-31T22:12:10-0600

eelgrass said:
Maybe you need firefighters like we have in California. So far, they've held the Park fire to around 400,000 acres with 18% containment.

Grab a pulaski and show them how it's done, tuffie.

mightyhunter · 2024-08-01T06:18:40-0600

eelgrass said:
Maybe you need firefighters like we have in California. So far, they've held the Park fire to around 400,000 acres with 18% containment.

Good grief. You have got to be kidding. Emulating Cali fire suppression, fire fighting or forest management practices would be a disaster. The smoke from the Chico fire has inundated NW Wyoming. Perhaps Cali should have used a Proposition 65 warning to stop the smoke before it crossed the state line. Just sayin…mh

Deercy · 2024-08-01T07:23:16-0600

BuzzH said:
Grab a pulaski and show them how it's done, tuffie.

Did the cat pee in your oatmeal today?

eelgrass · 2024-08-01T07:26:05-0600

BuzzH said:
Grab a pulaski and show them how it's done, tuffie.

I was a forest fire fighter for CalFire (CDF back then) in the mid 1960's. The biggest fire we had was 1,200 acres.

eelgrass · 2024-08-01T07:28:28-0600

mightyhunter said:
Good grief. You have got to be kidding. Emulating Cali fire suppression, fire fighting or forest management practices would be a disaster. The smoke from the Chico fire has inundated NW Wyoming. Perhaps Cali should have used a Proposition 65 warning to stop the smoke before it crossed the state line. Just sayin…mh

California is the #1 exporter of carbon pollution in the nation.

mulecreek · 2024-08-01T07:37:10-0600

eelgrass said:
California is the #1 exporter of carbon pollution in the nation.

Is that what we are calling Cali transplants these days?

LIK2HNT · 2024-08-01T07:40:56-0600

Used these a few times to help fight fires where I worked years ago. They can kick your butt!!!!

eelgrass · 2024-08-01T07:42:20-0600

LIK2HNT said:
Used these a few times to help fight fires where I worked years ago. They can kick your butt!!!!
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That's called a McCloud.

BuzzH · 2024-08-01T16:54:18-0600

eelgrass said:
I was a forest fire fighter for CalFire (CDF back then) in the mid 1960's. The biggest fire we had was 1,200 acres.

Right, which means your clueless about how to go about fighting the fires of today.

I did 8 years fighting fire and what I saw in 1987 wasn't the same as what I saw in 1988, which was different than what I saw in 1994.

Fuel loads, I&D issues, Wildland/urban interface, fire activity, length of fire season, all much different than 1960.

That's the problem with old blue hairs, once they dig their last foot of fireline, nothing changes in their minds.

I'll be the first to tell you, $hit has changed in fire intensity, fuel loads, etc. to the point it's almost stupid/laughable to compare putting out 2 manners in 1960 to fighting fires that burn a half million acres in 24 hours.

Clueless...

BuzzH · 2024-08-01T17:01:03-0600

eelgrass said:
I was a forest fire fighter for CalFire (CDF back then) in the mid 1960's. The biggest fire we had was 1,200 acres.

I was on this fire in 88 for about 3 weeks including the day it burned 200 square miles.

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Get your Pulaski and fedco(piss pump) and show us how to "put it out"...

Laffin'.