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Sure, it sounds good to be out in the woodlands, but to work the forests, you've gotta be ready for some serious grunginess. Wildland Forestry & Environmental, Inc. is a forest and wildlife consulting business offering specialized landowner services.

Among other things, Brandon Price does prescribed burnings and manages upland hardwood forests. On a daily basis, his employees are steeped in smoke, coated with soot, up to their waist in mud & briars, covered with spiderwebs, dealing with ill-tempered wildlife, traveling 5-8 miles per day across unimproved terrain, mixing herbicides, spray-painting trees in the wind, walking through acres of woodland with a poison-ivy understory, using a chainsaw in 90-degree heat, digging firelines in a hurry, gathering data in pouring rain, lightning or snow, and talking to scary individuals they happen upon in the middle of nowhere.

The leader of this year's Grungiest no doubt.

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