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Article: Promoting a healthy and safe forest: forestry planning for resident camps.
- Article from:
- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Like most other camp administrators in Southern California and the rest of the drought-stricken portions of the western United States, I have kept a careful eye on the progression of bark beetle and the dead and dying trees they leave in their wake. Being part of the Girl Scouts of the USA, our camp has several "sister" facilities throughout the region. It was shocking to learn both before and after the devastating fires in October 2003 that most camps do not have forestry plans for their facilities.
When I first started in the camp industry, I began in the Pacific Northwest. There, dense forests were abundant. One literally could not see the forest for the ...