Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
As a powerful helicopter crested a forested ridge Friday with a long log dangling from a hydraulic grapple on the end of a long cable, Don Day smiled and raised his digital camera to record the moment.
Then he jotted some numbers and a brief description of the chopper’s load on a tablet lying on the front seat of his pickup, tabulating how many trips the Boeing 234 Chinook…