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Page A-2 Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, August 3, 2016 Life in the Valley of Riches By DAN MANCUSO, Publisher Losing friends tends to get more common the older you get. There are those you know you have limited time with and then there are the shockers. Wednesday, July 27, I started my day hearing about a daughter Heather, needed a father. According to sources, Anthony was at work a little later than normal and was seen at an “open all-night” convenience store in Cave Junction. If some sort of interaction with the murderous tweakers occurred, I have to assume it was there. Yes, Anthony had no problem sticking up for himself, but in my six years of knowing him he was never an instigator. In the end, Anthony, an only child, leaves his parents, his wife who was his high school sweetheart and a daughter. A daughter who now has the burden of celebrating her birthday on the day her father was murdered, for some strangers’ methamphetamine habit. I must give credit to OSP for such a speedy resolution in this case. The last thing this community needs is another unsolved murder. Today, Aug. 3, Anthony would have turned 40. Happy birthday Juggalo. Thank you for picking up this week’s paper, enjoy! ~ djm single vehicle fatality on 199 where someone had collided with a tree and the driver; it was assumed, died on impact. Later in the day I found out that I knew the driver. Because my friend worked at night, I assumed he fell asleep driving home from his job as a cook at a local establishment. I knew his wife and child quite well and my heart broke for them. If all that was not enough I started to hear stories about the accident scene had some irregularities. His truck was sent to Medford so a forensics team could go over it. All of what I was hearing brought me to the understanding that something hinky was going on. I refuse to trade rumors and the rumor mill was in full swing. I felt I had enough information to know that there was on this occasion some truth to the rumors. My attempt to hold out hope that this was just another stupid accident was shattered when I received a release from Oregon State Police (OSP) stating that my friend Anthony Roberts was murdered, by what appear to be two meth addled people. Ms. Edrington and Mr. Forester it seems felt they needed Anthony’s phone, wallet and gun more than Anthony’s A decline in state timber harvests: The (Corvallis) Gazette-Times The Oregon Department of Forestry last week announced that timber harvests in the state declined about 8 percent in 2015 when compared to the year before. It was the first time in three years that Oregon’s timber harvest came in at less than 4 billion board feet. Last year’s tally from the state’s forests worked out to be about 3.79 billion board feet. (If that sort of number boggles your mind, the state provided this helpful fact: One board foot of lumber is 1 foot wide, 1 foot long and 1 inch thick. The construction of a house that’s about 1,800 square feet requires about 10,000 board feet. So now, we’ll do the math for you: Oregon’s 2015 timber harvest would be sufficient to build about 379,000 houses.) We often have argued that Oregon’s economy would be healthier, especially in the state’s rural areas, if we were able to put more people back to work in our forests. The report from the Department of Forestry starts to suggest some of the reasons why that isn’t happening, and while some of those are our making, other factors are out of our control. First, consider this: According to the state, about half of Oregon (49 percent) is forested. (It works out to be about 30.2 million acres of forested land.) About 60 percent of those forests are under federal control, either by the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management. We already know how difficult it can be to get timber sales approved on federal lands. The harvest on BLM land dropped about 8 percent in 2015. The harvest on Forest Service land dropped about 5 percent. In an ironic (but somewhat encouraging) note, the Forest Service actually reported an increase in the harvest in certain eastern Oregon counties, notably Grant and Harney. That work there is being driven by stewardship contracts. But the Forest Service harvest in western Oregon declined, dragging down the totals. It makes you wonder if the stewardship examples in eastern Oregon can help unlock the federal forests in the western part of the state. State-owned forests make up just 3 percent of the total in Oregon. Interestingly, the timber harvest on these state lands was up about 26 percent, according to the Department of Forestry, jumping from about 230 million board feet to about 290 million board feet — important, but just a fraction of the harvest from federal forests. Industrial forests make up 19 percent of Oregon’s total, and family forests add another 15 percent. Harvests on these private lands were down in 2015: Industrial harvest was down about 9 percent, the state said, while the harvest on nonindustrial private lands (essentially family forests) was about 453 million board feet, a decline of about 19 percent. The Department of Forestry attributed much of the decline in the timber harvest to factors that have little, if anything, to do with the long-running environmental battles in the United States: The main culprit is the slowdown in timber exports to Asia. As Asian economies cool, so does the demand for logs. We still believe that it would be helpful to Oregon’s economy to get more people working in our forests. But the state report suggests some of the reasons why that task is more complex than it might appear. Obituaries Richard Lee Buckendahl, 76 , born Aug. 29, 1939 and passed away June 11, 2016. Richard lived most of his life in Cave Junction and moved to Grants Pass 20 years ago. His family and friends still reside in Cave Junction, Celebration of Life at Community Bible Church, 113 S. Caves Ave., Cave Junction, Aug. 6, 2016 at 3 p.m. Please, no flowers, donations can be made to Lovejoy Hospice. KERBYVILLE MUSEUM SPONSORSHIPS AVAILABLE You can help put a new roof on the main museum building Bronze sponsor $50 Silver Sponsor $100 Gold sponsor $200 Sponsorships are tax deductible Contact the Museum at 541 592-5252 for more information. I llINoIs V alley F uNeral D Irectors www.since1928Hull.com 541-592-4110 Save the date Aug. 6 Saturday, Aug. 6, the I.V. Se- nior Center will be serving up its monthly Country Breakfast. Starting at 8 a.m. for $6 the Center will be serving eggs, bacon, hash browns, sausage, pancakes, biscuits, chicken- fried steak, biscuits ‘n gravy, coffee and juice. This is all you can eat and is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! an outdoor garage sale from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Come see our goodies. Aug. 13 BINGO at the Illinois Valley Grange on the second Saturday of each month from 1 – 4 p.m. 3763 Holland Loop Rd. Snack bar avail- able 50 cents a hard card. Everyone welcome! Aug. 13 & 14 Aug. 7 Happy Birthday Abby Man- cuso! August 13 Pressure canner testing at the ‘Croons, Nelson Family Farm, Red- wood Highway, Cave Junction, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Illinois Valley Grange at 3763 Holland Loop Rd. Aug. 13 will have Illinois Valley News Published weekly by W.H. Alltheway, LLC Daniel J. Mancuso, Publisher POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to P.O. Box 1370, Cave Junction, OR 97523 Illinois Valley News is published at 221 S. Redwood Hwy., Cave Junction, OR 97523 Telephone (541) 592-2541 Since 1937 periodicals postage paid at Cave Junction, OR 97523 P.O. Box 1370 USPS 258-820 Aug. 20 Continuing Pressure canner testing at the “It’s The Berries” 8 a.m.- 3 p.m., Inside the building, RCC Learn- ing Center/Belt Building, Redwood Highway, Kerby *Fire & Emergency Services Career Exploring is open to young men and women from our local schools with an interest in learning more about careers in the field of fire or emergency services. Fire & EMS Exploring is a hand-on program that exposes young people to fire and emergency services. The most popular career exploring includes firefighter, EMT, paramedic and nursing. Career exploring combines some classroom training with hands- on lessons and you will learn first aid, fire safety, emergency medicine, leadership methods, teamwork and much more. You will develop emer- Sept. 3 - 5 I.V. Lions 44th annual Labor Day Festival at Jubilee Park. Entry forms for the booths and parade are on page A-9. Sept. 11 Pressure canner testing at the Il- linois Valley Grange, Holland Loop Rd, CJ, 8-11 a.m., Sunday. 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