A 60 Minute Break
from wildfire smoke
This featured panorama snapshot was taken yesterday, July 12, 2021, right out the front door. The wildfires are raging again in Washington, Idaho, Northern California, and at home in Oregon.
The latest jet stream has pushed the smoke into the far northeastern part of Oregon, aka Wallowa County. If we are lucky we can open our windows for an hour in the evening and for a brief period in the early morning. We pray for the all the fire fighters who are out there risking their lives to protect what is dear to us. Our homes, pets, livestock, flora & fauna, and of course, our wildlife!
Friends and acquaintances of ours have lost their crops and farm equipment. Every time that happens, it means the food chain may get a little more interrupted, and the consumer will feel the result at the grocery store.
Even though our planet has experienced climate change for billions of years without any human presence, we can now see the results of extreme neglect or complete absence of public land management by the Federal Government that have been going on for decades. It has increased the effects of climate change dramatically with additional and unnecessary carbon footprints that can cause respiratory illnesses, cancer, and death, regardless of species.
~ Angelika Ursula Dietrich – Wild Horses Thunder
PS: I ask you kindly not to leave a politically inspired comment. Farmers and ranchers who steward the land 24/7, 365 days a year in modern times, have known forever that if you leave the land to itself in the hopes that “Mother Earth” will take care of itself, the results will be nothing less than devastating.
Where does your food come from?
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