I enjoyed the video created by student Piper Sehman; it was well done and presented a very thoughtful message to all of us that do have fireplaces in our homes and do enjoy a fire on those cold mornings.

What I’m afraid that student Piper Sehman is not aware of, is that it’s common for the Dept. of Interior, The U.S. Forestry Service, to burn the fuels, as they love to call them, of pine trees and the like instead of putting them through a “chipper” and then using the chipped bark, etc. in a more useful manner.

Instead, they just randomly set fires throughout our National Forest and after setting these numerous fires, which are often left unattended for days, to just burn day and night, of which the smoke from these fires covers hundreds of square miles, including the Phoenix area. Maybe the thought of curbing the smoke from someone’s fireplace would be better suited if applied to the U.S. Forest Service for its pollution of our air.