1.   Our small town serves an agricultural county which has a state forest and a state prison.

2.   Although all oaks are susceptible to the disease, red oaks are especially vulnerable, said Ed Barron, head of the resource department for the state forest service.

3.   Activists say the site, adjacent to a state forest and the shores of Webster Lake, is too fragile for a large landfill.

4.   After a hurricane knocked down pine trees on existing state forest land, Varconda used mowing and bulldozers to create enough acreage for a prairie experiment.

5.   But a thick forest of scrub pine and oak kept the fire racing across acres of sparsely settled acreage once the flames spread outside the state forest.

6.   But abnormal frogs have been found in places with very different histories of chemical use, from farmland to protected state forests.

7.   By this fall it will be opened to the public, John Varconda, state forest manager, said Thursday.

8.   Now he should take the next step and support legislation in the Assembly to ban all commercial logging in state forests.

9.   On state forest lands, the limit is three gallons per species, nine gallons combined for all species taken.

10.   One day, they saw the house, rising out of a field of long grass and surrounded by a state forest.