According to the IMDb website, some portion of the movie Hostiles was filmed in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Does this look like Pagosa Springs? The movie is gorgeously shot, and the locations are breathtaking. Being somewhat familiar with Pagosa Springs, though, I'm having trouble matching any of the exteriors with anything within a 10-mile radius of Pagosa Springs. According to IMDb The railway station at Chama, New Mexico served as the stand-in for Butte, Montana. Chama is about 50 miles away from Pagosa Springs, and Pagosa Springs definitely sent some of its own down to Chama to serve as extras, one of whom is currently pedaling coal from the Chama location on Ebay. A big-budget movie filming in a community of 2000 is generally a newsworthy event. Filming of Hostiles took place in the summer of 2016, and Pagosa Springs' newspaper of record, the Sun , made no mention of stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, or director Scott Cooper hanging out at P
Welcome to Saratoga, Wyoming, and a private company called Saratoga Forest Management, which prides itself on its framing lumber produced from high-altitude Rocky Mountain Lodgepole Pine and Engelmann Spruce (they call their trademarked product "Saratoga Straights"). 
The fire, which started in and quickly spread throughout the storage yard, is essentially doused (cross your fingers) and did not encroach on the sawmill itself, which it within Saratoga city limits (I've eaten at an outside table at Hugus & Co, close to Bella's Bistro marked on this map, more than once):
All of this is a shame, because this company was doing something about the lack of natural forest fires in the Rocky Mountain region, which leads to overgrowth of unhealthy trees, which leads to insect infestation, which leads to uncontrollable forest fires. But what are you going to do? No houses or businesses were damaged, no lives were lost, and if the company can recover, or is allowed to stay in operation (the current owner revived the sawmill in 2013), now more than ever it will need to process a lot more trees from the Medicine Bow National Forest.
Comments
Post a Comment