Red Rock Fire grows to 5700 acres. Temperature inversion keeps the smoke under a lid in Jackson Hole-
This fire, which was just resized from 5,729 acres, compared with 2,835 acres a day earlier, is burning in dead pine, aspen, fir and meadows near Goosewing R.S. and the controversial Wyoming Game and Fish Alkali elk winter feedground. This is in the lower slopes of the Gros Ventre well upstream from Jackson Hole, but the smoke has drifted downcanyon into the big, scenic valley.
Fire grows to 5,729 acres. By Cory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily.
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 and the creator of The Wildlife News.
This is great timing for the arrival of all of the big movers and shakers of the financial world that are descending on Jackson Hole….as the economic world is in flames, as is the real world, fed by the ravages of climate change, etc, etc. Editorial writers should have an allegorical field day.
Don’t know where else to post this:
“9th Circuit won’t halt wolf hunting in Idaho, Montana”….
http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/9th-circuit-wont-halt-wolf-hunting-in-idaho-montana/
The fire has really calmed down the last few days. The valley has been clear.