Wiley Ranch Diary, July 2000 Beef. Org Main Menu Beef. The fires were headed where their cows summer pasture and no one is allowed in to even look. They've already found some dead calves.
Fires are so catastrophic, especially when everything is so tinder dry.
I just hope we have no fires on this ranch because it is so dry there would be absolutely no way to stop it. All of us out here in the Bull Mountains are taking all the precautions to prevent fires, and also to go looking for them. I figured if I combined June and July I would have a bunch more to write about, which I do. Since we were forced into irrigating in May we got all our first cutting of hay off the irrigated ground in June, then irrigated most, but not all, those fields again. Our irrigation water got shut off around the 3 rd of July so no one along the canal can irrigate any more.