Incredible Wild Fire Pictures

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shits big
 
I agree with eheath. It's nothing new. People just react differently when they can kinda relate to it. Which by the way anyone in town and need a place we can help you find one.
 
Shits crazy out here right now. Can see fires down south from I-25. People having to evacuate their homes all over, some with about 5 mins notice.
 
The fire in Colorado Springs is now a lot worse. Its has gone through some residential areas and these suburb houses are burning faster then paper on fire. Shits sad and its getting closer to to me :/
 
StartFragmentThe simplest way to put it is that these fires are the result of amismanaged forest by both the Forest Service and private land owners. There areforest fire mitigation plans, however these plans are just methods onpaper. All of this is a result of overprotection of our natural resources,timber and grass that has grown into a dog hair thicket that cannot becontained. The USFS must go back to allowing multiple use of forest lands toprevent forest fires. Under the disguise of non-profit organizations andsaviors of the environment and endangered species, groups like the Sierra Club,Friends of the Forest Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity havebeen strong advocates against logging, the burning of small natural fires, andgrazing on federally held forest land. Excessive Forest Service regulation,Endangered Species Act regulations, clean water regulations and more, preventthe salvaging of dead trees and cleanup of excess dead vegetation. This hasresulted in a dangerous and large build up of extremely dry dead trees, excessbrush and thick vegetation undergrowth. A ticking time bomb waiting for asingle lightening strike to set it off. Private land owners, with the exceptionof those who implement wildfire mitigation plans for their land, are alsoresponsible for these raging fires because the fail to implement the multiplewildfire mitigation steps. I.e. - they don't cut down the pines around theirhouses, they don't pick up the forest junk just like the USFS. I view this as being selfish because if everyone that lived in the forest or proximity of the forest than firefighters wouldn't have to rick their lives to save structures and they could in turn spend their time doing something better and that it working on containment. EndFragment
 
Damn that sucks that this fire is burning down houses, I'm flying into denver tomorrow maybe I will be able to see some of the fires from the plane.
 
speaking of the forest service. They should have let fires burn all the way through years ago. The under brush is making it difficult for the trees to get nutrients. The trees started to get weaker and the bark beetle came in and fed off of the weak and dying trees. Those trees fell over and became fuel for these fires. This is what the forest service office for the southern san juans is saying

Fires are good for the forest. It clears out the underbrush
 
and USUALLY they have crews go out and burn as much underbrush as possible but that seems to be neglected at this point in time? Kinda fucked up, thats like one main job of firefighters.
 
Actually many of us have concerns about fires in CO every summer... So to sit on the Internet and say what people and firefighters should have in advance doesn't necessarily sit well. I don't think this is a compassion bandwagon for some of us
 
Forest Fires are an act of nature. No amount of forest management or exploitation of resources can prevent it entirely. Hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis are all forces of nature that we must live with! Nobody anywhere is completely safe from mother nature. To think we can control nature entirely is just stupid. That said - the forest service does allow plenty of logging. Blaming clean water acts for forest fires is just incredibly ignorant.

Also the mtn pine beatle is an epidemic and is killing all the mature lodgepole pine, not just the weak trees. A lot of what is dead is only of value for a couple years, and most of the smaller stuff is not economically valuable - the cost is too great to harvest timber that no one wants. I'd say the forest service is doing a halfway decent job of protecting water sources and residential areas. Of course more could be done, but that's for our lawmakers to deal with.
 
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