fire in alaska

a terrible fog welcomes us in dawson city, as you may see the sun is obscured by it. at first we think it was the dust coming from the digging for the gold search. but the dawsoners tell us that a big fire is burning the forests in alaska. no one is trying to estinguish it because they say it's the nature's cycle and they help the biodiversity. as a european cowboy I'm a bit astonished because on the way to north we saw entire landscapes destroyed by old fires. anyway lifecycle goes on here in the yukon.