2 Fall 2015 Applegater
All hands, all lands
BY DON BOUcHER
The Siskiyou Mountains
Ranger District is hosting an open
house on Wednesday, September 2, to
share information about, and to begin
collaborative discussions around, plans
for restoration and other actions for the
Applegate Adaptive Management Area
(AMA). It will take place from 5 to 7 pm
at the Applegate Grange, 3901 Upper
Applegate Road.
Restoration generally refers to
actions that will help maintain an
e c o s y s t e m’s re s i l i e n c e t o m a j o r
disturbances such as fire, insects, and a
changing climate. We want to encourage
a dialogue around what “restoration”
means to you.
One of the topics at the open house
will be the recent work by the Southern
Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative
examining the risk wildfires pose to valued
resources and assets. This collaborative is
developing a 20-year plan to address
the pace and scale of restoration in the
Rogue Basin. US Forest Service (USFS)
and BLM resource specialists are seeking
to prioritize areas within the Applegate
Watershed in need of restoration.
As discussed in the last Applegater,
we plan to share the “story map” that
specialists have been developing. The
story map will allow us to share a series
of maps on
an Internet
site showing
different
data for
the same
location,
such as a set
of thematic
maps about a sub-watershed. Users will
be able to zoom into an area or pan to
look at adjacent areas. This story map will
also use images, videos, and web content
to provide further information.
The Applegate workshop will
give us at the Siskiyou Mountains
Ranger District an opportunity to make
contact with people interested in sharing
ideas and collaborating with resource
specialists to develop restoration projects
across all lands in the Applegate AMA.
Recently, the Wildland Fire
Leadership Council (WFLC) visited
Ashland to look at the Ashland Forest
Resiliency project and the Ashland Forest
All-lands Restoration project as examples
of successful and forward-thinking
implementation of the National Cohesive
Wildland Fire Management Strategy
within an ecosystem. These projects
stimulate local jobs and economy and tie
into regional wildfire hazard reduction
Sanctuary One: An invitation
BY BROOkE NUcklES gENtEkOS
Greetings from Sanctuary One! As
the new executive director, I would like to
invite our Applegate Valley neighbors to
get involved with our inspiring nonprofit
organization. Visit, adopt an animal, join
the Care Family, and experience the fun
and magic happening right in our valley
as we save lives and make a difference
each and every day.
Last spring I found Sanctuary One
and joyfully joined its dedicated team.
Sanctuary One’s mission aligns with
mine: to make the world better, one
animal, one person, one bit of earth at a
time. As a nonprofit care farm, Sanctuary
One works to fulfill our vision of “People,
animals and the earth. Better together.”
Vi s i tor s o f t e n d e s c r i b e
Sanctuary One as a magical place,
where calm overcomes them as they
breathe the fresh air, take in blue skies,
and appreciate the absence of city life.
The mountains slope down toward the
rushing Applegate River through ancient
forests, past carefully tended gardens to
green pastures where animals graze, at
peace and in harmony.
Cats, dogs, rabbits, llamas,
alpacas, sheep, goats, chickens and more
call Sanctuary One home. During Farm
Tours, the farm animals gather around
visitors, happy and…smiling! Smiling,
because they have hit the jackpot after
being rescued from situations of neglect,
abuse or torture. Now, these animals
blissfully roam cage-free, are given
and forest restoration. The WFLC team
looked at the elements of that work that
can be used in other communities to
advance needed restoration. As a result
of the efforts in Ashland, the USFS is
shifting attention to the Applegate Valley.
The National Cohesive
Strategy (NCS) encourages
participation among all landowners. In
alignment with NCS, the local agencies
of the BLM and USFS are building a
strategy for the Applegate AMA around
the premise that agencies should both
use the best science available and work
collaboratively with all stakeholders and
across all landscapes to make meaningful
progress toward three goals:
1. Restoring and maintaining
resilient landscapes. Restoration
focuses on assisting the recovery and
establishing the composition, structure,
pattern, and ecological processes
necessary to make terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems sustainable, resilient, and
healthy under current and future
conditions. Resilience refers to the ability
of a social or ecological system to absorb
disturbances while retaining the same
basic structure, ways of functioning, and
capacity to adapt to stress and change.
2. Creating fire-adapted
communities. Communities that
adapt to wildfire understand its risk and
take individual and collective action to
prepare for it, including work on the
surrounding landscapes. An adapted
community is more likely to successfully
survive the impact of wildfire. For more
information, go to www.fireadapted.org.
3. P r o v i d i n g s a f e a n d
effective wildfire response. Like
wildland fire itself, fire management,
with all its complex issues, recognizes no
ownership or jurisdictional boundaries
on the landscape. As a result, perhaps
nowhere is the practice of interagency
and interdepartmental cooperation as
prevalent and effective as in the nation’s
wildland fire community. As partners,
the agencies and departments work
together on fire management issues
from safety and planning to science,
preparedness, operations, strategy
development, logistics, intelligence,
emergency response, and more.
The open house is a great opportunity
for the Siskiyou Mountains Ranger
District to coordinate cross-jurisdictional
management in the Applegate AMA.
Using the adaptive management
approach outlined in the National Fire
Plan and the Applegate AMA Guide, we
can develop methods that will best reflect
the needs of the land and communities.
We hope to see you at the
Applegate Grange on September 2.
For more information, please contact
me at the email or phone number below.
Don Boucher • 541-899-3840
Applegate AMA Team Leader
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
dboucher@fs.fed.us
opportunities
for rehabilitation
with positive
h u m a n
interactions, wait
for a carefully
selected adoptive
home, or live
out their days
on the farm as
ambassador
animals. The
joy, love, and
compassion at
New executive director Sanctuary One
Brooke Nuckles are inspiring.
Gentekos
I encourage
you to visit Sanctuary One by booking
a Farm Tour—offered Wednesdays
and Saturdays now through October
and suitable for all ages. Come explore
the farm, meet the animals and get
involved. Our new Care Family monthly
sponsorship program invites you to
support our work happening every day,
year-round.
The magic of Sanctuar y
One grows from the dedicated staff,
volunteers and supporters, the blissful
animals, the permaculture-inspired
gardens, and the gorgeous Applegate
Valley landscape. It is the sum of all of
these parts, greater together, that makes
Sanctuary One a wonderful place to visit,
tour and support.
To donate, book a Farm Tour or
learn about volunteer opportunities,
please visit www.sanctuaryone.org or
connect with us on Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest or Instagram.
Brooke Nuckles Gentekos
Executive Director, Sanctuary One
541-846-8627
brooke@sanctuaryone.org
POND HOUSE
making the natural dyes used in their
woven pieces, primarily rugs. These
rugs helped to expand the tourist trade,
and the weavings made their way into
museums and became an important part
of American art history. After World
War II, the Lippincotts came to Oregon.
They met the Messingers and bought 800
acres of their land. They felled the trees
for their house, cleared land, and built
fences for their Arizona cattle.
Architect Winfield Scott
Wellington. Designer of the Pond
House and a friend of the Lippincotts,
Wellington was a well-respected professor
at the University of California-Berkeley
for 40 years and an environmental
architect of considerable note. The
house at Pacifica is his only building
outside the San Francisco Bay Area.
When the 3,600-square-foot house
was finished, it was a perfect melding
of site, space, material, and respect for
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Steve Miller. The rock
musician (“Fly Like an Eagle”)
owned the property between
1976 and 1986. During that
period, he built an oak-and-
cedar-lined “barn” with a lovely
“great hall” (that can be rented
for events) and a world-class
recording studio, currently
operated by the Dragon Media
Group.
Pa c i f i c a p u r c h a s e d
Pacifica’s Pond House is available to rent. the remaining 420 acres in
1999, just as the property
the surroundings. The house remains was about to be subdivided again. An
a timeless showcase of environmental education-based, nonprofit organization,
design and use of sustainable native Pacifica is committed to establishing
materials. It reflects a pioneer past and and maintaining a botanical garden, a
an eco-conscious future all in one.
nature center, and educational facilities
The next owners were the Lipperts, that support enjoyable hands-on learning
followed by Mr. McNutt, who subdivided about plants and the environment and
the western 380 acres, leaving the 420 music and the arts. Its grounds are open
acres on which Pacifica sits today.
free to the public for hiking, biking,
birding, horseback riding, painting,
photography, picnics, fishing, and as a
natural classroom. Please come for a visit.
If you’re interested, Pacifica can always
use volunteers and donations as well!
(For more information about Pacifica,
see the summer 2015 Applegater or visit
www.pacificagarden.org.)
The historic wood-paneled,
4,000-square-foot Pond House with
its eight-foot stone fireplace, wall of
windows, and 60-foot deck overlooking
the pond and mountains is amazing
and now available to rent. Furnished in
nostalgic 1970s style reminiscent of Steve
Miller’s time, it has complete kitchen
and laundry facilities, dining for 20, and
sleeping for 12—a delightful place for
reunions, weddings, showers, and other
special events. Call 541-846-1100 for
more information.
Peg Prag • 541-846-1100
peg@pacificagarden.org
