Wilcox Outlet Flatwater

About a mile west of Wilcox Lake, there is a section of flatwater marsh of the Wilcox Lake Outlet. The Willis-Wilcox Trail follows this marshland in the distance for a while, before eventually turning to the north, then crossing the Wilcox Outlet in a more narrow part of the stream.

Taken on Saturday June 9, 2018 at Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

Canada on track for its worst-ever wildfire season | Reuters

Canada on track for its worst-ever wildfire season | Reuters

anada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday.

Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and federal government officials said their modeling shows increased wildfire risk in most of Canada through August.

Air quality levels in parts of the U.S. plunge as Canada wildfires rage

Air quality levels in parts of the U.S. plunge as Canada wildfires rage

Millions of people in the eastern United States faced unhealthy air quality conditions on Tuesday, as smoke from wildfires in eastern Canada wafts over much of the country.

An air quality advisory was in effect for several regions of New York state on Tuesday. Air monitoring stations on Tuesday afternoon in some parts of New York City showed measures considered unhealthy for anyone.

It marked the second day that hazy skies across a wide swath of the country. Smoke blanketed the landscape from the Ohio Valley to as far south as the Carolinas on Monday. Air quality advisories were in effect Monday in southeastern Minnesota and parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, as well as in more than 60 counties in Wisconsin on Monday.