CROOK COUNTY, OR -- The Crook County Sheriff's Office responded to an accidental death of a woodcutter after a tree fell on him in the Ochoco National Forest, yesterday.

Killed was 76-year old Terry Dessenberger of Redmond.  He and a friend were cutting firewood when reportedly the victim sawed a limb off of a downed tree causing it to fall on top of him.

Dessenberger's friend pulled him from underneath the tree and attempted CPR but was unable to revive him.