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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
2) Archangel
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c1995
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A novel on eco-terrorism featuring Adam Gabriel, ex-fighter pilot turned defender of the environment. It begins with a logger in Maine cutting trees as fast as he can before a law turns a forest into a wilderness preserve. Opposing him is the woman editor of the local environmental paper, but her editorials do little good. Fresh from the eco-wars out West, Gabriel, whose home town this is, swings into action, spiking trees which causes chain saws...
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2003
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Sodra Jackson Kellogg manned the tower during the summers of 1960 and 1962 with her husband, Jim Jackson. This video describes life on the tower, the detection of forest fires, and the history of the Mt. Thorodin Fire Lookout from 1949 until it was dismantled in 1996. Also includes information about and images of other fire lookouts along the Front Range, From Wyoming border to Devil's Head Fire Lookout in the Pike National Forest.