Last Updated: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:47 PM CDT
All the makings of an eagle scout
Scout project centers on work at logging museum
Ray O'Connell looks to make the leap from Boy Scout to Eagle Scout with a project at the Rhinelander Logging Museum in Pioneer Park. O'Connell and a contingent of scouts spent part of last Sunday working at the museum.
O'Connell is focusing on the rebuilding of a popular exhibit, a large cedar display board from the 1940s that features mounted examples from the variety of trees native to Wisconsin. Some are easy to find to this day; the red, white and jack pine, for example. Samples of others, such as the ironwood and ash, are more difficult to locate.
Before beginning the project, O'Connell had to get approval on several fronts.
His first stop was getting approval for the concept from Old Rhinelander Incorporated, which operates the Logging Museum for the City of Rhinelander.
With the project embraced by that group, he had to get approval for the project from Troop 660 and District Advancement Chairman Dan Haacke.
In order to receive credit for the project, O'Connell had to show leadership and apply organizational skills. He had to put the project together and oversee it from start to finish, and write a full report at the end.
He is working with the DNR, local loggers and sawmills to find new slices of wood to mount on the display. A number of the samples needed to be replaced, but many needed only to be given a thorough cleaning.
On Sunday, O'Connell and the scouts took apart the display, boxing the samples for cleaning at home. The name of each sample and its place on the display board was duly noted.
By next weekend O'Connell hopes to be back with new and refurbished samples to attach to the display board. The exhibit will be moved to the bunkhouse section of the museum for display this summer.
The museum complex will open for the season on Memorial Day, and remain open until Labor Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.
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Scouts help Ray O’Connell (right) load wood samples into boxes at the logging Museum on Sunday.
(Michael Skubal - Daily News)
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