JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to STEVEN HORN at 22:02 on 11 Sep 2004:

 JW> Yeah, I know you took a major hit. Our last "big" fire 5 years ago
 JW> was just 100,000 hectares.

Just think of how many morels you could get from 2,000,000 hectares.:-)

More seriously, this was not one single fire but a combination which led to
my having to draft an emergency order late on a Saturday evening in August
which covered a lot of land.  That it was the area where most of the placer
mining is now done just made matters worse.:-(

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}gmail.com)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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