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Page 9 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, October 5, 2005 All public-use restric- tions on chain saws, mow- ers, and other power equipment are lifted, but open burning is still not allowed, said ODF. OSU gains new views of forests Cougars and Eagles play and learn together at Evergreen Elementary School Physical education students from the Illinois Valley High School class taught by Scott Carnes are participating in the IVHS Expeditionary Learning Program by work- ing with third-grade students at Evergreen Elementary School. The two groups gather Tuesdays and Thursdays for approximately 90 minutes. The high school stu- dents are learning how to develop and implement a PE program, while also gaining skills dealing with younger children. The Evergreen students enjoy their high school buddies, and gain experience taking direction, learning together, and benefit from the physical exercise. (Photos by ‘Illinois Valley News’) IT LOOKED BAD, but no injuries were reported from a three-vehicle crash at Hwy. 199 and Westside Road at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, said Oregon State Po- lice. OSP said that northbound Brookings resident Steven Gyurko, 61, struck the left rear of a Camaro driven by Cave Junction resident Kaleb Smith, 18; then the left side of a pickup truck driven by CJ resident Brian Pheiffer, 29. Gyurko told OSP that he realized too late that Smith was stopped to make a left turn and swerved. (Photos by Dale & Elaine Sandberg/Illinois Valley Fire District) Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. - Groucho Marx - A sophisticated array of electronic sensors in the H.J. Andrews Experimental For- est is giving ecologists at Oregon State University at Corvallis a view of the for- est ecosystem they’ve never had before: They are in Blue River literally watching the forest breathe and the plants inter- acting with and feeding the soil microbes and rivers of air that pour up and down slopes in ways never before understood. The studies relate to a concept that explorers such as Columbus and Magellan demonstrated 500 years ago -- the Earth is not flat. Neither are forests in mountainous terrain, but many existing concepts and models of forest processes have been based on the way these systems function on fairly flat land. Now, with years of work at one of the nation’s premier outdoor ecological laboratories in the central Oregon Cascade Range, a new understanding is emerging of how the forest watersheds and “airsheds” interact, creating complex micro-climates and hydro- logical cycles in the steep, hilly terrain. The studies should be further amplified in coming years with a new $1.1 mil- lion grant from the National Science Foundation that will help place a new generation of battery-free, interactive sensors over a much larger area to further enhance the data stream coming from the forest into OSU laboratories. “Topography has an enormous impact on forest ecology. It creates all kinds of different interactions compared to flat land,” said Barbara Bond, an OSU pro- fessor of forest ecology. “It creates all kinds of different interactions com- pared to flat land,” said Bond. “You get different tem- perature gradients, micro- climate, humidity, air and water movement, carbon dioxide concentrations and sometimes protective buff- ers.” But historically, Bond said, flat terrain has been an easier, less costly environ- ment in which to conduct experiments, and much of the science about forest processes is based on data from such areas. Most re- search has also been per- formed by people from indi- vidual disciplines, looking at tiny pieces of the puzzle. “We need to bring to- gether the ecosystem scien- tists, the atmospheric ex- perts, the engineers and soil scientists, and try to put all the pieces back together to really understand how the system works,” said Bond. We build private roads & home pads Trenching - Rock Delivery - etc. Manny Cotta General Contractor CCB# 166514 541-597-2440 Cell: 541-761-3713 Visa - MasterCard - Debit RACHEL RELOCATED - The massage therapy location of Rachel Goodman, LMT, is now in the former site of John Patton, DDS, who has moved a few offices down. Goodman’s telephone number is still 592-6947. Starting or Growing a Business? Need Funds? 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