578 crowds?

[HUNT-HARD]

Great picture Butter it does look to be getting closer to the 578 Hope they can keep it from leaving the Rez.

[Patarero]

It has been and is on DNR land/GPNF on the north end of the klick unit.  About a mile east of Aiken lava bed.

http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/googleearth.php

[Jason]

Looks like the same area as the Cold Creek fire

[BUTTER]

6000 acres in two days holy *censored* old fire should slow it down we will see

[birddogdad]

Looks like the same area as the Cold Creek fire

Cold creek is a ways west of that fire... have hunted generally the area for years.. Tribes don't hunt much around our season on boarder areas and inside nation area, helps to push the game into the "private tribal hunting areas for "harvest" later....   this fire could have a similar but opposite effect......

when the major fire happened a few years ago and the state closed area for almost a year, I was told it was for my protection with trees falling... the fellow on the phone said "wont be any elk in there anyway, the fire has driven them out".... asked if he wanted pictures of the freshly beatup game trails traveling back into the smoldering areas to correct what he was saying... crickets...

[BUTTER]

500-700 more firefighters ordered growing rapidly has already hit cold springs fire

[birddogdad]

500-700 more firefighters ordered growing rapidly has already hit cold springs fire

wow didn't think it was that far west ....

[Wazukie]

The fire is shifting again into the GMU at the north end.  I live here and I have been watching it.  I was one of the first to respond to this fire but we got turned around because it was on BIA at that time.  It is into the old burn and has even gone clear around it.  This fire started Monday night from lightning.  Not going to be a good hunt this year.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,179536.0.html