grubstake Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 whats the word on Rye Patch, Did our hunting area burn? 17 and 19? News not saying much down here about it. Got an up date? Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippoz Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 whats the word on Rye Patch, Did our hunting area burn? 17 and 19? News not saying much down here about it. Got an up date? Grubstakeoh no, there was a fire out in ol' pershing county? Im in chiacgo at the moment, but spend about half of my year out in lovelock.....Im assuming there was a fire, can anyone tell me what or how much was burned? I have about 600 acres out there.....i managed to find thisFirefighters are also working on a 20,000 acre brush fire near Imlay, about 30 miles south of Winnemucca. They are calling it the Tungsten fire.So far the Tungsten fire has destroyed one outbuilding and a mine.Both fires are sending thick smoke into the air as they sweep across brush and grass rangelands.There is no containment estimate on either fire.i called some people out in pershing county and they said the fire was all due north of rye patch and imlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Chris Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 The fire in that region was up at the Eugenes, which is about 15 miles NNE of the main area at 17 and 19. It is called the Tungsten fire and has grown to 62,000 acres at last I heard (thats about 97 square miles).As far as I know, there have been no fires this year the main area at Rye Patch.There are however, placers up around the Eugene Mountains and some real nice gold has been found there over the years. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grubstake Posted July 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 well thats something, I was hoping for the main RYE Patch area to be included. It needs it. Grubstake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutch john Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Hello All... I was born and raised in Nevada... I once lived in Lovelock. 475 13th St.We were buying the house. It was originaly constructed from used lumber fromVernon. We did considerable modification during the 3-years we had it.The last time I drove by and looked it was again being loved... Originally it belonged to A.H. Scott. He was known as "Scotty the Assayer." Now about fires... the charcoal can be conductive. Can be positive to a sensitive metal detector. Also fires can be most distructive... I was at Midas over the 4th of July a few yearsago and there was one of the out of contol fires... From Midas it looked bad... but it did notreach. Back in 1948 I was working for Nevada Northern RRd. Still old Baldwin coal burning steamengines... Kennecott Copper. Sparks from a hole in one of the engines spark arrestorsstarted a fire... We were laying new rails for the diesels. Assigned to fight the fire... Wow... the scrub cedars and pine trees just exploded... Bang... Luckily when the fire reachedthe ridge the winds contained it... As many of you know the older buildings are mostly wood and fires can be very distructive. Worse, the BLM or Forest Service sometimes close the burn areas from all entry for several years.Out of control range and scrubbrush fires can be very distructive. I hope the drought does not close areas such as here in southern California as a "high-fire hazard." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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