At 09:58 AM 4/24/00 -0800, Seng, Dave wrote: > > I'm sure Chuck Holst or Dana or some of the other Minnesota paddlers can >give you more details, but I seem to recall that the Boundary Waters area >got nailed with a BAD storm last year that blew down hundreds of square >miles of trees. I don't know how this has affected portage trails etc or >what impacts the dead blowdowns will have as "fire-season" approaches. I'm not a Minnesotan, but have been kept a little up to date due to trail issues that I'm concerned with. The portage trails have been cleared out, and clearing is planned on hiking trails in the area. There is considerable concern about future fire danger, and some areas may see closures in the next few years, as the fuel index is intense and will get worse as time passes and this stuff dries out. (I have this unhappy vision of a cluster of canoes gathered in the middle of a none too large lake, watching the fire on every side. However, much of the BWCAW escaped serious damage. The worst damaged part is the southern part, between roughtly Snowbank Lake and the Gunflint Trail. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 24 2000 - 12:19:10 PDT
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