Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters
Current price:
$25.95
Publication Date: May 8th, 2018
Publisher:
Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN:
9781517903411
Pages:
304
Description
On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making a campfire. Over the next two weeks, the fire he set would consume 75,000 acres of forest and 144 build
Praise for Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters
Skillfully wielding his narrative talent, Cary J. Griffith leads readers into the blistering heart of the 2007 Ham Lake fire, one of the most destructive in Minnesota history.
—Peter M. Leschak, author of Ghosts of the Fireground
Cary J. Griffith invites his readers beneath the smoke and flames of a running crown wildfire to show us the massive coordinated response to one camper’s carelessness. His precise research and his clearheaded storytelling serve admirably to unde
