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2 CapitalPress.com January 30, 2015 People & Places Forester teaches tree owners management Chris Schnepf develops master forest stewards program Established 1928 Board of directors Mike Forrester ..........................President Steve Forrester Kathryn Brown Sid Freeman .................. Outside director Mike Omeg .................... Outside director Corporate officer John Perry Chief operating officer Capital Press Managers Mike O’Brien .............................Publisher Joe Beach ..................................... Editor Elizabeth Yutzie Sell .... Advertising Director Carl Sampson ................Managing Editor Barbara Nipp ......... Production Manager Samantha McLaren .... Circulation Manager Hannah Brause ...Audience Development By MATTHEW WEAVER Capital Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — When forest owners in the Idaho Panhandle began notic- ing an increase in the snow- shoe hare population, Chris Schnepf went looking for an expert. When he couldn’t find one, Schnepf put in the time to re- search the hare compared to other possible causes of dam- age to young trees and shrubs, grasses and other plants. Schnepf hasn’t gotten a lot of calls about damage yet, but said the hare population goes through a nine- or 10-year cy- cle. It’s all in a day’s work for Schnepf, University of Idaho Extension educator for for- estry in the Idaho Panhandle. He’s worked for the extension service since 1988. Schnepf speaks to a broad audience that includes family forest owners, who own rough- ly 40 percent of the forest land in the panhandle; loggers; and professional foresters. “My goal is to give them enough forest ecological lit- eracy to make decisions that are going to help them meet their goals in their forest,” he said. Working in the forest is not the main job for most family forest owners. Schnepf es- timated only a few dozen in the region earn the majority of their income from logging. Some are also farmers. “Most (family forest own- ers) have very little training on their forests, even simple things like tree identification,” he said. “It’s very different from cereal producers, where you have people who have been growing a crop most of their lives and do a fair amount of management ac- tivity every year. A lot of our time is spent giving people a basic literacy on forestry and Capital Press Entire contents copyright © 2015 EO Media Group dba Capital Press An independent newspaper published every Friday. Capital Press (ISSN 0740-3704) is published weekly by EO Media Group, 1400 Broadway St. NE, Salem OR 97301. Periodicals postage paid at Portland, OR, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Capital Press, P.O. Box 2048 Salem, OR 97308-2048. To Reach Us Photos by Matthew Weaver/Capital Press Chris Schnepf, University of Idaho Extension area educator in forestry, talks about his work outside the UI Extension office in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Schnepf provides experienced foresters and first-time small forest landowners with the information they need. Toll free ............................. 800-882-6789 Main line ........................... 503-364-4431 Fax ................................... 503-370-4383 Advertising Fax ................ 503-364-2692 News Staff N. California Tim Hearden .................... 530-605-3072 Western Innovator E Idaho John O’Connell ................. 208-421-4347 Chris Schnepf Occupation: Area Extension Educa- Idaho Carol Ryan Dumas .......... 208-860-3898 tor-Forester Hometown: LeMars, Iowa Boise Sean Ellis .......................... 208-914-8264 Current location: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho Central Washington Dan Wheat ........................ 509-699-9099 Age: 54 E Washington Matthew Weaver .............. 509-688-9923 Family: Married, three children Website: http://www.uidaho.edu/extension/forestry forest ecology.” Schnepf works with log- gers and forest owners to de- termine how their needs can influence UI research. Loggers in particular are looking for more efficient and sustainable timber management methods, he said. Al Kyle in Athol, Idaho, is part of the master forest stewards program, designed by Schnepf so that experienced foresters can advise newcomers. “He’s a personable person — he’s interested in the peo- ple and helping them to really manage what they have better all the time so we can improve the health of the forests all over the state,” Kyle said of Schnepf. “He’s effective. He’s been a real asset to the forest community.” Janet Benoit in Careywood, Idaho, is also a master forest steward. “I think he has had quite an impact with those people who actually want to learn some- Oregon Eric Mortenson ................ 503-412-8846 Mateusz Perkowski .......... 800-882-6789 Graphic artist Alan Kenaga ..................... 800-882-6789 Chris Schnepf, University of Idaho Extension educator in forestry, talks about his work in his office. He developed a master forest stewards program to help spread best practices for forestry. thing about their property,” Benoit said. “He makes certain he is hitting what they think they need to learn.” Schnepf enjoys the reac- tions from people who are “grateful to learn something new about something they were struggling with.” “I work with so many people who just love to learn about this stuff,” he said. “You get energized by that. It’s a real high satisfaction job.” To Place Classified Ads Ad fax .............................. 503-364-2692 or ...................................... 503-370-4383 Telephone (toll free) .......... 866-435-2965 Online ......www.capitalpress.com/classifieds Subscriptions Mail rates paid in advance Easy Pay U.S. $3.75/month (direct with- drawal from bank or credit card account) 1 year U.S. ...................................$49.49 2 years U.S. .................................$89.89 1 year Canada .................................$275 Speed reading, or the speedy destruction of reading By RYAN M. TAYLOR For the Capital Press Cowboy Logic T Ryan Taylor OWNER, N.D. — If you’ve read the books of my Cowboy Logic columns, you’ll notice the publisher name is Sandhill Communications. It’s right there on what they call the verso of the title page — publisher, copyright, in- ternational standard book number, Library of Con- gress control number — all pretty impressive stuff. What people may not know is that Sandhill Com- munications is me, my wife, our kids and an occasional friend or relative who might help do a mailing. Our ru- ral mailman is basically our shipping department. Inventory is kept in the ga- rage and I’m in charge of both the creative concepts and the trucking division. But, after last week, I think I might have to fire myself from the trucking division. Book run The printers for my most recent book were kind enough to store the books for me after they printed them, until they decided to vacate the building where they were stored and told me to come get them. The trucking division jumped in his three-quarter-ton pick- up with a piece of plywood on the pickup bed to help the pallets slide in nice and slick. Here at the trucking di- vision of Sandhill Commu- nications we check the fore- cast before we make a run. If it’s going to rain or snow we shovel the manure out of the horse trailer and pull the partly enclosed trailer to put a roof over our paper bound inventory. On this most re- cent trip, the forecast was clear so we just forklifted the books onto the pick- up and wrapped them with plastic to hold them togeth- er. Flying prose After a hundred and some miles of highway speed cruising, the plastic was losing its grip around the boxes of books. Looking back, I heard a thump and saw 40 copies of “Cowboy Logic Family Style” bounc- ing and skidding and flying behind me on Highway 52. I pulled over before I lost another box and I grimaced as each passing truck and car laid tread tracks on my pre- cious prose. I turned around, parked on an approach, and began collecting cowboy logic. Highway 52 is pretty busy these days by rural North Dakota standards, so it took me awhile to get them all picked up. When I had to dart down into the ditch to avoid traffic, I could see the further mangling of my manuscripts quite closely. A highway speed 18-wheel- er with the trailer skirting along the bottom to improve the fuel efficiency can re- ally suck up a book under- neath the trailer and toss it around. After about a dozen for- ays onto the highway I got my mess pretty well cleaned up. There might still be one or two stray pages that the wind swept away, but I reck- on a mouse or a bird can in- corporate that column into its nest, a rancher can bale it with some hay and read it when they roll it out to feed, or maybe a cow can eat it with some grass, digest it, and, well, leave it reincarnat- ed on the ground behind her. Special sale I did launch a “BOGO” sale on my Facebook page — buy one new book, get a second one (retrieved with road rash from the highway) absolutely free, while those scuffed-up supplies last. The whole trucking ex- perience did make me think that publishing my stories digitally as an e-book would save trucking, postage, pa- per and the damage that can result when a box of paper pounds the pavement at 65 miles an hour. Guess I’ll run it by the board of directors here at Sandhill Communications when we have supper to- night. Right after we replace that guy in the trucking divi- sion. 1 year other countries ......... call for quote 1 year Internet only ............................$49 1 year 4-H, FFA students and teachers ....$30 9 months 4-H, FFA students & teachers .....$25 Visa and Mastercard accepted To get information published Mailing address: Capital Press P.O. Box 2048 Salem, OR 97308-2048 News: Contact the main office or news staff member closest to you, send the in- formation to newsroom@capitalpress.com or mail it to “Newsroom,” c/o Capital Press. Include a contact telephone number. 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