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Grateful thanks to the editors of the publications listed below, where earlier versions of material from this book first appeared: “Hunkered at the Gateway” in Permanent Vacation: 20 Writers on Work and Life in Our National Parks (Tahoe Paradise, CA: Bona Fide Books, May 2011); “Hunkered at the Gateway” (excerpted from above) in National Parks: Magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association (Winter 2012); “Xtra Tuf” and “Soul Food” in Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010); “Dirt” in A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild (Antioch, CA: Solas Press, 2006).
All events and characters herein are based on real people and situations, with no intentional composites. Names have been changed, except with express permission otherwise.
© 2013 by Christine Byl
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Byl, Christine.
Dirt work : an education in the woods / Christine Byl.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-8070-0100-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-8070-0101-1 (electronic)
1. Byl, Christine 2. United States. National Park Service—Officials and employees—Biography. 3. Foresters—United States—Biography. 4. Nature trails—Alaska—Design and construction. 5. Nature trails—Montana—Design and construction. 6. Park facilities—Alaska—Design and construction. 7. Park facilities—Montana—Design and construction. 8. Denali National Park and Preserve (Alaska) I. Title.
QH31.B95A3 2012
363.6’8097986—dc23 2012034479
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