217 acres is the plan. Been putting up a decent header.
http://www.alertwildfire.org/tahoe/index.html?camera=Axis-Strawberry&v=81e002f
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Looking pretty impressive this morning, drift smoke visible all the way to the coast now.
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They’ve lit another 400 acres the last 2 day, glad to see Nathaniel able to get some burning done. Looks like they a little bit of wind pushing it.
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I definitely can see the smoke from Columbia. Residents in the area of the burn reported breezy conditions earlier.
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They have been going at it all day. Looks like it’s a good burn.
A afternoon pic and the evening pic from my house above Sonora.
Yup, there’s been a little wind on it most of the day.
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My parents live on the top right of the burn unit. Parks carried the fire right up to the edge of the homes on the West end of Big Trees Village. Probably scared quite a few people. Cal Fire patrolled the housing area looking for spots. Between the work the State Parks, Cal Fire and Sierra Pacific have done, it’s impressive. The community of a thousand or so homes, that are mostly second homes, was otherwise very vulnerable if a fire came out of the Stanislaus River Drainage from the Big Trees State Park or Board’s Crossing. It is a very good example of the long term creation of fuel reduction areas, shaded fuel breaks and defensible space.
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You are exactly right. Arnold has dodge a few bullets. Old Gulch, Darby and Butte are the most recent Big one’s. A lot of big ugly country around Arnold in every direction. Glad to see the park being proactive. A lot of their ground needed cleaning up. I was on both Old Gulch and Darby and thought both might reach Aronld.
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I for sure remember thinkin Butte was going to get there too.
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I think they are aiming for 1500 acres. Putting up a good heading right now. I would take a pic but it would be in competition with the cloud cover. Hearing that part of the park has not had fire in it for over 100 yrs.
State Park Service burn with Cal Fire and USFS assisting. From the last couple of days looks like they have been getting a good burn out of this. Hope the objectives are met, such a cool place.
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Day three of the Big Trees Burn. See what happens tonite and how much rain they might get on it. Some of those stumps holes might burn all winter. Wouldn’t want to fall in one!
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Our heavy equipment operator is up there running a water tender and dozer, he got some good pics knocking down things that were getting to hot.
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