Fire

[Kurt]

Don,

I don't do Facebook but Carolyn has been showing me the grass fire going by you.
Man it looks like it's time to get the gang plow out and start turning the dead grass over and start a controlled back fire going.
I hope the best for you with this going on.

Kurt

[Don McDowell]

Itsvstill 4 or 5 miles of ruff country to cross before it gets particularly worry some

[Kurt]

Sure looks bad.

[Don McDowell]

Yessir but maybe it’s frying some grass hoppers

[Old Jim]

Its been years since my area has had very many grass hoppers, but this year we got some also.

maybe there'l be a shower pretty soon

[Don McDowell]

Up here in these hills, grasshoppers are sort of a perennial thing, but this year they're bad. Sounds like they're pretty thick from Montana to Kansas.

[Kurt]

I haven't seen hoppers here. I think the crop dusters are keeping them in check spraying for corn bore and fruit flys.
Also the pheasants have disappeared. Haven't seen any for many years.

[Kurt]

all that black smoke I see in the photo you posted could be hoppers

[Don McDowell]

LOL, yeh tons of black smoke. This fire moved a whole bunch slower that previous ones. If this thing would of moved like the others, they would be setting fire lines clear up on the Cheyenne River by now.

[Don McDowell]

So far we haven't lost any pasture, but my neighbors to the south are about wiped out.