Lightning strikes start new fires in Boundary Waters
September 5, 2012 at 10:08 am in Duluth News Tribune
Thunderstorms that crossed the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Tuesday night and Wednesday produced lighting that sparked several new forest fires, but officials said it didn’t offer enough rain to help snuff any blazes. Continue Reading
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what a moronic statement. You know, some of us really do prefer not to listen to the drone of motors when trying to enjoy the wilderness. Oh, by the way, I am a boat and ATV owner.
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Then don’t go on the motor routes. Simple?
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Skidoo <> I get mixed emotoins on your suggestion,,,,,,, maybe just let the Entire Thing go up in Smoke and be done with it !!
The Canadians will know how to stop the Fire when it crosses the Border.
There is lots of Wilderness in Canada,,,,,, there are Fire Roads/Logging Roads everywhere,,,, (ex. from when the Canadians SALVAGED TREES from the ‘Great BlowDown of 1990″).
And the funny thing is,, while Boating or ‘SkiDooing’ the Lakes in Canada,, you would NEVER know that these ‘roads’ even exsist !! The Canadians made the ‘roads’ far enough from the Lakes so not too disrupt the Landscape as seen from the Lakes !!
Steve Poniak “might” agree.
“Who is that”? you ask?
He was the only casuallity of the Ham Lake Fire of 2007.
The USFS drove him to suicide for ?starting? this Fire.
But yet at the same time,, no one is responsible for the Pagami Fire ??!!!
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Amen cribmaster.
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When the USFS personel get back to their computers after vacation in fire-season,
they’ll get more models on how to put boots on the ground.
Maybe like Pagami decision-makers, they retired, transfered, or just moved on.
Canada, has the best idea, like after the Blowdown, Log or Throw a match, seems
all the wood industry is following their advice!!!
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The storm last night must have just missed Cummings Lake, our place is about 2 miles south of there and we got almost half an inch. This fire is is the begining of the blowdown area (most people think the blowdown was only east of the Echo Trail but that is not true) and they have to really watch where this one goes. I hope we don’t get a strange wind from the north or we may be fighting a fire on the Wolf Lake Road.
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