Bruce Parker

PNW Correspondent

Sparky is a 30-year veteran backcountry pilot living in Boise Idaho. As a member of the Idaho Aviation Foundation, he was instrumental in the re-building of the Big Creek Lodge. Sparky secretly plans to stow away on the next mission to the Moon. He covers the Pacific Northwest for We Report Space.

With a U.S. Forestry Service airplane like the one his father flew.

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FireX-AQ in Boise ID

July 23, 2019

Bruce Parker

NASA and NOAA are researching the chemistry of smoke from wildfires during the summer of 2019.