It s a bit magical to walk through the sunny birch forest on the University of Alaska toward the theater and find oneself suddenly transported to another world.
The East Fork Fire, currently burning in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, is the largest fire on record in the area, having burned some 125,000 acres so far, according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.