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profdant139
Explorer II
Jul 20, 2018

Will summer in the Far West be smoky forever??

Before the bark beetle hit the West so powerfully, we would go on one or two boondocking trips per summer, mostly in the highest parts of the Sierra, mostly to escape the heat. This was in the 2005 t...
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Busskipper
Explorer
Jul 21, 2018
profdant139 wrote:
And let's not forget decades of misguided but well-intentioned fire suppression. The forests are loaded with fuel. Maybe once we have disposed of the overload, things will get back to normal. 20 years from now??


^^^^^^ I Agree ^^^^^^

But the only thing to do in our Lifetime is to Pick and Choose Locations and Time of Year.

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