Sad here......

Crappy.... Maybe opening it up will make for long range shots?

Probably too much lemonade outta lemons on that one... Hopefully the wind turns and they get the upper hand on it!
 
Forest fires are one of the best things that can happen to a forest in the long run; it's part of the natural life cycle. Soon there will be all kinds of new nutrients in the ground, and you'll get smaller trees and plants popping up, and all kinds of new wild life. Your future is mighty bright, just gotta wait a couple years. Good luck! :)
 
Give it a year and it will be crawling with game grazing on all the new plants, shots may be longer than before.
 
Mr. Bjorn said:
Forest fires are one of the best things that can happen to a forest in the long run; it's part of the natural life cycle. Soon there will be all kinds of new nutrients in the ground, and you'll get smaller trees and plants popping up, and all kinds of new wild life. Your future is mighty bright, just gotta wait a couple years. Good luck! :)
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Indeed, It's just just a shame some of the dead pines show in recent fires could not be harvested before the fires took them out....
 
Although hunting potential and game opportunities will often increase after a forest fire and logging, it also brings in several other hunting parties and road hunters that are looking for the exact habitat the disturbance created. Best of luck in the future, and hopefully no "foreigners" to the area decide to move in and hunt the area. In northern Ontario where I currently live, the cuts and burns attract lots of unwanted attention from new hunters that have never hunted the area before.
 
I find the previously burnt areas in northern Ontario tend to attract moose when the foliage grows back, it's good browse for them.
 
Prince George is having a tough time with fire right now. We got some rain 200 miles west of there the last two days so things are not quite so scary right now. The pine bark beetle kill does not seem to burn all that well once the needles have fallen, no crown to burn. Forestry did some experiments as everyone who lives in the middle of this bug kill area were very interested in the forest fire dynamics with all this dead bush everywhere. It is not as bad as you go west of Fraser Lake as the pine % drops the closer you get to the coast. Some people still in pretty tough down in the Okanagan. Pay attention to the camp fire bans if you head into BC, the fines are stiff.
 
Mr. Bjorn said:
Forest fires are one of the best things that can happen to a forest in the long run; it's part of the natural life cycle. Soon there will be all kinds of new nutrients in the ground, and you'll get smaller trees and plants popping up, and all kinds of new wild life. Your future is mighty bright, just gotta wait a couple years. Good luck! :)
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x2. Nice lush grass in a couple of years. We had the Dog Rib fire here about 10 or 12 years ago. Amazing comback. One place, the Bighorns have moved in, where they did not tread before. Last years flood was way more devastating.

Grizz
 
Norton said:
Hunt a mile or two off the edges of the burn line where the animals have been pushed
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You took the words right out of my mouth. I've experienced this in the Slave Lake area where a variety of species were quite congested in a smaller area ..........in a positive way of course.
 
skneub said:
Think I am about to lose my hunting spot to a forrest fire...
all I can do is wait and see I guess:(
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Yes I know three other people that have lost their spot/s and I think some family of mine lost their spot as well. I was out in Viking yesterday and never in all the years I have been out there have I ever seen so many moose... I think it is going to be a grim hunting season for a lot of people this year. I just got into the shooting world so I still don't have my hunters ed. thus I think 2015 will be my year of hunting... Other then pests, yesterday was a good day to kill gophers at 180 or so between 3 of us we all were saying this is the only hunting we will get to do as fires and timing are going to stop us from everything ells.
 
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