Controlled burns

In the past week, the National Forest Service, National Parks, and other agencies have been involved in several controlled burns of forests in Arkansas. The largest is in the National Buffalo River wilderness area. Since we are just a couple of miles upriver of the confluence of the Buffalo and White Rivers, we have observed a lot of smoke from the fires. Evening and night we were able to observe the actual lines of flames as they climbed up and down the mountains - actually a pretty impressive sight in my opinion - and I love the smell of a good leaf fire!