Bad news for NV area 7

[Wes]

Just saw this in todays paper
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10254602
Their going to let this fire destroy some of the best deer summer range in Nevada.
Wes

 

[Phinkle]

Fire can also be a beautiful blessing to the wildlife. Many new plants grow that the deer absolutely love.


>Just saw this in todays paper
>
>http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10254602
>Their going to let this fire
>destroy some of the best
>deer summer range in Nevada.
>
>Wes

 

[Brahma]

Gods Pocket is one of the most remote areas anywhere in the lower 48. Its a beautiful place but the fire could change it alot before the snow flys. Too bad.

Brahma

 

[buckspotter7]

LAST EDITED ON Aug-20-08 AT 06:01PM (MST)[p]I packed out of there on 8/7 with thunder storms on the horizon. There is a lot of dead timber to the north of God's Pocket Peak. Some of that stuff needs to burn, but I hope it doesn't totally devestate that country. A lot of the lower country is just coming back from the last fire. I hunted six days and saw 10 deer (8 bucks & 2 does), 3 spike elk and a big rattlesnake. I didn't end up killing a buck.


On the way in

surprised me snoozing in a bush

a couple of spike bulls

 

[Wes]

Fire can be beneficial in some areas, but this isn't Yellowstone, it's a desert. When that fire is through the only thing that will regrow will be cheat grass and that will further diminish the carrying capacity of that mountain range. Fire is not good for Nevada, just look how the deer herd in area 6 has gone down hill with all the habitat lost to fire.
Wes

 

[ELKOHUNTER]

thay need to get that out!!!!!

 

[piper]

I don't think Cheat grass will take over at or anywhere near ten thousand feet in northern Nevada, maybe you should go to the forest service office and see what they say and voice your opinion

 

[ForkWest]

Love the pics!

 

[YourDaddy]

Fire is now around 3,250 acres. They are still keeping an eye on it and are starting to talk about suppression. Should have positive results if the fire remains within the targeted area. Right now it is just cleaning out stands of mostly dead sub-alpine fur and pockets of brush. My bet is there will be critters on the burn before the fire is out.

 

[YourDaddy]

Now it's bad news. If anybody lives in Elko County you couldn't mistake the massive mushroom cloud that once was the Jarbidge Wilderness. The fire is now reported over 10,000 acres and is now headed out of the wilderness and into Idaho. Fire Managers are just now responding to take action, which may be too late. If anybody remembers, the largest wildfire in the lower forty-eight dubbed the Murphy Complex, burned over 600,000 acres last year near this area. It is clear that Fire Managers have once again made an serious error in judgement. Someone needs to answer for the decisions that were made and the costs that will be absorbed by the taxpayers.