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Elk couldn't escape fire
« on: July 14, 2021, 12:02:56 PM »
I'm hearing reports that several elk died in the fire up in Nespelum. They are just laying in groups even. Not sure of exact location but we have crews up their doing line repair for CenturyLink and they are seeing them. Some in groups of three laying dead.

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2021, 12:06:59 PM »
Bummer, hate to see that.
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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2021, 12:21:49 PM »
Really sad to see. Thought they could sense and evade fire.  Overtaken by a fast moving fire??

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2021, 12:23:51 PM »
That sucks! What a bad deal!

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2021, 12:39:03 PM »
Yeah just imagine though, it's already 100 degrees out and you run into a blow-up heat wave from a fire storm and there's no oxygen... Your already breathing heavy smoke from running... You would just hit the dirt. There's nowhere to go in something like that. Nothing can breath 200+ degree air. It's really sad.

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2021, 12:49:09 PM »
Hate to see that however doubt that is the only or last one that'll succumb to the fires imagine how the deer population is going to be descimated with just the number of fawns that'll be lost? Can only hope the fires take a toll on the wolf population
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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2021, 02:10:50 PM »
Sad to see
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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2021, 02:29:52 PM »
Very sad to see.  :(

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2021, 02:32:38 PM »
Wipes out their smell, can't follow elk trails by scent.

Wipes out their vision, can't see where to go.


So they run in circles confused and frightened until the succumb to smoke and heat, then burn

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2021, 02:33:41 PM »
Wonder if wolves burn?

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2021, 02:39:28 PM »
looks to me like it was in an old creek bed of some sort. Probably went to the coolest spot it could find to take cover and it didn't work. Mother nature can be a cruel sucker
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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2021, 02:45:33 PM »
No Vandeman, that's the ditch. They got in the road but still suffocated and succumbed to the heat and smoke. Our guys are placing new poles and messenger wire and the copper splicer is rehabbing telephone equipment that was cooked. This pic is right next to him.

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2021, 02:53:14 PM »
No Vandeman, that's the ditch. They got in the road but still suffocated and succumbed to the heat and smoke. Our guys are placing new poles and messenger wire and the copper splicer is rehabbing telephone equipment that was cooked. This pic is right next to him.

Oh ok I see it now. Tough way to go
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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2021, 02:57:47 PM »
It's awful, I was hesitant to even post the animal but it is what it is and people should see what happens when you don't practice proper forestry health and fire abatement. It's sickening even. I have been places and seen so many downed trees crisscrossing a hillside that nothing can get through but a squirrel. This needs to stop.

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Re: Elk couldn't escape fire
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2021, 03:08:06 PM »
It's awful, I was hesitant to even post the animal but it is what it is and people should see what happens when you don't practice proper forestry health and fire abatement. It's sickening even. I have been places and seen so many downed trees crisscrossing a hillside that nothing can get through but a squirrel. This needs to stop.

The Forest Service is changing it by managing the forest with uncontrolled burns and calling them nature caused wildfires,  when is the last time the FS ACUTALLY Fought a fire ? Even back in the 90's they changed from fighting a fire to managing the fire (most of the time poorly) and when they don't get a complete burn of an area they go in and do burn outs. Heck I was on a strike team that got sent home because the strike team kept a fire from jumping a road in OR.
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