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To: ManyMoose who wrote (183271)	9/2/2009 4:32:02 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 225578

The AQMD (Air Quality Municipal District) is always at odds with the Forest Service and Fire Department. A local congressman is going after them and blaming their policies for all the damage we get here year after year. You only hear about it on talk radio.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (183271)	9/2/2009 4:35:01 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 225578

Stupid law passed by people in Olympia who have NO IDEA ... I lived in the lower Yakima Valley some years back. Tumbleweed is also called greaseweed for a reason. Best control was to corral it in irrigation ditches in spring and burn it. Dual purpose, get rid of the greasesweed and burn grass for better ditch flow later. Otherwise it piles against fences or buildings and becomes a humongous fire hazard. Geniuses wanted to prohibit any burning.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (183271)	9/2/2009 5:31:09 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 225578

burning the trash pile was a regular thing. I had a friend in TN who loved to come down for a bonfire... all the gathered trimmed limbs, etc. and I cleared a trench around it, and if conditions really called for it, wetted down an area around it. then wooooooosh. enjoy the bonfire. of course, we do screw up. the fire that burned our barn was because my father was burning out the last years veggie garden and it got away from him... no big deal, except it got down into the woods where were the deep stores of leaves and such to harbor hot spots. here in The City, they pick up stuff we trim out, but in the town with no name? what happens to all the limbs trimmed out of the orchard during pruming time? what happens to the fallen trees we've cut up and drug off the trails? it ain't like we're burning our kitchen trash.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (183271)	9/2/2009 5:46:38 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 225578

the big fire was my fault, of course. the crews had come out that day when the fire got away from us, and they had worked hard, and I'd run all the trails over and over on the tractor (with front loader and back thingie). we thought we had all the hot spots. but I should have stayed awake that night and kept watch. instead I was woke up, thankfully, at 4am by a neighbor calling after a neighbor on his way to work woke her with a call to say he saw flames rising from our place. can't never rest easy about hot spots.