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Forest fire close to my cabin

Other than the structures loss, the footage you shot looks like a good fire. Good in the way that it didn’t nuke the forest but cleaned it up nice, got rid of build up, small trees that are suffocating and will never grow because of overcrowding and killed some insect overpopulation. Those trees with the charred bark should all live fine and the nutrients released back into the soil are the best fert......in 20 years that will be a nice healthy stand
 
Some more images from my last trip. Shows a bit more of the damage. At least i can see green, those that were up earlier said it was nothing but black char. Amazing how fast nature starts to bounce back.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4Eze-dRV4&[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4Eze-dRV4&

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Cabin that survived with a few scars.

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Mouth of the two Hearted River. This is where it flows into Lake Superior.

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View of where it flows into the great lake.

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Rainbow Lodge. Used to be a general store, canoe rental, cabins, etc. We used to stop here a lot. Ironically the POS gas pump that seemed to pump in "gallons per hour' survived. I joke about it but that pumped saved my butt snowmobiling one year and was the closest pump to my cabin.


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Area right between the Rainbow lodge and the slightly melted cabin pictured above.


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They are now going through and cutting pretty much everything that was burned and salvagable.

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Edit:How Rainbow Lodge used to look:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1p3iQSkFQ[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1p3iQSkFQ
 
Wow....it's georgus up there.....is that your cabin Mike? The yeller melty one?


Oli....thats a great perspective on things. I didn't even think about the bug population. But the less of those basterds....the better.
 
No, it's not my cabin. I'm not sure if it was a rental from the lodge or a private cabin.


Oli maybe you can anser this. I was told by someone up there that the reason they are cuttting a lot of the surviving tree's is that bugs will attack and kill them due to the fire damage to the bark. I can understand how the burnt bark could compromise a tree's immune system or whatever but that was the first I had heard of this. Are you familiar with or have you heard any such info?
 
Haven’t heard that one yet......I know drought will weaken stands enough to allow bugs to attack with greater success but a fire will usually clear out the beetles and such. Most trees are designed by Mother Nature to benefit from fire, until it becomes too thick from years of fire suppression, then it has so much heat when it burns everything dies. If the bark is compromised enough to let bugs in readily then chances are they won’t survive anyway and they might as well be utilized…..sometimes if they harvest all the trees the land never does as good because it is so exposed to the sun and in places they are leaving the burned trees and just replanting the stand. That way the new trees benefit from the falling, decaying burned trees , a little shade and the wildlife has more options too…..but that is here and it could be different there, it might be the only way the land owners are allowed to make money off of the trees, depends on forest practices in your neck of the woods. The bugs create dead trees but as far as I know they arent attracted to dead trees.
 
Thanks Oli, your explanation makes a lot more sense than what I was told.
 
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