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Post by Badger on Feb 28, 2011 21:49:02 GMT -7
I figured that after hunting season was over this place would shine but it looks like most of you are sleeping the winter away. Just wondered if anybody was still out there.
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Post by Rod on Mar 1, 2011 7:38:26 GMT -7
Still here-- just hibernating, I guess ;D Seems like feeding cows and chasing kids (or vice versa) keeps me pretty busy---although I did help out over this last weekend, when our local club, the Ft. Union Muzzleloaders, set up a display at the Williston gun show. Should have taken a few pics, but I forgot the camera for 3 days running  Rod |
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Post by sean on Mar 3, 2011 6:38:42 GMT -7
I'm pretty much up to my gills in work.
Sean
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Post by RileyMN on Mar 3, 2011 14:45:21 GMT -7
I'm pretty much up to my gills in work. Sean Same here, only it is snow.... |
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Post by sean on Mar 3, 2011 18:23:43 GMT -7
No snow down here. It was 80 degrees today. Last weekend we had 60 mph winds and a 1/4 million acres burn in one day.
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Cody
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Post by Cody on Mar 3, 2011 18:40:20 GMT -7
Ive been trapping fixin to head out again ,keep your powder dry
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Post by Rod on Mar 4, 2011 7:23:57 GMT -7
250,000 acres gone to fire?! Funny how we hear on the news when a couple of hundred acres burn in other parts of the country, but never hear of the really big fires in the unpopulated areas. Back in '99, we had a fire here that burned 100,000 acres in a single night, propelled by sustained winds of 55 gusting to 70 mph. No fun, no way to stop that, all we could do is try to keep it from spreading on the north side and crossing a highway (fire was headed southeast).
No wonder you've been busy, Sean.
Rod
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Post by sean on Mar 4, 2011 19:02:36 GMT -7
Rod,
We had about 8-10 fires going in the Panhandle that day. A quarter million acres sounds like a lot, but we are really talking about less than 7% of a pretty huge, flat-ass area 'out here in the middle' with not many people. One started in NM and almost burned half way across to OK. Most of the stuff that burned was probably a good thing, i.e mesquite-invaded rangeland. Doesn't make the papers when no houses get burned over and the result is actually a good thing for range management. This stuff is supposed to burn in the spring and it always has. But really, its the political fires that are keeping me so darned busy. There was a time when being a biologist got me out in the hinterlands working with animals. Now I deal with the people... meetings, conference calls, webinars. Getting out in the field is like a holiday.
Sean
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Post by Rod on Mar 4, 2011 21:20:00 GMT -7
Better you than me, Sean, that would drive me crazy.
By the way, the fire was the same here in ND---burned from Sidney, MT to the Little Missouri River, and only got one house. There just aren't very many people living out here. The house that burned was a dugout into a sidehill (yes, there are still people living in those) and I think the wife that lived there was pretty happy to see that thing go up. Grass came back very nice, and got rid of some sagebrush, but replacing those endless miles of fence kept some guys employed for a couple of years.
Rod
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Post by sean on Mar 5, 2011 7:11:52 GMT -7
You know, I've been up in the Dakotas and a dugout makes a lot of sense there. Its a windy, cold place in the winter and hot in the summer. Dugouts don't work so well down here because we don't have any hills. Dugouts down here are referred to as either tornado shelters or wells.
Sean
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Post by Rod on Mar 5, 2011 9:25:53 GMT -7
Yeah, a modern dugout makes sense, and there are some of those around, but this was one that the guy's parents lived in--in other words, early 1900s style, with not much in modern conveniences. His wife wasn't sad to see that go--it meant she might actually get a nice, new house.
Rod
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Lloyd
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Post by Lloyd on Mar 5, 2011 14:25:15 GMT -7
If it is anything like Wyoming, that means a single wide trailer with a hundred wore out tires on the roof...  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Rod on Mar 5, 2011 18:11:46 GMT -7
Hey now, no talkin' about my house like that ;D ;D ;D
Rod
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Post by sean on Mar 5, 2011 18:54:05 GMT -7
Can't say much. When my wife and I met, I had to move in with her. My house was an old canvas wall tent. It was a little chilly in the winter for her tastes.
Sean
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Post by Dan'l Hickham on Mar 6, 2011 20:36:28 GMT -7
Hey now, no talkin' about my house like that ;D ;D ;D Rod I am thinking about a tipi outside of Watford City |
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