Tall Timbers

• James Burchfield, a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service, has worked in Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest for 29 years. He describes how it was saved from loggers in the nick of time.
• The biggest tree is eight feet in diameter, and the forest has the biggest trees outside of CaliforniaÕs redwood forest.
• Oleta Nelms, 82, is a forest service hostess, greeting awed visitors for the past 14 summers.
• Hiker Will Currie says the never-logged forest is a mystical place
• Frank Findley of the U.S. Forest Service says people find peace among the immense and aged trees.