It's big business in the Western states. The national center for coordination of equipment and crews is located in Boise. Bus-loads and airplane loads of firefighters are transported all over the country as needs be. Firefighters from Australia and New Zealand are brought in when USA crews are spread too thin. USA crews are traded back there when needed. Civilian and military aircraft from C47's (DC3's), to four engine jets to Skiorsky (sp) Sky Crane helicopters are used to spread retardant. Local restaurants set up assembly lines to make up bag lunches for the crews. Federal and state firetrucks, fuelers and earth-movers of all sorts get in the act. Due to restrictive regulations and the boom/bust nature of mining and logging, unemployment runs high in most of the western small towns. People there count on fire season for their economic survival. Great pains are taken to prevent loss of life fighting wild-fires and the goal of most firefighting efforts is not to put the fire out, but to let it burn while keeping it as small as possible - containment. It's a good policy and it insures plenty of work for the people who need it. The national news rarely differentiates range-land fires from forest fires. The really huge ones (the burn from last years "Soda" fire can be seen from space) are usually range land fires and the invasive pox of cheat grass is the culprit.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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