Idaho Fires: Fire Near Tamarack Grows, Crews Get Handle on Fire Near Ketchum. By Courtney Lowery. New West.
Tamarack is a relatively new, posh, ski area and real estate development west of Cascade and McCall, Idaho.
Note: the huge East Fork and Cascade fire complexes are east of Cascade and McCall.
More on Idaho fires . . . as expected Labor Day was a bad on in much of the East Fork fire Complex. Here are the details from inciweb.
Part of the East Fork complex burning near Warren, ID
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Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
a friend jumped grays creek. apparently it started in the brush moved 13 miles in a very short time ~ now it’s in the timber. people were parked up on Mesa hill looking down at the whole fire still moving northeast ~ straight for tamarack.
Just about 21,000 acres as of 08:00 this A.M. Goin crazy again today.
Layton