Here is still another Idaho fire, apparently so new it isn’t on Inciweb yet. It’s the Red Bluff Fire.
Lynne Stone of Stanley, Idaho took these photos of its plume yesterday from highway 21, north of Stanley.
Photos copyright © Lynne Stone.
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Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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I believe this is actually part of the Cascade Complex as it hit the Middle Fork of the Salmon yesterday. It has burned from Clear Creek on the North Fork of the Salmon all of the way to where Elkhorn Creek enters the Middle Fork. Elkhorn enters just downstream from Sulfur Creek and upstream from Pistol Creek.
Dear Buffaloed – you may well be right … I called the Middle Fork Ranger District to try and obtain more information as Inciweb doesn’t have any new info on the Red Bluff fire at this time. The plume photos may well be from the Cascade Complex.
When I was watching the plume from Cape Horn with compass and map, it did seem that the Red Bluff fire was more to the north. Regardless, the plume was impressive in a summer of impressive plumes. Will let you know what I hear. I did hear in Stanley that there was a “fire just over the ridge”… fortunately for us near Stanley, the fire was apparently part of the Cascade Complex – that’s how deceptive smoke can be.
Wow, the west side of the Frank has really burned.
I wonder what per cent of the Boise and Payette National Forests has burned in the last ten years?