Video shows rapid growth of Howe Ridge Fire in Glacier National Park

[Ptah]

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Incredible footage.

That ash and heat can't be helping the Glaciers during the day. Fire can leap forward up hillsides a 1/4 mile per second if the wind is right. And, it looks like the wind is right. Ugh.
Proud boys on bikes camping at the park lately?

[2naSalit]

3. A perfect storm...

extreme heat, been in the triple digits several times in the past few weeks along with intense dry lightning, add a little wind after the storm and there it goes.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. Poof!!

Not good. Fires fires everywhere.

[2naSalit]

7. In southern MT

where I live, we are under a fire weather watch until Sunday, the haze from other fires is so dense, as has been the case for several years now That I can barely make out the silhouette on the hills north of town, half a mile away. At least we have been getting sporadic rain during the past couple months, it's still somewhat green around here, but that won't last long unless it rain some more. This weekend it was 102F for two days straight in the location I was, fortunately I was at the river so I could get cooled off periodically.

At my age and after living in the Anza-Borrego desert for a summer, I don't do well when the temps get over 70F anymore. I can take -50F but not the heat which is why I moved this far north and at a high elevation. Sadly, the temps of the desert SW are now common well north of the 45th parallel.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

9. Whoa!

Thanks for the insight. The heat this year has been scary.

[2naSalit]

10. INsane is more like it.

there are some species who will likely become extinct in the next few years because of it. We already have large populations of species that come from southern latitudes and elevations. We are losing our Mourning Doves and being invaded by the ring-necked Rock Doves. The Pika, as small creature who lives above 9K ft. will be gone real soon if the temps keep up like this. We don't have the big freezes in the winter either, that means that bark beetles don't die off leaving many generations devastating our forests all over the western states which contributes to the fire danger. And then, to add to the misery, since the 1930s we have block the salmon runs on the Columbia River and Snake River such that nutrients once delivered from the sea via salmon return to the forests has basically given the forests HIV-like depletion of the nutrients needed to keep all the animals and plant thriving (studies conducted in the late 1990s indicated this as have subsequent studies along the entire Rocky Mountain/lateral coast geographic area).

We have done this to ourselves, but worse, we have done this to all other living things. And now, the consequences we chose to ignore are upon us.

[2naSalit]

2. Yeah, it's a nasty one.

I'm way south of there, Park County, but getting smoked anyway from all the fires west and south of here.

[MontanaMama]

4. Damn.

I know fire is part of Glacier’s life cycle. It’s still tough to see. I camped with my family at Flathead Lake the last two weekends and it’s so smoky you can’t see the Missions. Fire season sucks. 😥

[Grasswire2]

5. heart breaking to think of the fauna nt

[2naSalit]

8. Yeah, it's also where a large number of our grizzly bears live

along with Canada lynx and some other wildlife that are rare elsewhere due to human encroachment.