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Messages => News => Topic started by: geoff_smith on February 17, 2018, 04:35:55 PM
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(https://lockegenealogy.org/blog/20180217.big_burn.jpg)
Samuel Barron Locke IV, great-grandson of the ancestor from the Feb 4 post, in 1910 and fresh out of Yale Forestry School, went to work at the Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho.
That would place him there during the Big Burn, the castrophic wildfire in 1910 that burned three million acres in Idaho, Washington and Montana and that led to President Roosevelt's creation of the national forest service. He was deputy director of the park in 1913.
See video at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/burn (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/burn) or read the fascinating book by the same name http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751128730 (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751128730)