Silas Soule

Likes: Etta James, Nas, steelhead, ripping a bugle first light after new moon, a wicked 12b6 motion, Nola at 2am, gardening, bourbon on a weeknight, enchiladas

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@Jackwdby @WrongSort @cobrownell @JesseKellyDC lol sorry but the booger-eating retard who attacked the lawyer of a dude who accidentally ran someone over (then stayed on the scene and cooperated with investigators) will go to prison, and the lawyer he attacked will rip the retard’s eyes out, every paycheck garnished for life

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@Capt_Srb @VortexOptics @TheTRCP First of all, Death Valley is a national park, you lot wanna sell national parks now? Second, I’ve hunted and birded around the Sultan Sea in CA, the Alvord Desert in OR, and many other deserts throughout the west. They aren’t lifeless. Third, WE DON’T HAVE TO DEVELOP LAND

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@cassell_ch62857 @VortexOptics @TheTRCP Because we got sick of nonresident overpressure making it harder every year for actual residents to draw tags in our own home counties where we grew up hunting. A state government manages its state’s resources for the benefit of state residents, not tourists.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@Capt_Srb @VortexOptics @TheTRCP Because I hunt there and it’s mine fuck off

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@braxton_mccoy What provision? Never went law review geek tier on the TGA but I’ve briefed claims on it, and did so on behalf of grazing permit holders. Even from that public land natural resource user perspective, I do not see how it would authorize federal divestment / sale of BLM / USFS land

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@Jay_Andy12 @Joel__Hermann @GoracleOfDelphi @patrickdichter Never met an AK commercial fishermen who wears “pants” on deck, but for someone who’s hired a recreational angling guide once or twice, that sounds about right

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@Jay_Andy12 @Joel__Hermann @GoracleOfDelphi @patrickdichter lol or, you know… when wearing them for their actual purpose on the deck of a fishing boat

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@CReppWx Every year. It’s part of their winter range, can see as much on RMEF migration mapping.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@cvjonardi_j … egergious 😎

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@spencerdispense @dailycamera @mitchellbyars Nah, my 60lb golden retriever killed a bobcat in 2021, my neighbor’s 45lb heeler has killed 2-3. Dogs win that matchup 9 times outta 10.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@HotshotWake Half the town of Lyons now under GO orders.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@prolibshow @ryanhuffine254 @JoJoFromJerz @TheAKGuy The 5.56 / .223 is the second smallest round in that picture

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@Togethr4Boulder @jameybilyeu @mitchellbyars @MBforBoulder I see them all the time

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@AlohaMabuhay @dailycamera No, this fire today is much closer to NCAR than it is NOAA / NIST, it started on the second switchback on Malory cave trail. Just go outside and look.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@AlohaMabuhay @HotshotWake No, this vid is from the fire last year, I was on it, and it was much closer to NCAR than it was to NOAA/NIST

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

@WarMonitors Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Oregon

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

About 183 people have asked me to talk about the smoke from Canada coming into New York, New Jersey, and other Eastern States...
#wildfire #NY
Ok, here goes…

*Seinfeld voice: “What’s up with all that wildfire smoke?”

If you live in these areas, welcome to what Salmon, Idaho was all last summer. Literally months.

Welcome to small town Montana. Welcome to the Utah Valley.
Welcome to the Pacific Northwest in August.
Welcome to Happy Camp, California.

Welcome to Earth… There are a lot of fires burning in Canada. Many are lightning caused but the majority are human caused. Pile burn escapes, escaped campfires, escaped prescribed burns, and yes, arson.

There are not a lot of fires burning in the United States. It’s actually one of the slowest starts to fire season in the U.S. in decades.

Wildfires happen across the entire planet. It’s a natural cycle that ebbs and flows. Canada is busy this year, others places not so much.

This is what wildland firefighters wake up to every day. This is what they work in. They are the ones trying to contain these fires when they happen. Smokejumpers and Hotshots, 6 pack jacked men and women, who sleep in the dirt every night just to wake up and crush up a mountain and work in smoke.

The ones that were promised a raise and Congress sits idly by. The ones that were told recruitment, retention, and pay was priority #1.

Seemingly not…

The ones who are provided subpar food and eat military rations for breakfast. At least you can still get a delicious bagel and lox before you walk through the smoke.
*extra capers.

So once the smoke clears out, in due time, remember that there are men and women fighting these things. Remember that your representatives have denied them a raise because “other priorities.”

Some are trying to help. These representatives are supporting a Bill called Tim’s Act. In long form it’s known as the “Tim Hart Wildland Firefighter Classification and Pay Parity Act”.

If you would like to help support these men and women who wake up and work in this type of smoke everyday, contact your Rep. and tell them to support Tim’s Act.

The smoke will clear out. It always does. Welcome to Earth.

[The Hotshot Wake Up @HotshotWake]

From a Canadian firefighter who knows what’s going on:
#canada #wildfire #smoke
(Worth the read)

“I know you may know, but people need to know and understand that most Canadian wildfire management agencies have fire “zonation” policies similar to Alaska.

This means in large areas of their jurisdictions, especially in the northern part of the country, wildfires are left to run there natural course w little or no direct action or suppression. We’ll protect values at risk, ie. infrastructure, communities, critical habitat or culturally significant features on the landscape, we’ll map them and maybe try to burn them to natural barrier, fight one flank and let the rest roll (limited action) but we are not putting them out.

On many of the fires we don’t even try. A number of these fires are huge boreal gobblers (I am currently assigned to a 250,000 ha fire, well over 600,000 acres and you could fit the org. chart on one side of a beer can).

The only thing that is going to put out this fire out and many across the country is winter, 5 months from now. It’s going to be a long, smoky summer for everyone. You have a wide reach, it would be great if you can help people understand these dynamics in the Canadian wildfire scene when they’re bitching about the smoke.

Cheers 🍻 and thanks.”

Pretty decent picture of what’s going on. Thanks for the insight.

In the industry we call this letting a fire “Do its thing”. It’s especially common in these vast boreal forests. Siberia does the same thing. Identify hazards and values at risk, mitigate, let it go.

Cheers.

[Silas Soule @BuffaloBone]

Fishing SoBo creek when I saw the #NCARFire shortly after it started, first pic and second pic were taken 16 minutes apart