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This do's not sound very promising. ---Kirk

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3/16/2006 4:26:47 PM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

If you are talking about drought and fires in the forrest, and water situations as a remedy and solution for a bad season, then you need to go back to 2000 when the state record was grown. we had the worst fires on record, which in my opinion were worse than the hayman fire. the fires up by buffalo and pine did much more damage, and ash was spread throught the state along with many smokey evenings a hundred miles away, as I remember the smell of smoke all over everything, as it was also in the hayman burn. Our upper watersheds are looking normal to above thank goodness for the snowpack, but the eastern front range has the potential to be one of the biggest and most detrimental fires in the history of colorado. We need moisture big time for the 14000 ft. peaks that sit at the front row of the plains, not to mention all the 6000 - 13000 ft. foothills. Hopefully this next storm will bring the New Mexico notorious low which will drown us in heavy wet snow if not we will probably be getting foliar feed from burnt ash on the leaves as the fires burn, which means extra potash to grow the new big one.lol..Happy growing..

3/17/2006 4:00:26 AM

Colorado

The Hayman fire burned within three quarters of a mile from two cabins that my family owns. Talk about sweating bullets. We had to run Jefferson and Park County road blocks to get in and retrieve some sentimental valuables.
Flames on both sides of the road. Smoke was so thick there was only about 20 feet of visibility. Scary times. The ash that fell in the Morrison area was hot enough to burn a persons skin. The front range and eastern plains maybe in real trouble if the spring rains don’t get here soon.

3/17/2006 11:04:01 AM