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PostSun Oct 04, 2009 9:07 pm 
"In just two days in August 1910, the largest wildfire in U.S. history devoured 3 million acres in eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana, leveling five towns and numberless trees and leaving at least 85 people dead. Timothy Egan’s new book, The Big Burn, chronicles the doomed effort to fight the fire and the ensuing havoc, but it also tells a broader story, reflected in the book’s subtitle: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America." Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Timothy-Egan-on-The-Big-Burn.html Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan will present the 6th Annual Northern Idaho Distinguished Humanities Lecture on Thursday, October 8, at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. http://www.idahohumanities.org/?p=news_item&id=19

"of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt" - John Muir "the wild is not the opposite of cultivated. It is the opposite of the captivated” - Vandana Shiva
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PostFri Oct 09, 2009 11:07 am 
Earlier thread: https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14448&highlight=big+blowup

Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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