There’s much to learn about this most amazing wild area that’s home to three National Wild and Scenic Rivers—the Illinois, Chetco and North Fork Smith—and five U.S. Forest Service Eligible Wild and Scenic Rivers—Baldface, Rough and Ready, Canyon/Josephine, Silver and Indigo creeks.
With the 2017 Chetco Bar and 2018 Klondike fires—both burning in parts of the 500,000 acre Biscuit Fire footprint—the need to better understand this large wildfire event and the effects of U.S. Forest Service fire suppression strategies—may be even more important today than in 2002.This task is made difficult by the politics surrounding fire and forest management, with most trying to use these fires and this remote complicated land to confirm their own biases rather than learn from the land and the science. One of those, the Carter Fire, was contained at about 20 acres. During that period one Forest Service official described the Florence Fire as sending huge smoke plumes thousands of feet into the air, which then collapsed in on themselves, exploding and sending flames as much a mile ahead of the fire itself.Why does all this matter? The Chetco Bar Fire and the Forest Service’s management of it were heavily politicized. The Siskiyou chipmunk makes its home in the area and nowhere else. Here’s a bit about a piece of history that has relevance today. The latter burned in part within the perimeter of the Biscuit fire, and in part within the heavily managed (previously logged) lands outside the Kalmiopsis Wilderness and Biscuit Fire perimeter. Then an estimated third to one-half of the 500,000 acres of National Forest lands within the Biscuit fire perimeter were deliberately set fire to by the U.S. Forest Service as the agency’s primary fire suppression strategy.Here’s how Tim Ingalsbee of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethic and Ecology describes burnout fires in One of the many paradoxes of fire suppression is that it involves a considerable amount of human-caused fire reintroduction under the philosophy of “fighting fire with fire.” The most routine form of suppression firing is called “burnout,” in which firefighters ignite low-intensity fires adjacent to the fireline to consume all the surface fuels, “blacken” the fireline, and thereby strengthen and secure it.
“They want to get into the roadless areas. See especially “Unsalvageable.” In it she quotes Rich Fairbanks, the Forest Service’s Interdisciplinary Team Leader for the Biscuit Fire Environmental Impact Statement:[1] Oregonian, June 2, 2004, “Wilderness proposal came as a surprise.” Note the Oregonian archives are not online.Copyright© 2011-2018 Friends of the Kalmiopsis/RoughandReadyCreek.OrgA homegrown movement to protect the clear waters and wild rivers of Oregon's Kalmiopsis - Wild Rivers CoastI was very pleased with regard to the Bush administration’s surprise support for wilderness in the Kalmiopsis. They resumed cutting brush near the river. It burned up much of our private timber and destroyed the Huerta, Egan and Lloyd homes, as well as our newly installed water lines and tanks. Much of this diversity results from plant species adapting to life in harsh soils that are derived from peridotite and serpentinite rocks. Many plants and shrubs in the area were named by botanist T.J. Howell, including Howell's mariposa lily, Howell's saxifrage, and Howell's manzanita. This failure may affect some findings of the post-fire research, especially in determining burn severity patterns and other effects of the Biscuit fire.The scientists studying the effects of the Silver and Biscuit fires are cautious not to overstate their findings. However, I am disappointed that the Forest Service has only recommended the inclusion of 64,000 acres of land. It was held to 4 acres at a cost of $30,550.00. See the Two of the five July 13th fires were in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness.
By looking holistically at the Kalmiopsis and its roadless areas, we hope a more informed discussion will develop around fire in this most rugged of wild areas.We are also losing the history of attempts to conserve this unique corner of Oregon and California. The wilderness' namesake plant, an endemic shrub known as Kalmiopsis Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon, within the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest. We want to help the public better understand this ancient, rugged wild area in all its mystery and complexity.Jack Ward Thomas is credited with saying that an ecosystem is not only more complex than we think, its more complex than we can think.The fire history of the Kalmiopsis is often knowingly described by the unknowing or those who bend the facts to fit political agendas. This time, it was their attempt to squelch the 2006 myth busting findings of a team of Oregon State University researchers about to be published in the prestigious journal The short report generated its own political and scientific firestorm, that included two congressional hearings, countless discussions around academic freedom and a government investigation. We need lean from other fire case studies—such as those for the large Colorado fires— to include weather, as the most significant driver of large wildland fires.Unfortunately today, the role of weather is still not often part of the discussion around the Biscuit fire. “The Bush Administration is pleased to move this important proposal forward and will begin work with Congress this session to provide this designation.”Between 2003 and 2005, journalist Kathie Durbine wrote a revealing series of articles for High Country News about the Bush Administration’s press to log the North and South Kalmiopsis Roadless Areas. The size of the 2002 Biscuit Fire was not about the inability to access the fires.
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