The Forest Service is protecting the area from too much human activity so it will return to its natural wild condition.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

When it was almost time for the sun to rise, she quietly left her house and hurried through the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

For years,fires from lightening and logger's campfires burned through the areas where the forest had been cut down.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

her grandmother said proudly. "She knows the forest so well, the wild animals come and eat bread right out of her hands."

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The Forest Service had a plane that it wanted to use to drop water bombs onto wildfires.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

He learned how to hunt, set traps for wild animals and how to live in the forest.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

And,it's made possible by the logging companies, foreign logging companies, opening up the forest with roads."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The forest provides a wood crop that helps pay the costs of operating the estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

He and the Indian walked for hours to a cabin deep in the forest.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

The stranger began walking with Sylvie as she followed her cow through the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

His body grew strong as the forest tested his strength and let him brave.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

As we continue to walk, we come to an unusual house in the forest.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

He seemed a part of the darkness and silence of the forest, for no one had ever known him to smile or speak an unnecessary word.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

Today,more than two hundred seventy men and women are smokejumpers for the Forest Service.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

One day Murlock returned from hunting in a deep part of the forest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

In North America and Central America, the forest area remained about the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

She had never before been alone in the forest as late as this.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

It was blue. The blue snow kept falling until the forest was covered.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Sylvie spent the next day in the forest with the young man.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The forest also was changing. The trees were losing their wonderful colors.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Its colors make the cat seem to disappear into the forest.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

She had seen it on the other side of the forest.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

With the wild-simulated method, seeds are planted thinly in the forest.

VOA: special.2009.04.07