Site Location Scouting

Aside from some tree climb trainers committing to coming to Wild Roots Feral Futures, the current drought and high fire danger is just one more reason I am advocating for the selection of an old-growth Ponderosa Pine forest site, where the indigenous fire ecology is still more or less intact. Those stands with the large, spread out Ponderosa with no lower branches and little "ladder fuel" growing beneath them are, along with their fire-resistant bark, very resilient to forest fires, and the outbreak of a human-created fire is less likely to occur in such a forest. The best such site is the one we've used in the past, which is unfortunately not far from the Little Sands fire in Southern Colorado. With any luck, the fire will be contained soon. But we need rain, and we need it badly.