FALLEN TREE

Burlington, Iowa—October 2017

40° 43’ 57”N 91° 08’ 31”W

Elevation 580 feet

Watershed Cairns marked this area near the Skunk River’s confluence with the Mississippi River with two Milkstone cairns.

 A small sign marked this area on Blackhawk Bottoms Road off Summer Road as Public Hunting Land. Watershed Cairns marked this area near the Skunk River’s confluence with the Mississippi River with two Milkstone cairns.  One cairn is standing upright in the shelter of a tall tree stump, and a second cairn is resting on the ground near the stump, mirroring the fallen tree in the background. The water in the distance is Patterson Lake, part of the Skunk River Slough.