Drought in Alaska

[Rainer]

Damn those fire's seem brutal. Are the fires in any areas that could help habitat issues for thinhorns?

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Damn those fire's seem brutal. Are the fires in any areas that could help habitat issues for thinhorns?

Typically the fires are below the elevation used by Dall sheep.
Good for moose winter habitat (willow/aspen), bad for caribou winter habitat (lichen)

Might be a record wildfire season with over 2.5 million acres burned already.

 

[longrunner]

My son's fire unit was called up and sent up there. Someplace in central AK.

My son is up there too.

 

[Bluffgruff]

I heard that it is starting to rain mid-state.

 

[ThunderNocked]

yup, we've had some rain the last week. Not as much as they said but we are getting some rain. Really helped kill the smoke.

 

[sapperJ24]

based out of Delta Junction at the moment, been raining on and off for the last week. Started with a good shot of a couple inches, and sporadic after that. No growth on the fires over here, minimal smoke for now.

 

[BearFoot]

A lot of this,

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Hopefully no more smoke...I like "August weather"

 

[AlaskaHunter]

Drought has ended. August is typically a rainy month.
We have 2 summers: hot and dry, then cool and wet.
"Wet" is relative...we get 12 inches total for the entire year, so a half an inch is a lot of rain for a day.
Ironically the mosquitoes are worse during the hot/dry phase of June-July.

 

[ThunderNocked]

I wish it would have waited a week or two... normally the boys first two football games are hot - not this year!