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Workshop Therapy – Forging a Butte Creek Wild Chinook Salmon

July 28, 2022March 9, 2022 by Zeke Lunder

What does a metalwork have to do with wildfire? It takes a lot of welding and wrenching to run a mobile wildfire mapping operation, and I built up a pretty good shop during the years we started and ran Deer Creek Resources. When I sold DCR to Firestorm, in 2017, I kept the shop. The … Read more

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