![]() ![]() "A lot of wildlife did get driven down there to the river. ![]() "They know where to go, where their safe zones are," McColgan said. Nevertheless, McColgan said, the wildlife appeared to be taking the crisis in stride, gathering near the East Fork of the Bitterroot River where it crosses under U.S. ![]() Temperatures in the flame front were estimated at more than 800 degrees. 6, the Sunday when several forest fires converged near Sula into a firestorm that overran 100,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes. I've been doing this for 20 years and it ranks in the top three days of fire behavior I've seen." I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. On 6 August 2000, as several fires converged in the Bitterroot National Forest near the town of Sula in western Montana, John McColgan, a fire behavior analyst in the employ of the USDA Forest Service, snapped the spectacular photograph shown above with a digital camera and described the experience to a writer for the western Montana newspaper The Missoulian: By the month of August, more than 4 million acres (an area greater in size than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined) had been burned by wildfires, and dozens of blazes raged out of control in eleven western states, with nearly half of the conflagrations occurring in Idaho and Montana. The year 2000 brought one of the worst fire seasons in half a century to the United States. Since he was working while he took the picture, he cannot sell or profit from it so he should at least be recognized as the photographer of this once in a lifetime shot. This awsome picture was taken in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on Augby a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska by the name of John McColgan with a Digital camera. A Once in a Lifetime Photo of a forest fire in Bitterroot Forest/Montana ![]()
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