Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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The Nugget Newspaper Crossword
By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service
photo by amy racki
the allingham guard Station house before the marines came...
GUARd STATION:
Doors will be saved
and repurposed
Continued from page 1
they’ve grown up on.”
Dirico described the train-
ing and experience as a win
for all involved, noting the
Forest Service is constrained
by budgetary issues, his
Marines need training oppor-
tunities, and the taxpayer
“gets a bigger bang for the
buck.”
Kassidy Kern, public
affairs specialist and civil
rights chair for the Deschutes
National Forest, told The
Nugget that the Allingham
Guard Station “was origi-
nally built in the 1950s as a
cookhouse for the nearby
guard station and larger com-
pound. When the guard sta-
tion burned down, the use
of the cookhouse was then
converted to a guard station
and the building has under-
gone modifications over the
decades, which made it ineli-
gible for listing on the his-
toric registry. It has served as
a place for one of our hand
crews to be stationed out of,
and then was also used as a
fire camp until we moved
fire camps in town to the
schools.”
Kern said the doors of the
guard station were preserved
prior to demolition, because
“the hardware on the doors
is historically significant and
difficult to find. So when we
do restoration projects on
other buildings of the era, we
should be able to repurpose
them.”
Amy Racki, recreation
team leader for the Forest
Service, told The Nugget that
she enjoyed working with the
Marines.
“It’s a great opportunity to
have Marines working in con-
cert with the Forest Service,
to help in restoring public
lands,” she said.
Racki said that the Forest
Service has not decided on a
future use of the former guard
station, noting that all ideas
were under review but that
no definite plans had been
decided on.
Marine
Sergeant
Navalharo is a logistics vehi-
cle driver from Eugene.
“In eight years in the
Corps I’ve seen houses blown
up, blown up doors, watched
line charges shot out of tanks,
but watching them bulldoze
the guard station was the best
thing I’ve seen. It just went
down,” he said, smiling.
In addition to the demo-
lition projects, Marines
were busy cleaning up areas
around the Allingham Guard
Station that were choked
with old wire, steel track-
ing, and treated construction
timber, and gathering it for
removal.
The Marines will be work-
ing on both the Deschutes and
Willamette National Forests
until July 26.
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