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From 1955 to the late 1960s there were very few major fires in Oregon. The forests were logged and managed. Then the environmental (?) activists started stopping logging which has resulted in no thinning and very little logging. Clear cuts may be ugly but they make excellent fire breaks, to slow and control fires. One of the fires that is over 120,000 acres right now was spotted on the 8th of August and allowed to burn for weeks staying under 15 acres for much of that time. When it got to 150 acres they started trying to contain it. But the winds hit and it blew up in the last few days. You want to guess why it was allowed to burn so long? So the state could continue to get federal fire fighting money. Think of the money in 120,000 acres of timber that have been lost. Idiocy in government on display. .

I'm a stickler for following rules, so at the risk of getting close to the political bounds, your last statement, swwasas, is true. Two dead and dozens missing. I was supposed to go on my High Cascade draw tag for deer this weekend and the rest of the week. Half of my hunt area is on fire and the woods are closed. The majority of the cascades are a very dangerous place to be right now from CA to WA. Yesterday, the Willamette Valley had the worst air quality of any place. The days this last week were so dark from smoke and ash, you couldn't see the sun and it was so dark during the day, the street lights stayed on most of the day. At 4:30 pm on Wednesday, it was like 7:30pm, which is getting pretty dark. My wife, who barely survived covid and myself who, after having covid and multiple lung infections and still have trouble breathing, are having a hard time with this. These fires are effecting people in a lot of ways beyond the flames. 500 evacuated, many who lost everything they own, and the illnesses that vulnerable people are experiencing from the smoke will probably exceed 1000. I work with several people who evacuated and didn't lose their homes while others I work with lost everything. Very devastating and one can only do so much to help them overcome what they have gone through, but, we do what we can.

Or, read the chapter, "Burned Areas" in The Sasquatch Hunter's Field Manual In fact, I'll do one better. Call it a get well present: The Sasquatch Hunter's Field Manual- Burned Areas.pdf

I'm thinking that like Albert Ostman, if a randy female bigfoot were to spy our own Huntsman in the woods, that chemical chemistry would occur in a heartbeat. She would carry Hunts over her shoulder to her lair, where they would become very close. Cigarettes afterwards. JMHO

I typically stay away from our local national park in the Summer for that reason but was over last weekend, my gods man--inconsiderate idiots abound-- swarms of them. Some batting rocks down onto the hikers below the edge to a soundtrack played by another group that could be heard the whole way down the mountain. I've not seen this there but sure it's not the first time. No respect for where they are, no consideration, no relationship--it's only a backdrop for the petty human drama. It's experiences such as those that get me thinking: Homo-notso-sapiens--what a failed species, we just don't know it yet.