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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, September 29, 2004
October
Chateau
events set
The Chateau at Oregon
Caves National Monument
announced its fall special
events calendar.
Each weekend in Oc-
tober the Chateau will host
events highlighting special
area attractions and prod-
ucts, from beer and wine to
native myths and storytel-
ling, to the wild salmon
migration.
The next weekend will
bring an Octoberfest-style
all-you-can-eat dinner fea-
turing sausages from Tay-
lor’s Sausage and a sam-
pling of Southern Oregon
beers.
Oct. 15-17 will bring a
special weekend workshop
with local author and sto-
ryteller Thomas Doty.
Doty will tell stories and
facilitate a workshop that
explores the native mythol-
ogy and folklore of the
region as well as provides
hands-on instruction in
storytelling techniques.
Doty’s workshop will
emphasize achieving a bal-
ance between mastering
traditional craft and cele-
brating personal creativity,
encouraging participants to
discover their own com-
fortable styles of sharing
stories.
The season finale will
feature the Wild Rivers/
Wild Salmon Weekend.
For this, the Siskiyou Field
Institute pairs with the
Chateau to venture out to
watch the salmon spawn
along Illinois River and
learn about the region’s
network of wild rivers,
old-growth forests, and
their many inhabitants.
There’s even wine-tasting
Saturday afternoon.
For more information
and reservations, contact
the Chateau at (541) 592-
3400.
The Chateau is oper-
ated by the Oregon Caves
Outfitters -- a part of the
Illinois Valley Community
Response Team, a non-
profit organization work-
ing to improve economic
and social conditions in the
valley.
(See ad on this page.)
Healthy forest practices
urged at Eugene meeting
KIDS GONE ‘BUGGY’ -
The 2nd annual ‘Kids
and Bugs’ workshop was
held Saturday, Sept. 25
at
Grayback
Camp-
ground, 12 miles east of
Cave Junction on Caves
Hwy. The two-hour pro-
gram is designed to
teach children: how to
collect
and
identify
aquatic insects; the crit-
ters’ value in relation to
the salmon life cycle;
and water quality in
Sucker Creek. Kevin
O’Brien, coordinator, Illi-
nois Valley Watershed
Council (photo above)
discusses aquatic insect
variety with participants,
each of whom received a
field guide and angler’s
notebook to aid in insect
identification. The pro-
gram is co-sponsored by
Rogue Basin Coordinat-
ing Council in conjunc-
tion with Illinois Valley
Watershed Council, and
Izaak Walton League of
America.
Biscuit hazard tree removal complete
In compliance with the
Highway Safety Act and
after many months of
work, the Rogue River -
Siskiyou National Forest
has substantially com-
pleted the removal of haz-
ard trees located along ap-
proximately 250 miles of
forest road burned by the
Biscuit Fire.
The felling of hazard
trees to protect visitors and
workers along roadsides is
a routine road maintenance
activity, said U.S. Forest
Service (USFS).
The trees that were
felled and removed were
those that were generally
within one tree height’s
distance from a road, could
fall to the road, and were
either dead or were signifi-
cantly damaged and likely
to fall, said USFS.
In a few locations,
trees that had the potential
to fall and “shotgun” down
the slope onto the road
were also removed.
Trees felled adjacent
to streams were left in
place to provide habitat
wherever possible.
The hazard trees were
removed using five distinct
timber sales. The total vol-
ume removed is approxi-
mately 14 million board
feet; that volume is higher
than initial estimates due
to continuing mortality in
the fire area, as well as the
need to remove some trees
in order to protect worker
safety, said USFS.
Support for sustainable
management of state forest
lands, and implementation
of the Healthy Forest Res-
toration Act has been de-
clared by the Oregon Log-
ging Conference (OLC) in
Eugene.
Also, establishment of
forest biomass markets,
adequate funding for the
Oregon Dept. of Forestry’s
(ODF) fire protection
budget, and reduction in
the number of no-bid tim-
ber sales, by adopting its
2004 resolutions.
*Resolution 2004-1: A
resolution supporting sus-
tainable management of
state forest lands.
“… members of the
Oregon Logging Confer-
ence request it to be a top
priority of Gov. Kulon-
goski and the 2004 state
Legislature to provide ade-
quate funding to ODF to
implement the state’s for-
est management plan and
to direct the Board of For-
estry to increase the timber
harvest on state-owned
lands to a sustainable har-
vest level of 329 million
board feet per year.”
*Resolution 2004-2: A
resolution for implement-
ing the Healthy Forest
Restoration Act.
“… OLC and its mem-
bers call on the line offi-
cers of the U.S. Forest Ser-
vice and the Bureau of
Land Management, along
with all of their respective
employees, to utilize to the
fullest extent possible the
authorities and expedited
procedures provided by the
president and Congress.
“And also prepare and
implement forest health
restoration projects and to
salvage burned timber con-
sistent with the intent of
the HFI (Healthy Forest
Initiative) and HFRA
(Healthy Forest Restora-
tion Act),” said OLC.
2 ND A NNUAL
WINEMAKER’S DINNER
F RIDAY , O CTOBER 1 ST AT 7:30 P . M .
In the dining room at the Oregon Caves Chateau
Featuring the award winning wines
of Bridgeview & Foris Wineries
$75.00 per person
For Reservations call 541-592-3400
Ask about our other Special Autumn Events.
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