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Bud Filler, Founder/Partner
Bud has written a book on his smokejumping days, Two-Man Stick, available from Burning Mountain Press, P.O. Box 45534, Boise, ID 83711, ISBN 1-891055-02-1.
Praise for Two-Man Stick ...
"Two-Man Stick is a well-written page-turner on a fascinating subject. Bud Filler has made the business of smokejumping come alive with real people, colorful and sensitive descriptions, and a trained woodsman's knowledge of the complex operation of a forest ecosystem. What comes through most clearly is Bud's enormous and unmistakable love for our national heritage of public lands and for those who risk their lives to protect them."
- Cecil D. Andrus, former governor of Idaho
"Bud Filler is a fine writer, and he tells the smokejumper story as it was and still is: the most adventurous job in America. This is a superb book."
- Clay Morgan, former smokejumper and author of Santiago and the Drinking Party
Praise for Two-Man Stick ..."Two-Man Stick is a well-written page-turner on a fascinating subject. Bud Filler has made the business of smokejumping come alive with real people, colorful and sensitive descriptions, and a trained woodsman's knowledge of the complex operation of a forest ecosystem. What comes through most clearly is Bud's enormous and unmistakable love for our national heritage of public lands and for those who risk their lives to protect them."
- Cecil D. Andrus, former governor of Idaho
"Bud Filler is a fine writer, and he tells the smokejumper story as it was and still is: the most adventurous job in America. This is a superb book."
- Clay Morgan, former smokejumper and author of Santiago and the Drinking Party