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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, January 10, 2017
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Put down the Play Box and get outdoors
Iris Chinook
IVN Contributing Writer
Are you looking for something outdoorsy
and fun to do with the whole family? Are you
a crafter looking for affordable supplies? Stop
by your local USDA Forest Service District
Office and ask them for a permit to collect the
wide array of forest products available to the
public. Forest Service personnel will identify
whether a permit is required and if so what
type.
We’ve all heard of getting a permit to cut
firewood or a Christmas tree but did you know
that there are many other materials (referred
to here as “special forest products”) that are
permitted for collection?
Here in the Rogue River-Siskiyou
National Forest the most common permits
issued are for the already mentioned Christmas
trees and firewood plus edible mushrooms,
evergreen boughs and other floral cuttings,
beargrass and other foliage, dry cones for
decorative arrangements, posts and poles for
fencing, and transplant trees and herbaceous
plants. Less common products include pitch,
nuts, berries, decorative wood and medicinal
plants.
A permit must be obtained before
removing most forest products. During the
permitting process customers are informed of
appropriate precautions, laws, regulations and
other standards pertaining to the particular
material they’re after. These instructions
help people to remove the product in the
most ecologically sound manner and also
provide forest managers with the means to
track demand for products, the amount of
material removed from the forests, and to
protect resources. Harvesting forest species in
a manner that maintains important ecological
interactions and allows the species affected to
reproduce successfully into the future helps to
ensure that you and other will be able to enjoy
your craft well into the future.
Here are the basic permit types:
Free Use Permit: Small quantities of
products collected for your use only. Anything
obtained for free cannot be sold, traded or
bartered. These products also fall under the
term “incidental use”.
Personal Use Permit: Large quantities of
products collected for personal use. There is a
minimum charge of $20.
Commercial Use Permit: Products
collected for commercial resale. Minimum
charge of $20 applies.
Tips from the USDA Forest Service for
responsible harvesting:
• Support sustainable management and
conservation of these species through strict
adherence to your permit conditions.
• Be familiar with and practice Low-
impact /Ecologically Sensitive Collection
Techniques. Ask the District Ranger for this
important information.
• Harvest in a manner that minimizes
disturbance to the forest floor’s leaf layer and
soil. If you don’t know how to do this…ask.
• Harvest only what you can reasonably
use or sell while not gathering too much from
any one site (ex. mushroom patch) or any one
plant (ex. bough or leaf gathering).
• A good harvest site has no trash, litter
or visible human waste and is difficult to tell
apart from the surrounding forest to a casual
observer.
• For the protection of species and
to ensure your own health, it is also vitally
important for you to be able to correctly
identify species.
The Wild Rivers Ranger District in
Cave Junction is located at 26568 Redwood
Highway. You can stop by or call 541-592-
4000 for more information.
Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, January 11, 1968
Illinois Valley News
signed by V.W. (Volkswagen) and
Jeep Gardner.
There was a time when it would
have been hard for me to understand
Little Toot’s somewhat emotional
outburst. That was in the days when I
was known (if at all) as the Hermit of
Packer’s Gulch, days that have been
crowded into the distant past and
on through that inescapable escape
hatch known as limbo.
Of course there are all kinds of
friends and many definitions of the
term. There are fair-weather friends
and all-weather friends. In the first
category are found a number of
grades of friendly acquaintances:
those who always greet us with a
friendly smile and pleasant words
but otherwise have little impact on
our day-to-day existence; and those
who always seem happy to be in
personal contact with us, express
concern over our misfortunes and
delight with our successes–so long as
Friends
“How nice it is to have friends
who sympathize with you in your
hours of suffering and hasten to offer
you encouragement with words of
sincere gladness when at last you’re
hitting again on all four cylinders,
your oil is being pumped again to all
important points, and once again all
your gears are meshing properly.”
The above singular quotation
was taken right from the grateful
mouth of Little Toot, who underwent
serious surgery a while back. The
occasion of the heartfelt statement
was the receipt from two little friends
down on Pistol River of a message
of condolence in the form of a cute
little Please Hurry and Get Well card
addressed to Little Toot Hobart and
our involvement with them doesn’t
interfere with their own pleasant
way of life. But even such friends as
these do bring a measure of warmth
and sunshine into our lives. Without
them, in fact, our world would be
drab indeed.
In the second category, the all-
weather friends, we find only a single
type, but this one kind of friendship
is one of the rarest, most valuable
possessions we can possibly acquire.
In this class, is the friend who is
sincerely and deeply concerned when
your health or happiness is seriously
impaired or threatened; who without
a moment’s hesitation will thrust
his own problems aside and hurry
to your rescue if at all practicable
or possible, and in the event he is
unable to help you out of your plight
will experience a feeling of genuine
regret. This is a true friend by the
strictest definition.
Among our associates at
work or play we do have such real
friends. And if on painstaking mental
checkup we decide that the real ones
can be counted on the fingers of
one hand, still we mustn’t overlook
the fact that following closely in
the wake of this small group is
the much larger one of smiling,
cheerily friendly folks who, like the
temporary blossoms on a permanent
valuable shrub, contributes
invaluable brightness and warmth to
make our lives more pleasant.
In another instance of our
reckless use of a once meaningful
word we often apply the term friend
to complete strangers–anyone,
in fact, whom appearance or
circumstance indicates is not an
enemy. The word has become about
as emotionless and meaningless as
the term “lady,” which is almost
universally used to designate any
female member of human society. If,
as in an earlier period, it is desired to
refer to a woman with extraordinary
endowments, such as special social
status or exceptional intelligence and
refinement, as “lady,” the term has
to be specifically stressed in order
to make it stand out in its intended
character.
But regardless of the verbal
muddles we sometimes find
ourselves in, Little Toot and I
know who our friends are (and that
includes a number of swell ladies);
and if we sometimes seem lax or
careless in the warmth of their
friendship it’s only because we’re so
overwhelmed with exciting events
that a temporary braking effect
is often imposed on our ability to
respond at once.
And so, to the two friendly little
automobiles down on Pistol River,
and to all of the friends we so much
enjoy, Little Toot and I sincerely
wish the best on earth all through the
New Year.
Commissioners elected to O&C and statewide board seats
In a press release,
the Josephine County
Board of Commissioners
announced that Dec. 1,
2017, Commissioner
Simon Hare was
re-elected as vice
chair to the Board of
Directors for the O
& C Counties at their
annual meeting in
Eugene. Commissioner
Hare is co-chair for
the Association of
Oregon Counties (AOC)
Public Lands Division.
Commissioner Hare was
asked to be a Senior
Fellow for the American
Leadership Forum
(ALF) Urban Rural
Connection Cohort,
which is a new project to
harness Senior Fellows’
collective capacity to
listen to difference,
find community, and
create opportunity to
accomplish meaningful
change for Oregon.
In other news,
Commissioner Lily
Morgan was elected vice
chair for the Association
of Oregon Counties
(AOC) Public Safety
Division at their annual
conference in Eugene.
Simon Hare
Lily Morgan
Our Happy New Year
message for you:
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increase in
2018!

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