http://troutunderground.com/2007/08/30/a-couple-fly-fishing-links-you-dont-want-to-miss/ Fly Fishing the Upper Sacramento River : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:31:31 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://troutunderground.com/2007/08/30/a-couple-fly-fishing-links-you-dont-want-to-miss/comment-page-1/#comment-12064 Big Sky Taku Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:16:51 +0000 http://troutunderground.com/2007/08/30/a-couple-fly-fishing-links-you-dont-want-to-miss/#comment-12064 Yep, George has most of his facts in agreeable form. For the inland Northwest (from the Cascade Crest in OR/WA, to the Continental Divide in ID/MT down to the Salmon River (I think) recent research estimates that 6 million acres burned every year on average. Some bigger years were probably 30 million. Now a lot of that may have been in the lower elevations grasslands and foothills, but still, that's lot's more acres than our "record setting seasons" are. What will tend to happen over time (decades) is that as the larger fires create mosaics, fires that burn into them will burn in various levels of intensity depending on the amount and availability of fuel. Some will stop entirely. We are starting to see this occur in the larger wilderness areas like the Selway-Bitterroot where it is going on thirty years of what is now called wildland fire use. What does this have to do with Fish?? The Natives do better (sorry Tom, again, the brookies take it in the shorts). Anyway, looking forward to rain tomorrow or Saturday so things slow down and I can actually fish more than an hour every week or two. Yep, George has most of his facts in agreeable form. For the inland Northwest (from the Cascade Crest in OR/WA, to the Continental Divide in ID/MT down to the Salmon River (I think) recent research estimates that 6 million acres burned every year on average. Some bigger years were probably 30 million. Now a lot of that may have been in the lower elevations grasslands and foothills, but still, that’s lot’s more acres than our “record setting seasons” are. What will tend to happen over time (decades) is that as the larger fires create mosaics, fires that burn into them will burn in various levels of intensity depending on the amount and availability of fuel. Some will stop entirely. We are starting to see this occur in the larger wilderness areas like the Selway-Bitterroot where it is going on thirty years of what is now called wildland fire use. What does this have to do with Fish?? The Natives do better (sorry Tom, again, the brookies take it in the shorts). Anyway, looking forward to rain tomorrow or Saturday so things slow down and I can actually fish more than an hour every week or two.

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