[Magdalen] The wind has SHIFTED!.

[Jay Weigel]

That's where the cranberry bogs are now, David. I remember as a child
hearing the forecasts for the cranberry bogs on the morning weather report
on WHA radio. (No TV back then in our house)

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/12/2016 11:26:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
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> One must  always remember the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, unfamiliar to most
> because it  occurred at the same time as the more famous Chicago fire and
> in
> a  lesser-known area with poor communications, but known to every
> Wisconsin
> school child because it's taught in Wisconsin History classes in  fifth
> grade...or was (God knows what Scott Walker has done to the  curriculum).
> It
> was possibly the largest fire in recorded history, covered  an immense area
> and forever changed the forest type there. I refer you  to
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshtigo_Fire>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> As a good, native Wisconsinite, I was thinking of the Peshtigo Fire  when
> I mentioned the forest fires in the NW section of Wisconsin.  The  Peshtigo
> Fire burned areas that are well north of the Botanical Tension Zone,  and
> the original forest type (pre-European settlement) is listed in the "Bible
> of
> Wisconsin Botany" Curtis' "Vegetation of Wisconsin" as a  combination
> of "Conifer - Hardwood Forest and "Pine Savannah," the latter being
> open pine stands with little underbrush.  The pine species in this  region
> would be Eastern White Pine (P. strobus) and the hardwoods dominated
> by true Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) and other hardwoods.
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> I've never been in that far eastern stretch of Wisconsin, so I can  not
> attest to the present post-Fire forest make up.
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> Fortunately, none of the fires over in the NW section of the State  ever
> reached such awful proportions.
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> David Strang.
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