Peanut Gallery — Field Burning

I watched from my house in Rathdrum as the smoke rose from the field burning today. I walked outside and smelled it. I love it. It reminds me of my childhood in the Midwest (Camelot), when I used to rake and burn leaves, and nobody seemed to mind. It was the tradition of fall.

According to today’s Spokesman article on fieldburning, Patti Gora wanted precise locations of the burns “so people have a chance to run for their lives.” There has been smoke in the air for a week. Why haven’t they already run?

SAFE can’t stop forest fires. If you live in North Idaho, you live with smoke part of the time. I would rather see the smoke of fields burning a few days out of each year, than to see those fields turned into housing developments. Then we would have the issues of crime, sewage, water use, traffic, etc, all year long.

Pilgrim