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Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine

Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Lori A. Flores Most of the workers in the van were sleeping because of the early morning hour, but Edilberto Morales-Luis was feeling nervous. Their driver—who was trying to cover the three-hour commute to the forest quickly to compensate for lost time due to rain—was barreling down a dirt road amid gusty winds. “Why don’t you drive a little bit slower?” Morales-Luis called out, only to have a co-worker tease him for being afraid. It was September 12, 2002, and the crew of fourteen Guatemalan and Honduran H-2 visa guest workers had been hired to thin trees and clear brush for six months in Aroostook County, a remote part of northern Maine bordering Canada. They were working f- or Ev ergreen Forestry Services, an Idaho-based reforestation company subcontracting for the Maine-based Seven Islands Land Company. As the driver, Juan Turcios-Matamoros, transferred from the dirt road onto Johns Bridge, a narrow 260-foot wooden bridge with no guardrail perched over the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the right side of the van missed the bridge planks and caught on an outer row of steel bolts. The tires started shredding. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of American History Oxford University Press

Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine

Flores, Lori A
The Journal of American History , Volume 109 (4): 27 – Mar 1, 2023
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0021-8723
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Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine Lori A. Flores Most of the workers in the van were sleeping because of the early morning hour, but Edilberto Morales-Luis was feeling nervous. Their driver—who was trying to cover the three-hour commute to the forest quickly to compensate for lost time due to rain—was barreling down a dirt road amid gusty winds. “Why don’t you drive a little bit slower?” Morales-Luis called out, only to have a co-worker tease him for being afraid. It was September 12, 2002, and the crew of fourteen Guatemalan and Honduran H-2 visa guest workers had been hired to thin trees and clear brush for six months in Aroostook County, a remote part of northern Maine bordering Canada. They were working f- or Ev ergreen Forestry Services, an Idaho-based reforestation company subcontracting for the Maine-based Seven Islands Land Company. As the driver, Juan Turcios-Matamoros, transferred from the dirt road onto Johns Bridge, a narrow 260-foot wooden bridge with no guardrail perched over the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, the right side of the van missed the bridge planks and caught on an outer row of steel bolts. The tires started shredding.

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