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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Whitney Malkin / The Bulletin
October 20, 2003
In 1996, after battling the Jefferson Fire, Ben Benhower came face-to-face with what he sensed was an extraordinary tree, a Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, stretching, seemingly, to a record height.
"Hmmm, that's a pretty big tree," he said, recalling the encounter.
Benhower, 54, of Camp....
