North Kaibab Fire Pictures

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I thought that some of you may be interested in some pictures of the Warm fire that hit the Kaibab about a month ago. It started June 8th and was almost out by the end of the month. There were some areas that certainly burned hot and the fire did some real damage, but over all I think it was a helpful fire to wildlife habitat. The fire burned about 20,000 acres in the first 18 days then it burned another 40,000 acres in the last 3 days of the fire for a total of 60,000. It really took off before the rains came and put it out.
Below are some photos from the fire area.


Aspens still looking pretty good.

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Major pond damage from ash.

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High water mark, from the ash

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Valley full of ash
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More pond damage
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One thing that I didn't get a picture of is the green grass that is already coming up in some of the burn that is already 4" high from the recent rains. Don't get me wrong there are areas that were hit hard but over all I think this was a fire worth leting burn.
 
WOW!! I have been around fire my whole life and it still amazes me at the after effects that it leaves behind. Yeah in that ecosystem it needs have fire. It will be sometime before we begin to see some tree growth and the restoration process all over again. Thanks for sharing the pics.
 
Wow, awesome. I've seen golf courses in worse shape than that first picture. Looks like it's pretty well groomed. I'am betting it's going to be a slammer year for pisscutter bucks!
 
"One thing that I didn't get a picture of is the green grass that is already coming up in some of the burn that is already 4" high from the recent rains. Don't get me wrong there are areas that were hit hard but over all I think this was a fire worth leting burn."

this is exactly what people don't think about after a big fire. us outdoorsman realize this mostly, but most others don't.
the area of the "school fire" in washington last year is very green this year and that forest was in poor condition...lots of fuel on the ground before...cleaned it up nicely. the trees don't look pretty yet, but it will again in a couple years, and i'm sure the critters are happy with all that green grass.
i think that one ended up being about 50k acres
 
People always say that the trees grow back... what about the entiat area fires some years back? Even today there is a ton of trees in there that have never recovered?

Michael

"What I could do, I was doing, and that was simply putting my butt on the line for my country, the country that I loved, so that all the protestors and the academics and the liberal intelligentsia back home could enjoy the right to protest against people like me, the hated middleclass." --Gary R. Smith, US Special Forces
 
the entiat fires were kind of in a different class than most others. i havent seen a fire in recent years that has burned as hot as it did in the entiat when the tyee fire went through in '94. There were pics of a guy standing on the mud creek road and it looked like there was 6 inches of snow but it was ash. even going up and looking at the condition of the land where the fire burned outside of cashmere a few years ago looks like the entiat does now.
 

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