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August 21st, 2021 A Comment on Wild Fire

                                                         A Comment on Wild Fire   This proved to be a rather lengthy comment I left on a fellow blogger's post in Wannaskan Almanac: https://wannaskanalmanac.blogspot.com/2021/08/forest-fire.html#comments  I decided it was more appropriate to put it here and maybe add some images.        When Chairman Joe and I interviewed Elmer Benson of Palmville, in 1994, he told us of the fire of 1910 (I think) around here, how many lost haystacks they had put up, and how the cedar forest burned; and the peat bogs. He said that some of the landscape changed as much as four feet in places where the fire burned its way through the peat. Elm...