The Copper Valley's Last Massive Forest Fire: The Wilson Camp Lightning Fire of 1981
COPPER RIVER HISTORY The Wilson Camp Lightning Fire Of 1981 Could Only Be Stopped By Nature It Was Kicked Off By A Mountain Thunderstorm O...
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COPPER RIVER HISTORY
The Wilson Camp Lightning Fire Of 1981 Could Only Be Stopped By Nature
It Was Kicked Off By A Mountain Thunderstorm One Afternoon, On June 17th
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| Forest fire in the Copper Valley (Courtesy DNR Tazlina) |
The first Copper River Country Journal was published in 1986. Five years earlier a major fire had stricken Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, across the Copper River. We had not started our newspaper at the time, but the fire was devastating.
So we wrote a story about that fire, and in the public interest we xeroxed the story on sheets of paper and distributed it at post offices and public locations throughout the region. In 1989, we reprinted the original tale in the Country Journal.
And now, in 2026, as fire season starts up around the road system of Alaska, here it is again:
THE WILSON CAMP LIGHTNING FIRE
EVEN THE COPPER RIVER COULDN'T STOP IT
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