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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.
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Aug. 6
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serving eggs, bacon, hash browns,
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Aug. 13 & 14
Aug. 7
Happy Birthday Abby Man-
cuso!
August 13
Pressure canner testing at the
‘Croons, Nelson Family Farm, Red-
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a.m. - 3 p.m.
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