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When Nature Calls Your Number

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These are a few pictures we took last week 10 miles from our (Off Grid Build) in NW Wyoming on US Forest Service land. This blow down happened last summer and covers at least 12 square miles and millions of trees. ( all laying the same direction) Lucky no one was was killed, but if you had been camping anywhere near there it would have been a very bad day for you. We took the snowmobiles over instead of the Tucker so we could drive to the other side and see exactly how big this thing really was. Still can't get over the carnage!!
 

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Same kinda thing happened Mt. Zerkel wilderness area close to Steamboat Springs about 20 years ago. They said the jet stream dropped down and blew the trees over. Bigger problem turned out to be the pine beetle epidemic that followed. The weakened trees provided a great home for the beetles to swell in great numbers and kill lodge pole pines for years afterwords. 'Course that's being blamed on global warming now.
 
Yeah, I have been in the Mt. Zirkel blow down area. Totally crazy to see in person, trees flattened, all in the same direction.
 
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