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data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"provenanceCertifications\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"provenanceCertifications_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"r0g7ru-xgkpth-z77ju1-egthgr\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" class=\"celwidget\" id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" data-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1988, I stepped out of my comfort zone and joined the Vegetation Crew for the Minnesota Conservation Corps—a seasonal job run \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ethen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. God had heard my battle cry. My life—and faith—changed as I lopped, sawed, preened, and cut my path to the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI wasn't alone. My crew—John and Louis—became stealth guardians of my heart, brother-like coworkers, my safety net through the storms we weathered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis photographic memoir unveils our wild adventures: clearing goat prairies at O.L. Kipp State Park (now Great River Bluffs); measuring Mystery Cave at Forestville; gathering grasses at Carlos Avery; tree work at Frontenac; controlled burns at Helmer-Meyer (now Meyer-Big Island); lopping at Sakatah Lake's \"singing hills.\" We found rare wonders—an orange spicebush caterpillar, Henslow's sparrow banding, state-endangered common five-lined skink, six-foot timber rattlesnake sheds—plus bee stings and losses that tested us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe sang Tracy Chapman's \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFast Car\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\" over lunch, drove \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003efast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e trucks not cars, formed a threefold cord as shields for each other's souls. 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