Comments on: The Burning, II http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:02:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hope Comes in Yellow and Green - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-96751 Hope Comes in Yellow and Green - Asymptotia Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:28:33 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-96751 [...] 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: Francis Caestecker http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-49060 Francis Caestecker Sat, 26 May 2007 18:45:17 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-49060 Those pictures are in quite a strange way very beautiful, especially the deer <em>[...snip... cvj]</em>. It has a story. I once was camping in southern france, and 2/3 miles further along there was a huge fire in the woods. The airplanes kept dumping water on it, quite a spectacular site. I've never been confronted with the to the ground effects though. It must be horrid to die like that. Those pictures are in quite a strange way very beautiful, especially the deer [...snip... cvj]. It has a story.

I once was camping in southern france, and 2/3 miles further along there was a huge fire in the woods. The airplanes kept dumping water on it, quite a spectacular site. I’ve never been confronted with the to the ground effects though. It must be horrid to die like that.

]]> By: Jude http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-49030 Jude Sat, 26 May 2007 16:35:46 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2007/05/26/the-burning-ii/#comment-49030 Wow. Those photos are amazing. We had a fire on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs almost 13 years ago, which killed 14 firefighters. I haven't hiked there yet this spring, but I'll probably head up in the next couple of weeks. They placed crosses where the 14 fightfighters fell, and it is difficult to imagine a steeper, less accessible location than where they were trapped and died. I've wondered about the animals in a fire. If humans, who knew what was going on, could be trapped and killed, how much more likely would it be for wildlife to die. The photos bring that home. Storm King is where my daughter researched lichens to see how well/much/if they had started growing after the fire (for her high school science fair project). Orange and white 1 or 2 centimeter lichens stood out on the charred black of the trees. Wow. Those photos are amazing. We had a fire on Storm King Mountain near Glenwood Springs almost 13 years ago, which killed 14 firefighters. I haven’t hiked there yet this spring, but I’ll probably head up in the next couple of weeks. They placed crosses where the 14 fightfighters fell, and it is difficult to imagine a steeper, less accessible location than where they were trapped and died. I’ve wondered about the animals in a fire. If humans, who knew what was going on, could be trapped and killed, how much more likely would it be for wildlife to die. The photos bring that home. Storm King is where my daughter researched lichens to see how well/much/if they had started growing after the fire (for her high school science fair project). Orange and white 1 or 2 centimeter lichens stood out on the charred black of the trees.

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