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That is a neat little spotThere is a campground off 169 just west of FR96 on FR372. It does join in to FR96 just past the campground. The camping is free with bathrooms.
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Maybe @Pitch can give us some feedback on how long a 5 lb propane bottle will run a fire ring? Thanks.
A newer, fast-growing fire in the area we traveled through. It is the lightning-caused Rafael fire, currently at 18k acres, having started one June 18th. I was a few miles away yesterday, and the smoke plume got huge in the late afternoon.
It’s important to remember that our forests—especially the ponderosa forests, are catching up from more than a century of fire deficit, and that these lightning fires, if they can be managed at not too high severities over large areas, can really improve fire resilience and management going forward.
To that end, this map (as of 26 June) shows how Rafael was basically stopped as it encountered the complex of past fire perimeters in the East Pocket and Upper West Fork zones (in which I know many of us have camped).
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This is the part of Coconino National Forest I explored the most when I bought my first Land Cruiser back in mid seventies. Back then only remember a area called Rattlesnake burn. Most this other are all newer. Believe it was 1988 when the forestry department realized not ever fire was a bad fire. Just too bad a huge chunk of Yellowstone national park burned that year and they realized more need to be done than just turn it over to mother nature. While the Tender fire in the Blue Ridge area burned quite a few buildings there has been a small upside. Game and Fish relocated big horn sheep from a area where mining trucks were taking a toll on them to our area. The burned area has turned out to be a great habitat for them and they are now thriving. Now if we could just get the forest service and lodging industry to come to an agreement on how the area should be logged would help both parties. Fry Park which is just east of FS Rd 231 is the last place I remember logging going on. Had to be careful those logging truck would run fifty MPH down the forest roads. Also got turned around a few times where when the new road the loggers create took off a FS Rd made original road look like a small trail off the main one. I have a lot of fond memories of that area. 2019 instead going on the Casner Mountian run I went back and explored east of 231. Would like to explore west of 231 just a long round about way to get there from the Blue Ridge area.