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H A Lucas retires after long U S Forest Service career
Charles Kocher profiles H A Lucas who ends a decades long service with the U S Forest Service. Lucas moved among posts from Harrisburg to Rosiclare to Chequamengon and beyond, shaping projects in Shawnee and Ottawa forests before retirement in Carbondale Illinois. He recalls fires and field memories from a career spanning Tennessee Michigan and Pennsylvania, and plans to settle near Southern Illinois Lake of Egypt.
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H. A. Lucas
U.S. Forest Service
Illinois
Charles Kocher
Southern Illinoisan
Harrisburg
Southern Illinois
Lucas
Lake of Egypt
Darlington
Wash
Upper Cascades National Park
Send
CCC
Jonesboro
Shawnee National Forest
Rosiclare
Forest
Chequamengon National Forest
Jackson, Tenn
War Production Board
Tennessee Project
Tennessee
Bessemer, Mich
Ottawa National Forest
White Cloud
Mich
Manistee National Forest
Indianapolis
Aining
Upper Darby
Soil Conservation Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Carbondale
New Carbondale
Prame
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Forest Service
Michigan