Ham Lake (Minn.)-History

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Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters

by Griffith, Cary J.

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Intro -- Contents -- Map of the Ham Lake Fire -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Before the Storm -- 1 Stephen Posniak -- 2 The Weather Begins to Turn -- 3 The Burning of Windigo Lodge -- Fire Day One -- 4 Preparation -- 5 Volunteers and Water -- 6 Posniak Strikes the Match -- 7 Fi…

On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making a campfire. Over the next two weeks, the fire he set would consume 75,000 acres of forest and 144 buildings. More than one thousand…