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Archive Home > 2008 > January > 08 > Prominent geologist dies hiking Pilot Butte

Prominent geologist dies hiking Pilot Butte

Volcano expert ‘had a passion for geology and ... Central Oregon’

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
January 8, 2008

Larry Chitwood, a U.S. Forest Service geologist and expert on the volcanoes of Central Oregon who helped establish the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, died Friday evening while hiking up Pilot Butte.

Chitwood, 65, had a wide range of interests, friends and colleagues said. Not only did he....

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