Our friend Tim Ball sent us this email, so we thought we'd share it with you as an update to our story about peat fires. Peat fires even in the tundra are perfectly normal and common. They were a constant nuisance to us flying search and rescue across northern and arctic Canada. People would report smoke and so we developed maps marking where the fires burned to save time and money and potentially our lives. There was one set of fires reported by Alexander … [Read more...]