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Article: A very hot potato. (Jeff DeBonis, Forest Service timber-sale planner)
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- American Forests
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- March 1, 1990
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Like a raccoon caught in the glare of a flashlight, Jeff DeBonis, 38, looks disarmingly harmless, smiling out of a coal-black night on Oregon's Willamette National Forest. In his loggers' boots, Levi's, and sky-blue Patagonia jacket, he's the kind of no-tricks, nothing-held-back guy you'd buy a plate of spaghetti for -as I did recently. Earlier that evening last summer, at the Forest Glen Cafe in Blue River, he had sat twirling his dinner on a fork, talking about sailing and wind surfing, backpacking and outdoor photography, a former girlfriend, an ex-wife.
The Forest Service timber-sale planner had met me in darkness on the banks of the deep-swirling McKenzie ...