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Linn County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Rue and a group of volunteers from the Sheriff’s Search and
Rescue team check in with homeowners in Idanha on Thursday, Jan. 12.
issues and those kind of
things,” said Detroit May-
or Jim Trett.
Detroit has accumulat-
ed more than a foot of
snow over the past week
and Trett said the city’s
sole plow contractor
could not keep up with the
incessant snowfall.
“We have limited re-
sources for plowing so he
was just feeling over-
whelmed,” Trett said.
As Larsen supervised
his teenage crew sloshing
through the snow and cre-
ating pathways, he com-
pared the conditions to a
series of storms that pum-
meled the region nine
years ago.
“I was actually up here
in 2008 when they had
heavy snow levels here
and it was similar to how it
is here today,” Larsen
said.
Idanha and Detroit
were buried by roughly 12
feet of snow over a two
month period in January
and February of 2008.
Three dozen National
Guard soldiers, inmate
crews and engineers were
sent to the cities to help
remove snow and help
residents, according to
the 2011 Marion County
Natural Hazards Mitiga-
tion Plan.
While snow removal
was one of the primary
reasons for volunteers
and Marion County Public
Works crews to make the
trek into Santiam Canyon,
the county initially re-
ceived information that
low water pressure was
causing issues for resi-
dents.
“They are having trou-
ble keeping up with all the
breaks because of the
freezing weather,” said
Jim Thompson, safety
specialist for Marion
County Public Works.
“The water lines are
breaking and they can’t
tell where.”
Marion County Sher-
iff’s Office deployed dep-
uty-supervised
inmate
work crews to clear snow
and ice that blocks access
for emergency crews to
assess structures, fire hy-
drants and water melters,
according to a statement
released by Marion Coun-
ty Thursday.
Search and Rescue vol-
unteers also assisted
Idanha’s Public Works
crews with clearing snow
at the city’s water treat-
ment center to restore wa-
ter pressure to normal
levels.
Members of both the
Marion and Linn County
Sheriff’s Offices and the
Community Emergency
Response Team, or CERT,
were also on site checking
on residents.
The search and rescue
team spent most of the
day traveling house to
house by foot to assess
roofs with heavy snow
loads and helped clear
walkways for residents
needing to venture into
town.
“First responders, pub-
lic works officials and
community members are
all working together to
help our community deal
with the effects of this
snow storm,” said Marion
County Sheriff Jason My-
ers. “This is a great exam-
ple of the teamwork and
collaboration that exists
between county agencies
and communities.”
Thompson said Marion
County Public Works
crews will be on site at
least until Friday, but that
timeline may be extended
through the weekend de-
pending on how much pro-
gress is made clearing
roadways.
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base of Mount Jefferson saw a ma-
jor increase in crowds beginning in
2014. One problem was people ar-
riving, discovering all the designat-
ed campsites were taken and mak-
ing camp on the park’s ecologically
sensitive meadows.
“The vegetation up there has an
incredibly short growing season,”
said Brad Peterson, wilderness
trails manager for Willamette Na-
tional Forest. “Once it’s crushed, it
can do extensive damage.”
By requiring that backpackers
purchase a $6 permit in advance —
and see online if any campsites
were available — it was hoped few-
er people would camp on environ-
mentally sensitive meadows.
It didn’t work out that way.
The number of people camping
on the fragile meadows actually in-
creased last summer, instead of de-
clining as officials had hoped, Pe-
terson said.
“Our staff observed an increase
in camping outside designated
sites,” he said. “(People) were also
less successful in selecting appro-
priate campsites.”
It’s not clear what caused the in-
crease. The past summer was the
most crowded outdoor recreation
season in Oregon’s history, the
Statesman Journal has reported. So
more people visiting already-popu-
lar Jefferson Park and spilling into
the meadows wouldn’t be shocking.
However, Peterson believes the
increase might have been caused by
a few factors.
First, many people were sur-
prised by the new permit require-
ment at Jefferson Park, despite
multiple signs and outreach pro-
grams, Peterson said.
At the same time, detailed infor-
mation about the permit system —
at trailheads and online — alerted
visitors to a little-known fact: while
backpackers did need a permit for
designated sites, the Forest Service
still allows dispersed camping in
Jefferson Park, as long as they’re
250 feet away from the lakes.
That means people without a per-
mit could legally camp in many
places — including the meadows.
“In the past, the public could
have been operating under the as-
sumption that camping was allowed
only in designated sites,” Peterson
said.
Peterson said land managers
would take a hard look at the permit
system.
“It is possible that there may be
some changes in the coming year,”
he said.
One option the Forest Service
could consider is a “limited entry
system,” that would cap the number
of people allowed to enter Jefferson
Park. Limited entry systems are in
place at Pamelia Lake and Hunt’s
Cove, in the Mount Jefferson Wil-
derness, and Obsidian Trail, in the
Three Sisters Wilderness.
Installing that type of system at
Jefferson Park requires an environ-
mental impact assessment, Peter-
son said, but might be part of a fu-
ture solution.
Zach Urness has been an out-
doors writer, photographer and
videographer in Oregon for eight
years. He is the author of the book
“Hiking Southern Oregon” and can
be reached at zurness@States
manJournal.com or (503) 399-6801.
Find him on Twitter at @ZachsO-
Routdoors.
Phone
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Marquam, where there’s little be-
sides a small store and a church. Its
popularity with Salem, Silverton,
Mt. Angel and various Marion
County ranchers kept the restau-
rant alive for over 100 years. Now,
under new ownership, that popular-
ity has no sign of slowing.
“Stop on by, we’re likely to be
swamped,” Valera said.
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Phone: (503) 873-8656
Pastor Leah Stolte-Doerfl er
Sunday School 9:15 a.m.
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Confession: 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
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