Visitors to state decrease
branched also and be clothed to
the ground. Even where
protected, the trees do not
Oregon has four species of a tta in the heighth of the
five needle pines, the White mountain representatives.
Pine group We also have three
O rig in a lly ,
the
name
species of the three needle Murryana was proposed for the
pines, the principal one of mountain type, but, as noted
which is the Ponderosa.
above, no sexual differences
Of the two needle pines, we could
be
detected
of
have but one species This is the sign ifican ce.
The
name
Lodgepole pine Found in two Murryana is still used by some
e n tire ly
d iffe re n t
en botanists, but only as a varietal
vironments, this has led to two nature. I have seen specimens
types evolving,
yet
the of both grown here in the
sim ilarities are such that it is valley, a no-mans land that lies
still considered but a single between the two chosen
species.
habitats of this pine.
The two needle pine of the
The warm er summers here
coast is considered the type and make the coast version stretch
its often wind contorted shape out until in form it resembles
led to the botanical name of its
m ountain
b rethren.
Pinus Contorta.
However, it retains its coastal
Now any of you who have been characteristics of thin shorter
in the extensive Lodgepole pine needles
in
denser
con
forests of the east slope ce n tra tio n . In a batch of
Cascades would wonder how seedlings grown from seed
this pine came to be called collected at the coast, an ex
co nto rta. These m ountain ceedingly la rg e am ount of
lodgepoles are long slender variation exists. A few of these
trunked straight trees with a closely appro xim a ted the
clean trunk topped w ith an open mountain form.
oval shaped head on the upper
It is the lodgepole pine of the
third. These Cascade trees mountains that gave the pine
have wide thick heedles which its common name The Indians
are not too densely packed on did travel there to get the long
the twigs. The cone is rather straight poles for their lodges.
oval in shape, almost like the In the mountains this tree often
shape of a football.
gets over 100 feet tall. Studies in
Take a look at the coast both habitats indicate that the
version It is densely needled tree may live to be about 250
w ith ra th e r th in narrow years old. At the coast, a
needles As a rule these coast patriarch of this age would not
pines have shorter needles also. be a large tree. It seems to be
The cones are noticeably the heat of the summer in the
tapered and are large only at mountains that draws out the
the end where they attach to the growth to fu ll potential in this
twig The tree may be densely species.
For the first tim e in the
h isto ry of th e ir operation,
Oregon's six port of entry in-
fo rm a tio n centers closed
showing a lower total visitor
count than that recorded the
previous year
During the 1973 six-month
season which ended Oct. 31, the
centers greeted 207,924 visitors
as compared to the 210,304
assisted in 1972. H owever,
where 1972-73 com parisons
could be made, the seasonal
average decrease was about 15
per cent
Victor B Fryer, travel in
formation director for the State
Highway Division, pointed out
that the visitor counts actually
were down more than is in
dicated by the 1973 totals which
include re p o rts from the
centers at Brookings, with the
latter center having opened for
the firs t tim e last May
In d iv id u a lly , 1972-73 com
parisons reveal th a t in
formation center visitor counts
were off from 3 per cent to as
much as 30 per cent. The
Siskiyou c e n te r had 73,443
visitors, 3.2 per cent fewer than
last year. Portland reported
37,109, a drop of 26.1 per cent;
Lodgepole
THE BATON twirlers who will thrill ■
football crowds in the future could be
in this class. This baton class taught by
.Mrs. Wilma Duff is part of the program
offered by the Sandy Community School.
This class will be again taught in the winter
class schedule.
( Post Photo)
Astoria 21,530, off 18 1 per cent;
and Klamath 14,583, off 31 per
cenl The Ontario center had
*5.4 per cent fewer visitors
<32,174) over a comparable
“ “
five-month period this year
than it greeted in 1972 The six-
month Ontario total was 37,761
while the total at the new
Brookings center was 23.498
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W ednesday, Nov. 21
223rd & Stark
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Sandy Trail Riders meet
The riding meets are the
third and fourth Mondays of
each month at Rogers Stables
We had our special meeting
Nov 12. We decided to have a
bake sale at the Gresham M all
Nov 17 from 10 a m. to 4 p.m
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Theft reported
The Sandy police reported
that some time over the past
weekend the Sandy grade
school reported a theft.
Reported taken was a first
aid kit from a bus and an
unknown amount of gas
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Pinus C ontorta
(coast v a rie ty )
Sandy T ra il Riders had their
first meeting Oct 22 at the
home of the 4-H leader, Mrs.
Nancy Gardner We nominated
the officers that night.
Beth Gardner is president,
Tammy Akars, vice president;
Bev Muck, secretary; and song
and game committee, Tammy
Akars and Cheryll Lusk.
News reporter is Cheryll
Lusk. M ike B rockw ay is
sergeant-at-arms.
The next business meeting
w ill be Dec 3 at the Lusk home.
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