Nov. 27--SAN ANDREAS -- A $40 million camping trip could go something like this: The tents are up, bellies are full, and grandpa dozes off in a chair. A gust kicks sparks out of the fire ring, they catch in nearby leaf litter, and a wildfire goes raging uphill.
The big pricetag is what comes next.
Imagine that fire races into the overgrown high country of a national forest. It might incinerate 12,000 acres, relatively small compared to some megafires in the West.
The article linked above is short, not very well written and has extremely poor grammar obviously lacking proof reading.
Last year I was shown the actual starting point of the Buff Crk fire, near a couple of residences just NE-ish of Green Mtn
on FR 543. It was an illegal campfire.
Article says absolutely nothing on the invironmental impacts to the fisheries of the north and south Platte Rivers due to the increased sedimentation. Both streams are still impaired and will be for years to come. It breaks my heart to stand in the river below Deckers in spots that once held thousands on fish per acre. Now all those pools are filled with silt and sand. No bugs can live there and no fish will thrive because of that.
With the decline of the fishery comes the decrease in fisherman and the business they brought to the area.
Photo-fish wrote: Article says absolutely nothing on the invironmental impacts to the fisheries of the north and south Platte Rivers due to the increased sedimentation. Both streams are still impaired and will be for years to come. It breaks my heart to stand in the river below Deckers in spots that once held thousands on fish per acre. Now all those pools are filled with silt and sand. No bugs can live there and no fish will thrive because of that.
With the decline of the fishery comes the decrease in fisherman and the business they brought to the area.
Just sad.
I've seen the same thing on Goose Creek and the South Platte above Cheesman.
