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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Job with Room and Board

Job with Room and Board

Taylor, John B.
MacLean, John N.

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Biographies GeneralAgricultureRegional: West

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ISBN10: 0878426396
ISBN13: 9780878426393
Publisher: Mountain Pr
Published: Jun 15 2015
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In 1907 at the age of eighteen, John B. Taylor took a summer job with the US Forest Service�mapping the wilderness and cruising the timber in the as-yet-unroaded Swan Valley in Montana. The job came with room and board�over a million acres of room and plenty of grouse to supplement the salted pork and hard crackers they brought with them. During the school year in his hometown of Missoula, he studied classics at the university, but after witnessing the brutal exploitation of timber along the Blackfoot River, he decided that �live trees beat dead languages.� He headed to the University of Michigan School of Forestry and obtained degrees in botany and forestry. After a stint in the US Army in World War I, he worked his way up through the Forest Service ranks, serving as ranger, range examiner, timberman, forest supervisor, and assistant regional forester in charge of personnel. His colorful stories portray life during the early days of the Forest Service, when travel was by horse and rangers carried guns. His day-to-day jobs included fighting fires, rounding up wild horses, disposing of moonshine stills on national forest land near Butte during Prohibition, and hiring down-and-out men for the CCC during the Depression.

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