![]() He is there (with his dog, an important character) for a multitude of well-considered reasons: to witness, undiluted, an eclipse, lightning, sandstorm and fire (watching “pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke”). ![]() ![]() He combines explanations of his interest in the vocation with a professional’s thoughtful considerations on the role of fire in the greater environmental good. ![]() Former Wall Street Journal editor Connors ruminates on his eighth summer in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico.Ī small, glass-walled perch on stilts on the middle of nowhere-a fit milieu for misfits, from the curmudgeon to the bliss-seeker, as Edward Abbey and Jack Kerouac so amply demonstrated-but Connors brings a fresh eye to the fire-lookout job. ![]()
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