Rembrant Report post Posted June 22, 2006 Anybody care that 6B is burning up? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DesertBull Report post Posted June 22, 2006 I hate to see people lose their posessions, but the fire is good for habitat. In a couple of years people will be complaining about all the elk and bears in the canyon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azryan Report post Posted June 23, 2006 yeah desertbull is right...fire's are good for the land and animals love using the burn areas when new growth starts popping up... it should be fine just give it a year. i feel bad for those losing evrything they got up there though...hope all goes well for them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youngbuck Report post Posted June 23, 2006 i had a chance to hunt unit 21 last december. In an area that was about 1/3 to 1/2 burned by the cave creek complex fire. I was helping my cousin glass for a big whitetail he had seen, he had a rifle tag, and i brought my bow. I couldn't believe the amount of deer we saw, there was tons of mulies and whities. I also archery hunted near rye shortly after a fire their, and i saw lots of big mulies and some cow elk. I always knew fires helped new foliage grow, but i didn't think the deer and elk would go back to it that quick, it was less than six moths Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
111 Report post Posted June 23, 2006 I wouldn't mind seeing all those canyons in the 6B area burn. It's hard to glass for coues but the cover does keep a few biggins alive in there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rembrant Report post Posted June 23, 2006 Amen brothers!! No structure has been lost in the Brin Fire yet. If I had a wish list for areas to burn, I just got one in my top 5. I'm with you 111, let 'em burn. There are timber bucks dying of old age in them trees. A wildlife manager named Bob Barsh gave a talk at a Mule Deer banquet in Flagstaff a few years ago. He made a very interesting statement. He said that whitetailed deer were 7 times more likely to visit a spot that had been burned than a non-burned area. This was discovered as a result of deer surveys. Interesting report about unit 21, Youngbuck. Simply put, fires release nutrients that have been locked into inedible forest canopy and allow it to be transformed into edible shrubs and forbs - deer food! At the same time dense cover is opened up. Sometimes the fires are so intense that little cover is left in some areas, but usually the randomness of fire dynamics allows for adequate cover for the animals. Nature has always taken care of itself. That's what she's doing now - cleaning house. Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bowhunter4life Report post Posted June 24, 2006 let her burn,to a point . but we sure could us a ton of rain.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
