Stories and Reflections of a Wisconsin Forest Ranger

Thursday, March 6, 6-7pm. Retired forest ranger, Blair Anderson, will provide insight and great stories about what it's really like to be a forest ranger. Come with lots of questions.
Get a sneak peek - Blair Anderson will be on the Larry Meiller Show on Wednesday, February 26 at noon.
About the book:
America's deadliest forest fire was not out West. It was in northern Wisconsin, the Great Peshtigo Firestorm of 1871 where 1,200,000 acres burned and as many as 2,500 people lost their lives. That tragedy quite literally sparked the need for forest rangers in Wisconsin. Blair Anderson was one of those Rangers, fighting fires in Wisconsin for more than 30 years in Sauk, Iowa, Dane and Richland counties and beyond.
He shares his stories of putting out forest fires, preventing them, investigating them, and educating people about them in his new memoir, When the Smoke Clears: Stories and Reflections of a Wisconsin Forest Ranger.
The book details a job that many fantasize but few really know. Here, he sets the story straight on what the life of a forest ranger really is about: working with fire departments, police, district attorneys, and lots and lots of regulr folks and, yes, tackling forest fires.
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About the author:
The author is retired and living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. With a long life of blessing, he has settled into a stage of giving back from the abundance. An unrepentant storyteller, he is putting together collections of different stories from various parts of life, of which this is one.