Long and interesting article in the Times about wild fires, fire policy, wilderness use, and sprawl...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/magaz ... .html?_r=0
News to me: it was an unwatched, banned-for-the-season campfire that started this year's Yosemite blaze.
-payslee
speaking of wildfires....
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