Posted on 07/04/2002 4:04:55 PM PDT by petuniasevan
BINGO!!! . . . surprise, surprise, surprise . . .
One of my uncles used to summer range cattle west of HellHole and north of the Rubicon as far west as Nevada Point. I've helped him in the fall round-up and drive out to Georgetown . . . AHHH, the good old days!
Funny thing was, they came down the canyon from Hellhole, then turned southeast right over our house and head toward your place!!!
They musta ate their fill of barbequed wildlife and Bacchi's heffers before they headed your way.
By the way, That thinning and clearing of the Tahoe forests has only made a small dent in the total job that's needed.
Plus, blithering Boxer is legislating a massive expansion of the desolation wilderness just south of Tahoe, to make it roadless and off limits to ANY motorized vehicles! You better be payin attention. The puny public hearings on it are a staged joke that ain't very funny whatsoever!!!
Boxer - "The Roadless Traveled" byebye Caples lake etc.
On the news, it showed the gamblers and tourists keeping right on with their fun with just an occasional glance at the fire scene. The newscaster was trying to make it sound like the cancellation of fireworks would be the real tragedy! Amazing!!!
Here we go again. Day after day, week after week, the no-touching policy of the ENVIROS is destroying everything they claim to hold sacred.
What a bunch of frigging hipocrites.
I'd say Bob nailed it! Wouldn't you Phil?
Caples... yup, there goes your/our water supply! I hear the soil crackin while raftin profits keep goin Ka Ching!
Heavenly Ski Resort property is intact except for spot fires burning near Stagecoach and Boulder lifts, said Tim Smith, fire chief at Tahoe-Douglas Fire Protection District.
Big surprise there. The National stuff burns, the private stuff doesn't.
A note on the Collins Almanor Forest Company's losses in that 1990 fire:
Bitter End Fire
Of the Approximately 900 acres burned, 600 were timbered. The 1990 Bitter End burn was part of the larger Campbell Fire, which burned 131,000 acres in Tehama County in 1990. Except for a few heavily burned areas, most of the impacted CAF lands received a light burn. Only 245 thousand board feet of timber needed salvaging in 1990.
Fortunately for CAF, only 2,209 acres of CAF ownership was affected, the remaining acreage is owned primarily by the Lassen National Forest.
My dad worked on the Lassen National from '73-'77.
Were any Forest Service employees seen hurriedly leaving the area?
Please provide relief for the people and land from these fires. Help these people to be strong and know it's not Your Will that these fires destroy what they have built up.
Help them see that we are subject to nature and mans failures.
Let them know that they are not alone, that many across this country pray for them.
Please answer our Prayers.
In Jesus Name Amen
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