On the first day of this year, Margaret Anderson, a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park was gunned down by a shooting suspect fleeing the Seattle metropolitan area. In memory of her passing and service, a grove of Pacific Silver Fir (Abies Amabilis) have been planted near where she was killed. The full story can be found here:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/10/04/2320937/fitting-memorial-honors-mount.html
While monuments and memorials are often man made, something just seems really right for the more lasting beauty of nature to stand in memory of one who spent a life in service to her cause. Even after the trees have fallen, their seedlings and those beyond them will live on even as the memory of Margaret fades. May your trees grow tall, Margaret!
The last ranger to fall in the line of duty before Margaret was Kris Eggle, also gunned down, on August 9, 2002 in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Mexican border in Arizona.
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