Tuesday was not a good day to be a dog aboard American Airlines flight 851 from Tulsa to Chicago. This was a connecting flight for 14 dogs, and when the airport workers began moving their kennels from flight 851 to their connections, they noticed the dogs appeared to be sluggish. Workers tried to cool the dogs and took them all to a local veterinarian, but half of the dogs expired.
I received an e-mail today from Darren Aliga of Trees for a Change, an organization dedicated to planting trees in the U.S. National Forests where wildfires have destroyed the existing trees.