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Smokey Bad (Western White Pine)

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The Great Fire of 1910 greatly changed the (literal) landscape of northern Idaho, as well as the continent’s population of western white pine (Pinus monitcola). What followed was one of the most successful and dangerous marketing campaigns in US history.

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Smokey Bad (Western White Pine)

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