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SANDY. OREGON, THURSDAY. MAY 14 1981
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Sandy students
take classroom
into the forest
Sandy High forestry students may
have set school fashions back 50
years, but a project on Coalman
Koad east of Sandy is reaping other
benefits.
Students have been working with
teachers, Publishers Paper Co. and
a logging firm from Molalla to con
tinue a project started several years
ago on the d is tric t’s 40-acre forestry
lab.
J&J Logging is cutting the huge
Douglas fir trees, the SUHS students
are trim m in g the branches off to
prepare for the sale and Publishers
is buying the logs. The school w ill
gain several thousand dollars from
the project, which is expected to
result in some 40,000 feet of lum ber
The money w ill be put in a trust
fund ot sorts, to be used in the future
for purchasing equipment or making
improvements in the lab.
Bob Stocking, head of the SUHS
vocational department, says the pro
ject w ill give students a chance to
develop th ir skills in the forest. Last
w e ek, b e fo re te le v is io n and
new spaper p h o to g ra p h e rs, the
students tried their hand at trim m
y
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ing branches, cutting the logs into
16-f(X)t segments and observing pro
fessional loggers at work
P uture pro je cts w ill include
replanting, thinning, brush control
and a three-acre Christmas tree lot.
But first a road system must lx* in
stalled.
The muddy roads make b<x)ts and
jeans a necessity, but the quagmire
may not last for long. Don Obrist,
Inc. of Sandy has donated loo cubic
yards of crushed rock to the district
for a road into the lab. A Colton tree
farm er has already helped with the
dirt road and others have helped
clear brush.
In fa c t, m a n y c o m m u n ity
members have joined with the
sc. hool to help the fledgling forestry
lab.
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The SUHS wood shop w ill make a
sign for the lab to be erected on the
road leading into the site on
Coalman.
I he project is well underway,
future developments look encourag
ing and the students are learning a
lot. Who cares about fashion
anyway?
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ludents from Sandy High School cut the logs into l«-foo<
segments.
Hatching the anion from a log wa, , restful learning experience
photos by Mark Floyd
I oggf rs from (he 14.1 l ogging (ontpanv of Molalla rut down the trees.