ALS claims life of true civil servant

The first time I covered a forest fire as a newspaper reporter, the U.S. Forest Service gave me a T-shirt. Actually, a forest ranger gave me the shirt, and it wasn’t until a few weeks after I returned from the fire west of Custer to the newspaper bureau in Pierre. The bureau was in the same office building as the Forest Service’s Fort Pierre National Grasslands office. A gem of a guy named Tony DeToy was the ranger in charge 10 years ago.

By: Terry Woster, The Daily Republic