Last time I checked, one of the fires was over 100k acres. That is a whole lot of grass land that will take about 15-20 years to recover.
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>On his way to work Thursday, Ranchester’s fire chief Jeff Barron couldn’t help but smile when he saw big, fat raindrops landing on his windshield.
It was just a few, but behind those raindrops he could also see the entire face of the charred Bighorn Mountains, on fire now for three weeks.
The first thing Barron remembers doing was just breathing a big old sigh of relief.
The Elk Fire has consumed 96,000-plus acres of forest land to date and threatened all the small communities that lie at its feet, and it’s been keeping Barron and many other firefighters awake at night
Last time I checked, one of the fires was over 100k acres. That is a whole lot of grass land that will take about 15-20 years to recover.
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From the post:
>>On his way to work Thursday, Ranchester’s fire chief Jeff Barron couldn’t help but smile when he saw big, fat raindrops landing on his windshield.
It was just a few, but behind those raindrops he could also see the entire face of the charred Bighorn Mountains, on fire now for three weeks.
The first thing Barron remembers doing was just breathing a big old sigh of relief.
The Elk Fire has consumed 96,000-plus acres of forest land to date and threatened all the small communities that lie at its feet, and it’s been keeping Barron and many other firefighters awake at night
