We talk about the Desert Cone fire, it as referred to at that time as the Silver Forest.
Yeah, the Jack pine. They’re just a mass of needles anyway (5). When they stood there dead, and that heat would hit’em, they would practically explode like kerosene. No stop to it when the wind would carry the crown fire.
Was there any pine beetle work being done at that time?
Not that I remember. They may not have even known what pine beetle were in those days.
We’re in that cycle, about sixty years, where we’re seeing it again.
Yeah, they have a lot of insects now that they never knew of at that time. Too.
Did both of you go out on fires?
I was driving trucks at the time. They had me hauling water to firefighters. (AH)
On that same fire that Otto was on?
Yeah, that one. I don’t know if I should mention any names or not. The guys in charge were down there checking on the fire and rode horses around there. They took one of the horses to ride around and look at the fire, and the meadow was all water. It made them very unhappy. (AH)
Did the Forest Service help with some of the fires in the park or did you go out on forest fires?
I wouldn’t know about that for sure, but I doubt it. (OH)
