Fires are so devastating

Brooks Ranch, on Reno Creek. Next to Charlie Secrest, South of John Walborn, west of Marcus Denny, east of Padlock's big 212 pasture, on the south side of 212. Bordered the Grey Eagle (Hutterites) on the south.

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Know that part of the country very well. Ex used to ride for a fellow that did some contract cowboying for both Secrest and occasionally Padlock ...

We had the biggest fire in NM history last month (the Whitewater-Baldy fire).

Enormous forest fire in New Mexico sets state record for acres burned (+video) - CSMonitor.com

It burned up a lot of forest in the Gila Wilderness high country. It was almost all National Forest land so there were lots of USFS firefighters on the job. But the tiny communities nearby were given very serious attention and protection. The firefighters did a great job in a very difficult place (very steep, rugged, and remote country). They did a lot of fire-break clearing and burning and eventually the fire burned itself out. Now the worry is flooding downstream. The highway bridges and tiny villages downstream of the the burned areas are very vulnerable. The problem is that with all the trees and vegetation gone in the high country (where most of the rain falls) there won't be anything to catch the runoff, and there will be lots of debris washing down the canyons. But the county, state, and US govt have put a lot of effort into minimizing these impacts. Plus the local communities have done a lot in the way of volunteer work (filling and distributing sand bags,etc). Now we are just hoping for rain to break the drought, but not too much at a time. And this danger will go on for at least several years until things start regrowing in the high country. Why did we get so much attention from the government? It's mostly National Forest around here.

This is just the natural way of things when you live in forest or prairie country. Fire is part of nature's balance mechanism. Learn to live with it, or move back to town.

Charlie was a character, wasn't he....,

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I only met him once or twice, didn't know him well but heard lots of the stories! I miss the old-time ranchers I grew up knowing and knowing about ... almost all of them are gone now. The ones that are running the ranches there now were mostly kids when I was there and I don't know them ...

Alaska normally has some big fires but blessed this year so our Guys were sent to WY and Ut. Glad we could help out as most states have sent in guy to us in the past.

That's actually just CNN spin on a story. One could speculate that it's intentional, or just incompetency. But in any case, it's simply not true.

That may be true and they may have more help now that the fires in CO are getting under control. However, when I first posted this, my original 'source' of the information was one of the ranch families I know that live in the area ... not just the CNN report that I posted the link to.