The Deschutes County Surveyor’s Office was at the scene of the Two Bulls Fire a week after the smoke had settled. Amongst the charred pine trees and
brush, county workers searched in high temperatures for stones that had
been marked and placed by federal land surveyors 143 years ago. Logging operations were about to
harvest and salvage timber that had not been completely destroyed by the
fire, which began June 7, 2014.
Mike Berry, the county surveyor, said his office
was scrambling to make sure it maintained the exact location of section
corner and quarter corner stones, which began being used in the late
1700s to divide and define vast federal land tracts. Preserving the original corner stones at the site of the fire was important...Click Here to Read the Full Story
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