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It seemed like a good way to kill two birds with one stone: make sure the trailer was road-ready and running on all cylinders, and finally give the Western Hemisphere's largest man-made forest its due.
Read MorePhoto Essay: Bessey Ranger District, Nebraska National Forest
At nearly 20,000 acres, the forest within the Bessey Ranger District is the largest hand-planted forest in the United States, established in 1902 by visionary botanist and professor Charles E. Bessey. Growing up, I didn't grasp the significance of a national forest in the middle of the nearly treeless Nebraska Sandhills.
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