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WESTERN US FIRES - Live Thread
Various ^ | 9/5/17 | me

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>


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; US: California; US: Idaho; US: Montana; US: Oregon; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: fires; forestfires; northwestfires; wildfires
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To: caww
East bound 84 Oregon...Yesterday


141 posted on 09/05/2017 8:12:18 PM PDT by caww
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142 posted on 09/05/2017 8:14:46 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

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.


143 posted on 09/05/2017 8:19:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: caww


144 posted on 09/05/2017 8:19:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
Another hazy smokey sunset...


145 posted on 09/05/2017 8:22:48 PM PDT by caww
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To: LucyT
Authorities say a 15-year-old boy is the suspect in a large blaze burning east of Portland, Oregon, that was likely caused by fireworks.

He should be fined 20% of everything he earns for the rest of his life.

146 posted on 09/05/2017 8:24:49 PM PDT by American Quilter (When does the wall start going up?)
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To: caww
Massive wildfire in Oregon grows to 10,000+ acres September 5, 2017..


147 posted on 09/05/2017 8:25:20 PM PDT by caww
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To: American Quilter

I understand it was two boys and their parents were with them?...(posted back thread).unless this is a different one....


148 posted on 09/05/2017 8:26:46 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
THAT is what she learned in school!

In a public school, I suspect.

149 posted on 09/05/2017 8:27:23 PM PDT by American Quilter (When does the wall start going up?)
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To: American Quilter
Border to Border smoke across the USA....


150 posted on 09/05/2017 8:28:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: American Quilter

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.


151 posted on 09/05/2017 8:30:53 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Thanks for all the pictures!


152 posted on 09/05/2017 8:31:34 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: little jeremiah; ProtectOurFreedom

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.


153 posted on 09/05/2017 8:35:02 PM PDT by Tailback (e)
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To: caww
Interstate 90 in North Bend on Tuesday morning..Washington.

Ash and smoke from fires obscure the sun early Tuesday morning in Seattle


154 posted on 09/05/2017 8:36:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: goodnesswins

Yep....they do speak volumes don’t they! ;)


155 posted on 09/05/2017 8:37:22 PM PDT by caww
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LOL - I was driving some 'city' visitors around the farm and casually pointed to an area where some trees were going to be harvested in a couple of months. They got very upset. I thought one of them was going to cry. I had to explain to them that the trees were a crop, like corn and beans. They are meant to be harvested.

Children in this country are being taught nonsense by not very bright teachers who are very much misinformed.

156 posted on 09/05/2017 8:38:10 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: caww

Lots in the air last night. Near a full moon looked pretty cool but I could “feel” that it wasnt “right”.


157 posted on 09/05/2017 8:38:24 PM PDT by Delta 21 (AntiFa and BLM should be on the United States list of Terrorist Organizations)
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To: caww
.Truly.... "Fire in The Sky!"....

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..


158 posted on 09/05/2017 8:40:18 PM PDT by caww
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To: ladyjane

..”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.


159 posted on 09/05/2017 8:42:51 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

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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160 posted on 09/05/2017 8:42:57 PM PDT by Mears
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