Prescribed burn east and south of the Martis Valley east side of Truckee, ahead of a storm.
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Apparently god approves
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In the CA coast range the area around Lake County seems to burn every year. I think it was spared this year, which was unusual.

Mosquito fire declared 100% contained.
https://www.theunion.com/news/mosquito-fire-reaches-100-containment/
76,788 acres
I don't think most of us in the Tahoe area have thought much about it in...

There are a lot of sheriffs in this country who've watched too many westerns and not enough Law and Order.
I'd expect the charge to be quietly dropped or dismissed.

The carbon emissions from CA's 2020 fires--equal to all the state's cars for the year.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/18/californias-climate-goals-wildfire-co2-emissions

Mosquito Fire Soil Burn severity map released.
https://www.sierrasun.com/news/mosquito-fire-soil-burn-severity-map-released/
I haven't read the article yet.

With all the different boundaries in that map I gave up trying to figure out which state was which.

Ops map of the Mosquito Fire, showing the old American, King, and Caldor fire areas. The good news, Mosquito is 85% contained. The ?good news--there's nothing left to burn....

Thanks but no thanks. Just got done trying to absorb a couple of 70+ page california energy documents not intended for the likes of me. Maybe later.
But yeah--seems like it's like D-Day--running up...

Someone posted a large version of the daily ops map for the Mosquito fire outside Safeway in Truckee. (There's also a link to the map on the Inciweb site for the fire.) To a layman like me this...

Last 2 mornings have been pretty clear of smoke--this AM with some clouds as well. Minimal wind but late AM/afternoon the smoke settles in. I guess the problem is an inversion? Got some sprinkles...

A New Yorker article about evacuations, etc, focusing on Santa Cruz County CA
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-terrifying-choices-created-by-wildfires

How does a 19acre fire burn for a month? That's on a par with the Chanukah miracle.

Good info. Thanks. Two winters ago we had several of our big Jeffrey pines dropping sprays of live needles and twigs during wind events. We'd never had anything like that before. So maybe that was...

Shame to lose a tree like that, not to mention the cost. There are several dead Ponderosas or Jeffreys (I can only tell them apart by the cones) near us that no one seems to be in a hurry to remove. ...

When it comes to the removal of big, old growth trees CH has a point. I don't know what's actually happening on the ground or how representative the pictures of big trees on trucks are, but the...

Arsonist started brush fire in Truckee yesterday. Fortunately it was stopped at 12 acres--helped that it was next to the airport. No homes in the area but if the fire had taken out the regional...

They're also taking standing dead.
The picture in the article captioned "Logging machiner . . . " shows extremely dense forest beyond the logged area.
Mind you, I'm not taking sides on this...

Group files lawsuit over logging in Yosemite. NPS describes it as a thinning project. The group calls it clear cutting.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/yosemite/article262477057.html

I'm disappointed that after redistricting I don't get to vote against McClintock any more. Although this guy Kiley sounds just as bad. I do get to vote against Ms. Dahle I think, but no, I won't...

Article about the disagreement between CalFire--full immediate suppression--and USFS--letting some fires burn. There is a Republican bill in the House of Representatives that would force the USFS to...

guess I should have specified SW USA, not Canada.

I'm all for Rx burns but as someone with no knowledge of the subject it seems to me the season for them must be getting shorter and shorter and favorable conditions getting rarer and rarer. Given...

Biggest cause is likely drought. I did find a record of average and average maximum wind speeds for the Coachella Valley in CA and it doesn't seem to be getting windier there. I don't know about...

Also increased temps increase evaporation from reservoirs. Burned over forest allows more evaporation of the snow pack.
Meanwhile I'm looking out the window at a full blown blizzard, although when...

Because total precipitation for this season and the two previous are all well below normal.

Beyond the 100th meridian. Although apparently the transition from a wet to a dry climate has shifted to the east since Powell made the observation....

I was watching the movie "Only the Brave" (dumb title) about a real Arizona hot shot crew that was killed. Have any of the wildfire pros here seen it and care to comment?

Nice little write-up about the Caldor Fire. Nothing earth shaking.
https://www.moonshineink.com/tahoe-news/debriefing-caldor/

UFS study suggests removing up to 80%f of trees in Sierra forests.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-03/to-save-western-u-s-forests-cut-them-way-back-study-suggests
Needless to say...