Posted on 09/05/2017 10:11:15 AM PDT by goodnesswins
The Western US is facing cataclysmic forest fires, at least one started by idiot boys throwing fireworks in Eagle Creek area, near Multnomah Lodge, in the COLUMBIA GORGE - a greenie paradise. I-84 is closed near Multnomah Files to Exit 62, just west of Hood River.
MONTANA www.ktvq.com
NW Fires www.arcgis.com
OREGON List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
IDAHO List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
CALIFORNIA List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
WASHINGTON List of fires www.inciweb.nwcg.gov>
God, that photo just breaks my heart. My wife and I hiked Multnomah Falls to Echols Falls, Wahkeena Springs, Fairey Falls, and down to Wahkeena Falls a few years ago. Such magnificent country.
Prayers for all those fighting theses horrible fires.
He should be fined 20% of everything he earns for the rest of his life.
I understand it was two boys and their parents were with them?...(posted back thread).unless this is a different one....
In a public school, I suspect.
Yes....her parents were livid!....took awhile to sit with their daughter and explain properly. Her school is one of the best in their area.....BTW....soon after they took all their kids out of public school, built a school office for them and schooled the over the internet.
Thanks for all the pictures!
The fires ARE the fault of environazis that force bad forest management practices like not allowing selective harvesting, creation of fire breaks, and banning of pesticide use to control invasive insect species.
I didn’t mean to give the impression that the corporations are forcing the US Forestry Dept to intentionally cause these things to happen. However, those corporations lobby politicians, and if say another 150,000 acres of forest get put on the permanent wildlands list or a spotted owl gets listed on the ESL then so be it. And maybe a little money gets passed around to a couple PAC’s that further donate money to PAC’s that support lawsuits against logging in Federal forests. They’re not stupid enough to leave tracks. My father was in the plywood industry back in the 1970’s and 1980’s and the big dogs were flooding the market with cheap plywood undercutting the smaller companies forcing them out of business and thereby destroying PNW timber communities.
Read the Wiki on Louisiana Pacific and note how many acres of private land they own. Also note the fact that when logging was being shut down in the PNW that they magically came out with competing products at the same time. Note how Canadian lumber imports hurt their profit margin. Do you think they want logging opened up in the overgrown PNW forests?
BTW, the replanted trees from the Tillamook/Clatsop burn in the 1930’s are of prime harvesting age. It’s been mostly put off limits despite the history of the timber communities donating money and labor to replant.
Ash and smoke from fires obscure the sun early Tuesday morning in Seattle
Yep....they do speak volumes don’t they! ;)
Children in this country are being taught nonsense by not very bright teachers who are very much misinformed.
Lots in the air last night. Near a full moon looked pretty cool but I could “feel” that it wasnt “right”.
Sept. 4, 2017, photo provided by KATU-TV shows the Eagle Creek wildfire as seen from Stevenson Wash., across the Columbia River, burning in the Columbia River Gorge above Cascade Locks, Oregon..
..”Children in this country are being taught nonsense by not very bright teachers who are very much misinformed”....
Exactly...and for that destruction of our forests ...and peoples life pretty much in every venue where they teach their fairy tale world they manufacture in their heads.
I was talking to a son in Denver last night-——I couldn’t believe it when he said that the smoke from west coast fires made it a tad hazy.
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