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©2009
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x, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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The Northwest has been at the forefront of forest management and research in the United States for more than one hundred years. In The U.S. Forest Service in the Pacific Northwest, Gerald Williams provides an historical overview of the part the Forest Service has played in managing the Northwest's forests.
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[2015]
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xii, 382 pages ; 25 cm
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A provocative new collection of short stories by the New York Times best-selling and Hugo Award-winning author of Kraken explores a range of styles and forms to explore an alternate universe where nature provocatively renders the human race an endangered species.
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[2018]
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pages cm
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The US Forest Service was established in 1905 and for the following 60-70 years was staffed primarily by men engaged in the production and harvest of timber. Social and economic changes that emerged from the civil rights and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s, however, changed the scope and priorities of the service and created opportunities for women to find employment within the agency. Here, career Forest Service employee Lauren Turner...
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On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts back together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy.
Young Men and Fire won the National
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Pub. Date
c2010
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i, 364 p. ; 21 cm.
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"One mistake can ruin a life. One mistake can transform it. A government forestry camp set deep in the mountainous forests of the Pacific Northwest might not seem the likely place to find redemption, but in 1935, Park Hardesty hopes for just that. Blaming himself for the fiery accident that caused his brother's disfigurement and the death of the bootlegging woman he loved, planting trees, building bridges and mentoring tough, homesick New Jersey boys...
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Pub. Date
2000
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xv, 447 p. : ill, maps ; 23 cm.
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As a seasonal ranger in Olympic National Park early in his career, Carsten Lien discovered the shocking truth. Flouting the law, and contrary to public expectation, the National Park Service was logging the very land it was supposed to preserve. Lien vowed to uncover the story behind the destruction. In Olympic Battleground, Lien documents more than one hundred years of political chicanery, citizen activism, bureaucratic failure, and the loss of primeval...
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Pub. Date
1991
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215 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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One hundred years ago, Chris Morgenroth staked a homestead claim on the forested banks of the Bogachiel River in the western Olympics. He was 18. Three years earlier, in flight from service in Bismark's army, he had jumped ship in New York. Although he came to the far west by rail, he was a true pioneer. The trails he cut on the Olympic Peninsula between the Queets and Quillayute rivers have become part of U. S. 101 - the Olympic Loop highway. The...
12) Fire lookouts
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Access vertical file of Archive collection at Port Angeles Main Library.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm
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"In the 1880s the U.S. Forest Service didn't hire women, thinking they couldn't handle the physical challenges of the work, but Hallie Morse Daggett overcame discrimination to become the first woman "fire guard" hired by the U.S. Forest Service"--
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