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OFS operates two facilities which specialize in forest regeneration: the Forest Tree Improvement Center (FTIC), located in Idabel, and the Albert Engstrom Forest Regeneration Center (State Nursery), located in Goldsby. This commitment continues today as we strive to provide the highest quality seedlings available anywhere. Oklahoma Forestry Services has a long history of forest tree improvement and seedling production. And usually your days only gets more hectic from there.State Nursery and Tree Improvement Center We don’t know if the line we put in yesterday held, what the weather is going to bring that day, etc. “We are going out there and we don’t’ know what to expect. “Nothing real exciting is going on that walk out to the line but there is always some anticipation,” he says. He also likes that even though the marching photo is peaceful, there are a lot of unknowns at that time of day. Personal favorites include the one of a column of smoke wafting into the sky that he took from a helicopter, and an early morning shot of firefighters marching in a line toward the fire – his version of the morning commute photo. The photos with the biggest flames are the most eye-catching, but Gue says he actually prefers some of the quieter, more arty shots. Some of the photos are taken on his personal iPhone, but most are from his work phone, a Motorola Droid Maxx. He’s the head of the Madison Wildland Fire Module, which is a team of 12 elite firefighters who travel around the country and have expertise in everything from repelling out of helicopters to setting large fires as a containment strategy. This summer Gue has already been out on 10 or so fires and when WIRED talked to him he was working on the Eureka Basin Fire, 70 miles southwest of Bozeman. “I don’t let it take up too much of my time.” “As I’m doing the job, if I have my phone and I see something I take the picture,” he says.
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