[PCA] Milford, Utah fire reseeding and chaining

[Addsum-Tony Frates]

Reseeding fire-ravaged land
Project aims to seed 300-mile area burned by Milford Flat blaze
By Patty Henetz 
The Salt Lake Tribune
11/16/2007


COVE FORT - A mile or two west of here a gravel road threads Antelope 
Valley, a broad stretch of burned-over grassland below Bearskin 
Mountain and the Mineral Range. 

Neither that peak nor that range slowed the Milford Flat fire when it 
blew up July 6. During the next four days, the fire skipped across 
dozens of roads and jumped Interstate 15 to burn more than 325,000 
acres in Millard and Beaver counties. The fire burned for 2 1/2 
months, ultimately torching more than 363,000 acres to make it the 
biggest blaze in Utah history. 

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7478882




Clip:


"On Thursday, teams of archaeologists walked five abreast across the 
range, looking for artifacts and planting flags when they found 
ancient broken pottery, stone tools and even a pile of trash left 
here some 50 years ago.

They'd already finished their work in the area farther west, a 
necessary first step before bulldozers dragging anchor chains studded 
with iron teeth arrive to clear out charred tree carcasses."

(chaining in disguise? - why bulldoze/chain the land and cause and 
disrupt/compact the soil like this?)


Clip:


"   * THE COST: $17 million 
    * THE SEEDS: 1.8 million pounds 
    * THE PLANTS: Half native, half non-native, a perennial mix 
including western wheatgrass, Indian ricegrass, bottlebrush 
squirreltale, sand dropseed and forage kochia."


(very questionable mix)



Tony Frates
Conservation co-chair 
Utah Native Plant Society (www.unps.org)