Visible from near Selah. the Eastern Ridge trail is right on the burn line for the first 1/2 mile. Above that the burn is pretty much complete to the low point and throughout the saddle. Some very nice sage was taken out in the latter vicinity. The part that rises more steeply to Gracie Point escaped the fire. A personal guess - not worth much for two or three years when flowers should return. The other big loss is Thyme leaved buckwheat which is a woody plant and probably quite old. The displays of that plant were among the very best near the saddle.
I drove through there yesterday but didn’t see the burn. (Granted I wasn’t looking for it.) Though I did see that along I-90 between where it leaves the Kittitas Valley and Vantage was burned pretty good.
I drove through there yesterday but didn’t see the burn. (Granted I wasn’t looking for it.) Though I did see that along I-90 between where it leaves the Kittitas Valley and Vantage was burned pretty good.
Would that include Whiskey Dick?
Mostly South of I-90 with some on North side.
I have been making the drive about 2 times a week between Spokane and Yakima lately and I believe that fire was from a few months ago
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I don’t remember this fire. I do recall one S of I-90 at the river crossing, but not this one. Or if I did know about it, I have already forgotten. (but I do remember the license plate number of a pink Rambler that hit a motorcyclist in front of our house decades ago, when I was a tot)
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