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THERE was a crisp chill in the October air as we stepped from the Ford Bronco onto the mushy trail leading into the Santa Fe Swamp in Bradford County, Florida. As I gazed into the dense pine and palmetto forest, which didn't look like a swamp at all, the CB radio inside the vehicle blared, “Paul, can you read me?”
Paul White, 52, the land acquisitions manager and geologist for Georgia-Pacific Corporation's Palatka pulp mill, interrupted his preparations for our journey into the swamp and leaned into the Bronco toward the radio.
“Ten four, I read you,” White announced into the CB's microphone.
“What were those ratios on pine and hardwood for last month again?” the voice on the radio asked.
“The pine was up, and the hardwood was about the same as the month before,” White responded. He turned to me and said he didn't remember the exact figures.
“They tell me we're up about 13 million on the pine,” the voice told White.
“Sounds about right to me,” White replied.
“Yall don't get lost out there …
Footnotes
Theresa Waldron, P.O. Box 14124, Gainesville, Florida 32604, is a journalism student at the University of Florida.
- Copyright 1983 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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