Word: d9
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foresters have used enormous D9 Caterpillar tractors to help dig a 60-mile fire line around 40% of the blaze. Hoping to squeeze off some of the rest, Al West, an official of the Los Padres National Forest, ordered the construction of an eightmile, 30-to 40-ft.-wide road, cut by eight bulldozers near the fire's northern edge. West wanted to save an additional 25,000 acres of wilderness that forms the Carmel Valley Watershed; the effort failed, and now the water supply for 20,000 people around Monterey is threatened...