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...up by Forks of Salmon? Actually it happened a couple of times. Once one of my grad students and I were working a monitoring plot on National Forest land, hiking into the site carrying shovels, backpacks to haul soil samples out, surveying gear, etc. This was in the fall, right at harvest time. We were WAY up above Forks. Two guys in a helo spotted our truck and rode up the hill just over treetop level until they spotted us climbing. They hovered and followed us for 10 minutes or so, just above the trees, making ENORMOUS noise. We screamed at them, waved them off, FLIPPED them off, threw rocks at them. Finally they flew off and left us alone.
The other time was a year or two later, also at Forks in the fall. I took an insect ecology class field trip up to Nordheimer Creek campground for the weekend on the Salmon River. On the way in the Forks road from Somes Bar we had to stop for nearly half an hour, just short of Nordheimer, because CAMP was cleaning out a garden somewhere up on the side of the mountain. They had laid a big tarp in the middle of the road and the cops were dragging armloads of fully mature plants down the hill and piling them on the tarp. After they finished a helicopter came and picked up the tarp and carried it off. Of course, while we were waiting to get by, everyone was paying close attention to where the bits and pieces fell. Half an hour after we set up camp people started making excuses-- "Um, I'm just gonna walk up the road, stretch my legs a bit," and "Hey, I think I might have dropped something, back while we were waiting." Before you knew it there was a respectable pile of buds on the campground picnic table. Nobody knew WHERE they came from. "Those? I dunno." We stayed for two days and the ditch got pretty thoroughly cleaned up, LOL.
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