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The Gila National Forest booth had lots of visitors

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Brianna Mann and John Moeny represented the Bat Conservancy.

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Martha Egnal represents the National Forest Foundation, a non-profit that partners with the National Forest Service to raise funds

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At the Forest Service mule station were Betty, the mule, Zack Law and Kim Pearce

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Carl Eliaison, Rusty Keller, Jay Bottoms and Roger Wright at the Operation Wounded Warrior table

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Doug Medin, Peter Dames, Scott Fritz, Michelle Strnad and Brent Bibles at the Grant County Search and Rescue booth

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Chiricahua-Warm Springs Fort Sill Apache Princess Makayla Maguire

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Speakers at the pavilion in Gough Park

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Gila Cliff Dwelling National Monument Lead Park Ranger Dana Dick and Superintendent Fermin Salas

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Bureau of Land Management's Jennifer Moreno shows soft pelts to Mayelli and Zorran Hood

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Robert and April Darrow represent the Fort Sill Apache Tribe Homelands

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Gary Starkweather represents Dark Sky New Mexico

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Dinah Demers, Marty Eberhardt and Don Graves at the Gila Native Plant Society booth

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Kathryn McCarroll and Marilyn Markel in front of photos of the Gila Wilderness by San Lorenzo 4th and 5th graders at the Grant County Archaeological Society booth

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Jackie Blurton offers 1 1/2-year-old Charlie Wise a chance to hug a stuffed owl at the Bird Alliance of Southwestern New Mexico, a chapter of the National Audubon Society

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From left back are Perisha Rodriguez, Tim Cox, Ian Ryan, Xavier Castillo, front Emiliano Rodriguez and Alfonso Garcia-Cabrera representing the Tyrone Volunteer Fire Department

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Apache dancers

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MMembers of Back Country Horsemen of America, Gila Chapter, branding wood disks that people had cut off logs with crosscut saws

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Apache performers in one group

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Smokey Bear with Weston and Avery Duncan

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Leif Dahl-Bredine on one end of the crosscut saw and Rawlings Lemon on the other end

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Silke Schneider and Harper Maxwell on one end and Jerry Engel on the other end

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One of the competitors ready to be a team member in the cross-cut competition among teams from Grant County, Catron County and Albuquerque

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The first team makes sawdust fly

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Another team works hard

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The disk of wood falls as a team finishes their cut

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The Albuquerque team ready to saw (at that point, they got the shortest time)

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This team is in the quarterfinals