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Burned Beauty

Here is another picture from the summer when I worked in the Hayman Burn area, Colorado. We worked by hand for days at a time to construct water erosion control structures across the Hayman landscape.

 

The sun was brutal, the work was hard and long. There were few paths, and fallen trees obstructed our travel in every direction. Every standing dead tree posed a danger, and the ground hurt to sleep on at night.

 

But, I cannot express to you how rewarding and how beautiful this summer was. Great work must be done in our nation's forests.

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Uploaded on April 11, 2014
Taken on June 18, 2012