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Titled “Gizmo 1,” the five-foot-tall plywood and carved fiberboard tower sits in the animal pasture.

Some 7,000 acres burned by the Bootleg went through a major thinning that turned smaller trees into chips hauled to a Klamath Falls fiberboard plant and left larger trees with more space to grow.

She teaches swimming to poor children and, in her spare time, carves fingers out of fiberboard.

The materials are simple — plexiglass, plywood, medium-density fiberboard, Formica, nails, screws and light bulbs.

Mr. Ross bought mushroom spores from local farmers and coaxed them to grow into a substance he describes as akin to medium-density fiberboard.