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"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
I was out riding this past weekend and had to clean the muskeg off my machine a couple times, burnt some skin off my hand, but it's better than a forest fire. Fire hazard awareness should be mandatory for any off road operating. I came across a smoldering pile of muskeg a couple years ago, would have burnt up my favorite riding area if I never happened by.
The year of the Slave Lake fire I was driving near calling lake and saw a guys quad start the dry grass on fire in the ditch of the highway. Another vehicle stopped for the fire and I got the guy to stop on his quad. He didn't believe that a quad could start a fire even though you could smell the smoldering muskeg on his quad as we talked.
burnt side by side
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