Predicting BLM fires
This does not represent any level of disapproval between agencies, seeing as how we will all be one giant Federal Wildland Fire outfit in 5 years anyway.
But 'their' fire seasons go by the beat of a different drummer.
A wet spring and even early summer, provided the annual grass seed supply is up to the job, can make for a more consistent fuel bed. With a decent amount of grass growing and then drying out in-between the brush we can now have large fires on lower wind days.
The good Lord provides, Amen.
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There is a romance to those high desert fires, the fragrance of the sage, the juniper pollen causing sneezing fits, the rapid change of direction of the flame fronts trapping a yellowish engine that is backing out at Mack III over what was a road as recently as 1956.
The fire totally stopping with humidity recovery at night and the twinkling of all the woody material burning to form a mirror of the stars above. MRE's and good friends all around.
Sigh.