Comments on: The Burning, I http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:21:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Hope Comes in Yellow and Green - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-96750 Hope Comes in Yellow and Green - Asymptotia Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:27:31 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-96750 [...] I decided to do Griffith Park for my Sunday morning hike today. It’s been a while - I’ve mostly been doing Runyon. I thought it would be nice to see how things were doing up there since I last went and saw them dramatically spraying the hydromulch to protect the ground from erosion until regrowth from the fire damage (see here and here). The (very) occasional rain we’ve had in the last couple of months seem to have begun something wonderful - there are hints of green somewhere. I saw this beautiful photograph at one point - which sort of says it all - only to find that my camera (which seems to be on its last legs these last few days) had died again. So I had to take it with my camera phone, and so it is a bit below par: [...] [...] I decided to do Griffith Park for my Sunday morning hike today. It’s been a while - I’ve mostly been doing Runyon. I thought it would be nice to see how things were doing up there since I last went and saw them dramatically spraying the hydromulch to protect the ground from erosion until regrowth from the fire damage (see here and here). The (very) occasional rain we’ve had in the last couple of months seem to have begun something wonderful - there are hints of green somewhere. I saw this beautiful photograph at one point - which sort of says it all - only to find that my camera (which seems to be on its last legs these last few days) had died again. So I had to take it with my camera phone, and so it is a bit below par: [...]

]]> By: Dyeing for a Solution? - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-85428 Dyeing for a Solution? - Asymptotia Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:49:59 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-85428 [...] Surely the solution to the brown 800-plus acre scar in the landscape that was once a lot of greenery in Griffith Park visible from all over the city, after much debate about what to do to re-seed vegetation after the devastating fire, was not to … paint the park green!!??? (A spectacularly unreal shade of green too.) It would be just too “Hollywood” a solution to paint the very mountain called Mount Hollywood (peak to the left just out of view). [...] [...] Surely the solution to the brown 800-plus acre scar in the landscape that was once a lot of greenery in Griffith Park visible from all over the city, after much debate about what to do to re-seed vegetation after the devastating fire, was not to … paint the park green!!??? (A spectacularly unreal shade of green too.) It would be just too “Hollywood” a solution to paint the very mountain called Mount Hollywood (peak to the left just out of view). [...]

]]> By: The Burning, II - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-49013 The Burning, II - Asymptotia Sat, 26 May 2007 15:42:55 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-49013 [...] Well, I’d expected that I’d have got to go to Griffith Park to do a hike and maybe show you some pictures to give you an idea of the changes since the fire (fire posts here and here). This has not happened yet, partly because last I heard they were not allowing people close to those areas… that may have changed by now. It has been over ten days since I checked. [...] [...] Well, I’d expected that I’d have got to go to Griffith Park to do a hike and maybe show you some pictures to give you an idea of the changes since the fire (fire posts here and here). This has not happened yet, partly because last I heard they were not allowing people close to those areas… that may have changed by now. It has been over ten days since I checked. [...]

]]> By: astromcnaught http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44474 astromcnaught Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:45 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44474 Eeek, I've just come from the Bad Astonomer's blog and it looked like an inferno. I'm very sorry. I hope the observatory is OK. Clifford, your lovely walks might well be re-routed for a year or two. Eeek, I’ve just come from the Bad Astonomer’s blog and it looked like an inferno. I’m very sorry. I hope the observatory is OK.

Clifford, your lovely walks might well be re-routed for a year or two.

]]> By: Living Flames - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44394 Living Flames - Asymptotia Thu, 10 May 2007 12:39:47 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44394 [...] Vivid flames of a different sort (from those of yesterday), seen on my way to and from work: [...] [...] Vivid flames of a different sort (from those of yesterday), seen on my way to and from work: [...]

]]> By: Samantha http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44164 Samantha Wed, 09 May 2007 15:26:50 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44164 I am very sad about Dante's view; it was a lovely place Our usually ebullient council representative, Tom LaBonge, was tearful when he was interviewed on the news about it. In addition to Clifford's pictures, the NY Times has a "multimedia" slide show, which shows just how close the fire came to the houses on the edge of the park. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09cnd-fire.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin I am very sad about Dante’s view; it was a lovely place Our usually ebullient council representative, Tom LaBonge, was tearful when he was interviewed on the news about it.

In addition to Clifford’s pictures, the NY Times has a “multimedia” slide show, which shows just how close the fire came to the houses on the edge of the park.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09cnd-fire.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

]]> By: Yvette http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44123 Yvette Wed, 09 May 2007 11:13:51 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44123 :( Hope all goes well. I remember being out in Arizona four years ago when fire came within a few feet of destroying the telescopes at the observatory I was supposed to be observing at that week... the town on the mountain got destroyed, but the observatory was thankfully unscathed. :(

Hope all goes well. I remember being out in Arizona four years ago when fire came within a few feet of destroying the telescopes at the observatory I was supposed to be observing at that week… the town on the mountain got destroyed, but the observatory was thankfully unscathed.

]]> By: candace http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44112 candace Wed, 09 May 2007 10:28:59 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44112 Oh dear...there was a small fire when I was there, but nothing like that. I hope it can be brought under control! Oh dear…there was a small fire when I was there, but nothing like that. I hope it can be brought under control!

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44072 Clifford Wed, 09 May 2007 06:10:14 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44072 Hi Jude and JoAnne, Looking like there is a bit more control now.... at least of the parts that I can see from here. Not clear if that just means that it has burned out the parts that I can see and moved on... or if they are now more in control. We shall see... -cvj Hi Jude and JoAnne,

Looking like there is a bit more control now…. at least of the parts that I can see from here. Not clear if that just means that it has burned out the parts that I can see and moved on… or if they are now more in control. We shall see…

-cvj

]]> By: JoAnne http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44053 JoAnne Wed, 09 May 2007 05:01:47 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44053 Hi Clifford, Thanks for the updates and the pix. I just saw this on the news and immediately went to your blog for more info. What a nightmare! The weather is supposed to turn cooler now, so maybe that will help. Hi Clifford,

Thanks for the updates and the pix. I just saw this on the news and immediately went to your blog for more info. What a nightmare! The weather is supposed to turn cooler now, so maybe that will help.

]]> By: Jude http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/comment-page-1/#comment-44047 Jude Wed, 09 May 2007 04:32:50 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/08/the-burning-i/#comment-44047 Griffith Park, the Observatory, and one of the Forest Lawns are the only landmarks I know in L.A. I wish all of you luck. I'm not sure where Colorado stands in the drought--we've had a wet April, so maybe it won't be so bad this year. When I was a seasonal park ranger at Mesa Verde National Park in the 1980s, one of the rangers had the radical theory that the people of Mesa Verde were driven away by forest fires in addition to the other ill effects of the lengthy drought. At the time, most of us thought he was nuts because there wasn't any direct evidence of forest fires. But since things have been drier and hotter in Colorado, and we've been hit by many forest fires (include one which was started when a coal seam fire from an explosion decades ago ignited the dry brush), I now give credence to his theory. Griffith Park, the Observatory, and one of the Forest Lawns are the only landmarks I know in L.A. I wish all of you luck. I’m not sure where Colorado stands in the drought–we’ve had a wet April, so maybe it won’t be so bad this year. When I was a seasonal park ranger at Mesa Verde National Park in the 1980s, one of the rangers had the radical theory that the people of Mesa Verde were driven away by forest fires in addition to the other ill effects of the lengthy drought. At the time, most of us thought he was nuts because there wasn’t any direct evidence of forest fires. But since things have been drier and hotter in Colorado, and we’ve been hit by many forest fires (include one which was started when a coal seam fire from an explosion decades ago ignited the dry brush), I now give credence to his theory.

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