In late 08 the entire crew left here to go and work for an outfit that was to do the fuel reduction for that. One of my old skidder Ops has been keeping me informed and said that there was NO WAY they could keep ahead of the beetle kill and that it was just a matter of time and the whole G Damm thing would go up in flames.
Well, its here.
Here in AZ we are running 24/7 trying to get things in order. Yet we still have them coming out and sabotaging idle equipment. We threatened to pull off the job by Flag because of this and the bullshit all stopped.
Call on scanner again, neighbor calling in because neighbor is burning leaves & such. Now, I am not a fan of tattling, but who in their right mind would be out burning leaves in this area right now?
Yeah, 2008 was too late to start. They “debated” for far too long. We went through the west side of the Park in 2010 and the beetle kill on that side is devastating, whole mountain sides were grey. But, they were cutting down trees. I have always worried about a fire starting over there.
actually, the scary part is that these fires are not in the heart of the beetle kill.
Summit county and points NW should be very vigilant