2A Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Appeal Tribune
Dollar Tree opens
in Silverton
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
Dollar Tree quietly opened its doors in Silverton
on Sept. 14, following with a public ribbon-cutting
ceremony the next day.
The Virginia-based Dollar Tree Inc., chose for its
new store the vacated space at Silverton Plaza most
recently occupied by Rite Aid Pharmacy. Of the
10,000 square feet of space, about 8,000 square feet is
dedicated to retail sales, said manager Heather
Thompson.
Dollar Tree’s address is 333 Westfield Street,
Suite A. It’s open daily, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and can be
reached by phone at 503-873-0212.
Correction
A story on page 1A of the Sept. 13 edition of the
Appeal Tribune needs to be corrected. Hattie Brat-
zel Kremen was Marion County's first female dis-
trict attorney.
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Silverton murals gets
financial boost from city
CHRISTENA BROOKS
SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL TRIBUNE
The Silverton Mural Society received $6,000 from
the city this month to continue touching up and weathe-
rizing the city’s famous colorful murals.
The City Council voted unanimously on Sept. 11 to
award the grant, taken from its portion of “room taxes,”
to the touchup project. Transient occupancy taxes are
collected the county and then dispersed to cities, based
on visitor occupancy rates.
In Silverton, the Tourism Promotion Committee
takes a portion of the collected money and recommends
grant approvals and/or denials to the Council, based on
whether proposed projects contribute to tourism in
town.
The Silverton Mural Society requested the $6,000 to
combine with a $6,000 sponsor match and pay for tou-
chups, ultraviolet-light protection, and in the case of
the “Old Oak Tree” mural on Main and First Streets,
crack-patching.
One of Silverton's many murals, which visitors can admire as a
part of a walking tour. BROOKE JACKSON-GLIDDEN / STATESMAN
JOURNAL FILE
Trail
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Fire.
Ignited by a lightning
strike in early August, the
fire near Devil's Peak has
spread within 1 3/4 miles
of the hot springs and cab-
ins.
To protect the area, fire
teams looked for the best
place to build a fire break,
or buffer, between the
fires and Breitenbush.
Grady McMahan , dis-
trict ranger for the Forest
Service in Detroit, said
the team looked at multi-
ple options along Devil’s
Ridge, but found the ter-
rain too steep and danger-
ous.
Eventually, they set-
tled on a line that included
two miles of the Emerald
Forest Trail, part of the
Spotted Owl Trail system,
a popular hiking trail that
traversed old-growth for-
est.
“The fire was coming
closer every day, and with
the right wind event, the
fire could have been right
there in a day or two,”
McMahan said. “We didn’t
feel like that was a risk
worth taking.”
McMahan got approval
for the plan from officials
at
Breitenbush
Hot
Springs.
Fire
teams
went
through two miles of the
trail and cut old-growth
snags, smaller trees and
old-growth yew trees.
They created a 50- to 70-
foot gap designed to halt
or slow a fire if it spread
toward Breitenbush.
Fire officials are con-
sidering
back-burning
along the trail, likely us-
ing a "drip torch" to burn
off flammable vegetation
and fuels. It's unclear
whether that will be nec-
essary given rainy incom-
ing weather, fire officials
Pictures of the Emerald Forest Loop that was cut to protect the
Breitenbush area. PHOTO BY MICHAEL DONNELLY
said.
“It’s not fun to have to
do these things, but we're
living with the distinct
possibility that the fire
could be on us in no time,”
said Peter Moore, busi-
ness director at Breiten-
bush Hot Springs. “They
were playing the odds the
best they could … and we
supported it.”
But a number of resi-
dents with cabins at Brei-
tenbush are not happy
with the decision. They
said the move was unnec-
essary and damaged an
area of rich biological di-
versity in a premature ef-
fort to stop a fire that like-
ly won't arrive.
Along with the stumps,
the critics point to a loss of
spotted owl nesting habi-
tat in the old-growth
snags. And, they said,
even if the fire swept to-
ward Breitenbush, the
fire break might not have
stopped the blaze.
“My big concern is that
there is no evidence that
such a fire break in old-
growth ever works as in-
tended,” Donnelly said.
“If a fire can jump the Co-
lumbia River, that seri-
ously questions the effica-
cy of carving fire breaks
through ancient forests
sans any ecological con-
sulting.”
McMahan said fire
breaks won't stop every
fire, but they often do
work. He cited a fire
break north of Pamelia
Lake that's stopped the
Whitewater Fire from en-
tering the popular recrea-
tion area in the Mount Jef-
ferson Wilderness.
"You have to have the
right weather, and put it in
the right place, but they
do work," McMahan said.
Woody Jackson, anoth-
er cabin owner at Breiten-
bush, said a better fire
break would have been an
old access road behind the
cabins. It would have put
his cabin at greater risk,
but he would have accept-
ed that risk rather than
impacting the old-growth
ecosystem around the
Emerald Forest Trail sys-
tem.
“When I bought a sum-
mer home it was with the
expectation that it may
eventually burn,” Jack-
son said. “Protection of
property is a low consid-
eration, while protecting
viable habitats have more
importance to me.
“The tragedy is that
now that a fire line has
been cut within a spotted
owl habitat, it will always
be an open canopy putting
the owls at risk, and the
next time there’s a threat
from fire they’ll want to
use the Emerald Forest
Trail again.”
The Emerald Forest
Loop holds a special place
in the history of the Brei-
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tenbush area.
The forest around
Breitenbush was sched-
uled to be logged during
the height of Oregon’s
Forest Wars in 1986 and
’89.
The
timber
sale
spurred mass protests
that gained national atten-
tion and was eventually
stopped by a lawsuit filed
by members of the Brei-
tenbush community, in-
cluding Donnelly.
“Volunteers built the
trail network and have
maintained it for 33
years," Donnelly said. "We
estimate around 20,000
hikers per year.”
McMahan said he went
along the trail with fire
teams and sought ways to
limit damage to the yew
trees and the forest over-
all. But that wasn't always
possible, he said.
“It's true that before, it
was a forest that didn’t
show any presence of man
except the trail, and now
there are stumps,” McMa-
han said. “That’s disap-
pointing to everyone, in-
cluding me.
“But, I felt like we had
to do it.”
Donnelly said he be-
lieves
water
pumps
around the cabins and
clearing brush were
enough.
“I don't question at all
whether it was done in
good faith,” he said.
“However, we do want an
investigation into what al-
ternatives were consid-
ered."
Both McMahan and
Donnelly said they'll look
at ways to bring some res-
toration to the trail once
the fires are out.
Moore said time would
heal the scars.
"Yes, it's ugly now," he
said. "But give it three
years. This is Oregon. It
will grow back."
Note:
This is the Forest Ser-
vice's hierarchy of impor-
tance in terms of what to
protect during wildfires:
1) Safety of firefight-
ers and public
2) Private property and
structures (such as cab-
ins)
3) Western timber val-
ues, including private
timber lands
4) Forest resources,
such as old-growth forest
Zach Urness has been
an outdoors writer, pho-
tographer and videogra-
pher in Oregon for nine
years. He is the author of
the book “Hiking South-
ern Oregon” and can be
reached
at
zur-
ness@StatesmanJour-
nal.com or (503) 399-6801.
Find him on Twitter at
@ZachsORoutdoors.
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billion-dollar transporta-
tion package, which pro-
vides a substantial alloca-
tion of funding for several
transportation projects in
House District 18.
The
representative
served on the Veterans
and Emergency Pre-
paredness
Committee,
Economic Development
and Trade Committee,
and Joint Committee on
Ways and Means Subcom-
mittee on Natural Re-
sources.
House District 18 in-
cludes Silverton, Molalla,
Mt. Angel, Hubbard, Au-
rora, Scotts Mill, Donald,
and Colton.