[rktman]

Heads up to our FReeper friends in NM and CO. CedarDave and TijerasSlim for two. I know NM had a bad winter for moisture. Well, I think anyway.

[LouAvul]

Durango. It used to be my favorite getaway until Colorado legalized dope. Now Durango is home to countless numbers of addicts.

I wonder if any of them started a fire?

[poinq]

I was talking to two guys this fall. One was lamenting the fires in his home state of California. The other blamed it on the drought caused by global warming. I pointed out that this was the wettest spring and summer they have had in over 25 years and their problem had been flooding 6 months earlier. And the California guy, a democrat, had to admit, it was the rain and not the drought that caused the abundance of plant growth which fueled the fires. The second guy thought a minute and shot back, well climate change caused the rain too.

With thinking like that, you can’t win. You just shake your head.

[Parmy]

I don't know how it works down there. But, here in WA state, last year when we had two enormous fires in prime wilderness areas, the Forest Service waited for nearly a week before doing anything to stop them.

In that time, the fires became raging infernos and lasted for weeks.

All we got were excuses. The terrain was too rough and dangerous to send in fire fighters. There isn't enough money. There not enough equipment, etc.

It was terrible.

[Paladin2]

https://www.geomac.gov/viewer/viewer.shtml

[crz]

With all the bug killed pine, this ought to be something to watch.

The only good thing about this is that fire will burn that dead pine and if there is any aspen around, it will really re-generate that aspen.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

NO! NO! NO! Two of my favorite spots on earth are on Fire! The Durango area, and Ute Park, Cimarron New Mexico!

Well, maybe it will clean the druggies out of Durango. Wonder if it will be as bad as the Lime Creek Burn of the 1879.

[Nifster]

Well maybe they’ll set a back fire into the wrong wind direction and just watch it burn