Friday, May 11, 2007

Some context

I found this great webpage called BWCAwiki.org that is a "wiki" or publicly editable database for just BWCA topics (vs Wikipedia that has everything) Anyway, they have a chronology of fires up there, and I found the ones that I was most familiar with. I think it provides a good perspective:

1995 sag fire = 20 sq miles

2003 South Seagull fire (prescribed) =6.25 miles

2005 Alpine fire = 2 sq miles

2006 Cavity Lake fire = 50 sq miles

2007 Ham Lake fire = 82 sq miles and growing

Thats a total of about 165 square miles, 140 of those in the past 5 years.

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