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Smokejumpers as “Beetle Busters”

January 12, 2011 Jennifer Jones, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management

While many USDA Forest Service employees spend their summers working as Smokejumpers fighting wildfires in the west, they in turn spend their falls in the east working as Beetle Busters, helping the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) combat the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB).

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