New Spar Pole - Camp 18 Logging Museum

Connie Love, Research Assistant in the Department of Wood Science & Engineering, helped with the installation of a new spar pole at Camp 18, a logging museum along the Sunset Highway west of Portland. The new 160 foot Douglas-fir spar pole has a butt diameter of 57 inches and a top of 19 inches. The old spar pole had begun to decay and was riddled with buprestid beetle and woodpecker holes. Connie treated the full-length of the new pole with a granular fumigant and boron rods. She applied a copper/boron paste to the pole butt. The new pole will be installed in the spring of 2008.