Retired smokejumper Doug Bird examines one of the original FS1 parachutes hanging at the loft of the McCall Smokejumper Base with Base Manager Todd Haynes. Bird and several hundred retired smokejumpers gathered in McCall this weekend for the 80th Region 4 Smokejumper Reunion. Photo by Max Silverson/The Star-News
BY MAX SILVERSON The Star-News Retired McCall smokejumper Doug Bird traveled to Siberia in 1975 to teach his Soviet counterparts how the Payette National Forest…
