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.