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To: madfly
Here are some pictures from the Rodeo/Chedesky fire (the spelling of the second name escapes me). I took them this month on the road from Show Low to Heber, Arizona (state route 260).

Note how thin these trees are. There is very little that is (or was) marketable. It's probably not even good for pulp.

One thing for certain, fire crews (especially from Montana and Idaho) bring weeds. In an open growing medium such as this the weeds establish very rapidly. Much of Western rangelands are now covered with knapweed and cheat grass.

When the rains come there will be no cover and the streams will become a boiling alkaline mudpot of ash and silt. What fish habitat?

This forest is ready to blow up again, perhaps even hotter. There is no telling how much of the native seed bank was destroyed by the heat.

Unless there is significant green material left on a pine, it's a goner (unlike redwood for example). Some of the oaks in the foreground will make it.

This last photo was taken on an Apache Reservation. If you look carefully at the pine on the right and some of the other vegetation you can see that the fire burned through here too. Notice the trunk on the pine and how much thicker it is. They log their land.

8 posted on 08/27/2002 9:08:24 AM PDT by Carry_Okie
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To: Carry_Okie
Thanks for the professional looking Arizona pics, CO.
12 posted on 08/27/2002 9:29:21 AM PDT by madfly
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To: Carry_Okie
Great pictures that really tell the realities of the various approaches to the forests.
24 posted on 08/27/2002 10:20:55 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: Carry_Okie
Great pics, thanks.
30 posted on 08/27/2002 10:48:20 AM PDT by cake_crumb
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