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FUEL It's a dangerous recipe: decades of fighting every forest fire have left many areas dangerously full of fuel--sticks, fallen timber, pine needles and brush. This year's drought has sapped the natural moisture from the ground...
...bear grass, huckleberry bushes, dogtooth violets and carpets of wild strawberry plants in the clearings. The smell of wild licorice is on the air. But the going is tough. "The road as bad as it can possibly be to pass," wrote Clark about this trail. "Emence quantity of falling timber." Several of the expedition's horses tumble down the hillside--one smashed Clark's writing desk; two others were too badly hurt to continue...
...embryos having delayed their implantation for months, waiting to see if there will be enough resources to support them. Are there enough resources to support them? The last unprotected roadless lands in the national forests have been charted as possessing less than two-tenths of 1% of America's timber supply. It seems to be a philosophical rather than an economic argument. As a nation, aren't we rich enough to set aside--for grizzlies as well as for our own need for spirit and diversity--these last frontiers? Who could argue against such ecological and economic prudence...
...home of old-fashioned Bugis sailing vessels like the Marco Polo. These are still built by hand in the style favored by Sulawesi's traditional seafaring folk in the southern port town of Bira. The Bugis have always been traders, filling the cavernous holds of their schooners with timber from Borneo to exchange for spices in the Moluccas. The Marco Polo, however, is designed to carry passengers, with seven simple bunks, a shower and a shaded gazebo on the upper deck...
...loved the outdoors, but working for the Forest Service was no picnic. Hernandez says Terry would mark timber for loggers, using spray paint that the wind blew into her face even as trees came crashing down around them. She went on ground patrol, sometimes stumbling over a corpse or a marijuana crop. Hernandez says she and her friend were victims of a sexual-harassment case, which was not settled to their satisfaction. That may have been one reason Barton decided to leave California in 1994. Another reason: to try to save her marriage...