The Daily Inter Lake has traditionally made a real effort to stay on top of fire season news. Today, they posted a retrospective of the biggest fire seasons of the last decade, all of which, especially the 2001 and 2003 blow-ups, had a big impact on the North Fork.

Here are the links . . .

‘Mega-fires’ change landscape

2001: The year Moose Fire roared for 71,000 acres

2003 a monster year for fires

2007 fires scorched more than 400,000 acres