The Official Work Pictures Thread

[cory]

The irony!

 

[stikine]

The irony!

Something that is historically interesting is that there is a culturally modified tree in that video we protected. Many years ago someone had chopped into a tree with an adze to check out the base. I've found many of these over the years, even an abandoned dug out canoe tree. At this site we are over 2 miles from salt water. The adze scar was from many years ago and long before the road was there.

 

[flushcut]

A dugout canoe would be a sweet find!

 

[stikine]

A dugout canoe would be a sweet find!

I actually didn't find it but an engineering road location crew did. They relocated the the road to avoid it.
Pretty cool... you can walk buy it and it looks like a rotten log, but a closer look reveals charcoal etc

 

[biggun]

Something that is historically interesting is that there is a culturally modified tree in that video we protected. Many years ago someone had chopped into a tree with an adze to check out the base. I've found many of these over the years, even an abandoned dug out canoe tree. At this site we are over 2 miles from salt water. The adze scar was from many years ago and long before the road was there.

Sorry If I missed it.

You mention totem trees and dugout canoe. I assume they are from the native tribes up there in Alaska?

So getting back to the totem tree, is it just a generic term for a tree that would make a good totem pole or it it actually going to to a res or a tribe to be carved into a totem
Pole?

 

[flushcut]

I actually didn't find it but an engineering road location crew did. They relocated the the road to avoid it.
Pretty cool... you can walk buy it and it looks like a rotten log, but a closer look reveals charcoal etc

They found a dugout not that long ago in Madison Lake Mendota (I think) dated to 1200 years old.

 

[stikine]

Sorry If I missed it.

You mention totem trees and dugout canoe. I assume they are from the native tribes up there in Alaska?

So getting back to the totem tree, is it just a generic term for a tree that would make a good totem pole or it it actually going to to a res or a tribe to be carved into a totem
Pole?

Good question Rich. The coastal tribes here are mostly Tlingit and Haida and they have a long tradition of using both Western redceadar and Alaska yellow cedar for totem poles around their villages. Our local tribe here in Wrangell is in the process of re establishing and developing new master carvers to do this artwork.

Federally recognized tribes are eligible for trees for cultural purposes, free of charge from the national forest.
I was contracted by the local tribe to locate and arrange the harvest of these redceadar for future totem poles. I located the trees and did the felling as part of my contract. Our local small mill owner used his log loader to yard them to the road. Tomorrow he and his son will load and haul them to his log yard for storage until the tribe is ready for them at their carving shed.