Forest Fires in the West: Tough Season Ahead

Any late spring, summer, early fall is always challenging as all hell in the West when it comes to forest and brush fires.  This fire season promises to be especially tough.  Idaho and many other western settings have received relatively little rain or snow this year.  Here is the Link to our now once again well visited and large webpage on western fire situations -- into the summer of 2011.  It also includes a section on the daily life of a now old-time U.S. Forest Service fire lookout.  Much of the information is based on my own personal experience and observation as a lookout and firefighter in the Southwestern timbered areas. 

Up where we live now, almost immediately adjacent to BLM [Bureau of Land Management] turf, we do keep our personal eyes open.  On the other hand, we're a little more concerned about earthquakes -- prevalent in Idaho -- and our insurance for that is always very current indeed. [H]

http://hunterbear.org/forest_fires_in_the_west.htm


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis 
Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk 
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ 
and Ohkwari' 
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
www.hunterbear.org 
(much social justice material)

I have always lived and worked in Borderlands.

See the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(expanded May 2012)

For the new, just out (11/2011) and expanded/updated
edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- 
with a new and substantial Introduction by me.  We are close upon
the 50th anniversary of the massive Jackson Movement of1962-63.:
http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm

Personal Background Narrative (with many links):
http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm