written by Will Boyd, Education Director, Friends of the Clearwater
Scott Russell, resource adviser for the Rattlesnake Fire and Nez Perce Forest fish biologist, met me at the Elk City Ranger Station late morning August 16. I had followed a Forest Service pickup with two pallets of fire wrap down the grade from smoky Grangeville, Idaho. The air was clear on the South Fork, safe from the wind blown smoke of the Poe Cabin fire south of White Bird and the short-lived Little Canyon fire which flared up and was contained by resourceful farmers.
