What'll it be, good stewards or bad slumlords?

Peering across seemingly endless miles of forestland from the rim of Oregon’s Crater Lake can certainly take one’s breath away.

But so can stories and statistics about when that green turns to grey after the invasion of wildfire.

That thought occurred last week while returning to civilization following the better part of four days spent incommunicado on a rafting adventure on the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon.

As soon as the cell service kicked in and the wave of push notifications rolled across my phone, among the items was news of the Klamathon fire in the eastern part of the state. As...