From the daily archives: Saturday, August 18, 2012

Idaho fires continue to add to air quality woes (updated). Yankee Fork being evacuated! Now Featherville too

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Halstead Fire threatens all the Salmon River Mountains NE and East of Stanley-
Trinity Ridge Fire’s advance prompts immediate full evacuation of Featherville area- 

Air quality in Idaho right now is the worst in a generation in many places, and we’re not even speaking of places immediate to the fires.

Three fires in particular […]

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey