USCGC Fir (WLB-213)
USCGC Fir (WLB-213) is a Juniper-class United States Coast Guard Cutter. Fir is under the Operational Control (OPCON) of the Commander, Thirteenth Coast Guard District and is homeported in Astoria, Oregon. Fir's primary area of responsibility is the coastal waters, river bars and high seas of the Washington and Oregon coasts. Fir conducts heavy lift aids to navigation operations, law enforcement and other missions as directed.
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“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)