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Blog 6


Thursday- July 11

Today we woke up at the fire station and I had the best night sleep I had in a while. Alex and I packed up all our bags and everyone loaded up the van to head out. Before we headed out we met in the fire station with Brad Donahue and he talked about the warm spring Indian reservation. They hire over 200 people during the peak season of firefighting, prescribed fires are another topic we covered. Prescribed fires are big projects here at warm springs and we are going to take a tour to see what the necessary steps are to prescribe a fire. Brad goes on to say they manage over 664,000 acres of land on the reservation, they have a twenty person hot shot crew and they travel to Alaska to fight fires in the summer for a couple months at a time. We discussed about some of the things that can affect the fire season and wind was a big topic. The other topics were climate change, it can affect fuels, temperature, weather, and time of year can all affect the fire season. When we finished with the briefing about the Warm Springs fire brigade Brad showed us what a prescribed fire looked like, He showed us the logging that was going on in warm springs and how most of the economy in the town comes from logging and the fire station. Later in the day we headed for Bend Oregon.

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