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“Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?” A book review by Glacier Conservancy Exec. Director Doug Mitchell

by Doug Mitchell
| February 9, 2022 12:00 AM

When I hiked to the ruin of Sperry Chalet in June of 2018 with then Glacier Superintendent Jeff Mow, the smell of the 2017 Sprague fire was an acrid and eerie presence nearly every step of the way. As we prepared to greet the workers who would, like all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, put Sperry back together again, we couldn’t help but be both awed and sobered by the power of the fire. Little did I know that not six weeks later those same workers, sent to restore the damage caused by an historic fire, would be looking down on another epic blaze - this time the Howe Ridge fire that burned some 14,500 acres in August of 2018...

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