Angela Street is a reluctant writer, earnest troublemaker and confirmed jack-of-all-trades who finds that conventional jobs make her cranky. She has a reliable aversion to staying in one place, but currently can be found cooling her heels in the Yukon.

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    Days of smoke and roses

    Every year from May until August, initial attack crews are deployed from Canadian district fire bases to help contain fires (and occasionally conduct prescribed burns) in Canada’s boreal forest. Like intelligence operatives, fire rangers often work in isolation and obscurity, in a remote and dangerous world hidden from public view. Welcome to the Big Wild.