Happy Memorial day weekend

 22 May 2009 11:41:46 pm

Last week was spent 18 miles from the Canadian border burning up some more park land. Pretty standard stuff for the most part. Hi lights of the week included cutting down trees that were burning, having to find a safe spot to avoid a head fire that the people on the other line threw at us, and a possible wolf sighting.

Pretty standard stuff in the field of prescribed burning.

This weekend I am staffing out of Bemidji for wild fire. Its pretty fun, most of the time we spend doing odd jobs around the area. If someone decides to lite a fire in the area, then we go there and put it out, and the land owner gets a nice ticket from the conservation officer. Today we cleared up some blow down trees that were blocking a snowmobile trail south of town. Also we picked up trash along the trail and found all kinds of great stuff...People are pigs. It is so frustrating to see all of this crap just thrown out in the woods. I won't go through the list of all of the stuff we found, but I will say that I am glad I had gloves on.

The mosquitoes are out and about, so we are trying to watch out for west nile virus, we found a total of 23 ticks between 3 guys, so we are also dodging Lyme's disease, and finally I had some bacon for breakfast so I hope I don't get swine flew... Well I hear that Robitussin cures all

Making money though, back to the same stuff tomorrow No rest for the weary.


Have a good weekend guys

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