Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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Alyssum remains pressing P r o p o s e d
concern for IV Airport
public land
By Darcy Wallace
IVN Staff Writer
The Illinois Valley Airport Board
continued to discuss efforts to eliminate
Alyssum plants from the area during its
most recent meeting Monday, March 28,
at the I.V. Airport.
According to a presentation by U.S.
Forest Service employee Shauna Batista,
two varieties of Alyssum were planted on
airport property by Viridian LLC, with
help from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
and Oregon State University, to help ex-
tract nickel from the ground.
The nickel extraction ultimately
proved unsuccessful and the Alyssum was
found to be highly invasive and a threat to
native plant life. According to the Batista,
Viridian did not properly follow measures
to control the spread of Alyssum and the
plant has been spotted in several areas of
the Illinois Valley.
Airport board member Kenny
Houck said an interagency steering com-
mittee was formed to further address the
issue. Board members are concerned that
not enough was being done to ensure that
equipment used at the airport was thor-
oughly washed before leaving to prevent
it from spreading the Alyssum further.
“The Airport board has spent a lot of
time on this,” Houck said. “We want to
keep getting updates, but I feel like atten-
tion was called to the issue and everyone
has been notified; progress seems to be
happening finally.”
Gordon Lyford, a Valley resident and
registered agricultural engineer, said he
hoped the steering committee with mem-
bers of the Bureau of Land Management,
the U.S. Forest Service, the Oregon Dept.
of Agriculture, Josephine County Com-
missioner Simon Hare and several others
would be able to deliver concise reports in
future meetings.
Gordon said after the meeting that
board members were still frustrated with
Airport Director Alex Grossi, believing
he was not doing enough to keep alys-
sum from spreading even more outside
the airport.
“There’s a lot of history that goes
way back,” Lyford said.
He added that a newcomer to air-
port board meetings, Ira Chinook, spoke
about her own experiences hand-pulling
alyssum weeds from her property near
Patton Bar Road in Cave Junction.
Between 2009 and 2010, large-
scale Alyssum control efforts began.
Ken French from Oregon Dept. of Ag-
riculture (ODA) reportedly treated the
weeds with Escort and Phase surfactant
applied via a Polaris ATV with booms.
Other ODA crews have hand-
sprayed areas of Alyssum with back-
pack sprays. More information from
Batista’s presentation is available on
the Josephine County website at www.
co.josephine.or.us.
Lions new Governor
Buster Vander Woude poses for his election photo on April 2,
2011
Lions
District
36-E
covering 42 clubs in southern
Oregon and north California
held their annual Lions
Convention at the Red Lion
Hotel in Medford Oregon on
April 1 and 2, 2011. Elections
were held for the office of
governor, 1st Vice governor
and 2nd vice governor.
Elected District Governor
was Buster Vander Woude from
Cave Junction Lions Club, 1st
vice governor was Rennie D.
Cleland from Dorris Lions
Club and 2nd vice governor
was Jeff Mesener from Myrtle
Creek Lions Club.
The Cave Junction Lions
Club Trio provided music
for the Friday night BBQ
and fun night. Musicians
are Lion Nancy Lewis, Lion
Ross Welcome and Lion
Buster Vander Woude.
Bingo was provided by the
Cave Junction Lions Club as
a fund raiser for the Southern
Oregon Sight and Hearing
Center in Medford. Caller
was Lion Cori Allen. Other
helpers were Lions Darrell
Allen and Nina Horsley.
sale causes
concern
Oregon State Lands Board (SLB) officials, Governor
John Kitzhaber and other officials are reportedly deciding
whether to allow the Department of State Lands to sell 4,920
acres of Common School Funds land in Josephine and Jackson
counties.
According to Shannon Wilson of Ecosystem Advocates
Northwest, the proposed public lands sale risks threatening the
Wild and Scenic Rogue River for short-term economic gain.
“[More than] 300 acres of the land proposed for sale
are along the banks of the Wild and Scenic Rogue River
literally across from one of Southern Oregon’s largest tourist
destinations, Galice,” Wilson wrote. “One 640-acre parcel in
the Illinois Valley (Woodcock Creek) is inside Oregon’s largest
unprotected roadless area, the South Kalmiopsis.”
Wilson said selling these properties is part of a Common
School Fund Asset Management Plan that “disposes of”
undesirable forestlands in Western Oregon and rangeland in
Eastern Oregon.
“The Oregon Board of Forestry (BOF) makes
recommendations
and
approves
t h e
“decertification” of the CSF lands,”
Wilson wrote. “Some BOF members
have acquired lands under this
current round of CSF land sales. This
current round of ‘disposal’ sales of
State public land has already occurred
throughout most western Oregon
counties.”
According to Wilson, these lands
could instead be handed over to the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S.
Forest Service for protection.
“An ethics inquiry should be
pursued to ensure agency transparency
in past and future Common School
Fund land sale transactions,” Wilson
Gov. John Kitzhaber
added.
Perpetua and spray
opponents exchange
positive dialog
Illinois Valley residents opposed to a
planned spray of private lands near Lake Sel-
mac met with Perpetua Forests Co. last Thurs-
day, March 31.
According to a press release from Selma
resident Audrey Moore, concerned Valley resi-
dents made progress in a meeting with Perpetua
representatives and a tour of the 70-acre pro-
posed spray site.
“On site, Perpetua [revealed] the com-
plexity of the site itself, as well as their issues
over maintaining the lives of the three year old
conifer trees planted and the need for their sur-
vival,” Moore wrote.
In turn, she said, concerned citizens want-
ed to understand why the trees were not left to
survive on their own, without pesticides that
they believe will damage wildlife areas and
cause health problems in nearby residents who
could be exposed to the chemicals.
Moore said Perpetua representatives told
spray opponents they would consider alterna-
tives to herbicides if they could be proven both
effective and economical.
“In other outcomes of the meeting, Per-
petua also said it would provide the registration
numbers of the chemicals slotted to be used,
for those citizens concerned with [Chronic Ob-
structive Pulmonary Disease] COPD and de-
finitive health issues,” Moore wrote.
Perpetua also reportedly told those against
the herbicides they would offer drift studies
about aerial application to help ease concerns
about herbicide drift.
Illinois Valley News was unable to reach
Perpetua representatives prior to deadline.
Moore added in the news release that
Valley residents suggested Perpetua make the
70-acre spray zone a “test site” because of the
property’s proximity to Lake Selmac.
“It is the fervent hope of the citizens that
Perpetua will consider the concerns and infor-
mation provided by them, and that a working
relationship can and will remain established for
the betterment of all concerned,” Moore wrote.
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