yikes!

Your Place ? is contained yet ?

Yes, Sorry, I should have supplied some context.

This was a Prescribed/Controlled Burn. It involved 5 neighbors. We burned about 1500 acres. We lit it Friday afternoon. (4-18-25) It burned nearly all of my pasture. It was nearly 2 miles long North to South and over 1 1/2 miles wide East and West. The perimeter was over 9 1/2 miles and took me over 45 minutes to drive around in my Kawasaki Mule.

I would consider it as a very successful burn. We got a really good cedar tree kill and (mostly) didn't burn anything we didn't want burned. The exception would be when it jumped the irrigation canal and burned some cornstalks. (shown in the 3rd picture) All of the GAF buildings and props were saved. The picture below is zoomed in and shows the GAF campsite from about a mile north.


Saturday afternoon some cow turds flared up and the fire jumped the blackline on the north end. My neighbor called me and I got there as soon as I could. When I got there, we had all the hotspots put back out in a few minutes.

As of last night, just before dark there were still a few fires burning out in the middle. Today is a Red Flag Day, so if we can get through the day without a flare up near the perimeter, we should have it whipped.

Gawd I miss those days! Excellent work my dear General. Within days the new grass will draw all the sweet grass grazers. Not called 'Elk Candy' foolishly to be sure. Top killing Cedar's always good. Greening the prairie with a lovely spray of long dormant wild flowers will be the ultimate reward. Please post pics next week. -J.Barr; prior paid arsonist (Mitigation Ignition Specialist) for the Government; NPS, USFS, BLM, BIA and my homely Texas Forest Service and Nature Conservancy.   

Quote from: Johnson Barr on Yesterday at 12:57:53 PMNot called 'Elk Candy' foolishly to be sure.

Speaking of---I think I saw one while patrolling the perimeter yesterday evening

It's so dry, I hope it greens up that soon. We really need some rain

Cool!

Be interesting to see the changes when I get up there in a few weeks.

I wonder if that was what Del was experiencing and kept him hunkered down 
Looking forward to the new growth pictures.

Congratulations.  It is always sweet when a planned/prescribed fire works as planned.  They don't always (ask me how I know - 20+ years on wildland fire crew in Colorado).  If we weren't putting them out, we were lighting them!

Quote from: Sagebrush Burns on Yesterday at 11:28:54 PMCongratulations.  It is always sweet when a planned/prescribed fire works as planned.  They don't always (ask me how I know - 20+ years on wildland fire crew in Colorado).  If we weren't putting them out, we were lighting them!

Well that sure explains your alias!     

Quote from: Sagebrush Burns on Yesterday at 11:28:54 PMCongratulations.  It is always sweet when a planned/prescribed fire works as planned.  They don't always (ask me how I know - 20+ years on wildland fire crew in Colorado).  If we weren't putting them out, we were lighting them!

Testify, Years ago, the Fla. Forest Service had one get away from them.
A drop in humidity caused a controlled burn near I-4 to turn into a wildfire.
  Smoke choked I-4 and caused a massive pileup; some 70 cars trucks & Semi's involved.
The ensuing wreck cause vehicle fires which killed 4 and injured 30 more.

I fellow I worked with was involved in his Pickup.
He had two broken legs and an arm; he had to be rescued from the truck with a Jaws of life.
He returned to work 14 months later, a mear shell of his former 225 Lbs.
But, later had to retire due to disability. 

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2008/01/11/state-s-role-in-i-4-pileup-questioned/