Global Weirding

[Sbob]

They are a fire dependent species (like a lot of pine trees):View attachment 14745
From:

https://cfri.colostate.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2021/01/FireEd-Infographic-Web_Print-1.pdf

Thanks, that Answers another question I had. I drove from Tucson 2,600’ up to Mount Lemmon 9,157’ “Southern most ski area in the US ”. Up top there were a number of burnt trees on the ground with green mature trees all around.

Ponderosas seem to thrive between 6-9K ft Funny how East Coast’s treeline is 5k ish ft ?

 

[D.B. Cooper]

That's an excellent, succinct post MC.

 

[raisingarizona]

@raisingarizona Saw the fire season is starting early in Arizona.
Hope y’all are OK.
Snow-mud season are hanging on here for a bit.

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Thanks tirolski, we are all good. It started on the other side of town and the winds pushed it north and away from Flagstaff.

This whole dang city could go up at some point.

The mega drought continues…..

 

[raisingarizona]

Fire is a part of the western ecosystem no doubt but what is occurring recently isn’t exactly natural.

Things are changing.

 

[Sbob]

Fire is a part of the western ecosystem no doubt but what is occurring recently isn’t exactly natural.

Things are changing.

Is this part of the change too?
I was driving around Flagstaff and saw a “Road may flood” sign. A few blocks later there were even taller sandbags.

 

[tirolski]

The Haudenosaunee around here used to clear brush by “controlled” burning and then planted the 3 sisters (corn, beans & squash).

Traditional Iroquois way of growing works for today's farmers, providing valuable ecological lessons, says Cornell researcher | Cornell Chronicle

SEATTLE -- Most agronomists look to their laboratories, greenhouses or research farms for innovative new cropping techniques. But Jane Mt. Pleasant, professor of horticulture and director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., has taken a different path, mining her...

news.cornell.edu

Everyday on Earth is Earth Day.

 

[raisingarizona]

Is this part of the change too?
I was driving around Flagstaff and saw a “Road may flood” sign. A few blocks later there were even taller sandbags.

Unfortunately yeah. That’s for post Museum fire flood mitigation. Some of those streets had 3 to 4 feet deep of fast moving water going down them last Monsoon season.

The storms are fewer and farther between but they have been increasing in intensity over the last 20 or so years. So longer periods of dry, higher winds and sporadic heavy precipitation basically equals a giant shit sandwich for the desert south west and the west in general.

I should add that the population growth here is also an ingredient in the shit sandwich. Too many humans doing dumb shit and whatever else comes with having em all over the place. A simple fender bender or a chain dragging behind a truck is enough to ignite catastrophic wild fires.

Things are getting seriously fucky folks.

 

[tirolski]

New Mexico Ski Resort Issued Wildfire Evacuation Order

Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort (New Mexico) has been issued a mandatory evacuation order as the Calf Canyons/Hermit Peak wildfire rages near the resort. Sipapu is following the Ready, Set, Go plan fo…

unofficialnetworks.com

 

[raisingarizona]

Wow. These fires started from a FS prescribed burn op. Not good. Someone must be sitting in a very hot seat right now.

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort (New Mexico) has been issued a mandatory evacuation order as the Calf Canyons/Hermit Peak wildfire rages near the resort.

Since not many people have skied there, here's what Sipapu looks like. It would be a perfect inaugural ski area for Indy Pass in New Mexico.