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Craig Thomas Craig Thomas is a local consultant, who worked for Bill Grasser, the owner of a local ski area during 2000, and has a lot of interesting stories and ideas about what happened. He lives in Stevensville, Montana, in the Bitterroot Valley. He originally went to forestry school at the University of Montana, and worked for two different timber companies located in Montana for many years, until forming his own consulting business.
Three stories were selected from the interview and are located in the stories/articles section, and in addition, he wrote two articles which he submitted to us, and are posted in the stories/articles section. Direct links to those stories/articles is below:
    - Firestorm (story)
- Hailing the Helicopter (story)
- Protecting Bill Grasser's House (story)
- The Hypocrisy Factor (article)
- Observation, Comments, and Suggestions (article)


[ Craig's Interview ]





Gretchen Serwacki Gretchen Serwacki is retired, and she is a resident of the Springer Memorial community, located east of Sula, Montana, in the East Fork. She is involved with the community, and had a lot of personal experiences with the fires of 2000, their aftermath, and the community

[ Gretchen's Interview ]





John Meyers John Meyers is the manager for the large Shining Mountain Ranch, located in French Basin, east of Sula, Montana. The fires almost surrounded his ranch for more than 30 days while he worked at his ranch to protect as much land and forest as possbible.

[ John's Interview ]





Sherry Devlin Sherry Devlin is a reporter for the Missoulian newspaper, covering the environmental and natural resource beat. She won the 2000 Scripps Howard Foundation National Reporting Award for environmental journalism for her series of stories on the fires of 1910 and 2000.

Here are the links to Sherry's Articles/Stories:
    - Air 'unhealthy for everyone'
- A fire meant to save, actually destroyed
- A long, sad fire season for Salmon
- An Unusual Fire Season
- Check with reality
- Creating a flammable forest
- Firestorm sweeps over Idaho ranch
- Mountains of Fire
- Taming 'the Dragon'
- Tears, gratitude for the people who saved a valley
- The valley is bound to burn
- Uncontrolled Flames




Jane Lambert is a long time resident of Stevensville, Montana, and a horse lover. Her husband, Eric, is an employee of Ravalli County Electrical Co-op, and she experienced some of the fires of 2000 firsthand.

Here are the links to Jane Stories:

   - From Fire to Firestorm
   - Fighting Fire, Catching Fire


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