posted 06-21-2002 05:48 PM               

Chemtrails And Old Glory Over Eastern Washington http://www.rense.com/general26/glory.htm

Rodeo Fire Burns Through Pinedale; 60,000 Acres on Fire http://www.12news.com/headline/RodeoFire062002.html
Repost: Larry, Phoenix has received less than .20 inch of rain this year. I'll send you a detailed list of AZ News services for Broadcast Report so everyone can see it and here it from local news services from Phoenix

Thousands flee 'monster' Arizona fire
Forest service worker pleads not guilty in Colorado case --MSNBC http://msnbc.com/news/763669.asp?0dm=C11QN

Ariz. Wildfire Grows to 85,000 Acres
"This is a monster,"said Jim Paxon, a U.S. Forest Service fire information officer. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=716&e=3&cid=514&u=/ap/20020621/ap_on_re_us/wildfires_192

AZ: A Glimpse of Hell Over the Horizon http://www.sierratimes.com/02/06/21/araz062102.htm
As I send this out, Show Low, Heber and Overgaard, Arizona - to the north of me, and not that far away, are burning out of control. Flames are leaping through the giant Ponderosa pines, destroying everything. Thousands of wild animals are being killed, injured and being displaced. Thousands of people are evacuating, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of homes are being destroyed. My family is preparing in case we need to evacuate from Payson.

Federal Government Declines Private Assistance Again http://www.sierratimes.com/02/06/21/arrs062102.htm
DENVER CO -- 1:00 pm) Thursday, June 13, was not an ordinary day for Ron Largent. The Hayman blaze, on its way to becoming the largest wildfire in the history of Colorado, was burning out of control at Lake George, just 25 miles north of Ron's home in Cripple Creek. The U.S. Forest Service hadn't been able to contain it. Today Ron was going to fight the fire. Ron Largent is the Operations Manager for Anglo Gold Mining in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Concerned about the fire's progress, his company had volunteered men and equipment to help cut a firebreak. The Pueblo office of the US Forest Service had indicated it could use three pieces of earthmoving machinery: two Caterpillar D10 bulldozers, and one D8. The 600-horsepower D10 has an 18' blade and is almost seven feet tall. It can uproot large trees without even breathing hard.

posted 06-22-2002 01:19 AM            

This situation is heartbreaking.

posted 06-23-2002 10:47 AM            

Thank you for the photos of the Ebbets Pass region of the Sierras. This is extremely valuable documentation.

Do you happen to have any **previous** photos of the same area for this time of the year - or could you locate some? It would be great to see one or more of them for baseline comparison purposes.

Here are a few things I pulled up very quickly in regard to snowpack in this region. Interesting sequence here. Sorry for taking up so much space with text input but I think it's best these days to to include full-text input with the corresponding links:
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4 January 2002
USA Today

Large Sierra snowpack alleviates fear of drought

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-- Plentiful snow on the Sierra Nevada mountains this winter could mean extra water for California's hydroelectric plants, which supply about a quarter of the state's electricity.

Snowpack was half of normal last January, and the winter stayed dry, aggravating California's electricity crisis.

This year the snowpack is 139% of normal so far -- the equivalent of 61% of an entire average winter, according to the Department of Water Resources' first snow survey of the year, which was released Thursday.

The mountain range's snowpack also provides two-thirds of California's water for cities, farms and recreational uses.

"If we were to have just average rain and snow the rest of the year, we'd be in good shape," said Jeff Cohen, department spokesman. "There's a lot of cushion there."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2002/2002-01-04-sierra-snowpack.htm
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26 February 2002
San Jose Mercury News - Weather Corner

Excerpt:

Q. Even though we've had a bit of rain the past few days, we are quite far behind our average for the year and finished last year substantially behind average, too. Am I the only one who thinks we are having a drought? Should I be concerned? Jean Myer - Mountain View

A. Indeed, the San Jose area continues to lag behind normal rainfall through the end of February with only about 82 percent of normal. But most of the remainder of Northern and North Central California cities are at or above normal. And more importantly, the Sierra Nevada and mountains of Northern California had abundant early season rain and snow. The accumulated rainfall in the northern mountains is currently at 111% of normal, the Sierra snowpack is at 94% of normal and the six largest reservoirs at right at 100% of normal. The bottom line is that even with minimal rainfall for the rest of the season most of the state should be in pretty good shape.
http://ggweather.com/archive/weacornerfeb26.htm
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4 June 2002
The Sacramento Bee

Sierra Will Be Hit Hard by Warming, Study Says

In one of the most comprehensive studies to date on the effects of global warming in California, scientists predict that within this century, average temperatures will rise everywhere, especially in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges, and winter snowpack in the Sierra will diminish by as much as 82 percent.

The study by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was released Monday, coinciding by chance with news that the Bush administration, for the first time, is calling global warming a reality caused mainly by human activity.

The change in Bush's stance was revealed in a report to the United Nations that details specific effects expected on the environment in the United States.

The report on California is scheduled to be published online Friday by the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The paper's predictions, if not dire, do envision significant changes in local weather patterns, said Lisa Sloan, a UC Santa Cruz geologist and climate modeler who led the three-year study.

"We're not trying to say, 'The sky is falling, and everybody pay attention!' " Sloan said. "But I think we will see effects on agriculture, on power demand, certainly on ecosystem health and perhaps on human health as well," she said.

The scientists' forecast is based upon computer modeling and looks at the effects of doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that was present during preindustrial times.

Carbon dioxide is the most abundant of several "greenhouse" gases that trap heat near the Earth's surface, preventing it from radiating out to space.

The preindustrial level of carbon dioxide was about 280 parts per million. Today's level is about 370 ppm. The model's scenario is based on a level of 560 ppm, which an intergovernmental panel of scientific experts projects could be reached by 2050 and almost certainly by the end of the century.

The model predicts that the hardest-hit areas will be the high elevations.

For example, the greatest increases in average temperature are forecast in May in the Sierra and Cascades, with an increase of as much as 16.5 degrees Fahrenheit, compared with preindustrial times.

By contrast, the northern coastal regions would see little to no change in temperature for the same period.

Summer also would come earlier to the mountains, the model shows. By the end of February, snowpack would be 82 percent less than in the old days; by the end of April, it would be almost completely gone. Nowadays snowpack lingers well into June.

In the Sacramento basin, Sloan said, the average annual temperature would be up by more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit -- and up by 7.2 degrees in June.

By itself, it may not sound like a big change, but it's important to note that these are average temperatures, said Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was not involved in the study.

"I think all this (climate change) is going to be superimposed on the normal kind of variability we see in the real world, and it's going to be some of those extremes that really count," Cayan said.

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Moreover, losing mountain snowpack in the middle of the valleys' rainy season could have major implications for flood control and storage of water for summer use, Cayan said.
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"We're losing what you might think of as the most manageable part of our natural water supply," he said. "Snowmelt runoff, in the present day, runs off after the storm season is over. Our reservoirs in the state are dual purpose, (providing) flood protection as well as storage, and if that runoff is coming earlier during the period when you can still get big storms, then you can't store it."

Sloan, who has been studying climate modeling for 20 years, paid for the California study out of a $625,000 David and Lucile Packard Foundation fellowship.

She decided to look at California in particular because as a resident, she realized "how dependent we are on water and changes in water. Our vulnerability is high," she said.

Sloan said that if -- as the Bush administration is saying -- full-blown global warming is inevitable, then more such studies of regional effects are needed. But what she'd really like to see are actions by society to try to minimize climate change -- actions such as curbing energy use, especially in the United States, which is the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases.

The president's plan to simply try to adapt to the changes, she said, is inadequate.

"I think it's a selfish and stupid response, to be perfectly blunt," Sloan said. "I think it's good that they acknowledge global warming, but I think the attitude is not very responsible."
http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=651
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Forest Service: Department of Agriculture
Central Sierra Avalanche Information

posted 06-23-2002 12:10 PM            

.....We all really need to pay close attention to what is going on. Things are moving along very, very fast in several different, but I think, related areas.....
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I couldn't agree more.

Pay attention. Document. Corroborate information with people in your region.

posted 06-23-2002 12:47 PM               

Up here in the Cascade range east of Seattle, most snow under 7000' has melted off by the end of July.

I'm not sure for June in the Sierra's or the Cascades. I'm sure there are official stat's available on the Internet.

posted 06-24-2002 09:18 AM            

Record Kansas Drought
Devastates Wheat Crop
"Even the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s logged more rain than this year."
"As far as we are concerned, there is no harvest."
By Roxana Hegeman
6-23-2

ELKHART, Kan. (AP) - Warren Bowker's combine kicks up a cloud of dust as he runs it nearly full speed across his thin stands of winter wheat. The machine almost touches the parched ground as it tries to cut stunted wheat that grew only a few inches tall.Bowker's brother, Shaun, waves him in. Moments later they stare glumly at the combine's flat tire. Shaun Bowker uses his cell phone to call a repair shop, which says someone will be out soon. After all, there isn't much business these days.

It's been nearly a year since much of western Kansas has gotten substantial rain of even up to an inch, and the southwest corner has been hardest hit.

The drought has devastated the wheat crop now being harvested and spurred widespread selling off of cattle herds, as farmers become increasingly desperate to find enough feed and water to carry them through the summer grazing season.

Rural farm economies are hurting and even the wildlife is struggling to survive. The Bowker brothers are thankful to have anything left at all to harvest.

"You feel good, but you feel bad you are one of the few cutting," Shaun Bowker says. "Everybody around is burned off."

Poor crops are the least of their worries in this drought. Before the end of the month, the Bowkers will round up their cattle out of the Cimarron National Grassland and ship them off for sale, liquidating in one day what took them 10 years to build.

"We are going to dump the whole thing. We aren't going to fight it," Warren Bowker says.

Last week, forestry officials ordered all 100 farmers with permits to graze government lands to remove their grazing cattle from the drought-stressed grass. Usually 5,000 cattle feed off the national grassland; 3,200 are on it now, and all must leave before the end of June.

"The grass and vegetation is so stressed so severely that to graze it will be detrimental," says Cimarron National Grassland district manager Joe Hartman. "If we don't take care of those plants, they could be adversely hurt."

Weather records dating back to 1913 show that never has there been less precipitation here than now. Even the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s logged more rain than this year, says Morton County Extension agent Tim Jones.

The big, black dust clouds of that era haven't repeated because much of the land has been put into the Conservation Reserve Program, a government program that pays farmers not to plant their cropland. But at times, big drifts of dirt blow across state highways so thickly that for a moment it seems like dusk. The drifting soil piles up along fence rows.

Activity at the Elkhart Co-op grain elevator - or lack of it - illustrates the troubles.

Manager Larry Dunn says his seven elevators usually take in 3.2 million bushels of wheat during harvest. This year they hope to collect 500,000 to 600,000 bushels. He figures 70 percent of the planted acres were abandoned long before harvest began.

"It is a downward spiraling effect," Dunn says. "It is to the point it can get easily depressing for employees who have to hear it all the time."

Roughly 2,800 Kansas farmers have filed insurance claims for this year's crop, collecting $24 million so far even as losses mount with the start of the harvest, according to figures compiled by the federal Department of Agriculture's risk management agency.

Those figures only reflect claims paid, and the agency has a backlog. They don't include damage from a recent weekend hail storm that caused an estimated $6 million in damages to wheat crops.

This year's wheat crop in Kansas is insured for $645 million, and the money paid out so far is mostly for abandoned acres, says Rebecca Davis, the agency's director of the Topeka regional office.

In Washington, drought aid proposals are expected to be discussed when lawmakers later this summer begin writing food and farm spending bills for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

"We are all trying to stay optimistic, but it is kind of bleak," says Pam Pate of Ben Pate Agency in Elkhart, noting that about 75 percent of the farmers who bought insurance from the agency have already filed claims for abandoned acres.

"It will turn around and get good again," she says. "We are hoping prices will come back up. It will rain, or snow, again. We are tough out here. We survive."

Elkhart has been through droughts before. Businesses come and go, but it will be mainly farmers who are forced to quit.

"A lot of our customers have no wheat left to cut," says Tim Predmore, service manager at a John Deere farm equipment dealership. "As far as we are concerned, there is no harvest."

posted 06-26-2002 10:32 AM               

Arizona CHEMTRAIL PHOTOS!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLNews/message/2131
Repost: Having moved to Arizona 6/07/02, they say it has not rained here in more than a year, but they do not look up. We live at Lake Montezuma, not far from the fire, (14 miles from Cottonwood). Since we arrived here we have seen this every day, or every other day. In picture # 7, I have circled the jet as it is still laying down the trails.

In ADDITION to the stupid policies of environmentalists and the Forest FEDs, these CHEMTRAILS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE FIRES. This is a DELIBERATE PLAN to route people from their homes to give this country up to the globalist banksters. We've stuck to our guns and totally proven our case against twisted sister debunkster Trickydeb from Plainfield. Yet one more LIAR bound for HELL if you're reading this wench! Hope YOU like fire!

As for anybody else reading, you must understand that these fires are anything BUT 'natural' disasters.

Here's what TrickyDeb NEVER addressed:

* THE TRUTH ON THE CHEMTRAIL CONTRAILS: ARE MILITARY SECRET WARFARE PROGAMS:!!! *
Subject: [Chemtrail_Illness_Research] MIlitary Behind Four Different Chemtrail Programs
Chemtrail_Illness_Research@yahoogroups.com http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/articles/chemtrails3.htm

posted 06-26-2002 01:48 PM            

(Nice show but no substance.Where are the tankers the U.S public bought and payed for? spraying us and not the fires!!)Fox in the hen house.
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HOLBROOK, Ariz., June 25 — Slowly, words and images are coming back from the fire's vengeance. Through video taken by work crews and property assessments by county officials, a more complete picture of the devastation is emerging. Some of it is staggering.

Thousands of people evacuated from the region have not yet been allowed to return to their homes, and today, many of them sat clustered around television sets at shelters and high school gymnasiums, riveted by the scenes of utter destruction.

Inside the 375,000 acres burned by the Rodeo-Chediski fire, the largest in Arizona history and growing still, video showed obliterated houses, scorched vehicles and naked sticks that once were trees. But even with the new trickle of information, no one knew for sure what may — or may not — await them back home.

"The uncertainty drives you nuts," said Charmaine McGlory, who lives with her husband in Overgaard. "We're just a little dot on the map. Our house may be there or may not. But I'd rather know so I can prepare now what to do."

President Bush surveyed the fires by air today, then greeted evacuees at a shelter in Eagar, Ariz., promising federal aid through a declaration of Apache and Navaho Counties as disaster areas. Mr. Bush called the fires "a devastating disaster," and told the audience, "Whatever we can do to help we'd really like to do."

"I want you to know that a lot of people in our country are pulling for you," he said. "They understand the suffering that families are going through because of worry about your most precious possession, your home. They understand that a lot of you are living in tents when you'd rather be in your own bed. They cry for you, and they hurt for you."

As Mr. Bush waved to people and shook hands, firefighters faced new challenges in efforts to get even the first percent of the blaze under control. After fire lines held overnight to protect Show Low, the largest population center in the area, fires swept through the small town of Heber, 35 miles to the west, burning down 15 more houses and threatening a major power line west of there.

In addition, fire fighters still had concerns about Show Low, where the command center is situated. Flames were moving toward Highway 60, the main route to town from the southwest, throwing off embers that threatened houses in the area.

"If the fire crosses Highway 60, there's a chance it could turn into a wall of fire headed for Show Low," said Chadeen Palmer, a command spokeswoman who put the odds at 50-50 that it could happen. "We're clearing brush from homes and businesses to make them safe in case the fire does move in."

"We're breathing a little easier today," she added, "but the danger remains."

Dick Fleishman, a firefighter with the Forest Service, worried that the region's topography could funnel the blaze toward the town. "If you get into any of these canyons that have a southeast direction, it could shoot right into the south side of town," Mr. Fleishman said.

Each day, fire officials try to create a numerical profile of the fire, which began a week ago, updating the numbers of firefighters and acres burned. Today's rundown included an estimate that close to 400 houses have been destroyed, and for the first time, residents of three communities in the fire path west of Show Low — Clay Springs, Pinedale and Linden — were given a telephone number to call to learn if their houses are still standing.

The information was developed by county appraisers who have begun returning to areas burned for a close-up assessment. Today, they worked an area farther to the west, the towns of Heber and Overgaard.

Since the evacuations began last week, residents of areas overtaken by the fires have scattered to small safe havens like Holbrook, where they wait to learn what, if anything, remains of their former lives. Inside shelters run by the Red Cross, like one here at the local high school and others in Eagar and Payson, they lie on cots, play games, watch television and chat. They find things to laugh about, and they cry a lot, too, but most of all, they are just waiting.

"You see all sorts of emotion," said Robin Arendt, a Red Cross volunteer from Oskaloosa, Iowa, who spent seven weeks in New York, helping after the terrorist attacks. "When there's a disaster, the emotions always run the gamut."

The Red Cross is accommodating thousands of the evacuees, including members of the Sweazy family from Heber, one of the first areas hit the fire. Four of the Sweazys gained housing at the high school here. The fifth, Charlie Jr., is living in the raggedy pickup truck that brought the family and two dogs down from the mountain. Mr. Sweazy has to stay with the dogs because they are too ornery, he said, to mix with other animals in the temporary kennel. They sleep under the truck.

Until last week, Mr. Sweazy, 30, his parents and his sister's two young girls had lived in the dense woods above Heber in side-by-side trailers since the family moved from Oklahoma three years ago. His father has heart and respiratory problems, and the dry air suited him. They were planning to build a house to replace the trailers when they saved a little money. That was then.

"Not sure now what we're going to do now," Mr. Sweazy said from inside the truck, which was pretty steamy in the afternoon sun. "Probably go back to Oklahoma. We got family there, and I'd rather deal with floods than fire. At least after floods, you got something standing."

"This was the first property we ever had that was bought and paid for," he said. "Ten acres. Lots of trees. Closest neighbor a mile, mile-and-a-half away. So peaceful. But if the trees are gone, no use in staying. I imagine we'll just leave."

Like other evacuees, he seemed more weary than angry. Daniel Marian, a roofing contractor from Overgaard, sat with a few friends in the high school cafeteria and even managed a corny joke. He said after the evacuation order came, he managed to get his 2 horses, 2 dogs, 1 rabbit and 1 cat to safety but not his 40 chickens and 2 quails.

That much was true, he said, getting to the punch line in which he referred to the fire retardant dropped onto houses and trees, "The slurry made a special barbeque sauce for the chicken."

Mrs. McGlory, of Overgaard, said she was not sure what to think. Their A-frame home is all wood and surrounded by old ponderosa pine trees. Yet she has called the house several times and heard the answering machine respond.

"That means there's power," she said, "but I don't have any real hopes for the house."

It could be quite some time before most residents learn the fate of their property. Gilbert Gonzales, human resources director for Navajo County, said the appraisers were only returning to areas where it was safe to walk about. That makes it a painstaking process that could continue for days, if not weeks.

"It's quick, down and dirty," Mr. Gonzales said of the work. "There's still a lot of fire spotting, and we don't want to put people in areas of danger. They can only pick and choose where to go."

That means even the information available from special phone lines is sketchy, and that means more waiting for evacuees whose future seemed at once defined by two ends of the gymnasium here, where cots filled half the floor.

At one end was a chalk board, with the message that said residents of Heber and Overgaard "will not be able to return for at least 8 to 10 days." At the other end was a pair of television sets.

Charlie Sweazy Jr. is living out of his pickup truck after being evacuated from Heber, Ariz., along with his parents, two nieces and two dogs. The dogs sleep under the truck, his parents and nieces in a high school gym

What was once a trailer park in Heber, Ariz., lay in ruins yesterday after the largest wildfire in Arizona history raced through it. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the area.

posted 06-27-2002 02:07 AM               

Wildfire Leaves Little in Ariz.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HEBER-OVERGAARD, Ariz.- A lone white bird soaring through pines. A crow squawking in the distance. An American flag, its stripes unscathed, still flying from the top of a metal pole. They were the few signs of life Wednesday in a neighborhood where there is little left.

Wildfire roared through the mountain community of Heber-Overgaard over the weekend, destroying several dozen homes and forcing thousands to flee. At the Pinecrest Lake RV Resort, where an estimated 168 of 200 RV homes were destroyed, wooden benches still stood near a small lake. But just to the southeast of the lake, one home was burned to its foundation. A washing machine stood charred. Next to it, the freezer door was melted off the refrigerator. An ironing board was propped up nearby, but it was twisted by heat. Chunks of siding lay in piles. A red wheelbarrow was streaked black. A windmill stood with some of its spokes burned out. A picnic table just south of the lake was untouched but dusted with ash.

South of Highway 260, just past the lake, home after home lay flattened. Street signs stood leading the way to block after block of destruction. As far as the eye could see to the south, it was a forest turned graveyard. Stands of blackened pines stood like matchsticks. Some homes survived. Just to the east, about a half dozen homes were unscathed. Two deck chairs sat in front of one.

"I'm really saddened for the people who have lost their places, but 80 to 90 percent of our community is still standing," said Dave Neff, president of the Heber-Overgaard Chamber of Commerce. Neff joined reporters for a tour of the devastated area late Wednesday. "I have to be strong for those people," he said. "We're going to pull through this. There's still a lot left."

Farther east in the Bison Ranch resort community, dozens of log cabin homes were burned to their foundations. Nothing could be distinguished inside except the twisted metal of roofs. Stands of dead trees poked from the blackened earth. A faint stench of smoke hung in the air. Hazy white smoke blanketed the sky.

posted 06-27-2002 10:36 PM               

Apache Pray for Rain; Wildfire Rages

ASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz.- As a flaming orange moon rose in the smoky sky, an Apache medicine man raised his voice in song to pray for rain to save both the Indians' land and their livelihoods.

The colossal, 640-square-mile wildfire that has destroyed hundreds of homes in non-Indian communities in Arizona is also raging across the reservation, inflicting economic disaster on the White Mountain Apache, who rely on the lumber business and tourists who come to gamble and hunt.

Timber is one of the main sources of income for the tribe, half of whose 13,000 members live below the poverty line. But now a huge swath of its forests is blackened or burning and probably will not fully recover for two lifetimes.

More than 70 sawmill and forestry workers are expected to lose their jobs permanently. The charred acres also include prized lands where non-Indian hunters pay $14,500 for the chance to bag an elk. And the tribe's cash cow, its casino, also lies within the evacuation zone and is closed.

More than half of the forest blackened by the biggest wildfire in Arizona history lies on this reservation, which President Bush included in his disaster declaration Tuesday.

The blaze was formed from the convergence of two fires. One was caused by a lost hiker, a non-Indian who lit a signal fire; officials do not know who started the second fire. No homes have been wrecked on tribal land, but Tribal Chairman Dallas Massey said the Apache have lost something just as precious. "To us, the land provides. When part of our land is destroyed, we feel our home is destroyed," Massey said. "It's always been a part of us. This land is where we are going to live and where we are going to die."

By Thursday, the tribe's Hon-Dah Resort Casino had been closed five days and 350 workers were idle. One of its lumber mills is shut down. Estimated losses over the next two months are expected to total nearly $14 million for the local economy.

So far, the fire has destroyed 700 million board feet of lumber with a value of $237 million, tribal officials said. It will probably take a century or more before the damaged commercial timberlands - 157,000 acres as of Thursday - can be harvested again.

Vice Chairman Johnny Endfield Jr. toured charred sections of forest earlier in the week. "Man, my tribal leaders who were with me were really hurt," he said. "I think they were crying inside to see this land that was once a beauty." Endfield said he resents that so much attention has been paid to the people who have lost houses to the fire.

To the tribe, he said, the damaged land represents their living room, kitchen and bedroom. "They experienced a loss of structures, but those structures will go back up," Endfield said. "On our behalf, what we have lost will probably take 150 years to replace." One thing the tribe has going for it, Massey said, is a diversified business base. Sightseers, gamblers and sportsmen come here, and the tribe also makes a living off the land through lumber and cattle sales. "Bad things happen. To me, I look at it in the long run, something good is going to come out of it," he said. "There's always the belief the land will come back and repair itself."

On Wednesday night, nearly 100 members of the tribe gathered at the tribe's holy ground, near tribal ruins outside of Whiteriver, to pray throughout the night for healing. The medicine man, Harris Burnette, beat his water-filled drum and called for an end to the fire.

The chorus of male voices joined in, their song punctuated with an occasional whoop. The patter of feet quickened in the soft earth as the women moved clockwise in their long camp dresses, swaying with crosses as they danced.

Winds died, smoke began to settle along the mountains and the only thing overhead was a sky full of stars. But no rain.

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On the Net: White Mountain Apache tribe http://www.wmat.nsn.us/ --

posted 07-01-2002 03:27 PM               

Arizona Fire Spreads http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56480,00.html
The worst wildfire in Arizona history breaks through a containment line and threatens to devour 600 homes.

Governors, Bush Decry Fire Fiasco http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/6/25/201052.shtml

Burned Out http://www.newsmax.com/columnists/Alden.shtml

Drought, fireworks are scary together (Charlotte Observer) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krcharlotte/20020630/lo/drought_fireworks_are_scary_together_1.html
With the Carolinas suffering from a worsening four-year drought, some area fire officials say they may consider canceling professional July Fourth fireworks shows. Others say they are bracing themselves for a busy holiday where careless residents inadvertently cause brush fires with fireworks.

Record warmth intensified drought, say experts (weather.com) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wcom/20020628/we_wcom/record_warmth_intensified_drought__say_experts
Record temperatures and a lack of precipitation are cited in a drought plaguing the East Coast. Also: See how the drought revealed a shipwreck.

No End to Western Drought in Sight - NOAA (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020627/ts_nm/weather_drought_dc_1
...In its weekly U.S. drought report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said abnormally dry conditions...
Firefighters stay in N.C. as drought worsens (Charlotte Observer)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/krcharlotte/20020626/lo/firefighters_stay_in_n_c_as_drought_worsens_1.html
State forest firefighters are no longer being deployed to help fight blazes out West as severe drought conditions threaten the Carolinas.

Drought Putting Strain On Citrus Growers (KGTV TheSanDiegoChannel.com) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/kgtv/20020625/lo/1238383_1.html
Record-breaking dry conditions are breaking the bank for San Diego citrus growers, according to 10News.

Chemtrails Over SC - Four Planes Flying In Formation http://www.rense.com/general26/formatin.htm
Here are some very good links to known "cause and effect" scenarios

North American Weather Consultants, Inc. http://www.xmission.com/~nawc/index.html
The World's Longest-Standing Private Cloud Seeding/ Weather Modification Company

S. California devastated by low rainfall
Region gets less than third of normal precipitation --Associated Press http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-socal-drought0630jun30.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
US and Mexico cut deal on overdue water debt
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=29161
US and Mexican officials signed a water deal Saturday that includes the release of 90,000 acre-feet of water from the Falcon Reservoir, providing short-term relief to drought-stricken farmers in the Rio Grande Valley.

U.S., Mexico Reach Deal on Water http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-water-debt0629jun29.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

Sold down the river…Texas farmers furious over water deal with Mexico http://www.valleystar.com/files/n206301.htm
South Texas farmers and lawmakers reacted angrily to a water deal signed Saturday by U.S. and Mexican officials that will send an immediate 90,000 acre-feet of water down the Rio Grande.

Len Horowitz - Wildfires Likely Linked To Energy Industry Plot http://www.rense.com/general12/inds.htm

The Truth about Logging and Wildfires: Exposing the Bush Administration's "Thinning" Plan http://www.wildrockies.org/wildfire/

Wildfires Likely Linked to Energy Industry Plot Reports Esteemed Health Scientist:
Incriminating Photos Evidence Need for Official Investigations http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/NR010820.html

BLM plans to allow some wildfires in Nevada to burn http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1997/Sep-01-Mon-1997/news/5982855.html

Using Wildfires for Political Gain is Shameful http://www.wildrockiesalliance.org/issues/wildfire/koehler.html

KEMPTHORNE TESTIFIES BEFORE SENATE HEARING ON WILDFIRES http://www2.state.id.us/gov/pr/2000/Sept/Pr0923.html

TESTIMONY OF GOV. DIRK KEMPTHORNE http://www2.state.id.us/gov/mediacenter/speech/sp00/FireTestimony.htm

posted 07-02-2002 03:54 PM               

Bureau warns of El Nino drought danger http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/02/1023864730053.html
(I warn of CHEMTRAIL INDUCED DROUGHT DANGER...)

The West's Big Fires, Little Water http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5905

posted 07-10-2002 09:03 PM               

Wednesday, July 10, 2002; 2:54 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. –– Record temperatures are searing parts of the West, with triple-digit readings in California, and meteorologists say there's more sweating to come.

The heat has boosted the fire danger and prompted state officials on Wednesday to warn that a Stage 2 power alert was likely. A Stage 2 alert would call on large industrial and commercial users to cut their consumption to keep millions of air conditioners humming.

Residents of more than a dozen cities endured record highs on Tuesday, including 112 at Lancaster; 109 at Sacramento; 106 at Medford, Ore., 103 at Grand Junction, Colo., 102 at Reno, Nev.; and 84 at Quillayute, Wash. Non-record readings included 114 at Needles.

The heat is likely to continue through Friday.

"Looks like Wednesday's going to be the hottest day in this heat wave," said National Weather Service meteorologist Ken Newman in Monterey. "Another scorcher."

Wednesday's forecast high for Reno, elevation 4,500 feet, was 107, which would be an all-time record, the National Weather Service said.But, as they say in Arizona, it's a dry heat. "I'd rather have 105 degrees in Reno than 100 in Washington D.C.," said weather service meteorologist Gary Barbato. "They have all that humidity ..."

Deliveryman Mark Gillaspy had to lug 6-gallon water jugs through the heat to his customers Tuesday in Fresno."The hotter it is, the harder I have to work," Gillaspy said. "And the more patience I have to find within myself, or ask myself how stupid I am for doing this job."

Temperatures climbed well above 100 in Baker, a stop on the route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but residents are accustomed to heat in the desert city."It will get hotter," said Reynaldo Dominguez, a waiter. "It usually gets up to 120 degrees during the summer."The high demand for electricity to run air conditioners was compounded Tuesday by power plant breakdowns that shut down enough generating capacity to power more than 1.6 million homes.

The California Independent System Operator, which manages the state's power grid, declared a Stage 1 power alert, meaning it had less than a 7 percent reserve of electricity. Rolling blackouts could be declared if a Stage 3 alert is reached.

"We're looking at a challenging week," said ISO spokesman Gregg Fishman.In Oakland's fire-prone hills, officials asked residents to stop opening fire hydrants to cool off, noting there had been three grass fires in two days.

posted 07-11-2002 11:08 AM               

Chemtrail Article Front Page Ukiah Daily Journal (CA) http://www.rense.com/general26/chemca.htm
I'm sorry that your article went to press without the documented information I have which proves that the U.S. Air Force is doing weather modification experiments and that chemtrails is an integral part of these experiments.
These experiments are illegal as Mr. Wolbach says- not only under human rights laws, constitutional laws, criminal laws and environmental laws currently in effect, but also under laws written specifically to deal with the subject of biological and chemical testing on civilian populations USCS 50 1520a enacted 5/30/02 and the UN Treaty CJCSI 3810.01 Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations, Jan 10 1995 which prohibits long lasting weather modification testing among those nations currently conducting such tests (lasting over one season or several months).

Devastating Texas floods kill 9
Parts of the state have gotten as much as 30 inches of rain since Monday night. http://www.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/07/05/texas.flooding/index.html

Man Made Flood? Edwards Aquifer Authority Calls Cloud Seeding The Day Storms Began A 'Coincidence'
Cloud Seeder Todd Flanagan Confirmed Operation On June 30th; Says 'Fairly Certain' No Connection http://sanantoniolightning.com/manflood.html

Harvesting Texas Skies With Cloud-Seeding In 2002 http://www.license.state.tx.us/weather/summary.htm

posted 07-14-2002 04:42 PM               

And in other places, the drought and the fires continue.

Today: July 14, 2002 at 11:20:13 PDT

South Suffers in Historic Drought

ASSOCIATED PRESSFLORENCE, S.C.- Mayor Frank Willis is exasperated that his already struggling region's economic future lies in dwindling lakes 100 miles away in another state.

Without significant rain, state officials say, several reservoirs along the Yadkin River in North Carolina will run dry by mid-September.

Those waters feed the Pee Dee River, which provides industry and drinking water for the million or so people who live along its basin in northeast South Carolina. If the reservoirs run out, water levels along the Pee Dee could drop 80 percent, leaving the river useless for manufacturing and water plants.

That would cripple a region whose unemployment rate hovers around 8 percent, well above the state average of 5.5 percent.

"With the bad economic times we already have, something like this could lead to economic disaster," said Willis, who estimates up to 20,000 jobs could be lost if the river slows to a trickle for several weeks.

The Pee Dee's plight is the most extreme example of a Southern drought entering its fifth year. The dry spell in the South isn't as widespread as the four-year drought in the West. But the effects for some are severe.

Hardest hit is an area stretching from central Georgia through the middle of South and North Carolina and into central Virginia. Some areas are 60 inches below normal rainfall.

While farmers are suffering this year, for most of the drought they have been spared by rain that has come at the right time, keeping prices reasonable, said South Carolina Agriculture Department spokesman Wayne Mack. The worst effects are harder to see.

Underground, wells are drying up as not enough rain makes it through the soil to recharge the water table.

Lake levels are well below normal, exposing stumps and debris. Nearly half of the rivers in North and South Carolina are at record low levels. At least 35 municipalities in North Carolina and 20 water systems in South Carolina have issued mandatory water restrictions while all of Georgia has restricted outdoor watering for two years.

"The only drought that compares to this one is the one in the '50s," South Carolina drought coordinator Hope Mizzell said. Mizzell said the 1950s drought was statistically more serious. But as the South's population has grown in the past four decades, a decrease in water is now felt much more quickly because of higher demand. Nowhere is the situation more dire than the Pee Dee.

The river flows through tobacco fields, providing water for heavy manufacturers and a half-dozen water companies before heading into the Atlantic Ocean along the Grand Strand, South Carolina's No. 1 tourist destination.

Several businesses along the Pee Dee River have reported temporary shutdowns. If the Pee Dee River drops too low, a textile maker and a paper manufacturer along the river have already said they will have to close, eliminating at least 2,500 jobs. It's not just industries that are worried. Several companies in Florence County send waste water to the county treatment plant, which discharges into the river.

If the river flow gets too low, the county can't discharge enough water. "And if we can't discharge, they can't keep operating," Willis said. Forecasts through autumn provide little hope for relief. Normal or less than normal rainfall is predicted, which will not be enough to recharge rivers.

"Hopefully a nice tropical storm will come in from Mississippi and stay over us for a week," said Freddy Vang, the deputy director of the state Natural Resources Department's Land, Water and Conservation Division. Forecasters predict more relief could come in the winter with a warming of Pacific Ocean waters called the El Nino effect.

The last time the region as a whole had above normal rainfall was in the winter of 1998, when El Nino last affected global weather patterns, Mizzell said. So far none of the water systems that use the Pee Dee River for their drinking water have had serious problems. But in Georgetown County, workers often operate their intake plants only during low tide because not enough freshwater comes from the Pee Dee basin to drive ocean water away.

Other water companies along the booming coast worry about salt water intrusion too. They all have wells to turn to, but groundwater supplies have been falling ever since the drought started.

That has officials like Georgetown City Administrator Boyd Johnson carefully watching the waters of the Pee Dee. "We have all of our 10,000 citizens depending on it," he said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/14/071402882.html
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Today: July 14, 2002 at 9:15:18 PDT

Wildfire Burns Oregon Homes

ASSOCIATED PRESSPORTLAND, Ore.- A fast-moving wildfire spread into a remote community, burning at least 15 homes and sending propane tanks up in balls of flame as firefighters tried battle the blaze house to house. Most of the community's 200 homes were saved, but others were beyond help, said State Fire Marshal spokesman Jamie Carm.

"There are lots of heroic efforts by firefighters. They are saving dozens of homes," he said. The wildfire burning homes in Three Rivers in central Oregon was sparked by lightning earlier in the week, said Marc Hollen, spokesman for the Northwest Fire Coordination Center.

It grew from 6,000 acres to 10,000 acres in just hours and was burning on steep terrain in prime wildfire conditions. All 200 homes in the town were evacuated on Saturday.

As the fire spread into the development a few hours later, firefighters in soot-smeared yellow jackets crouched on a road and watched flames shoot out of one house.

Flames spread from a tree to another hilltop home, and small fireballs shot up as propane tanks exploded. Saturday evening, 80 additional homes in nearby Forest Park and Chinook Village also were evacuated.

The fire had jumped the Metolius River earlier in the week and began burning in a roadless area in the Deschutes National Forest, Hollen said. In Colorado, a wildfire that had burned at least 4,100 acres forced evacuations late Saturday in Redvale, a town of about 400 in western Colorado.

It wasn't immediately clear Sunday how many homes were affected. In Arizona, a lightning-caused wildfire in the Coronado National Forest had burned 2,000 acres and forced the precautionary evacuation of 20 homes in the nearby town of Oracle, authorities said.

In Wyoming, a blaze on the east side of the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone National Park grew to over 7,300 acres. Several trails and campsites near the fire were closed, but the major tourist attractions in Yellowstone remained open.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/14/071402767.html

posted 07-15-2002 01:30 PM               

Historic drought dries up rivers in South http://www.cnn.com/2002/WEATHER/07/15/southern.drought.ap/index.html

America is Burrning !!!
Click on below to see were the fires are burning right now. http://www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/firemap.html

posted 07-15-2002 02:59 PM            

I have been trying to stress how G.W.E.N. and The Ionojects(HAARP, HIPAS, EISCAT, SETI) work in collusion to give TPTB god like capabilities with weather modification (not to mention other applications i.e. biological process control, mood alteration, domestic recon, em resonance).

It all makes perfect sense once you read Eastlund's patent. He elaborates about how there are rivers in the upper atmosphere.. rivers of vapors that can be controlled and manipulated with High Frequency systems (ionojects{ionsiphere-projects}), and can be directed and applied via the numerous G.W.E.N. transponders across the U.S. . In the event of the floods, it just so happens that two of the atmosphere's naturally occuring mergers for these rivers are directly over the midwest, and another over texas.

posted 07-17-2002 01:08 AM               

By TOM GARDNER
The Associated Press
7/16/02 12:33 PM

TOPAZ LAKE, Nev. (AP) -- Federal firefighting crews turned their focus on Tuesday to the Sierra Nevada, where firebreaks had been bulldozed around a housing subdivision threatened by an 8,600-acre wildfire. U.S. Highway 395 along the mountain range was closed from Bridgeport, Calif., north to the Nevada-California state line, where hundreds of residents and staff and guests at the Topaz Lodge hotel-casino had voluntarily evacuated on Monday.

Crew chiefs estimated the fire was still only 10 percent contained and that more than 250 homes were at risk. More than 600 firefighters, three air tankers and two National Guard helicopters were assigned to the blaze Tuesday. A Type I fire management team from Oregon, the highest priority federal firefighting team, was scheduled to take over control of the blaze on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The blaze was given a top priority because of the number of homes nearby, said Mark Struble, a fire information officer from the Bureau of Land Management. Wind blowing at a sustained 25 mph on Monday hampered firefighting efforts in the dry juniper, sage brush and pinon pines in the rugged mountainous area about 90 miles southeast of Reno.

"The wind is the biggest concern," spokeswoman Laura Williams said Tuesday from the Sierra Front Interagency Fire Dispatch Center in Minden, Nev. "It is very low humidity. The soil moistures are at the lowest level they have been for this time of year since Nixon was president."

The estimate of the fire's size was scaled back from 10,000 acres to 8,600 after an aerial survey. That included about 1,400 acres burned during the night, officials said. Bulldozers had been used to dig about a 2-mile firebreak around 50 homes in the Holbrook Highlands subdivision just north of Topaz Lake.

"They are digging in for big winds expected the next day or two," Williams said. The area around the Topaz Lodge also remained a concern. "The fire line is within a half mile from there," Williams said.

The blaze was started by lightning last week and grew 20-fold Sunday. The plume of smoke over the fire was visible in Reno, 75 miles away. The fire cut power lines south of Lake Topaz, blacking out residents as well as the firefighters' command post at the local high school. Sierra Pacific Power officials said it could be weeks before power is restored to all of the area.

The wildfire was just northwest of the site of a 22,750-acre fire last month near Walker, Calif., where three men died when their air tanker crashed. Elsewhere in Nevada, a 10,000-acre fire raged unchecked on the Nevada-Utah line 50 miles southeast of Ely. A handful of homes in an old mining camp designated as a state historical landmark were evacuated. No injuries or structural damage were reported.

In central Oregon, crews made progress against a 17,300-acre wildfire, one of about 20 that had burned some 120,000 acres around the state. Residents began returning to a rural subdivision where 18 houses were destroyed.

The fire was 45 percent contained and full containment was possible by the end of the week, officials said. In southwestern Colorado, 25 homes remained evacuated as heat, low humidity and erratic wind pushed a 27,000-acre fire near the tiny communities of Norwood and Redvale.

posted 07-17-2002 01:55 PM            

RALEIGH - Gov. Mike Easley today called on the federal government to designate 54 North Carolina counties disaster areas due to severe drought throughout the state.  The Governor also asked all North Carolinians to begin or increase water conservation measures and called for communities in the most severely impacted areas of the state to impose mandatory water restrictions.

posted 07-17-2002 02:13 PM               

One-Third of U.S. Facing Drought

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON- More than one-third of the contiguous states face severe to extreme drought, the government said Wednesday.

Warmer than usual temperature and dry conditions spread drought to 36 percent of the 48 contiguous states by the end of June, the National Climatic Data Center reported.

The center said the average temperature for the country in June was 71.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.3 degrees higher than the average in records going back to 1895. That made it the fifth warmest June on record.

The climate center, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said abnormally warm temperatures occurred in the Southwest and northern Plains.

Colorado and Nebraska had their second-warmest June since statewide records began, while New Mexico and Nevada had their fifth-warmest June. Near-average temperatures covered much of the South and Northeast.

Maine and New Hampshire had significantly cooler than average temperatures for the month.

Fourteen states from the West Coast to the mid-Atlantic had below average rainfall and four states - Arizona, Utah, Wyoming and Nebraska - were much drier than average. In the East, drought conditions were most severe in an area stretching from central Virginia to central Georgia.

The past 12 months were the driest July through June on record for North Carolina and South Carolina, and drought has affected parts of the region for much of the past four years.

The total precipitation deficit since July 1998 exceeded 55 inches in Greenville and 65 inches in Columbia, S.C., at the end of June.

Severe to extreme drought also continued throughout large parts of the western United States from Arizona and New Mexico to Montana, significantly affecting farming and the frequency of wildfires.

The Department of Agriculture said more than 80 percent of range and pastures were classified as poor to very poor in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado in early July, with conditions worsening during June and early July in California, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.