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In the summer of 1910, hundreds of wildfires raged across the Northern Rockies.
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In 1910, a wildfire burned an area the size of Connecticut and killed at least 78 firefighters in just 36 hours.
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At the turn of the 20th century, Gifford Pinchot was the nation's preeminent forester.Â
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Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot saw fighting forest fires as being essential to the new Forest Service's mission.
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After the Big Burn, Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot publicizes the selfless actions of the fire fighters who lost their lives in the blaze.Â
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In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt worried that unless America's forests were protected and regulated, the nation's forests would soon disappear.Â
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In the summer of 1910, the Forest Service had less than 500 rangers nationwide.
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Watch Chapter 1 of The Big Burn .
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The Pulaski was created in the years just following the 1910 Big Burn by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Ed Pulaski, and it continues to be used by wildland firefighters to this day.
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Though the policies and attitudes towards managing wildfires have evolved over the last century, the destructive power of fire remains constant.
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Browse a photo gallery of the men who fought the Big Burn in 1910 and helped make the U.S. Forest Service what it is today.
Klansville U.S.A. |
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As the civil rights movement grew in the 1960s, the long-dormant Ku Klux Klan reemerged with a vengeance.
