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Western Lit: ‘Dirt Work’ Chronicles the Work of Park Service Trail Crews

Tired of school, broke and eager for a change, Christine Byl took to the woods with a National Park Service trail crew. Much later—after 16 summers of manual labor in Alaska and Montana, maintaining, repairing, designing and building bridges, ditches and trails—she came to realize that “a deep education is one of both head and […]

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