Brief fire report

ABC News began this evening with a true forest fire horror report -- with many vivid images.  Prominently featured in the fire-torn West, is a brand new monster in Northern California, now totally out of control; and also prominently featured is the situation in the Central Mountain region of Idaho, where fires abound with one whole town evacuated and another on the brink.  That's to the west of us with a fairly arid stretch of high desert in between.

Here, in our area,  Eastern Idaho, there have been a number of smaller fires which have, in due course, been contained. The Ft Hall reservation, close by, has had two.  Our area is still in some shock from the Pocatello area/Mink Creek fire which destroyed 66 homes and a lot of timber.  To say that people here are vigilant is an understatement. Up where we are, well above Pocatello and on the edge with BLM and USFS lands only a stone's toss away, we are very damn vigilant.

Weather news is encouraging.  The pre-Fall cooling is slowly -- slowly -- underway. (This is the first day in many weeks that Sky Gray (The Kitty) hasn't gone down to our cooler lower level to sleep out the afternoon in a drawer in that restroom.)  It's been about 85 above -- frigid!  The eight day forecast sees almost all temps in the 80s, maybe one at 90 mixed in. But the long range trend is now cooler, and cooler. Seasonal change is trumping the hideous summer but the Creator alone knows what winter will bring.

More to the point, some rain fell today in the Central Mountains and, south of us, in the Bear Lake setting.  More rain, and some in this area, is predicted for late Monday and Tuesday.  Two "cold" fronts are scheduled for the next week/ten days which will also bring some rain.

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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)

See Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer:
http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm
[Included in Visions & Voices: Native American Activism [2009]
Much expanded with new material in 2012.

And see the Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Expanded and with more photos in June, 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 now at 
the 50th Anniversary of the massive Jackson Movement of
1962-63.  http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm