BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard
Searchers find missing mushroom hunter
REEDSPORT - A Florence man was found Thursday, three days after he
failed to return home from a solo mushroom-picking trip north of
Reedsport.
Friends and family located Raymond Edward Davies Edward Davies may refer to: - Edward Davies (Pennsylvania) (1779-1853), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
- Edward Davies (Celtic) (1756-1831), Welsh writer and poet involved with the re-introduction of the drudic tradition
, 63, about 1 1/2
miles from where he parked his car on Booth Road off Highway 101 in the
Tahkenitch Lake area of Douglas County Douglas County is the name of twelve counties in the United States: - Douglas County, Colorado (Located in the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area)
- Douglas County, Georgia (Located in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area)
- Douglas County, Illinois
- Douglas County, Kansas
. Davies was cold, but otherwise
unharmed, the sheriff's office reported. He survived by living in a
shelter built of ferns Ferns can refer to: - the plural of fern, a pteridophyte plant that reproduces using spores rather than seeds.
- Ferns, a small historic town in north County Wexford, Ireland.
- Ferns Inquiry.
, drinking stream water and eating wild mushrooms.
His family reported him missing Monday evening when he failed to
come home. Search and rescue crews scoured scour 1
v. scoured, scour·ing, scours
v.tr.
1.
a. To clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously: scour a dirty oven.
b. the area with scent dogs, the
marine patrol, Lane County searchers and volunteers, but called off the
search Wednesday night. Davies' family and friends labored on,
using all-terrain vehicles all-ter·rain vehicle
n. Abbr. ATV
A small, open motor vehicle having one seat and three or more wheels fitted with large tires. It is designed chiefly for recreational use over roadless, rugged terrain. and found him shortly before noon Thursday.
The sheriff's office said Davies embarked on the trip alone,
with no survival equipment, map, compass or rain gear.
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