Tripod Fire - Washington
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wamuledeer
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I was over there this weekend and the fire seems to be getting worse. They say it is 30% contained at over 100,000 acres and that it has a 75% chance of being contained by 10-1-06. That doesn't look to good to me. I was on the west side of the Chewuck River and you could see the fire spreading down the hill towards the River. The entire valley was filled with smoke and it was hazy halfway to Wenatchee. They say there are over 2,700 people on this fire and on Saturday I saw about 10 more buses of people being transported to the camp.
If you planned on hunting this area, I would look into somewhere else.
If you planned on hunting this area, I would look into somewhere else.
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WAsharpstick
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sounds pretty grim 
I think the only thing that's going to stop this fire is rain and/or snow. That's probably why they have the containment date as October 1. They're counting on some weather by then that will put it out. It's sure going to make for some great mule deer habitat in future years.
Yeah, sure is going to displace a lot of hunters. Next year I think the deer will be back in there, but in 4 or 5 years it will be even better. Sagebrush and bitterbrush will take quite a while to come back. Hopefully the deer will find other places to winter. Look at the Entiat unit and how well the deer are doing there. It burned almost entirely in 1996.
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JACKELOPE
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>Sounds like this year is lost.
> How about next year
>? In your experience,
>how long after a fire
>is an area considered "recovered".
> Will grass and some
>brush be growing by next
>fall ?
I don't know technically "recovered", but there was a ton of green grass in a lot of areas this spring where the "school fire" burned this time last year, but there are also a lot of areas that were the hottest that will have to be re-seeded completely. lots of green grasses in the not so hot areas of that fire.
> How about next year
>? In your experience,
>how long after a fire
>is an area considered "recovered".
> Will grass and some
>brush be growing by next
>fall ?
I don't know technically "recovered", but there was a ton of green grass in a lot of areas this spring where the "school fire" burned this time last year, but there are also a lot of areas that were the hottest that will have to be re-seeded completely. lots of green grasses in the not so hot areas of that fire.
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muleracks2
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LAST EDITED ON Aug-22-06 AT 11:52PM (MST)[p]The burn will be great deer habitat in a few years. Good to see the lodgpole thickets opened up. The lodgepole will come back but it will take 20 years before it become unhuntable again. Most of the burn is not prime winter range; at least not during heavy snow years.
If you would like to keep up to date on the fire effort visit this web site (many photos and daily updates)
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/341 for the Tripod Fire or
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/279 for the Tinpan Mtn. Fire
If you would like to keep up to date on the fire effort visit this web site (many photos and daily updates)
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/341 for the Tripod Fire or
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/279 for the Tinpan Mtn. Fire
