tcj wrote:The Thielson Fire squirted out to the northeast yesterday. IR flight 14 Sept 20:28 hrs PDT, 7778 acres, increase of 2198 acres. MY wife is worried about this one. She was the Lookout on Cinnamon Butte for a few years 20 years ago. It's inside the Thielson Wilderness but there's a non-wilderness corridor along the road and around the Lookout and BUMT (Butt Ugly Microwave Tower) up there too, so it would be pretty high priority to protect. Thielson has an Inciweb page now https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7195/
Cinnamon is the Cadilac of lookouts.
Mount Thielson out the window.
My Theilson has always been a happy sight for me. Whenever I'd hunt the Rogue/Umpqua divide seeing Thielson meant I was close.
I don't remember there being a lot of structures between Union Creek and Diamond Lake, but I hope the fire spares that area. I would eventually like to have lunch at Beckies again.
Given they really haven't managed the forest since the 1980s, I wonder if in a couple of years we'll start seeing a decent number of animals come back into the Southern Cascades? It might take a while if the fire burned too hot.
