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This is an overlay of the Wallow Fire (from here), as of late last night, with Middle Tennessee superimposed at the same scale for reference. Burned: so far, 607 square miles, as of this morning.

All of the terrain consumed in this fire was Ponderosa Pine and Aspen, at high-altitude (7000 to 8000 ft.), and amazingly rugged and beautiful. This fire is a disaster.

Here's a photo I took in 2005, 3 years after the Rodeo-Chediski fire consumed a large swath of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in 2002 (some 690 sq. mi.). You can see the limited regrowth, but it was then a barren wasteland.

After Rodeo-Chediski, near Joe Tank Rd.

This, also from circa 2005, is/was located just south of Eagar, near Nutrioso.

White Mountains High Country

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