Seattle’s Summers Should Be (a Bit) Smoky

Wildfire smoke should have been a natural part of Seattle's summers, but we stupidly put out every wildfire we could find. Now the climate is warming and the fires are back.by Lester BlackThe Carlton Complex fire in 2014. Lester Black
When Mark Twain arrived in Olympia on an August day in 1895 his welcome party had an apology for him.“I am sorry the smoke is so dense that you cannot see our mountains and our forests, which are now on fire,” said John Miller Murphy, the editor of the