Bisonic...you ok? Pawnee fjre

[Kentuck]

Know bisonic hunts near where the Pawnee fire is burning in Lake County. You ok?

 

[bisonic]

Hiya Kentuck - just saw this - my place is on the west side of Lake Co and the Pawnee is to the north east of the lake so all's well. We were up over the 4th of July holiday and there was a small fire on the hill behind us and then another on an island across the lake - I jumped in my bass boat to check it out and got a great video of a plane dumping a load of retardant on the fire no more than 150 feet from me (and on top of a firefighter!).
Thanks for checking in! Honestly I wouldn't mind a fire going thru my place to get rid of the brush. I do some controlled burning but it's a pain - you can only burn in the winter when things don't want to ignite. Just a matter of time I guess.

 

[bisonic]

Uh oh... River fire is raging outside of Lakeport and is headed toward town and my place. My neighbor just called - the fire tore thru his place, luckily he was able to save his cabin. He thinks my place may be going up now. The area hasn't burned since 1981 and is loaded with brush. Not much to do but wait and see what happens.

 

[Kentuck]

Uh oh... River fire is raging outside of Lakeport and is headed toward town and my place. My neighbor just called - the fire tore thru his place, luckily he was able to save his cabin. He thinks my place may be going up now. The area hasn't burned since 1981 and is loaded with brush. Not much to do but wait and see what happens.

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully nothing too valuable or sentimental will be lost.

 

[bisonic]

Sorry to hear this. Hopefully nothing too valuable or sentimental will be lost.

Neighbor thinks most of the place burned but not near the lake. Only thing of value on the place is a quad and that might be OK. Still lots of fires around - hope to be able to go up this weekend to check it out. Scary. Sure gonna mess up deer season this year, though prob will make it a lot better in years ahead.

 

[bisonic]

Here is what it looks like. Grass all burned as well as the brush. Trees look ok and the valley may not have burned. Roads are still closed, hoping to get up this weekend.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

Glad u r ok my freind, those ca fires r devistateing for sure hope your hone and property survive......tra

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[bisonic]

Got up to the ranch this am... it's pretty crispy! Almost the entire place burned, with all the brush and grass gone but trees in pretty good shape. Some parts are like a lunar landscape. The fire melted the lock on the gate and also melted/burned in place a couple plastic chairs that left outlines in the ash. Quad is ok thanks to CalFire who cleared the brush around it. Looks nasty now but will be a paradise next spring.

 

[Bubblehide]

Glad to hear everything is okay. I wouldn't necessarily discount the area though. But yes, once things start growing it will be a paradise.

 

[Kentuck]

That place will be rocking as soon as rain comes. Those "islands" of unburned areas will be gems.

 

[bisonic]

Well three weeks after the fire nature is already doing it's thing and recovering from the fire. I went up on Friday and signs of life were everywhere amidst the still-scorched landscape. Many deer were around the lake, including four bucks (one nice big fork, three small ones) and a half dozen does. I saw jackrabbits. squirrels, ant hills, and ducks, and surprisingly there were fresh green shoots coming out of the burned ground in the valley. CalFire crews were hard at work repairing the damage that they'd caused cutting fire breaks. Controlling water flows during the upcoming winter will be a priority, hopefully we get a fairly mild winter. Lots of oaks that look in bad shape - apparently it wasn't the fire itself that hurt them but rather the intensely hot winds that tore thru the canyons. Many still have some green, but a lot have nothing but brown leaves that are all dropping now. Hope they come back. Will be interesting to see how things evolve - I'm pretty sure that the deer hunting will improve, not sure about the pigs due to the loss of cover. We shall see...

 

[OPAH]

New fresh tender suculence never hurt a Hunting area, going to be rockin and a rollin soon.

 

[eoats]

Wow. Thanks for the pictures. Hope it doesn't rain too hard so those new shoots get a chance to catch hold.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

That is so sad to see, glad u survived bio. Thnx 4 the pics!....tra

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