Wallow Fire Smoke in the Mornings
It looks like Double Circle Ranch and Eagle Creek are going to be spared in the Wallow fire. Wallow fire is now over 430,000 acres and is 6% contained. It gets windy everyday it seems and has for three weeks or better. Early in the morning we have lots of smoke making it hard to see and breathe. When the wind starts, the smoke clears out, but the flames spread too. We still have some lines of fire working down the mountain toward us, but the fire fighters have built a fire break that is supposed to stop the fire before it hits our dry grasslands and juniper forest. I sure hope it works.
Eagle Creek has only one road in and out. Right now it is not blocked and hopefully will stay that way. So we can leave if we have too – but ranchers are always reluctant to leave livestock and a lifetime of work behind. We just keep one eye on the north and go about our lives – with restrictions of course.
I know the people north of us have really had a hard time with almost 30 homes lost and many evacuations. I can only imagine what the beautiful forest there must look like today. What a loss.
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