Sadly someone out there cut down the Bethel National Forest. It was on the east side of the road from the airport to town. I don't know if there are any pictures.
It was a single spruce about 7' on a good day. There were signs 50' apart one said "welcome to the Bethel National Forest" the other said "you are now leaving . . . ". The tree disappeared not to long before Christmas so we never knew if it went for firewood or an ornament.
I've always thought the town was established/built by missionaries, they put it on the wrong side of the river. And we wonder about the religious . . 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
@avianvet If you look across from the little inlet is where all the drying racks were. Fish were where the current flows on the town side, where they have to keep building dikes to stop erosion. The Natives went up and down the river for game & down to that side for fish, then took them to the safe area across the river. I suspect that the Missionaries came during summer & assumed (without paying attention) that's where they lived.
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I spent one summer where the racks were, repairing a barge cause the captain didn't understand that you don't pull a barge down stream. He hit a sandbar & the barge tried to run him down. Ripped 30' of the bottom out, To make things worse it had been a fish processing barge & where the outhouse hole in the deck fed right into where we were working. Oh shit Oh dear. (mid 80's)
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Dr. Scott Ford
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