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Giants
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"I've been coming to
the Valley of the Giants
since I was her age," said
Broadus, pointing to his
daughter. "It's really cool
to see how the forest
looked before they start-
ed logging — to see the
size of the trees before
they all got cut."
Look into Oregon his-
tory, and there's no short-
age of timber downs dot-
ting the state in the early
1900s. Loggers and their
families lived, worked
and got married in towns
owned by the timber
company.
Some of the towns, like
Valsetz, even had a
school, restaurants and
bowling ally deep in the
Oregon forest.
But Valsetz had some-
thing more — a newspa-
per run by an 11-year-old
girl named Dorthy Anne
Hobson. She published
the Valsetz Star, and it
put the town on the map.
The paper had a quirky
tone — that of a preco-
cious girl growing up in a
timber town. It was sent
out each month to a pret-
ty amazing list of sub-
scribers, including Frank-
lin and Eleanor Roose-
velt, Herbert Hoover and
even Shirley Temple. It
was read on-air at radio
stations across the coun-
try. It was a national sto-
ry, about this tiny town
tucked into the misty
mountains of Oregon's
Coast Range.
The town lasted a long
time — more than 64
years — before folding for
good in 1984.
A 1.6 mile trail leads through the Valley of the Giants.
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Salem barber, and
World War II vet saves
the Giants
The location of Valsetz
raises an interesting
question.
In an area known for
logging, how, exactly, did
the Valley of the Giants
remain intact?
The answer actually
lies with a longtime resi-
dent of Salem.
Maynard Drawson, a
veteran of World War II
and a barber by trade,
first visited the Valley of
the Giants in 1974. He was
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struck by the gigantic
trees and horrified by the
reality that they would
eventually be cut.
Drawson
led
the
charge to preserve the
trees, eventually wearing
down the Bureau of Land
Management, and getting
them to protect the Gi-
ants within a 51-acre Out-
standing Natural Area,
now free from the axe.
"Maynard organized
more field trips, gave lec-
tures, and made TV and
radio appearances talk-
ing about the Valley of the
Giants," wrote Madeline
MacGregor for Oregon
Travel Experience. "May-
nard was instrumental in
helping to save some of
Oregon’s most important
trees."
Drawson would even-
tually help launch the
Oregon Heritage Tree
Program and after his
death in 2012, an Oregon
white oak was planted in
his honor on the grounds
of the Oregon Depart-
ment of Forestry.
Today the Giants are
recognized for the rich
collection of wildlife they
support. Oregon State
University conducts re-
search here on a regular
basis.
"That the trees are still
here is I think the best
memorial to Maynard,"
said his son, Mark.
"That's the thing he
would have been happi-
est about, that another
generation of kids could
see these trees."
On the misty morning
that I visited, with Broa-
dus and his daughter
walking among the gi-
ants, Drawson's dream
was being fulfilled.
"It's definitely cool to
be showing her a place I
visited at the same age,"
he said. "Hopefully, when
she's old enough to re-
member, she'll have the
chance to come back
here, too."
Journey and
destination
A trip to the Valley of
the Giants is best viewed
as two different adven-
tures: the journey and
destination.
Because the drive re-
quires four and a half
hours round-trip from
Salem, it makes sense to
enjoy the sites along the
way.
The trip begins in ear-
nest from the town of
Falls City. A paved road
soon turns to gravel and
you're off into the moun-
tains, passing large clear-
cuts on private timber
land that gives you a
sense of just how lucky
the Giants were to es-
cape.
A locked gate marks
the former site of Valsetz,
but there isn't much to
see here beyond a filled-
in lakebed that's become
a marsh between the
mountains.
The route becomes
most scenic, and most
confusing, beyond Val-
setz.
Numerous road junc-
tions make you glad to
have the BLM map and
directions, while the
blueish-green color of the
upper forks of the Siletz
River and numerous wa-
terfalls provide scenic en-
couragement.
Finally, on the trail —
though not for long
At long last, the Valley
of the Giants Trailhead
arrives on the right,
marked by a sign and
parking area, and the
easy 1.6-mile trail begins.
A footbridge across the
river is gateway into the
Valley of the Giants prop-
er, a place where trees
sprout like skyscrapers
and threatened marbled
murrelets roost in June.
The forest here gets
more than 200 inches of
Massive trees dwarf people in the Valley of the
Giants. ZACH URNESS/STATESMAN JOURNAL
rain each year, and it
shows. Moss, lichen and
mushrooms carpet mas-
sive lumps of fallen trees,
which stretch across the
ground the size of
bridges.
It would be easy to
spend an eternity in these
woods, inspecting every
plant and flower. But the
long drive home awaits,
and woe to the person
who traverses those
roads in darkness.
And so you head back
up the trail, afternoon
sunlight streaming in
through the trees and find
yourself
once
again
transforming into a 6-
year-old child, only this
time with a different la-
ment: "I don't want to go
home ..."
Zach Urness has been
an outdoors reporter,
photographer
and
videographer in Oregon
for 12 years. Urness is the
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is proportional to that of
the ruler, the length of
which you know.
Ergo, you can calcu-
late the height of the
utility pole.
Subtracting for the
height of the woodpeck-
er hole above the ground
where the pole it most
likely to snap, you can
guesstimate – roughly,
since the pole isn’t ex-
actly perpendicular to
the ground – what’s go-
ing to be taken out if it
falls toward the house.
By my admittedly ru-
dimentary, back-of-the-
envelope calculations,
the house probably is
out of range. But it could
take out the fence and
the Fuji apple tree.
This is known as
worst-case over-think-
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times.
In reality, everything
is probably fine; it’s just
a case of corona para-
noia, call it coronanoia.
There’s a lot of that
going around of late.
And admittedly the
flicker nest is becoming
something of a neigh-
borhood conversation
piece.
Lucky us.
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