For our Sunday drive this week we drove up Warm Springs Creek then headed west at the Crazy Creek Campground. Don't think I have ever been on those roads before. We usually go east up by Sheeps Head Creek area. Not very many wildflowers anymore as they have pretty well ended their run. We did see a lot of Fire weed up where recent fires have burned and there is still a lot of paint brush around.
But we sure did see a lot burned forest as a number of years of forest fires in the area has really taken it's toll. It just amazes me how much forest has burned in the last 20 years. The fires at the start of this century were some of the worst. And we saw no wildlife!
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| Lots of Fireweed growing in the old burns. Haven't seen this much fire weed since we left Alaska. |
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| Standing dead trees, burned logs, and lots of fireweed. |
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| Elderberry bush. I honestly did not know this bush or I may have never seen it before. |
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| Lots of rust on this bush. |
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| Looking east over to "Sheep Camp" where we have packed in quite a bit. |
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| Looking down Warms Spring Creek to the East Fork. |
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| Indian Paint Brush. |
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| You can see the haze in the air as we have a number of lightning caused fires burning in the Bitterroot. |
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| And the visibility gets worse as the day goes on. |
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| More Indian Paintbrush. |
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| We named this snag "crooked tree". |
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| The road got pretty narrow in places. |
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| Another old snag. |
