Jack Hughes
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Memories of a nation park ranger. This work has plenty of those from his 39 years skiing and hiking thousands of miles in Olympic, patrolling the backcountry, and working on hundreds of search and rescue missions. After a helicopter crash, with bone grafts and steel rods stabilizing his back, Hughes was back on his cross-country skis for Hurricane Ridge patrols. He got a taste for ranging as a U.S. Army scout mapping mountain routes in Korea at the...
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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
127 p. 23 cm.
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With its glaciated peaks, temperate rain forests, and ocean wilderness, Olympic National Park has been called three parks in one. Efforts to protect and preserve these treasures began with the creation of a federal reserve in 1897, followed by a national monument in 1909, and then Olympic National Park in 1938. The 1920s and 1930s saw the building of many trails, shelters, and roads. In 1934, the U.S. Forest Service completed a primitive road to the...