Citizen investigation uncovers origins and destruction of Sheepherder’s Monument

Citizen investigation uncovers origins and destruction of Sheepherder’s Monument

According to Wayne Shepperd, retired U.S. Forest Service employee for Rocky Mountain Research Station, a towering rock cairn known as Sheepherder’s Monument was located on the ridge between East St. Louis Creek and Range Creek watersheds on the Fraser Experimental Forest since at least the 1930s. It had been there since before the experimental forest was established in 1937 and was visible from throughout the Fraser Valley, Sheppard said. Local …