LA PUSH, Wash.- A CH-47 Chinook Helicopter prepares to lift a buoy from the beach to a short distance off-shore from La Push Monday, August 29, 2011.
Members from the U.S. Coast Guard 13th District Aids to Navigation Hardware Shop, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Fir, an aircrew from the U.S. Army Reserves' Bravo Company 214th General Support Aviation Battalion, U.S. Coast Guard Station Quillaute River and members from the Quileute Tribe worked together to remove the buoy that washed up on shore in the winter of 2010. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zac Crawford