Well, well, what do we have here?

South of Crater Lake, Oregon, USA. A small square of land with dense, bushy plants, close to a National Forest road. Could be a small tree nursery planted by foresters, could be marijuana. It would not be surprising to see a farmer growing this little crop to supplement his/her income. Recreational marijuana became legal in Oregon in July, 2015. The image date is June 2016.  There are two legal ways to grow it: the highly regulated state licensed and taxed way, or a small (undefined) amount for personal use.

If it's a tree nursery, it's too tiny to do any good in a vast national forest. If it's marijuana, it's illegal to grow any amount on federal land. In that case, the growers apparently don't know about Google Earth and don't know they are less than 200 feet from a NF road. This is a one hour drive from my house. Should I go investigate?   (Kidding!)

What do you think it is?

What do we have here.kmz (727 B)

Interesting, there appears to be a fence or something all around it. I would go and have a look.

Sure, but you're a man and have upper-body strength. 

Taking a second look - that looks just like an electrified fence! To keep deer out, not especially people. 

Having worked for both the Oregon State Department of Forestry and the Wallowa Whitman National Forest I can tell you that (in those ancient times, at least) a lot of plots of private land exist within national forest boundaries, as well as the reverse: federal land outside the boundaries. The square shape suggest some kind of claim (mining? for example). You could easily check the ownership by inspecting the ownership plats at the courthouse in Klamath Falls.

Jul 22, 2019 4:53:21 GMT diane9247 said:

South of Crater Lake, Oregon, USA. A small square of land with dense, bushy plants, close to a National Forest road. Could be a small tree nursery planted by foresters, could be marijuana. It would not be surprising to see a farmer growing this little crop to supplement his/her income. Recreational marijuana became legal in Oregon in July, 2015. The image date is June 2016.  There are two legal ways to grow it: the highly regulated state licensed and taxed way, or a small (undefined) amount for personal use.

If it's a tree nursery, it's too tiny to do any good in a vast national forest. If it's marijuana, it's illegal to grow any amount on federal land. In that case, the growers apparently don't know about Google Earth and don't know they are less than 200 feet from a NF road. This is a one hour drive from my house. Should I go investigate?   (Kidding!)

What do you think it is?


Figured it out. QR-code! 

Aug 15, 2019 19:50:42 GMT goza said:

Jul 22, 2019 4:53:21 GMT diane9247 said:

...What do you think it is?

Figured it out. QR-code!

it might gonna be one day..., THIS one in China yet ready for read! (:

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I think this can be a simple forestry (ecological) experiment with a different type (species) of pine-wood, but its only a guess.

Jul 22, 2019 5:38:40 GMT diane9247 said:

Sure, but you're a man and have upper-body strength. 

Taking a second look - that looks just like an electrified fence! To keep deer out, not especially people. 

And its not  exactly at the edge of the clearing,   so its not hidden in the forest.  So that humans and deer out,don't just stumple blindly into it, or less often anyway.

So there is nothing to be deduced from the shape of the fence and  pattern of  plantation trees inside. Thats just done to clean up Dry and Six Mile Creek .. 

The area of Six Mile and Dry creeks  there  was the logging base logging of the area up higher and thus with steeper slopes, with the logs coming down to the forests edge  down the creeks, as the sides of the six mile creek valley require that. So  is  it just coincidence this  reforested area is just at the  first flat ground below those two creeks  ? They  traded logs, milled them, loaded the results onto trucks .. somewhere  ... 

Any land that has been cleared for farming  practices   isn't inside these logging forests.. The logging forests are naturally occuring (but has been logged before.)

quite the same appearance, only it is smaller (60 meters side length) and surrounded by a trench -  now from Russia:

forest riddle - Russia.kmz (867 B)

That's amazingly similar and just as puzzling! It seems so useless to do this when it would be easier to continue the straight line of planting, but there has to be a reason!
I had forgotten all about my post and so have not asked my son what he thinks. I'll try to remember!