Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR. December 18, 2002
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Input about
mushrooms
FAC desire
The Forestry Action Com-
mittee (FAC) Wild Mushroom
Monitoring Project is sponsor-
ing a public meeting from 7 to
9 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 18
at Immanuel Methodist
Church across from Shop
Smart.
An Asian dinner will be
served free to the public.
The project has asked the
forest service and Bureau of
Land Management to bring
maps of proposed manage-
ment activities such as logging
and road closures, activities
that can have a negative ef-
fect on Matsutake mushroom
production and harvest.
Even through there is
hardly any harvest this year,
this is an opportunity for
mushroom pickers in Illinois
Valley who have experienced
the loss of mushroom habitat
to learn what is being planned
on the public land and to be-
gin to make input about their
concerns, said FAC.
There was successful
communication between
mushroom harvesters and Phil
Cruz, the district ranger in the
Crescent Lake Ranger Dis-
trict, this year, and the ranger
dropped logging units that
coincided with areas of high
Matsutake mushroom produc-
tion.
Pickers are beginning to
build a relationship at Cres-
cent that recognizes the accu-
racy and depth of knowledge
that mushroom harvesters can
acquire.
They are exploring ways
to utilize this knowledge as a
resource to help the mush-
room harvesters obtain good
harvests and the district to
achieve balanced and in-
formed management, FAC
said.
FAC hopes to build on the
Crescent Lake successes, and
bring them to Illinois Valley
and to the Brookings area on
the coast.
Holiday deadlines
Absolute deadlines for the Dec. 25 and
Jan. 1 issues are Friday, Dec. 20 and 27 at
5 p.m. The ‘Noose’ will be printed and
distributed on Monday, Dec. 23 and 30.
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for the mill, it’s been neces-
sary to go farther and farther
to obtain the other 70 percent.
“Because of this, transpor-
tation costs and log costs have
become prohibitive,” said
Krauss.
“And,” he continued,
“with recent conditions, such
as depressed lumber prices
during the past three years;
plus trying to get the remain-
ing 70 percent of our needs
from outside timber sales,”
R&R has found itself in a ma-
jor dilemma, “caught between
expensive log prices and low
timber prices.”
With the lack of timber
from federal land, the firm
cannot continue. Krauss noted
that R&R produced 50 to 55
million board feet (mbf) in
recent years, compared to ap-
proximately 80 mbf in the
early 1990s.
With the continued de-
cline in timber availability,
“There’s just not enough suit-
able timber available at af-
fordable prices to sustain our
mill,” said Krauss.
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Four teams participated in the annual Holiday Basketball
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On the girls side the positions were switched with Gold
Beach first and the Cougars second. Named to the All-
Tournament Team were Mychai Sha, Cascade Christian;
Brandt Pederson, Glide; Aaron McMillen, Gold Beach; and
from Illinois Valley, Brian Paul and Chancey Woods. I.V.’s
Chris Loock was named MVP. For the girls, all-tourney picks
were Rusti Mosser, Cascade Christian; Amy Croll, Glide; Kim
Hamilton, IVHS; and Gold Beach players Christa Meeks and
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DEQ passes gas approval
Testing operations using
hazardous chemical substi-
tutes have been authorized at
the Umatilla Chemical Agent
Disposal Facility near Hermis-
ton by Oregon Dept. of Envi-
ronmental Quality (DEQ).
The facility is a hazardous
waste treatment site that will
use four incinerators to de-
stroy a stockpile of chemical
warfare agent that has been
stored at the Umatilla Chemi-
cal Depot since 1962.
DEQ initially authorized
testing in July. But two
“miniburns,” in preparation
for full-scale trial burns, indi-
cated that permitted emission
limits for metals were being
exceeded. Corrective action
has been taken, following ad-
ditional problems in secon-
dary miniburns, DEQ said.
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