Smokey Bear with a hand-held drip torch at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base Museum in Oregon. Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs. Learn more at https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/34a1ea14-1890-4879-946c-84b7e25758ac/ and https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940 and https://southernfireexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-3.pdf and #smokeybear #forest #publiclands #photography #rxburn #prescribedfire #usfs #forestservice #smokey #smokejumper #museum #oregon #wildfire #history

Spent today volunteering with the Cook Country Forest Preserve doing a #PrescribedBurn in Somme Woods
#Fire #chicago #rxburn #PrescribedFire

Last year it was a big deal and very weird that spring #PrescribedBurn season in #CookCounty started in February. This year, it's starting tomorrow, and this is after a small wildfire broke out in the southwest corner of the county. The Forest Preserve's people actually went out to the fire and prevented the fire department from putting it out in favor of managing its path so the fire burned itself out. #chicago #rxburn #rxburning

One last burn for the year. Got some decent lift with slightly more stable winds #rxburn #PrescribedBurn #fire #Chicago

#RxBurn. Spears Woods; Cook County Forest Preserves.