The Big Trees Are In Campgrounds

[slowp]

along with smaller trees and interesting stuff. Today we went through 2 campgrounds desiginating fallen hazard trees for a firewood sale or sales.
Here's 2 pictures of the same tree.

Looking up. If I were cruising this tree, I'd be taking my time and going out farther than 100 feet to get a good shot at the top for height.

Other items of interest, an old guard house.

And a new outhouse.

The bad part, it was a nice April like sunny day and we spent the day in the shady campgrounds.

 

[2dogs]

Nice pics MizzP, as always. Did you shoot the tree and if so how tall roughly? What were the guard house guards guarding?

 

[slowp]

Nice pics MizzP, as always. Did you shoot the tree and if so how tall roughly? What were the guard house guards guarding?

Nope, no time to get a height, that tree will stay standing for a while. I think the people who run the campground, the hosts get to live in the little house.
They were called guard stations in the olden days. I believe they were on guard against fires getting away. They were mostly built in the days of the CCC boys. I love that style of architecture.

 

[2dogs]

Nope, no time to get a height, that tree will stay standing for a while. I think the people who run the campground, the hosts get to live in the little house.
They were called guard stations in the olden days. I believe they were on guard against fires getting away. They were mostly built in the days of the CCC boys. I love that style of architecture.

Thanks! I have a dream to someday write two books. One would be on the the CCC built structures. The other would be the architecture of the pre-interstate, mostly abandoned now, motels and gas stations along the little used highways, aka the blue lines on road maps.

 

[forestryworks]

nice pictures

 

[jeremym]

slowp have you ever been to the Lower Falls Campground on the far east side of Swift Reservoir? There are some monstrous Doug Firs on the trail between Lower Falls and Upper Falls. Somewhere I have a picture

 

[RandyMac]

I stayed for awhile at a guard station on Indian Creek near Happy Camp, the CCC rock work there was awesome.

 

[Jacob J.]

They were mostly built in the days of the CCC boys. I love that style of architecture.

I do too. I got to stay in one when I worked on the Umpqua. It was an old work center on the north of the forest close to the boundary with the Willamette. No power, no phone, but lots of scenery and wildlife. Great pics!

 

[logging22]

Beautiful trees. Wish i had some of those.

 

[Gologit]

Beautiful trees. Wish i had some of those.

No problem...we'll sell them to you. But they'll come in the form of lumber.

 

[slowp]

The CCC buildings are scattered all over. There is a house here, and the compound buildings. Several years ago, there was a dilemma. Cut down the CCC era planted Sequoias? Or let the trees continue to grow and ruin the historic building foundation? The trees were cut. The building remains. There are several Sequoias still standing and they are large.

Those guys built things to last. They also built them to look like they belonged in a woodsy setting. Unfortunately, the buildings don't get the maintenance and love that they should. That one in the campground has a new shiny, looks out of place stove pipe sticking out of the front and junk stored on the porch. :bang: I think it might get cleaned up when the campground opens.

There were at least two CCC camps here. One was turned into a Job Corps and now is run by the state for an educational camp for school kids and other groups. The other only has a rock fireplace and chimney left. The CCC boys also spent a lot of time dropping snags, building roads and replanting the area after the Cispus Burn. We could sure use those guys now!

I should have taken pictures of some of the stumps. Each Spring, fallers go through and drop any hazard trees. The stumps are pretty interesting. The falling space is tight. Looking at the stumps, you'll see where they used tree jacks. In some places, they dropped the tree between an outhouse and a camping pad--there was about a 6 foot wide target to hit.

Sometimes the in-house guys do it. They are good about backing off when they feel they can't drop a tree where needed. Then they hire the local elite faller--who also certifies and teaches the class C fallers here. He'll come out and it is enjoyable for him because he now works in an office. There's one other guy that can get called too. He will turn 60 this year. Both the expert fallers have old injuries. But they still love to drop the big ones.

 

[captainsteep]

old growth

tree huggers will never let you cut them they dont care about fire danger or hazard trees, till one falls on them then they will be the first to sue the forest service for grouse negligent.

 

[adampatric]

The big trees are in the camp ground, I think saving them would definitely make a better sence.