Rim Fire a feature of California landscape
Anyone making the flights up
and down California this morning could not fail to be impressed and awed
by the monster smoke cloud being sent up over the Sierra from the Rim
Fire. Bill Mabie shot this out the window on his flight from Burbank to
Sacramento.
Of course, on the ground it's a scary situation. The fire is threatening more than 4,000 structures west of Yosemite and near Camp Mather. Firefighters are getting some control on the western side of the fire, but the eastern edge burning into Yosemite National Park is in wilder terrain and essentially out of control. For Yosemite the immediate task is to protect the giant sequoia trees in the hike-in Merced and Tuolumne groves. They are not currently threatened, the National Park Service says, but crews are working to safeguard the big trees.
Yosemite today did close more High Sierra areas and banned cooking fires in the wilderness:
Of course, on the ground it's a scary situation. The fire is threatening more than 4,000 structures west of Yosemite and near Camp Mather. Firefighters are getting some control on the western side of the fire, but the eastern edge burning into Yosemite National Park is in wilder terrain and essentially out of control. For Yosemite the immediate task is to protect the giant sequoia trees in the hike-in Merced and Tuolumne groves. They are not currently threatened, the National Park Service says, but crews are working to safeguard the big trees.
Yosemite today did close more High Sierra areas and banned cooking fires in the wilderness:
Wilderness trail closures: The area west of the May Lake Road and May Lake Trail continuing to the junction with the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) at Glen Aulin and then north along the PCT to Bond Pass is closed. The park's boundary serves as the closure's northern and western edge extending south to Crane Flat Campground. The closure boundary continues east along the Tioga Road (Highway 120 through the park) to the May Lake Road. The Tioga Road and the trails serving as the eastern boundary of the closed area (including the PCT) remain open. May Lake High Sierra Camp, Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, and Porcupine Flat Campground are open.Also: Here was the satellite view posted by NASA Earth Observatory from last week.
Fire restrictions: No smoking and no building, maintaining, or using a fire, campfire or cooking fire (including charcoal fires) within the Yosemite Wilderness and potential wilderness additions. Portable stoves using gas or pressuring liquid fuel are allowed. Alcohol and Sierra stoves are not allowed. Campfires may still be used in designated campsites at designated campgrounds in non-wilderness areas within the park.
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Recent Sierra stories on LA Observed:
Mule Days: Owens Valleyend quote from:
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/08/rim_fire_a_feature_of_cal.php
The cost to fight the Rim Fire has surged to nearly $40 million. Its cause is currently under investigation.
The plume of carbon monoxide pollution from the Rim Fire is visible Monday.
The Los Angeles Times reported firefighters taking advantage of an unmanned drone to give them real-time alerts to spot fires over the course of a 20-hour mission throughout Wednesday. The drone was equipped with infrared heat sensors and a swiveling camera operated by a pilot.
[READ: Rim Fire Threatens Water Supply]
The Rim Fire is now the sixth largest wildfire in California history. The largest, a 2003 San Diego blaze, burned more than 270,000 acres and resulted in 14 deaths.
The cost to fight the Rim Fire has surged to nearly $40 million. Its cause is currently under investigation.
The plume of carbon monoxide pollution from the Rim Fire is visible Monday.
end quote from:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/08/29/yosemite-wildfire-containment-is-in-sight-despite-growth
At first I couldn't figure out what this carbon monoxide map was for until I looked up at California and saw the carbon monoxide plume of the Rim Fire extending up into Canada.
Also, I noticed the Carbon monoxide plume traveling west from Africa and another one traveling north from China and Asia. Since even the green is evidence of some carbon monoxide you can see wherever there is civilization on earth there is some of it possibly with the exception of Australia and New Zealand. But in Australia and New Zealand because of the ozone hole wearing a hat and a long sleeve shirt is necessary to prevent skin cancer for the last 20 or 30 years now.
So, where it is red, yellow, or green Global Warming and Global Climate change are likely to be the worst, even though any of it affects all of us in the overall scheme of things ongoing.
note: Also, the red between South America and Africa could be coming from the burning down of the rain forests of Brazil to farm and develop the land there. However, usually when you cut down the rainforest all you get is a desert within 20 to 50 years. So, burning down rainforests is actually ecologically counterproductive in the long run of the ongoing survival of the human race here on Earth.
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