Gunflint Burning: Fire in the Boundary Waters

The story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters’ battle, the human toll

On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seven…

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