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Article: MARK BOYAR: A FUTURE IS BRIDGED FOR THE WILD.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 5, 2007
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Byline: LISA STIFFLER P-I reporter
NORTH BEND -- The woodsy Middle Fork stretch of the Snoqualmie River was once so lawless that Mark Boyar had to help guard a new bridge there for more than a month.
If he and others hadn't kept a 24-hour vigil, the wooden footbridge awaiting installation likely would have been set ablaze, crashed into with trucks or shot at. Or possibly all three.
The wildlife most prominent in this valley in the 1980s and '90s were meth addicts cooking drugs in cars and trailers, thieves gutting stolen vehicles at riverside chop shops, and gun-toting hooligans sending bullets whizzing past trails and over the river.
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