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Scorched Trees to Be Milled for Bastrop Rebuilding

May 29, 2012 10:56 am by: Andrew Uhler

David Keen hooks a chain around a scorched log that his team will pull out of the Lost Pines forest.David Keen hooks a chain around a scorched log that his team will pull out of the Lost Pines forest.

Over the weekend, teams of truck-wielding volunteers took to the fire-ravaged Lost Pines outside of Bastrop. Their goal: to pull the most logs out of a seven acre portion of the forest. The winners got a cash prize, and the satisfaction of knowing that those logs would be milled and turned into lumber to help families affected by the Labor Day fires. Listen to our audio portrait below.

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