BWCA on the Weather Channel tonight!

[bullyfish]

They are going to show the BWCA blowdown tonight on Storm Stories....Should be an interesting show.

[gunflint]

Thanks for the headsup. I'll be watching.

[gunflint]

The show sure brought back memories. The really sad part of the story is stll going on.

If you stand on the U.S. shore at Gunflint Lake and look accross to the Canadian side you see a young, green, healthy, new growth forest. The Canadians went in and cleaned up their side of the blowdown with harvest and controlled burns.

What have we done? For the most part we practice evacuation drills for the gunflint corridor, because of the extreem likelyhood of the largest catastraphic wildfire in U.S. history.

At least we kept those horrible chain saws and evil loggers out of the boundry waters.

[smallmouthguide]

Got a chance to watch storm stories thanks to this thread. That was a day that many of us will never forget. I was stuck up on Basswood when she blew threw and I almost broke my back trying to kiss my a$$ good by. I had forgotten how to pray until that storm blew in and then it all came back to me quickly. The lake was like an obstacle course with all the trees and branches floating on the water. When I got back to Prairie Portage you could not even see most of the trail because of all the fallen timber. Thank goodness Jeep had already had the bulldozer up there because he was going to be grating the road at the time. It took us hours with the dozer, a chain saw and a lot of muscle to clear our way thru. Nice post gunflint and I agree with you 100 percent. There are a lot of areas that need to be cleaned up to prevent a future disaster and to restore some of the natural beauty that has been lost.

[OUTDOORNUT]

I know they have been doing quite a few controlled burns around the BWCA. I guess I go both ways as far as what we should or could do within the BWCA. One part of me says we should go and clear it out, another part says it is in it's natural state. That is that purpose of the BWCA correct? Either way, I hope we never have to deal with fire within. I know the area we go into, most of the blown down trees are pine, alot of that pine is already rotting, how many more years before the rotten wood isn't much of a burn hazard?

[lindyman]

Hey Gunflint,

That picture on your name looks like the view from seagull bay. Any truth to that??

[gunflint]

lindyman,

On the advice of my attorney, I plead the 5th.

[lindyman]

Gunflint,

If that is seagul, and I'm not saying it is, How's the laker fishing been in the winter. Worth a trip up? Think we'll get a good year for walleyes next summer compared to the slump that happened this year?

[gunflint]

lindyman,

That photo is from the "Trail" but I'm not exactly sure where. In the past winters the laker fishing has been good for the most part. I don't get much of a chance to ice fish, I spend most of my winter grooming trails for the skinny skiers. In my opinion it"s always worth the trip.

Most of the deep lakes haven't froze over yet. I know Gunflint and Loon are still open and I'm not sure about Sag. The smaller lakes that have frozen over didn't have much ice then we got a foot of snow last week so those lakes are iffy.

As far as the walleyes go, I had a real good season, although for the most part I stayed on the stained lakes. I do believe we'll have a good year next year. After all any time on the water up here is a good time.