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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Rachel Odell / The Bulletin
May 20, 2004
The bright blue and white K-Max helicopter hovered above a pile of limbed logs recently with a 200-foot metal cable swinging from the chopper's midsection.
At the end of the cable, four skinny trees swung like toothpicks on a thread. With ease, the pilot lowered the aircraft to the landing dock,....