Posted on 11/12/2018 5:39:44 AM PST by SJackson
Just read an article in the Prospecting and Mining Journal that was sent in by one of our prospectors out of Redding.
He decided that after the Carr Fire it would be a good time to go out metal detecting looking for those nuggets in areas that were opened up because all the brush and trees were gone.
He wrote about a doe deer he had found, she was forward on her knees and burned to death.
He figures she was running from the fire and when all the oxygen got sucked out of the air by the fire storm she just went to her knees to rest, and just never got up again when the fire overtook her.
I live in Hayfork, just a few miles from the Carr fire burn and I can tell you, everything is just gone.
The fire was so hot it burned even the underground roots.
It looks like an atom bomb was dropped there.
The doe was the one that caught his eye, but from experience (was a wildland fire fighter as a young man) I can tell you that EVERYTHING inside that burn area is DEAD.
Hell, the Indians lit a lot of those fires.
They did it to keep the forests open for travel, game hunting, and harvesting native foods.
They just had enough sense to do it before the brush got out of hand and would contribute to the disasters you see today.
Recently, there was a comprehensive article in Forbes describing a company that contracts for and harvests the timber in the burned out forests. They maintain huge timber and sawmill operations bases soley on the timber in the burned over forest lands.
The company operates wwidely over the western states
Its the Bard Owl who is now taking our the spotted owl. A natural predator, they are killing mass spotted owl each year. I heard the Forest service is blasting them with shot guns when they find them.
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