 | Iowa's Woodlands - Conservation vs. Preservation
Forest harvesters, managers, conservationists and preservationists each have their own views as to what humans' role should be in Iowa's woodlands.
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| Iowa Forest Management
A timber harvester explains his views about conservation and the methods he uses to maintain his forests.
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| Outdoor Jobs: Prescribed Fire Lighter
Since forest management today involves the purposeful lighting - as well as fighting - of fires, this career requires someone who is skilled in both.
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| Prescribed Natural Fires
After fighting forest fires for nearly a century, the Forest Service is now experimenting with reintroducing natural fires into the ecosystem.
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| Mixed Conifer Forests of the Santa Catalina Mountains
The highest elevations of the Santa Catalina Mountains are home to mixed conifer forests similar to those found in the northern Rocky Mountains.
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| History of Idaho's Wilderness Preservation
Find out how Idaho played a role in the origin and evolution of wilderness preservation in the United States.
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| Wilderness Preservation and Logging
Members of the logging industry present their points of view on how wilderness preservation affects their livelihood.
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| Forestry on Lake Pend Oreille
A forester promotes alternative logging practices when clear-cutting threatens to harm local ecosystems on Idaho's Lake Pend Oreille.
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| Indiana Woodlands Management
Since the National Forest does not permit modern machinery to do maintenance work, the Forest Service must rely on old-fashioned methods.
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| Idaho's Targhee Forest
To protect the watershed on the Henry's Fork River, logging that has long taken place in the Targhee Forest will soon be restricted.
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| Dynamiting Trees
Two forestry workers have the unusual job of dynamiting trees to create snags, which provide natural habitat for forest creatures.
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| Forestry Service at Hells Canyon
Despite lack of funds and controversy over land use, the Forest Service has been in charge of managing the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.
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| The History of St. Joe River Country
Idaho's 'gentle river,' the St. Joe, served as a lucrative site for the timber industry at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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| Forestry on the St. Joe River
Idaho's great White Pine attracted the timber industry to the St. Joe River, where logging became a popular but dangerous occupation.
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