Colville-tribe-releases-nine-lynx-into-washing

[hunter399]

Odd that they state in the article that wildfire is a leading cause in lynx habitat loss considering the colville rez is decimated by wildfire on a nearly yearly basis. 2022 was the summit trail fire of 48k acres, 2019 was the Williams flats fire of over 45k acres, in 2015 the north star fire was over 215k acres. And those are just the big ones.

Interesting, fire has always been a natural way for nature to "clean up". How is it that a fire is now considered habitat loss? 

I would only consider it habitat loss for 4-5 year,after that it's better habitat then it was before in most cases.

[bearpaw]

Odd that they state in the article that wildfire is a leading cause in lynx habitat loss considering the colville rez is decimated by wildfire on a nearly yearly basis. 2022 was the summit trail fire of 48k acres, 2019 was the Williams flats fire of over 45k acres, in 2015 the north star fire was over 215k acres. And those are just the big ones.

Interesting, fire has always been a natural way for nature to "clean up". How is it that a fire is now considered habitat loss? 

I would only consider it habitat loss for 4-5 year,after that it's better habitat then it was before in most cases.

Its good habitat for many animals even quicker than that! For Lynx who rely on snowshoe hare populations that may take longer, I'm not sure how long before the showshoes move back in heavy, I've never paid attention to that in any of the large fire areas in the Kettle Crest?

[highcountry_hunter]

Odd that they state in the article that wildfire is a leading cause in lynx habitat loss considering the colville rez is decimated by wildfire on a nearly yearly basis. 2022 was the summit trail fire of 48k acres, 2019 was the Williams flats fire of over 45k acres, in 2015 the north star fire was over 215k acres. And those are just the big ones.

Interesting, fire has always been a natural way for nature to "clean up". How is it that a fire is now considered habitat loss? 

I would only consider it habitat loss for 4-5 year,after that it's better habitat then it was before in most cases.

Its good habitat for many animals even quicker than that! For Lynx who rely on snowshoe hare populations that may take longer, I'm not sure how long before the showshoes move back in heavy, I've never paid attention to that in any of the large fire areas in the Kettle Crest?

There’s starting to get some rabbits and small critters in the Stickpin burn area up on the crest, that fire was 2015. I’ve been hauling burnt logs off the Summit Trail fire on the reservation and it’s gonna be quite some time before there’s any bunny’s hopping around. That fire got so damn hot that the soil’s been cooked into dust. The whole landscape around the fire was pretty much nuke’d.

[nwwanderer]

Seed and supplies to restart nuked areas are in short supply and expensive, will take extra time

[hunter399]

I'm almost guaranteed that these bobcats are released north of kettle in unit 101 ,which has had some fires up there. Around boulder and such.
You got to remember the "north half" is pretty much all of 101 from kettle to curlew lake.
Really a huge chunk ,that's most likely why the federal government took it back. And I think way back when ,natives where starting to survey and sell some of it .
And the feds said nope,we are taking it back.
That's just the "story" or rumor I hear.
So they where pushed back to the current reservation,but was able to retain all fishing and hunting rights to the North half.
I was just looking at this map online it goes aways past Republic,anytime you cross the river at kettle ,your in the North half.  Red arrow is kettle falls.