gifford pinchot is fired. the forest service is being underfunded. they are making $900 a year, a ranger with a yale degree, and i try to do the adjusted for inflation math, and that's less a teacher makes now that they have to be armed, because if you're in montana, a ranger was shot and killed, and no one was charged and the person who killed him later said i mistook them for a deer. so they are facing a fairly hostile environment in the woods here as well. and these gilded age powers, these william clark's, these rockefellers, guggenheim's are sort of closing in for the kill. they want to define the agency. the dream is going to die. it's five years old in 1910 and it's defenders are gone. it is orphaned. and then the fire happens. and i said that it was the fire that saved america, because though they loss, though they were routed, though five towns burned to the ground, most of them to leave the map, i dare any one of you to find taft, montana, as i did. once a town of 3000, now nothing. just wind blowing through the trees. not even the footing