Still going. It's been rolling around that mound of mountainside for the last few days - slow and steady.
I've got to admit: there's something quite soothing about having my own, homegrown reminder that the world's on fire.
@peeppeepcircus A little of both! The mountains here burn in dry seasons, in places with sufficient underbrush - but almost all the fires start with someone being careless with a cigarette, firework, or similar. This is the fifth fire I've seen in that vicinity since I moved to this building. (You can still see orange scoring from one that got close to the residences two years back.) They burn themselves out, and the ground renews, and I reflect on all that was lost, in the meantime.
@joycereynoldsward @peeppeepcircus Oh, fantastic! New term for me, a "simmer fire". The first time it happened, it came as quite a shock - and I paid attention to local news marking the frequency of such events in the mountains, and their usual provenance (careless folk out in the forest), but they've been rather meditative affairs to watch ever since.
Thanks for the insights, Joyce! Glad you've got some healthy forests of your own.
@MLClark @peeppeepcircus oh, we're still working on it here. Lots of dying trees, predominantly white fir. But last year when woodcutting we started seeing lodgepole pine--normally very durable--dead. Between one year and the next (Forest Service is very strict about firewood harvest, no green needles).
This was after the heat dome followed by a very severe winter.
fwiw i've been posting articles with these hashtags if you are interested
GoodFire
CulturalFire
GiantSequoia
wildfire
drought
@MLClark @peeppeepcircus looks like a slow simmer fire, which is what you want to see for forest renewal. Those creeping simmering fires--our big fires last summer were in that mode, rather than raging wildfire. Managed like a big controlled burn rather than a wildfire.