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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: hawkquest on September 09, 2011, 09:18:24 AM

Title: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: hawkquest on September 09, 2011, 09:18:24 AM: IS SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA CLOSED DUE TO FIRE DANGER???????
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: Stilly bay on September 09, 2011, 09:31:27 AM: I haven't hunted there in years but I would bet my last dollar that all the gates are locked up tighter than a ticks azz until modern firearm.
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: sticknstringman on September 09, 2011, 10:09:54 AM: just got out of the st. helens tree farm. gota hunt two days and then they closed it all. they said DNR was deciding if they are gona close there land to. thats a hear/say though about the DNR
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: 280ackley on September 10, 2011, 02:59:57 PM: Weyerhaeusers Vail Tree Farm is currently closed for fire danger.
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: rebal69972 on September 10, 2011, 07:35:13 PM: i got ran off from mossyrock this evening the officer said that pretty much all of the west side was closed. going to be a rough season
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: FSTaxidermy on September 11, 2011, 08:10:27 AM: :bash: lets pray for some moisture!
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: throttlejocky20 on September 11, 2011, 08:19:43 AM: I watered my yard can we go hunting know.
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: rebal69972 on September 11, 2011, 08:26:13 AM: from what the first officer i talked to said is that packwood and part of the gmu next to it where the only ones open and probably it would stay that way till after mod season with no one out there hunting there could be alot of calfs next year and some monster bulls
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: colockumelk on September 11, 2011, 06:09:14 PM: When you say places are closed. Do you mean closed to vehicle traffic or can you still walk in? Also are the timber company land the only places closed or do they close the Ginford Pinchot NF as well?
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: kglacken on September 11, 2011, 06:15:40 PM: It means closed to all access! nobody is allowed in!!!!!!!
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: FSTaxidermy on September 11, 2011, 06:54:40 PM: Noooooooooooooo :yike: it will rain, its Washington :bash:
Title: Re: DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE SKOOKUMCHUCK AREA IS CLOSED FOR FIRE HAZARD
Post by: bobcat on September 11, 2011, 07:18:57 PM: Quote from: colockumelk on September 11, 2011, 06:09:14 PM
When you say places are closed. Do you mean closed to vehicle traffic or can you still walk in? Also are the timber company land the only places closed or do they close the Ginford Pinchot NF as well?

National Forest lands are still open. I don't recall National Forest ever closing for fire danger. I'm sure it's probably happened, but it's very uncommon, that's for sure. State land is still open as well, as far as I know.

Weyerhaeuser, at least the St Helens tree farm, was closed just to motorized vehicles, but as of September 8th, they closed it to ALL entry.