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Article: SHORING UP BLUM CREEK BRIDGE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest - issued the following press release:
Washington is known for its winter floods. In 2003 they destroyed roads, trails, and bridges in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest; Blum Creek did not escape that damage.
"It was a terrible year for the Forest Service, and then they got hammered again in 2006 with almost the same devastation," said Jon Knechtel, director of trail operations with Pacific Northwest Trail Association. Blum Creek Bridge is part of the Baker Lake Trail, a segment of the Pacific Northwest Trail nestled in the North Cascades Mountains just north ...