WHERE DID SMOKEY THE BEAR GO? FIRE IS NICE is my newest novel, out in early 2018. Its setting is the glorious Sequoia/Kings National Park, all 461,901 acres of forest, half of those acres brimming with old growth forest. If you haven’t been awed by the size of a 2,000 year-old Sequoia, then you need go stand beside one of those redwoods soon! My novel is peopled with Interpretive Rangers (the friendly folk who take you on tours and help you in the National Park Visitors Cen