By Patric Hedlund, TME

A team of fact-finders is gathering, informally, determined to learn what is—and what isn’t—responsible for the disappearance of the Frazier Mountain Park pond. While theories abound on social media, others are looking into the history of the ponds and checking about the fundamentals.

On Friday, Aug. 19 Cliff Carlisle, Drew Lesso, Richard Sheffield and Russ Siebers, caretaker for Frazier Mountain Park met with…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Top, left: the pond as it was two years ago; top, right: Cliff Carlisle and Russ Siebers look over the mud field that once held several bubbling underwater springs; above: the dry spring that has a pipe leading from it into the pond, refurbished in about 1994; Right: the actual pipe from the memorial spring, once underwater, is now dry.

The ad hoc Frazier Mountain Park Pond Brain Trust (l-r) Russ Siebers, Cliff Carlisle, Richard Sheffield and Drew Lesso brainstorming with The Mountain Enterprise about constructive steps to take to save the pond.

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