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
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first come, first served basis. If you are
No campfires except in
thinking
of going up there for a few
designated campgrounds
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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
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No smoking outside of a vehicle
Sources tell me that the huckleberry crop
or enclosed building
is looking promising for this year!
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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.
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