Outlook poor for fires in the West

[Rockskipper]

Summer Of '22 Expected To Be Smoky In Western National Parks

It took only a handful or two of days between the disappearance of snow in the Santa Fe National Forest and the start of the Cerro Pelado fire, a growing blaze that has intruded into two units of the National Park System in New Mexico in an early season signal that the coming summer months will...

www.nationalparkstraveler.org

 

[balzaccom]

Grim news. And no real hope for things getting better any time soon.

 

[Yvonne]

sadly this will be the new normal.
Luckily we here in Washington have an above-normal snowpack. Hopefully, this will help with some of the wildfires.

 

[WasatchWill]

Planning to attempt a 100 mile route in the Uintas in late August. If it gets too smoky, might have to call it off. Booo!!!

 

[Rockskipper]

I'm planning on spending the summer tent camping in MT. Hope it's not too bad.

 

[Bob]

Summer Of '22 Expected To Be Smoky In Western National Parks

It took only a handful or two of days between the disappearance of snow in the Santa Fe National Forest and the start of the Cerro Pelado fire, a growing blaze that has intruded into two units of the National Park System in New Mexico in an early season signal that the coming summer months will...

www.nationalparkstraveler.org

We burned off bandelier back in 2011 the ski hill and the caldera...

 

[The Trout Whisperer]

Ive hikied all over Bandeliers backcountry.. th 90s fire destroyed some of th trails due to erosion afterwards and they didnt rebuild.. got another fire close currently within a few miles. Hope they stop it. I have a trip planned there in Sept on th way back from Yellowstone

 

[scoags]

We burned off bandelier back in 2011 the ski hill and the caldera...

The fire scar from Los Conchas is burning again, apparently...tall grasses. The winds up there have caused difficult conditions. The briefing from yesterday indicates good news for the rest of the week though, with any luck. The fire jumped a road just outside bandelier yesterday or the day before, and is at the head of alamo and capulin canyons, but they seemed confident they have the resources in place to mitigate the spread. in the north and the southwest containment should increase today and tomorrow.

NM Fire Info

New Mexico Fire Information

nmfireinfo.com

 

[The Trout Whisperer]

The fire scar from Los Conchas is burning again, apparently...tall grasses. The winds up there have caused difficult conditions. The briefing from yesterday indicates good news for the rest of the week though, with any luck. The fire jumped a road just outside bandelier yesterday or the day before, and is at the head of alamo and capulin canyons, but they seemed confident they have the resources in place to mitigate the spread. in the north and the southwest containment should increase today and tomorrow.

NM Fire Info

New Mexico Fire Information

nmfireinfo.com

Ouch….hope they can stop it. Need lots of rain in th Rockies n th rest of th country this summer!