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Gunflint Burning

Fire in the Boundary Waters

By (author) Cary J. Griffith
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, United States
Published: 8th May 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 38mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN-10: 1517903416
ISBN-13: 9781517903411
Barcode No: 9781517903411
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Synopsis
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

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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 Gunflint Burning brings the adrenaline, the falling ash, the smell of smoke, and the jarring scream of a crown fire to its detailed narrative of a wildfire in one of America's best-loved wilderness areas. Cary J. Griffith carries the re In Gunflint Burning, Cary J. Griffith has penned the consummate story of one of the great wildfire disasters in the history of Minnesota. Expertly reported and cleverly written, this account of the Ham Lake fire of 2007 reads like a thriller