Article: A life reduced to a cardboard box on the side of the road.(City/Region)

Byline: WRITE ON By Norm Maxwell For The Register-Guard

I drove up in the woods not all that far from Junction City to ribbon up a 30-acre unit for the thinning crew a few years ago. I parked my Expedition on the landing and put on my cork boots. I studied the aerial photo of the unit as I packed my face.

Finished eating, I guzzled a quart of water and tied double streamers of pink and tiger-stripe ribbon where the boundary crossed the spur road. I was getting ready to leave the gravel and descend through the brush when I noticed a cardboard box sitting alongside the disused shoulder in a cluster of leafing alder saplings.

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