How We Talked of Wildfires And How We Do Now

On July 11th, 1910, J.E. Kirkwood, a thirty-eight-year-old, Ivy League-trained botanist left the budding Northern city of Missoula, Montana by train, bound for the pine-choked peaks around the tiny outpost of Haugan. “The object in undertaking this trip was to gain a knowledge of the natural features of this country,” he would later report. “In the second place the operations of the Forest Service as carried out on the National Forests was made the object of special study,&rdqu