Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
It was a pretty typical harvest-ready Douglas fir tree standing along Swamp Mountain Road, southeast of Cascadia State Park, Wednesday morning but the activity around it wasn’t a typical logging operation.
A 70-ton crane stood next to the tree with a trucker’s tie-down strap hooking the trunk to the crane. A RAM Trucking semi tractor hitched to a long trailer with an “Oversize Load” sign on the end was…