1.0 link 62566 <![CDATA[Larry Craig's Dry Hot American Summer]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ames/larry-craigs-dry-hot-amer_b_62566.html Most people don't know from Idaho. Potatoes, they think. Or "How is Utah?" they will ask, five years after you moved there.

So, on August 20, when Governor "Butch" Otter officially declared Idaho an inferno, the Gem State started making headlines. Five percent of the state's 83,574 square miles were aflame. Massive wildfires raged everywhere Idahoans like to go on the weekends. In the Boise, Salmon-Challis, Payette, Clearwater and Sawtooth National Forests, weekend hikers reached mountain summits to...

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