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DeanL	04/04/2018 12:19PM   Insula
jerryr	04/04/2018 01:10PM   Agnes
Savage Voyageur	04/04/2018 02:15PM   Knife
Stumpy	04/04/2018 02:15PM   Malberg
LindenTree3	04/04/2018 12:13PM   In the BW looking Southwest from camp, I think it's Southwest possible Northwest, I'll dig further. Pretty certian it is looking Southwest.
Jackfish	04/04/2018 03:40PM   Alice
mirth	04/04/2018 04:12PM   Ham
schweady	04/04/2018 12:24PM   Fourtown
Minnesotian	04/04/2018 12:55PM   Burnt
MN_Lindsey	04/04/2018 12:58PM   Not sure what lake it is, but I want to go there! That looks awesome!
LindenTree3	04/04/2018 03:12PM   Hint, The picture was taken in 2007, most of the shoreline looks different now.
treehorn	04/04/2018 03:33PM   Lake Four
Saberboys	04/04/2018 04:19PM   Lake Three
Mocha	04/04/2018 04:47PM   hudson
Michwall2	04/04/2018 05:37PM   Lake Polly
Mocha	04/04/2018 07:27PM   pagami
LindenTree3	04/04/2018 08:00PM   Hint, It is an entry Lake.
wrestlencanoe	04/04/2018 09:05PM   Isabella
HighnDry	04/05/2018 06:33AM   perent
DeanL	04/04/2018 06:53PM   One
ghamer	04/04/2018 06:57PM   Iron
LindenTree3	04/04/2018 06:55PM   Sorry, No new picures of this lake, I'm off the grid, and I can't find them in the cloud. Another hint. This Lake has one river flowing into it, by one name. The exit river, out of this lake has another name.
BigTim	04/04/2018 07:39PM   Cherokee
mvillasuso	04/04/2018 07:44PM   Stuart
QuietWaters	04/04/2018 09:11PM   Nina Moose Lake
egknuti	04/04/2018 09:52PM   Isabella?
BlackSwanAdventures	04/05/2018 07:31AM   kawishiwi
LindenTree3	04/05/2018 07:32AM   wrestlencanoe: "Isabella" You got it wrestlencanoe. Campsite is right where the Parent River comes in on the East side, it is a nice spot. Does anyone know if it survived the Pagami Fire. I havn't been back there since.
nicek	04/05/2018 07:42AM   October 2012. Site survived.
LindenTree3	04/05/2018 07:50AM   nicek: " October 2012. Site survived. " Thanks for the tip Nicek, I may have to go back there. I figured it probabally survived the fire, lots of Cedars there and the river raises the humidity, making those sites more fire resistant. The walkin/hiking trail campsite site across the lake by the portage and bridge also survived. I spent two weeks fighting the Pagami Fire around Isabella Lake between Bog and Section 29 Lakes.
nicek	04/05/2018 08:03AM   LindenTree3, thank you for your tremendous work fighting the wildfires. Those that get "out of hand' can change the environment and many lives for ever. Paddling post Pagami fire through Pietro and Clearwater with my son , we noticed campsites remained "green" as an oasis in the middle of the scorched forest. Question: do you (the fire fighters and the forest service) make any extra efforts to save the campsites. It looked to me almost as if the water was dropped from the air to protect the sites. Thank you.
LindenTree3	04/05/2018 08:50AM   nicek: "LindenTree3, thank you for your tremendous work fighting the wildfires. Those that get "out of hand' can change the environment and many lives for ever. Paddling post Pagami fire through Pietro and Clearwater with my son , we noticed campsites remained "green" as an oasis in the middle of the scorched forest. Question: do you (the fire fighters and the forest service) make any extra efforts to save the campsites. It looked to me almost as if the water was dropped from the air to protect the sites. Thank you." I am not aware of the Fire Service making water drops to save campsites, I never saw it in my career, but not saying it never happened. (I didn't fight that many fires in the BWCA) IMO, what saves many campsites from being burned is their proximity to water raising the humidity (especially if the fire enters those campsites at night). Most likely, what really saves many campsites from the fire making them look like an Oasis, are because of previous human activity, especially with the heavily used sites, Campers beat down the vegetation and compact the soils around campsites and remove much of the dead and downed wood to use for their campfires, while removing alot of the branches of nearby trees. If I remember correctly the Clearwater and Peitro Lakes fire area was from a burn previous to the Pagami Fire. (The Pagami FIre burned into that area making it look almost the same). I believe those lakes (Clearwater and Pietro area) were used as a burn out/backfire, and in that case fire crews would have most likely had hose lays and pumps to secure the fireline. In that case water drops may have been used, but most likely to secure the fireline, not to specifcally save campsites.
nicek	04/05/2018 09:30AM   Thank you. Always learning from this site. First hand reports are invaluable.