The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 90National Geographic Society, 1946 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 73
... Forest Service planned to employ women the following year , I knew that I had found my wartime service for summer vacations : I should be a lookout , or forest guard , on some mountain peak . I was sure I could adapt myself to the iso ...
... Forest Service planned to employ women the following year , I knew that I had found my wartime service for summer vacations : I should be a lookout , or forest guard , on some mountain peak . I was sure I could adapt myself to the iso ...
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... Forest , preceded a series of lightning fires . At left , a woman lookout watches from her station atop a neighboring peak . Lightning starts about 90 percent of this region's forest blazes . Since the area is so sparsely populated ...
... Forest , preceded a series of lightning fires . At left , a woman lookout watches from her station atop a neighboring peak . Lightning starts about 90 percent of this region's forest blazes . Since the area is so sparsely populated ...
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... forest , lighted a cigarette , threw down a burning match , and started one of the biggest fires in this area . I recall those burned - over acres which spoiled part of my view during my second summer ugly scars , wasted timber , now ...
... forest , lighted a cigarette , threw down a burning match , and started one of the biggest fires in this area . I recall those burned - over acres which spoiled part of my view during my second summer ugly scars , wasted timber , now ...
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France | 12 |
Bat banding | 125 |
Arkansas Resources and Development Committee | 273 |
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