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Last but not least!

Silver

Silver

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I expect I'm last, but I'm still pretty happy. Leaves started popping out on the 25th, and grass is coming in nicely. Now I get to be just like you southern types with your high falutin' green grass and fancy green leaves! :lol:
Spent all day today making Smokey Bear mad.... set fire to about 4000 acres of pasture / tree land. Talk about a big smoke! The whole country has been on fire for days as everone tries to get their range burning done before forestry shuts us down.
 
Hmmm I think we're last,grass just thinking of turning green,buds just coming on trees let alone opening AND we have a fire ban because we're sooo dry...there we win :(
 
Well, who'd a thought I'd be ahead in that department??!? Planets must be lined up funny. :wink: Seedbeds are ready for seed, but we're gonna wait a bit to plant. It's still plent early for this area, and a guy could get caught with his proverbial pants down if he were to seed now.
 
Ohh to be able to burn-S.E.R.M wopn't let anybody do it here so we get huge fires now a days. I'm two miles from the water bomber base so it sounded like the Battle of Britain out there today lol.
 
Believe it or not, we don't have any of that stuff here yet. No leaves on the trees (about mid-May usually) and the grass has just started to get a green tint to it the last day or two.

Most folks think because NM is in the southern US, that we have early spring.....but at 7300' elevation, it makes a difference. We got up to 12* (F) here this morning.
 
Isn't it a bit late to burn-we used to do it a bit earlier here when the meadows were bared off but still snow in the bush-do you get ground fires there Silver nothing like a rubber boot full of hot ashes to bring back memories of my youth. Were going to turn out on some stockpiled native blue grass here in about 10 days. Hopefully the heifers will be just about calved cause once they cross that muskkeg they're calving pretty much unattended.
 
Ranchy I've only been to New Mexico once-Albuquerque- but I sure liked that country around the Raton Pass-I have a good friend ranches at Lamarr,Colorado-it was pretty interesting checking out his ranch and grass.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Isn't it a bit late to burn-we used to do it a bit earlier here when the meadows were bared off but still snow in the bush-do you get ground fires there Silver nothing like a rubber boot full of hot ashes to bring back memories of my youth. Were going to turn out on some stockpiled native blue grass here in about 10 days. Hopefully the heifers will be just about calved cause once they cross that muskkeg they're calving pretty much unattended.
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Around here its a pretty short burning window, and we got in the tail end of it. It's just nicely tinder dry in the bush, and not greened up enough to slow it down. I want to kill trees, not just burn grass. I see the water bombers out today at the north end of our range, but there is so many different fires going they can't really hang it on any one in particular. They tend to panic when the spruce trees start crowning out and the wind picks up. :lol:
Only ground fires we sometimes get are in the peat and theres not alot of that around here usually except some dried up 'skeg. I have seen them burn for years though, and make quite a mess.
 
Our coun try pretty similar-if they ever get a fire pinned on a guy and charge the costs to you-your pretty much toast-nothing crazier than a crown fire or more spectacular than watching a good willow fire at night.
 

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