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The U.S. Forest Service escorted both groups out of Ogish on Tuesday afternoon. Crews walked with the seven canoeists across five portages through the heart of the burned area, picked them up in motorized boats on Seagull Lake and sped them back to Seagull Lake Outfitters. Forest Service safety officer Tom Kaffin said the escorts were partly to keep the canoers safe from falling trees and hot spots, and partly to get them off the smoky lake and out of the way of water-scooping tankers as quickly as possible.

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BIG TIMBER, MONT. — William Clark paddled down the Yellowstone 200 years ago, stopped here to eat, and continued downstream. The Shoshone woman-guide Sacagawea was with him, as were a band of explorers he and Meriwether Lewis led to the Pacific. Now, God and the Crow and the Sioux willing, Clark sought to join up with Lewis farther east, where the Yellowstone ties to the Missouri, and follow it on down to St. Louis.