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From the 1.11.2012 print/e-edition of The Journal Reporter
In early November, Mountain Stewards president Don Wells was one of the featured speakers at the Cowboy Tales and Indian Trails Festival in Concord. He spoke about the Indian Trees and Trails that are being found across the country and locally in Pike and Lamar counties.
This Indian marker tree located in Pike County was discovered and photographed from a canoe in the Flint River.
far more ice storms and tornadoes create trees like that.in 25 years there will bee hundreds of those type trees around these parts because of the past years weather.
there is an area in ala. that we were doing survey work along the cossa river and we found 40-50 of these trees in a 1 mile area.a local guy that grew up in the area said they were caused from a ice strom when he was a kid.he said he hunted the area as a kid and had never seen a single one.after the storm the fallen trees had laid across the small saplings and they eventually rotted away leaving them just like the one in the picture.