It’s not your grandmother’s picket fence.
The pickets are 18 feet long and the fence they form is the palisade that surrounds Fort Vancouver.
Two hundred or so of the palisade’s wooden components — including walers and king posts — are being replaced this spring after standing guard for up to 50 years.
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