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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2025

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; Ring of Fire: The Gobi Part II; A Smokejumper's Memory; Fire Town USA; The One I'd Like to Forget; Quartz Lake, Alaska, 1965; Basics of Military Contracting Work; Message from Lori Messenger; A Smokejumper's Western Legacy; No One Left to Say "I'm Sorry"; Introducing the 2024 NSA Scholarships Recipients; Feedback From the Field; My Dad Was Also on the Bataan Death March; Smokejumpers Who Left; North Needs to Fix Forest Fuels; Sounding Off; Notes From the Ranks; Odds and Ends; The Jump List; NSA Fund Contributions; Chasing Trains; National Smokejumpers Reunion Announcement (June 20-23, 2025).

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2024

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; Roger Savage Earns Master's with Historical Jump Database; Ode to My Friend Rod McIver; Milsy's Last Jump; Goat Mountain Fire; Ring of Fire: The Gobi 1966 - Pt. 1; Remembering Steve Wight; Mountain Pine Beetle and Forest Management; Ben Musquez: Vietnam Veteran, Airborne, Smokejumper; Odds and Ends; We All Need to Know Our Smokejumper History; "Animal Ed" Weissenback: The Final Chapter; Notes from the Ranks; The Sleeping Child Fire; Sounding Off from the Editor; Off the List; Three Benjamins; Catastrophic Reburns Threaten Forest Towns; New Faces; The Jump List; Environmental Lawsuits Have Direct Effect on Mortality; Legacy of the Siskiyou Smokejumpers Burns Bright; Rookie Observations; NSA Fund Contributions.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2024

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; A Tribute to a Smokejumper; Down the Yukon Alone; North Cascades Pararescue Operations, 1957-1989; What Happened to America's Middle Class?; How Bobby Montoya Saved My Life; GAC Goats; The Burning of Ruth; Gone But Not Forgotten: South Canyon Fire; Just Keep Them From Burning the Place Down; Remembrances; The Failures of Fire, Law Enforcement, and Other Agencies at the Lahaina, Maui, Fire; Sounding Off; Blazing A New Trail; Reflections on Wildland Firefighting; Odds and Ends; Notes from the Ranks; May 1981 Redding Smokejumpers Base; Off the List; NSA Fund Contributions; The Jump List.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2024

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; Remembering Mike Silva; Five Elements of Pro-Active Aging; The CIA and Smokejumpers; The Jump List; NEPA and Its Affect on Wildfire Timer Salvage: The Summit Fire of 1996; Sounding Off from the Editor; "Animal Ed"; Why We Wore Whites; Denali Revisited; Dear Current Jumper: An Open Letter; Against All Odds: "Jumping the Umpqua Old Growth with a 50-Foot Letdown Rope"; Redding Smokejumpers; 2023 Al Dunton Leadership Award Selections; Global Warming?; Not Forgotten; Odds and Ends; Notes from the Ranks; Off the List; NSA Fund Contributions.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2024

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; NSA/Smokejumper History Update -- Forgotten by His Country; First, Put Out the Fire: Blowtorch Forestry; The Effects of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on Management of National Forest Lands; The Jump List; Sounding Off from the editor; Who Is To Blame, and What Happened?; One Eye Fire -- Fifty Fire Seasons Ago -- Training Interrupted Rookie Class Jumps First Fire After Five Training Jumps; Speak Softly and Plant Big Trees: American Foreign Policy for the 21st Century; Introducing You to the 2023 NSA Scholarship Awardees; Introducing You to the 2023-2024 NSA Education / Training Grant Awardees; Leo Cromwell -- One of the Best; NSA Supports Wildland Firefighter Paycheck Protection Act; Odds and Ends; Climbing in Alaska, Argentina, and Africa; Notes from the Ranks; Lookout; Off the List; Hotshot Crew Members Killed in the Line of Duty; Seven Days with the Grizzly; Lessons from Frank.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2023

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine, contains the following articles: Message from the President; A Smokejumper's Ethical Challenge; Erne Abides: A Ghost Story; Response to Conor Hogan's "Defending the Tribe"; The Jump List: Men of 1957; Sounding Off from the Editor; Honoring the Mann Gulch Smokejumpers on the 75th Anniversary; Mr. Larry Looney Was My 7th Grade Teacher; Jerry Ogawa -- Breakfast in Fairbanks; Yergy's Sauna 1973-2023 Is 50 Years Old; The Muster at Massanutten; Odds and Ends; Jumping into Fire in Twisp 2023; Lost on the Seward Peninsula Alaska; Notes from the Rands; Men and Women That Don't Fit In; Off the List; Not Forgotten.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2023

  National Smokejumper Association

  Message from the President; Denali, the Great One—An Early Ascent of North America's Highest Peak; The Jump List; Motorcycles Are Not Approved for Packouts; Randy Hurst; Small Town Connections; Lost Horizons; Odds and Ends; Whites OFF The Breaks; Moose Tracks in the Timber; Notes from the Ranks; Sounding Off from the Editor; Jack Demmons Remembered; Fighting Wildfire During Extreme Burning Conditions; "Too Steep and Too Rough"; Off the List; Not Forgotten; Public Involvement; So - Is There a Fee?; Fire Jumps in One Season; The Legend of Black Water Canyon;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2023

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Static Line, contains the following articles: Message from the President; 1958: The Best Summer Ever Part 2: Tanoak and the Old Glory Fire; Defending the Tribe; Landowners File Suits Against USFS—Chetco Bar Fire Oregon; Recollections of My Rookie Year; Cinnamon Marked the Time; History Preservation..............................................17 Too Steep/Too Roughy—A New Book....................19 Odds and Ends; Input from Jumper Who Lives Outside the City; Moose Creek 1959 "Let's Not Forget; Save Our National Forests with Shaded Fuel Breaks; Touching All Bases; The Rescue Jump for "Animal" Ed Weissenback; Catastrophic Fire Awareness, Prevention, Response, Suppression and Recovery; Sounding Off from the Editor; The Jump List, the Men of 1957; Off the List; Not Forgotten; Remembering Dave Owen;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2023

  National Smokejumper Association

  Message from the President; Daren Belsby"Good Luck on Your End of Jumping; The Docent of the Gobi and North Cascades; So, What Goes on Inside a Smokejumper Aircraft?; 1958: The Best Summer Ever Part 1: Aurora Borealis; The Concept of Managed Wildfire; Smokejumper Training Thwarts Hijacking of Pan-Am Clipper 73"Jack Ridgway Story; Mark Corbet, A Remarkable Human Being, Great Smokejumper, and Just "A Real Nice Guy!"; Odds and Ends; Feedback from the 2022 Boise Reunion; The Look; The Salmon River Devil Winds; Higgins Ridge Film Premieres in Missoula; Allen "Mouse" Owen (CJ '70) Legend; Sounding Off from the Editor; A Jumper's Reprieve; The Jump List; Smokejumper Profile; Notes from the Ranks; In Defense of Red Tape: Debunking Several Myths about NEPA; Not Forgotten; A Tribute to Fred Rohrbach;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2022

  National Smokejumper Association

  Alex Coolidge Wrestling Champ; Remembering Francis B. "Pappy" Lufkin; Forest Fires and National Defense Policy (2021); "Ve get too soon old, und too late schmart." Letter from Ron Pond; A View of the Largest Wildfi re in the History of New Mexico; Odds and Ends; Wheels Off; Mitch’s Last Jump; Seventy-Seven Years Ago in Smokejumper History; Recording Smokejumper History; 1947 Rookies—The Post WWII Era; NSA History Preservation Project; The Four Texan Fire; Not Forgotten; Final Request; Farewell to "Animal" Ed Weissenback; Getting Old; Sounding Off from the Editor; Doug Houston Memorial; The Jump List, Men of 1955; Mess Hall Crisis—Fairbanks 1964; Dave Nelson 1935—2022—A Good Run; NSA, NFFE, and Grassroots Promotes Benefits for Smokejumpers; Notes from the Ranks; Off the List; Final Request;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2022

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Militant Environmental Activism; My Year in South Vietnam; "The Mouse that Soared" Book Review; Odds and Ends; National Smokejumper Association Position Statements; Recording Smokejumper History: 1945 Rookies-The End of the Civilian Public Service Years; Dixie Fire Destruction Didn't Have To Happen; Sounding Off from the Editor; Wildland Firefighters Not Served Well by Albuquerque Service Center; "Tell Us About Our Father"; Old Smokejumper Memories of High Mountain Two Jumper Fire; More Smokejumper's Stories (1954-56); Good Sam Funds at Work; NSA Restoring Our Nation's Forests & Rangelands; COVID Was the Leading Cause of Deaths on Wildfires in 2021; The Jump List, Men of the '50s; White's on the Breaks; Notes from the Ranks; Off the List; Idaho City Smokejumper Unit Sign Finds New Home;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2022

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Standing Tall-Making a Difference: Merv George, Supervisor Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest; Oakus of the Doakus on the Gobi; Odds and Ends; The Homecoming; Recording Smokejumper History; 1944 Rookies-The Civilian Public Service Years; NSA's Most Successful Membership Drive; Sounding Off from the Editor; That First Season-An Almost Love Affair; Siskiyou Rappellers-A Force That Does the Job; Ring of Fire; The Silent Mountain; Gates of the Arctic National Park-Alaska; The Jump List; Travel Air NC8182 Is Flying Again; Pick Your Own Tree; Touching All Bases; Interviews with Smokejumpers Who Left-Most for Local Fire Agency Jobs; Federal Wildland Firefighters-Use And Throw Away; Good Sam Fund and Other Projects At Work; Off the List; Help-We Need You; Candor Fire Observations; Caldor Fire Up Close and Personal;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2022

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; The Last Day; Odds and Ends; A Few Snippets from a Questionable Memory; Civilian Public Service—Smokejumpers; During the War Years; Idaho City Smokejumper—A Bit of History; Smokejumpers and the Olympics; Recording Smokejumper History; 1943 Rookies—The Civilian Public Service; Years; Sounding Off from the Editor; The Bad Old Days; The "Safety Card"; Mega Fires—Guest Opinion; Feedback from Current Fire Situation in; Northern California; The Jump List; Men of the '50s; Happy 100th Birthday, Luke Amon Birky; Eric The Blak’s Magnetic Declination and Water; Scoopers; Livin’ Off the Land; The Coming Firestorms—Opinion Piece; Letter from a Scholarship Winner; Introducing the 2021 NSA Scholarship Awardees; Off the List; Tim Hart’s Death Should Matter; Notes from the Ranks;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2021

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: A Tribute to Chuck Sheley-A Great Brother; My Story; What Torch?; A Smokejumper's Dream; Recording Smokejumper History; NSA Publishes 4th Book; Sounding Off from the Editor; Civilian Public Service-Smokejumpers During the War Years; Fastest to Get There; Off-Duty Jumpers; Snapshots from the Past; We Need Your Biography; The Jump List- Men of the '50s; The Good Sam Fund-Your Donations at Work; Odds and Ends; More Fires, Less Staffing Taking Toll on Wildland Firefighters; Another Case of Limited Resources-What About the 80 Smokejumpers?; Caring for Our Forests: The Key to Less Destructive Wildfires; Stocking Nugget Lakes By Air; A Gathering on Sacred Ground; Off the List; Living Our Best Life-Reflecting on Smokejumper Tim Hart's Passing; Gallatin Lake Rescue Jump;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2021

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; A Fire Season That Still Haunts Me; 1996 Malheur N.F.; View from a Spotter; Grassroots—Challenges of Being a Current Smokejumper; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Wildfire; Doug Bell—Missoula 1958; Sounding Off from the Editor; Should You Draw the Short Straw; A New Day for the Forest Service; Complexities of Afghanistan; Notes from the Ranks; Recording Smokejumper History; The Jump List, Men of the '40s; Odds and Ends; Organizations and Human Nature; Jump at the Chance!; Travis Atkins Awarded Medal of Honor; Where Have You Been Hiding, D. B. Cooper?; Ode To Bill Allred—Always Happy, Fun and Humble; Off the List; Good Sam Fund Helps Another Jumper;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, May 2021

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: The Main Reason for a Special Issue; Good Intentions; Having Correct Email Addresses Is Very Important .3 The Jump List; Odds and Ends; Kevin Norton—Naomi Mills 2020 Dunton Award Winners; Mooned; Two Fools Jump into Three Fools Pass; Off the List; Smokejumpers' Proud Legacy Helping Those Who Come After Them - Including Thousands of Blind Children; Cameron Peak Fire—Largest in Colorado History—Stopped at Old Burn; Pioneers from the Sky; Omar Mountain—My Tenth Jump; First Smokejumpers on the Olympic National Forest; A Memory of a Smokejumper Experience; Recording Smokejumper History;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2021

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Air America, The Ranch and The Veil of Secrecy; Sounding Off from the Editor; Family; Smokejumper "Flips"; Dick Johnson Best Pilot; Dry Lakes a Fire Use Event-Good Results; Shaky Acres Montana; Recording Smokejumper History; The Jump List; Legacy Jump List-A Call to Smokejumpers; Odds and Ends; The Greiners That I Knew; Former Jumper Builds One of Nation’s Largest Wildland Firefighting Companies; Off the List; Book Review; NSA Good Samaritan Fund Contributions; A Performance/Nutrition Perspective on the Smokejumper Food Box; The Big Rock Candy Mountain; Use of Forest Management to Mitigate Wildfire; Notes from the Ranks;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2021

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Me and Vietnam; Birth of a Tree Farmer; Sounding Off from the Editor; John McDaniel Retires As NSA Membership Chair; As I Best Remember It; The Jump List; Men of the '40s; Recording Smokejumper History; Four NSA Members Clear Trails In Eagle Cap Wilderness; Odds and Ends; Forest and Fire Management: A Call to Action; Remembering Matt "Blue Leader" Kelley; Off the List; Story of Two Wilderness Fire Firsts: Bad Luck and Fitz Creek; Notes from the Ranks; Introducing You to the 2020 NSA Scholarship Awardees;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2020

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Part II: Canopies Over the Kandik; Happy 50th, Earth Day!; Sounding Off from the Editor; Letters to the Editor; How I Value My Interagency Working Opportunities with Federal Agencies; On the Road to a National Wildfire Agency: Part III; What Happened?; Then and Now; The Jump List, Men of the '40s; Smokejumper Keep the Flame Legacy Jump List; Recording Smokejumper History; Paradise with a Wind Chill-Part II; A UFO Story; Margarita Phillips Memorial Project by the TRAMPS; A Day in the Lake; Snapshots from the Past; Red Shirt-Green Shirt Patrols; Off the List; he First Time I Met Walt Smith; Odds and Ends; Having Correct Email Addresses Is Very Important; Notes from the Ranks; Book Review.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2020

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Notes from the Ranks; Part I: Canopies Over the Kandik; A National Wildfire Agency: Part II; Smokejumpers and Rappelers in Russia; Managing Forests Properly Is the Key to Preserving These Treasures; Aggressive Forest Management: Why Do We Avoid It?; Wildfire Trends in the US and Adaptation; The Challenge: To Manage Wildfires or Aggressively Put Them Out; It's Time To Get Serious About Utilizing Our Aerial Firefighting Fleet; Letters; Poor Management, Questionable Laws - We’re Paying for Them Now; Citizens Do Not Have The Right To Challenge Poor Gov’t. Decisions-Accountability a Thing of the Past; Blast from the Past; Remembrances of Bob Charley; Off the List; Families, Friends Get First Look at Site of Fatal 1957 Trimotor Crash; Paradise with a Wind Chill; Odds and Ends; Bill Moody Receives Prestigious Award; Lynn and Alberts Selected for Al Dunton Leadership Award; Sounding Off from the Editor; The Indian War of Idaho, Montana, and Canada; Recording Smokejumper History.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2020

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; Fighting Fire in Tasmania; Wildfires and Global Warming: A Continuous Cycle of Destruction; Kooskia Days; NSA Scholarship Program Expanded-Take Advantage!; Moose Creek Memorial; Touching All Bases; West Yellowstone Airtanker Base Closure; Off the List; Pendleton Honors the Triple Nickles; Eric Schoenfeld Remembered; Odds and Ends; Alaska Cutters; Feeding the "Beast" with Fire, Money; North Cascades 2019 Reunion; The Run for the Top; National Smokejumper Reunion 2020 June 26-28, 2020 in Boise, Idaho; Sounding Off from the Editor; One Year After the Camp Fire; Smokejumper Keep the Flame Legacy Jump List; The Pink Fire; Recollections of Mann Gulch 70 Years Later; Nicknames; Time To Get in the Door.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, January 2020

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Save a Billion $$ A Year--The New Fire Triangle; Guest Opinion: Defensible Space, A Catch-22; No Available Resources--It's Time to Review Biscuit Fire; On the Road to a National Wildfire Agency, Part 1; Odds and Ends; Oregon Wildfire Response; Smoke from Wildland Fires: Impacts to Public Health; Hey-Anyone Awake Out There?; If It Could Go Wrong, It Did; Blast from the Past; Some Observations on Firefighting in the 21st Century-Let's Not Nitpick Assumptions Here; Sounding Off from the Editor; Hawaii's Medical-Aid-In-Dying Law Eases Former Jumper's Anxiety; Off the List; 2019 NSA Scholarship Recipients; Smokejumper Folklore: 'You Know You're a Smokejumper If ...'; Anthology of a Reluctant Warrior; Mann Gulch 70th Anniversary; The Real Cost of Wildfires; Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, October 2019

  National Smokejumper Association

  This issue of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) Smokejumper Magazine contains the following articles: Message from the President; From Pendleton to POW: The Clifford Allen Story; George Gowen: A "Bro" For Sure; Celebrating Sixty Years of Alaska Smokejumping; Odds and Ends; Leadership Part I: Western Hardscrabble; Leadership Part II: The Eastern School of Law; Snapshots from the Past; Safe Zones vs. Evacuation by Roads--There Is a Better Way; Good Intentions and the Road to Hell; Forest Management: A Call to Action or Just a Catchphrase?; Sounding Off from the Editor; Recording Smokejumper History My Years as a Smokejumper--1948-51; Smokejumper Archives Established; Retired Jumper Is Subject of Arizona Radio Article; Oriented Strand Board and Fuel Reduction; Former Smokejumpers Honored for Their Service; John S. Lewis—Honored Smokejumper; My First Fire Jump; Blast from the Past; Afterthoughts Off the List; Smokejumper Magazine continues Static Line, which was the original title of the NSA quarterly magazine.

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  Smokejumper Magazine, July 2019

  National Smokejumper Association

  Message from the President; Smokejumper Defines a Smokejumper; The 2017 Lolo Peak Fire-and Others-They Didn't Have to Happen; In the Shadows of Tora Bora; The Jump List; Jack Price Feature Member; Forest Fire Mitigation and the Potential Profits Involved; "Rosie"; Odds and Ends; Early Redding Smokejumper Days; End of an Era-Not So Fast Partner, Smokejumpers Buy Their Base!; Blast from the Past; Some of a Smokejumper's Stories; First Fire Jump; Snapshots from the Past; Achieving Resilient Forests Through Effective Biomass Uses: Part III; Sounding Off from the Editor; Cuisine of an Idaho Fire Lookout; Smokejumpers Honored, Recognized by Peers; A Short Story about Margarita Phillips; Continued Hiring Problems; Remembering Rich Farmer; The Story of Frank Derry, Inventor of the "Derry Slot"; Final Chapter-Edward J. Weissenback; Off the List; Get a life membership? I Probably Won't Live Long Enough to Make It Pay Off; Joe Kroeber Selected as 2018 TRAMPS Volunteer of the Year; NSA Trails Project New Mexico-August 2018; Thank You Trooper Tom;

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  Smokejumper Magazine, April 2019

  National Smokejumper Association

  The Camp Fire-The Future of America’s Wildfires?; Ex-Missoula Smokejumpers Barely Escape California’s Most Destructive Fire; Feedback from Camp Fire Daily Updates; After Losing Home, Fire Survivor and Former Jumper to Guide Low-Vision Runner in Race; Achieving Resilient Forests Through Effective Biomass Uses: Part II; NSA Scholarship Program Expanded-Take Advantage!; Grateful Jumper Says NSA’s Generosity Big Key to His Success; Sounding Off from the Editor; Feedback from the Readers on October and January Issues; All Glory Is Fleeting; Letter from Southern Oregon Resident to Congressman; Concerned Citizen Meets the Dark Side; Sometimes It Takes a Thump Along the Side of Your Head to Catch the Obvious-The 1976 Fire Season As Seen from My Eyes—Part II; Off the List; Tribute to Margarita; Odds and Ends; One Last Drop for Mann Gulch Plane—75th Anniversary of D-Day; Why I’m Proud to be an NSA Member;