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Events: National Forestry Hero
presented by STIHL
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Office
In a salute to forestry workers throughout the United States,
STIHL Incorporated established the STIHL National Forestry
Heroism Award. Each year, the award recognizes one person
in the forestry industry who has shown exceptional courage
to protect the lives and property of others and our natural
resources.
Anyone may nominate
an individual who, in their estimation, can truly be recognized
as a "hero"; an individual who has exhibited an
act or acts of bravery, valor and morality in putting the
welfare of other's ahead of personal risks or gains. Any
person who works with, in or devotes a significant portion
of their
time to the nation's forests may enter or be entered by others.
Candidates for the award can include: Firefighters, Loggers,
Forest Rangers, Volunteers, and others.
The recipient is presented with the STIHL National Forestry Heroism Award plaque and a monetary gift. STIHL also makes a donation to the Wildland Firefighter Foundation.
The Wildland Firefighters Monument (above), which honors
all past, present and future wildland firefighters, was dedicated
at Ochocco Park in Prineville, Oregon on June 15, 1996. It
is the first such monument in the United States. The bronze
memorial, which portrays firefighters in the clothing, tools,
and equipment used in the 1994 fire season, is one and one-quarter
life size and is set on a 3-foot stone base. Cast by sculptor,
David Nelson of Glenwood, Colorado, it is 14 feet long, 8
feet wide and 11 feet high.
STIHL is a corporate benefactor of the Wildland Firefighters
Monument. The monument was inspired by the tragedies of the
1994 fire season, in which 14 wildland firefighters died protecting
lives, property and natural resources. The Prineville Hotshots
Parents Committee (parents of the nine Prineville Hotshots
who died on Storm King Mountain in Colorado on July 6, 1994)
are responsible for the creation of the monument.
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