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Smokejumper Magazine, April 2018 National Smokejumper Association Eastern Washington University EWU Digital Commons Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines University Archives & Special Collections April 2018 Smokejumper Magazine, April 2018 National Smokejumper Association Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag Part of the Forest Management Commons Recommended Citation National Smokejumper Association, "Smokejumper Magazine, April 2018" (2018). Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines. 105. https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/105 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Special Collections at EWU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Smokejumper and Static Line Magazines by an authorized administrator of EWU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The National Smokejumper Quarterly Magazine Association April 2018 Smokejumper Do You Remember the B-25? .................................................3 A Failure in Early Detection and Attack ..............................14 The Dawson Spike Base ...................................................... 32 CONTENTS Message from Message from the President ....................................2 Do You Remember the B-25? ..................................3 California 2017—The Thomas Fire Up Close and the President Personal ..........................................................5 A Midair Collision Over the Methow......................10 range of qualified candidates. Remembering Stewart “Lloyd” Johnson ................12 With that in mind, winners of The Whetstone Ridge Fire—A Failure in Early the scholarships in 2017 will Detection and Attack ......................................14 need to wait until 2019 before How Do You Stop Fires Under Our Current Climate Conditions?........................................19 they will once again be eligible Volunteer Trail Work ............................................21 to apply so that all six 2018 Small World ..........................................................22 scholarships will be accessible Snapshots from the Past........................................23 to new applicants. Kyle Hoyt Receives Al Dunton Leadership Award ...26 Applicants from 2017 that NSA Scholarship Program Expanded— Take Advantage! .............................................27 were not selected are encour- Chris Wennogle Receives Al Dunton Leadership aged to apply again in 2018. Award ............................................................27 by Jim Cherry The second decision was Rescue 1952.........................................................28 (Missoula ’57) concerning how NSA mem- The Jump List .......................................................28 President bership is interpreted. In Sounding Off from the Editor ................................30 Canadian Smokejumpers ......................................31 2017 the applicant needed to Dawson Spike Base ..............................................32 Recently I had the privilege personally hold membership Finding The Whitehorse Base................................38 of being part of a committee in the NSA as a jumper, pilot, Off the List ............................................................41 to name the 2017 recipients of or associate to receive points Odds and Ends .....................................................46 the Al Dunton Smokejumper in the scoring matrix that is Blast from the Past................................................48 Leadership Award. It’s up- used in selecting scholarship lifting to recognize the high winners. In 2018 an appli- quality of leadership rising cant who is a spouse, child, in the BLM and the USFS or grandchild of a current or represented by the individuals former jumper or pilot will selected for this award - Chris receive those matrix points if Wennogle (FBX-07) and Kyle the current or former jumper Hoyt (GAC-12). You can read or pilot is a member of the SMOKEJUMPER, Issue No. 100, April 2018 about these leaders elsewhere NSA. If there is any uncer- ISSN 1532-6160 in this issue. tainty regarding either of these Smokejumper is published quarterly by: Information about the changes, please feel free to The National Smokejumper Association c/o 10 Judy Lane NSA’s scholarship program is contact me for clarification. Chico, CA 95926 now available on the NSA’s You may reach me at jimcher- The opinions of the writers are their own and do web page at www.smokejump- [email protected]. not necessarily reflect those of the NSA. Permis- sion to reproduce Smokejumper in any manner ers.com. Once again, the NSA In 2015 we celebrated the must first be obtained in writing. will be offering a total of six 75th anniversary of the first NSA Website: http://www.smokejumpers.com $2,000 scholarships to quali- fire jump during an all-base Managing Editor: Chuck Sheley fied candidates. At the meeting reunion held in Missoula It Associate Editor: Ed Booth of the NSA Board of Directors was remarkably successful and Editing: K. G. Sheley in October 2017, a couple elicited many positive com- Photo Editor: Johnny Kirkley of changes were made to the ments. Since that time, there Illustrators: Dan Veenendaal, and Eric Rajala scholarship criteria. The first have been numerous inquiries Layout/Printing: Larry S. Jackson, Heidelberg Graphics, www.HeidelbergGraphics.com decision was made with the as when, where, or whether Front cover: Mitchell B-25 dropping retardant, intention of spreading these there are plans for another re- Alaska 1968 (Courtesy Don Havel) scholarships across a wide union. I don’t have an answer Check the NSA website 2 www.smokejumpers.com to any of those questions and to come up with Board. Before the end of 2018, I will be turn- some answers, the NSA Board will need to have ing 80 years old. I have notified the Board that input from you, our membership. I plan to step down from being NSA President Some of you have expressed a sense of urgency when we meet in Seattle in October. It’s time for because of advancing age, diminishing health, some younger blood to move the NSA forward etc. In fact, we have lost many of our pioneers in meeting the challenges ahead. I am thinking in smokejumping during these last few years, particularly about those of you who have been including some of those who navigated the 2015 able to take an early retirement and are blessed reunion to such a successful conclusion. To hold with health and vitality, as well as having a passion another reunion, we will need to have leadership for smokejumping and its past, its present and its rise from our ranks to take the banner and move future. I would be most eager (as would any of the it forward. A reunion is a great idea - but someone NSA Board members) to discuss with you what is must take on the task of putting the pieces togeth- involved with service on the Board of Directors. er. How about it? Anyone out there feeling the call Contact me at [email protected]. to the challenge? Let the NSA Board know. Finally, I want to put forward an appeal to our NSA members to contemplate whether you could/ should come forward and make yourself available to assuming a leadership position with the NSA Do You Remember the B-25? NSA Members—Save by Don Havel (Fairbanks ’66) This Information Please contact the following persons directly if remember. I remember the jump shack at Fort you have business or questions: Wainwright just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, Smokejumper magazine Iin the 1960s. I remember the loud banging Articles, obits, change of address noises coming from the engines on the B-25s that Chuck Sheley were used to drop fire retardant on Alaskan forest 530-893-0436 fires. To me they were the Harley Davidsons of the [email protected] Bureau of Land Management firefighting aircraft 10 Judy Ln. Chico, CA 95926 fleet. I remember jumping on fires and witness Membership those 25s swooping down at near tree top levels John McDaniel and dropping their retardant on the fires’ edge. 785-404-2847 But mostly I remember one B-25 in particular and [email protected] its pilot, Jerry Chisum. He flew N88972 which 807 Eileen Ln. Salina, KS 67401-2878 used a call sign of Antique One and was owned All else by Bob Schacht, who owned North Star Aviation. NSA President Jerry was 25 years old at the time. His talent was Jim Cherry unbelievable. To see him fly that plane reminded 641-927-4428 me of a swallow, easily skimming across the tun- [email protected] dra, swaying this way and that way as if in a ballet. 2335 300th St. Ventura, IA 50482-8502 I recently made contact with Jerry and he sent me the following information: Smokejumper base abbreviations: “Hello Don, I flew N88972, a B-25J, for Bob Anchorage ..........ANC Grangeville ........ GAC Redding .............RDD Schacht as ‘Antique One.’ I paint stripped it of Boise .................NIFC Idaho City .......... IDC Redmond ............RAC Cave Junction ........ CJ La Grande .......... LGD West Yellowstone WYS the Canadian Air Force colors, with the help of Fairbanks ............ FBX McCall ...............MYC Whitehorse Yukon YXY prisoners, so I could polish it. It was later taken Fort St. John ........ YXJ Missoula ............MSO Winthrop .........NCSB away from Fairbanks and restored as ‘Grumpy,’ Check the NSA website 3 www.smokejumpers.com Antique One dropping retardant, Alaska 1968 (Courtesy Don Havel) which I saw in Duxford, UK, about 8 years ago. October of 1943 at the North American Aviation The B-25s were outlawed from dropping in the facility in Kansas City, Kansas. It was one of 9,816 US and Canada
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