Salina residents warned not to set fires to remove massive log jam

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By KAKE Staff Click here for updates on this story    SALINA, Kan. (KAKE) -- The Salina Fire Department is warning residents that they

Salina residents warned not to set fires to remove massive log jam

By KAKE Staff Click here for updates on this story     SALINA, Kan. (KAKE) — The Salina Fire Department is warning residents that they could face arson charges if attempting to remove a massive log jam by fire on the Smoky Hill River after a nearby fire over the weekend. Around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, firefighters responded to a report of a small log pile on fire along the river near Indian Rock Park, about 200 yards north of the much larger log ja…

The Great Raft - Futility Closet

For more than half a millennium, between the 12th century and the 19th, an enormous log jam clogged the Red River in the Southern United States. By the early 1830s, it stretched more than 160 miles, with new logs and vegetation accreting at its upper end while older material decayed and washed out at the lower. By the start of the 19th century the mass was blocking settlement in the area west of Shreveport, so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hi…