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Feisty forester Flora reshapes West with ecochange trail
Flora, a Forest Service leader from Pennsylvania roots, drives across Montana and Wyoming shaping the New West. Her career spans districts in Idaho and Montana, challenging old logging norms, promoting ecosystem management, and delaying oil and gas drilling on the Rocky Mountain Front while rallying environmental activism and defense of timberland.
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David Foster
Associated Press
Helena
Mont
American West
Gloria
Highway 387
Continental Divide
Flora
New West
U.S. Forest Service
Nevada
Forest Service
Gloria Flora
Gaia
Madison River
Rockies
Pittsburgh
Colorado Rockies
Penn State University
California
Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Kootenai National Forest
Montana
Nez Perce National Forest
Idaho
Raynolds Pass
Rocky Mountains
Targhee National Forest
Targhee
Jackson
Ecology Resources Group
Bridger-Teton National Forest
Marc
Driggs
Lewis and Clark National Forest
Rocky Mountain Front
Plains