Interview with Benji Reece

Interview with Benji Reece

Agriculture

Community organizations

Fire departments

Forest management

Forest management -- Social aspects

Forest rangers -- Interviews

Forests and forestry -- Fire management

Reece, Benji

Benji Reece is interviewed by Skyler Singleton on May 27, 2016, as part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Reece is a county ranger for the North Carolina Forest Service. He talks about forest service work in Western North Carolina and in Tennessee. He speaks about the demands of the forest service and fire management, particularly regarding the Jackson County Fire Service. He relates the duties and responsibilities of dealing with burn control, logging, working with individual home owners. Reece discusses water and soil preservation in regards to the forest service and reflects on the future of fire and forest management and related community programs especially as the acreage of individually owned tracts of land decreases.

Reece, Benji

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1980s; 1990s; 2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2016-05-27;

Singleton, Skyler

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

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35760

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35760

2017-06-10

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Cocke County (Tenn.)

Jackson County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

00:31:43 (sound recording)(duration)

12 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina