Wrecks on U S Forest Land

[tom d. friedman]

can't the tree huggers come to a comprimise?? haul em out period!!!! smelt em no way, store them till a restoration disposition can be met. besides..... smelting causes ozone layer depletion !!! the blithering idiots!!!

[JBoyle]

A friend is restoring a historic plane (when done it will be a one of a kind flyer) and needed some streamlinded wing strut material to use as part of the landing gear fairing. Appearently the stuff is only made to special order now at a stupid price of something like $6000 a foot.

Not far away are the remains of a crashed Fairchild, sitting at the edge of a very remote back country airstrip. It had the exact stuff he needed.
My friend asked permission to take what he needed...not the whole thing...of course he was turned down because it was on Forest Service land.

Somehow, the same people thay say you can't take a motor vehicle into some parts of their land won't let you remove what most would see as junk.
Appearently if a piece of "Junk" has been there long enough it ceases to be litter and becomes historic. Go figure.
The tale does have a happy ending... a friend had what he needed stashed away from some ancient wreck or project.

[N3Njeff]

Your friend should have just gone out there and gotten it, nobody would have cared otherwise..............as for the B-23.......a friend of mine has some great pics of it when he hiked out there, he went all through it...........last i heard, it got moved or there is a lot less there now than what were in the pics.

[Roger Cain]

Here's some info that was posted on the B-17 wreck site near Placerville on the WreckChasing message board. I visited it a few years ago, and a lot of the parts had been stripped off of it, through the years. Here is a warning that was posted: http://wreckchasing.com/board/?topic=topic1&msg=98 as it is in the National Forest

[airnutz]

Leaving any artifact unguarded is about as smart as storing your Corvette
on the street in a "crack neighborhood". The Forestry Service should know
better than this. Same is true for the naivete' in trusting that the Lake
Mead submerged B-29 will remain undamaged/unmolested..it's only a
matter of time.

As for the B-23, didn't a Air Force museum salvage part of that aircraft. Rather than removing the whole machine, didn't they "hack out" what they needed, and left the rest for the Hikers to ponder over?