Sean C. Morgan
Unique cooperative effort on display in Cool Soda field trip
Hydrologist Lance Gatchell stood above a stream bed deep in the Willamette National Forest Thursday, Oct. 18, critiquing a culvert that dumped rainwater into the creek.
A couple of dozen people decked out in hard hats and boots eyed the 2-foot culvert as Gatchell, who works for the U.S. Forest Service, explained why the pipe needed to be 4 1/2 feet in…