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Greetings From The Cascade Zone Butte Falls and Prospect Ranger Stations this season is open at this time. If it is still closed, that is how it will stay. tender loving care from Jeff LaLande, Archeologist for the Rogue River National Forest, who took a crew up there and worked on it for about a week. They gave some attention to the roof on Willow Prairie Cabin too. I don’t know if folks around here are aware, but we are very fortunate to have such a skilled workforce for fighting forest fires. We have tackled the fires in this area aggressively and effectively, and believe me, that is not the scenario everywhere. Resources are stretched so thin and budgets are stretched so tight that some forests don’t have the people to send. Thanks to all who participated! As of July 20th we will be in an Industrial Fire Precaution Level III. Also, for the public, Personal Use Fire Restrictions were handed down from the Forest on July 18th. They include: Willow Prairie Horse Camp is open on a o first come, first served basis. If you are No campfires except in thinking of going up there for a few designated campgrounds o days, feel free to call the Butte Falls No driving off of Forest Ranger District to find out the avail Development Roads, except ability of sites. within designated parking areas o No smoking outside of a vehicle Sources tell me that the huckleberry crop or enclosed building is looking promising for this year! o onmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA No operations of an internal combustion engine except a Please be safe while enjoying your motor vehicle on Forest National Forest. Driving conditions are Development Roads dusty and hot, limiting visibility, and fire crews are moving around adding to the The Off Highway Trails System in normal recreation traffic. There are Prospect has restricted use at this time more people in the forest than usual so because of extreme fire danger. All of please be courteous to other folks out the trail segments of the system are there. Watch for fires, and if you see shut down to comply with the Forest something call the Butte Falls or Order on Personal Use Restrictions Prospect Ranger Districts. Also if you outlined above. Most of the Forest have any questions regarding personal Development Road segments of the use restrictions or the OHV trails, please system are open. If you have one of the call us. Butte Falls Ranger Station - OHV maps, most trails in red are open, 541-865-2700 or Prospect Ranger and blue or black trails are closed. If Station-541-560-3400 you have to pass through a blue or black trail segment to access a red segment, consider the red segment closed. We are going to try this arrangement to keep the recreation opportunity open to those who appreciate it. If we get compliance we will keep it open. If we don’t, we will close the whole thing down until it rains. The fire danger is just too dangerous to mess around. The decision is really up to the users. The summer recreation season is going strong. Every campground available for The CCC Shelter at Parker Meadows Campground received some needed Janice Schultz, July 18, 2002 I had planned on giving a fire update, but as of this writing we are expecting more lightning activity, so anything I wrote would soon be wrong. I will say that our dispatch center at Prospect RD, comprised of people from both Butte Falls and Prospect Ranger Districts as well as some contract folks, and of course the firefighters on the ground, have done an excellent job on the fires that have been handed to them thus far; some 24 fires at this writing. PLEASE keep up the good work! There is a good cooperative effort going this year; the BLM engine crews have assisted us throughout this last lightning related fire activity. We are returning the favor and assisting the Oregon Department of Forestry by staffing the Timbered Rock fire, which is on BLM land. In addition, we are helping the Umpqua National Forest with fires that are popping up on their side of the Rogue Umpqua Divide. I Please be extra careful whole ©yt on the woods! MLKJIHGFEDCBA
