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Since 2020 smokejumpers have averaged only 4.5 fire jumps each season. That’s a terrible under-utilization of an important firefighting resource. In the past we easily jumped twice that many, and some years four times as many. I’ve seen it many times while on the Duzel Rock lookout southeast of Happy Camp, California -- fires were not staffed for a day or two and then went big and cost tens or even hundreds of millions while the jumpers sat unused.

Former smokejumper writes about increasingly more dangerous job in Too Steep and Too Rough.

Join us for a conversation about the human and natural histories in, on, and around Puget Sound. Click here to register via EventBrite. David B. Williams will discuss his new book Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound with Mary Ann Gwinn. The event is presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company and University of Washington Press. This event is supported by The Seattle Public Library Foundation. Thanks to media sponsor The Seattle Times. ABOUT THE BOOK: Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp fores...

174-year-old geoducks and other mysteries of Puget Sound history April 21, 2021 at 9:24 am Author David B. Williams' at Richmond Beach in Shoreline; his new book is called "Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound." (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) It’s been a transportation system and a source of food, and it’s a body of water that underpins thousands of years of history and culture in this area. And now, Puget Sound is the focus of an ambitious new history book. The book from is from UW Press and is called What’s now called Puget Sound – known as “Whulg...

Can't get back up the way you came. too steep. was. working. >> reporter: what happened then? >> ax walked off behind the rock, i almost shot him. he sat indian style against my left hip and leaned against my right leg. he said i'm sorry, bro, i can't help you, i'm blind. they shot me in the face. >> reporter: the seals were surrounded. they hadn't gotten through on the radio so he says lieutenant mike murphy decided to move to a completely exposed position to get a signal on his satellite phone and call for backup. >> mikey pushed out under this boulder out in the middle of the draw in this...