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Friday, August 30, 2019
The Observer & Baker City Herald
Videos aim to help avoid
conflicts on waterways
The Oregon State Marine
Board has joined in a national
effort to educate recreational
paddlers about avoiding po-
tentially dangerous confl icts
with other watercraft around
boat ramps and docks where
both powered and unpowered
vessels operate.
A three-episode Web TV se-
ries, made primarily at Lake
Billy Chinook near Madras,
demonstrates proper pad-
dling etiquette in such areas.
“With more and more
people recreating on Oregon’s
waterways, it’s important
that everyone recognize their
own skill levels, practice the
basic rules of the road and
taking ownership of their own
safety,” said Ashley Massey,
public information offi cer for
the Marine Board. “When one
user group can empathize
with the needs of another
through shared responsibility,
everyone can have a safe and
enjoyable time on the water.”
According to the Marine
Board and the U.S. Coast
Guard, the increasing popu-
larity of “paddlesports” — in-
cluding kayaks and stand-up
paddleboards — over the past
decade has also resulted in
more confl icts between those
users and powered boats.
The Marine Board part-
nered with the American
Canoe Association (ACA) to
secure a grant from the Coast
Guard to make the educa-
tional videos.
The three-video series can
be found on PaddleTV via
YouTube, among other videos
Submitted photo
Motor boats and self-propelled craft such as kayaks often
use the same docks and launching sites.
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Opal, quartz and gold have all been
sought and extracted from the vicinity.
The more recent, “shaped by fi re,” aspect
of this ride is the forest. With an average
rainfall of less than 20 inches annually and
summer lightning storms, this forest is
made to burn. The trees and bushes have
evolved to have environmental triggers
and defenses that allow them to press their
advantage over other plants fi ghting for
water, sun and nutrients. Some examples
are the western larch and ponderosa pine
trees with their thick layered jigsaw bark.
This bark is perfect for protecting the
soft lifeblood of the tree in times of short
extreme heat and fi re. These trees shed
their lower limbs and thrive in open dry
expanses where the fi re can travel through
quickly, taking out the tree’s competition
without damaging it.
Another technique for living in a fi re
regime zone is serotinous seed. Plants
that deploy this manner of opposition wait
for an environmental trigger, like fi re, to
germinate. Pinus contorta, better known as
lodgepole pine, and ceanothus, buckbrush
or snowbrush, are probably the most pro-
lifi c to employ this manner of survival.
In 1996, the Tower Fire was a conglom-
erate of three fi res that merged to cover
4,800 acres, most of which can be seen in
the next two days of riding. The result is
the interesting layer of green lodgepole
pines, all about the same age and height
punctuated by the occasional towering
ponderosa pine, western larch or Douglas-
fi r and numerous spires of trees that have
been dead and preserved by fi re for at least
23 years.
This ride passes remarkably fast, due to
the endless beauty to stare at and the up-
front elevation gain. There are the occasion-
al cabins and marshy meadows perfect for
daydreaming, and distant peaks for relief.
The last two miles swoop down at a nice
grade to the Wild and Scenic North Fork
John Day River and the North Fork John
Day River Campground. Revel in the cold
bubbling creek that holds baby steelhead,
salmon, trout and the end of day four of a
marvelous adventure.
geared to a wide variety of
improve safety, and under-
users, skill levels and paddle- standing, for everyone.”
craft.
“Several factors have
been identifi ed and no user
group is solely to blame as
we all have a responsibility
to become educated and fol-
low the rules and laws that
govern multi-use waterways,”
said Marcel Bieg, the ACA’s
western states outreach
director and grant manager,
who spearheaded the video
project.
“The best way to encourage
safe boating and sharing the
waterways is having different
user groups come together to
fi nd common ground and col-
laborate,” Massey said. “These
videos are the culmination of
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