Week in Photos, Aug. 5-11

Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump<br />
A group of surveyors, DNR employees and employees of Trees, Inc examine the stump of one of the few remaining Witness Trees -- used for surveying -- in northern Michigan after it was cut down Tuesday in Kalkaska County's Rapid River Township. The sugar maple, marked in 1850 at what is now the intersection of Wallace and Smith Roads, was only 10 inches in diameter when the surveyor marked it with an axe to be used as a reference point to locate the corners of sections 8, 9, 16 and 17 in the township. A crew from Trees, Inc. did the top part of the dead tree's removal first, and Michigan DNR representatives cut down the remaining trunk, parts of which will be used for plaques by the Northern Chapter of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers. A sign will be placed on a post sunk in the remaining tree trunk explaining its history and the use of witness trees in surveying.

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Record-Eagle/Jan-Michael Stump
A group of surveyors, DNR employees and employees of Trees, Inc examine the stump of one of the few remaining Witness Trees -- used for surveying -- in northern Michigan after it was cut down Tuesday in Kalkaska County's Rapid River Township. The sugar maple, marked in 1850 at what is now the intersection of Wallace and Smith Roads, was only 10 inches in diameter when the surveyor marked it with an axe to be used as a reference point to locate the corners of sections 8, 9, 16 and 17 in the township. A crew from Trees, Inc. did the top part of the dead tree's removal first, and Michigan DNR representatives cut down the remaining trunk, parts of which will be used for plaques by the Northern Chapter of the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers. A sign will be placed on a post sunk in the remaining tree trunk explaining its history and the use of witness trees in surveying.

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Week in Photos, Aug. 5-11