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DAA said:
I sure hope so. It won't be in my lifetime, but, hopefully, it comes back.

I remember the Soda fire. It stopped a bit short of my stomping grounds. But... There were other fires south of there. Two years in a row. Total contiguous area burned, about 1.3 million acres. It was the most pristine sage habitat I've ever experienced. There was scant reseeding effort, which has yielded some native grasses in a few very small areas. But no sage has come back. I'm not exaggerating, what was over a million acres of pristine sage habitat a dozen years ago, is a million acres of nothing but cheat grass now. That is NEVER coming back. Ever. They have no method of reclaiming large tracts from the takeover of cheat grass. Which is the most useless and hated plant I can think of.

Cheat grass seed is very heat tolerant. It comes back on it's own after fire rapidly. Sage seed is not very heat tolerant. It needs time to come back. But when the cheat grass has already taken over, the sage has no chance. And, just for bonus points, cheat grass is bone dry every summer and burns at the drop of a hat. Keeping the cycle of burn/cheat grass self perpetuating. I hate that stuff...

- DAA
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Feeling your pain Dave. The Big Grass fire out here has burned almost 400,000 acres and is only 39% contained.
This is in an area that we spend a good bit of time in :cry: The fire was started by a lighting strike, but on cue it took BLM nearly a week before they started any serious fire fighting. Hundreds of buildings lost, including homes, cattle displaced and dead.
Fortunately, no deaths at this point.
Who knows what the impact on wildlife will be, but some of the biggest Elk in Idaho call this area home. I'll be Antelope hunting out here in the fall, hopefully.

Here is a snapshot from onX:
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Last update has Big Grass Fire ar 442,000 acres and 39%(update 41%) containment:(
onX snapshot:
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Campsite is bottom yellow waypoint, it looks to be on fire🤬
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If the maps are accurate this and a whole bunch more is gone. It's really dry country to begin with, but 100 degree temps with single digit humidity have been murderous. No rain in sight:cry:
 
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