
Fire Season
''I''ve watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there''s a better job anywhere on the planet, I''d like to know what it is.’
For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfir...
''I''ve watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there''s a better job anywhere on the planet, I''d like to know what it is.’
For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfir...