Dear friends,
Can a human on a mountaintop really be better at spotting wildfires than a camera and software? That was the question I kept getting when I told people this summer that I was going to Montana to visit some fire lookouts.
When I first got back, I sort of wished I’d found that the answer was a simple, exuberant “yes.” What I really found, however, might actually be more interesting.
Here’s my story, which is on today’s front page, with gorgeous photos by Mark Felix.
Ray