Got smoke in Atlanta today. Clear at sunrise but smoky haze and strong smell of of smoke by midmorning, wind shift about noon cleared some of it but you can still smell smoke.

We desperately need rain. Putting in coyote and fox sets today was like chipping concrete. Might need to upgrade to an 8lb maul as my 3lb hammer barely cut it driving stakes. If that's up here I can only imagine how dry and crisp it is down south, they're in worse shape than we are on lack of rain.

Swamp, how much blowdown is still on the ground from Helene? That would be nothing but gasoline for that fire.

Not sure about Florida, but here in southern Georgia there is no moisture.

A lot of hurricane debris on the ground in timber blocks that haven't been salvage logged yet. And all the bays and swamps are a tangled mess since the hurricane.

It's getting cleaned up in places now for sure.

Report is fire is up near 30,000 acres now.

Thought youns be greened up good by now,
Dang.

We have one going over by Verndale today. Not nearly as big as what you all are dealing with, but bad enough for our area.

Hopefully everyone stays safe.

You outta see this green southern pineywoods rough burn!!!!

29606 acres as of last update today.

Been delivering meals to the dozer operators all afternoon. Got a good look at the torched timberlands.

Currently the burned area ia approximately 15+ miles long x 9+ miles wide.

My heart goes out to the timber owners. Helene and now this and it's not like timber has been doing great the past few years. I imagine some of the land will be going on the market after this is over. It'll bring literal dirt pricing.

If they put it back into production after clean up and replant costs It'll be over a decade to get anything out of it and with pulp in the tank that'll clear nothing.

True^^^ except most of this land is owned by large companies. And many of them have been down this road before and they are not in the land selling business.

Two of these companies have their own dozers and their operators & managers are excellent wildland firefighters.

… glad yall are alright uncle Swamp

… sounds like a biggin … hope they get it under control soon

We're good in town (where I live). Closest fire flank is about 8 miles northeast of town and due to the wind direction it is currently progressing in a northwesterly direction.

This is the largest private lands only wildlife since the 1950s in this area. It'll be approaching 40,000 acres with another windy day.

We had a huge wildfire in 2007 (560,000+ acres), but 90% of that one was on Okefenokee NWR, a road-less, inaccessible block of public land.