Forester Recovery Notes from the 1950s:
And
Surveyors find and reset a pipe/cap in the 1960s (traverse is deflection angles, read up from bottom):
I found the pipe hot and bent, I haven't rehabbed it yet (it's inside the forest, not a boundary point):
My notes read down. Angles and distances are in the data collector.
Sorry for the sidewaysness of some images.
"hot & bent"?
Were you and Jed in there right behind a fire?
You know I never thought of that but it could be there was a fire down there sometime in the past.
The 1960s R/S is Map Case 2, Drawer 3, Page 43, Mendocino County a Records.
The first time Dan and I went down there I couldn't find it. We ran a Silva Ranger compass line and about 3 - 100' tape lengths (calculated from a traverse point on a road). The first very steep, the second less steep and the third reasonably flat. There is a lot of logging destruction, thick small trees and brush and burn evidence. The R/S calls for a 4.5' Redwood tree BT tagged and an 8" Tan Oak BT tagged. No mention of the other BTs. I found the stump on the ridge and thought that was the one per the R/S but found no sign of the pipe based on it.
Meanwhile I found out the forest office in Fort Bragg has 4boxes of old field books and corner notes including the Caspar Lumber Company field books back the the 1880s. I found the notes the Foresters made and went back down there and found the stump is actually a BT but not the one I thought and Knute Nelson's 4' redwood BT is a burned out shell now. The large Tan Oak ring of suckers is the remains of an original BT. I corrected my tape lengths and added some length to my compass traverse and lo and behold just 3' away I found the pipe. Jed was with me on that trip I think because Dan was on vacation.
"Gazinta" :good: