"During 1990 & 1991, the USFS constructed a new 55-foot-long bridge using hand tools and revived handlogger techniques. In October 1990, crews fell a 44-inch diameter spruce with a cross-cut saw and floated it down the stream using handlogging techniques to move the log to its destination. A square crib of handhewn, peeled logs with notched joints was filled with 25 cubic yards of rock carried in buckets. Peeled logs were used as railings, joined by an overlapping technique and secured with mortise and tenon joints. The project won second prize nationally and first prize in the Alaska Region in a USFS competition for primitive methods projects."

Roppel R. Land of Mists: Revillagagigedo & Gravina Islands, Misty Fiords National Monument (3rd Edition, 1998)

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