Thurt
July 30 198) (Sec )) SANDY (Ore ) POST—7
and Recreation
Photo« by Mark Floyd
Ron’s No Place
sweeps Dodson’s
for city crown
Ron’s No Place swept through the Sandy Slow Pitch
Softball Tournament and claimed the city title.
Ron s won in grand style. A fter finishing in second
place during the regular season, Ron’s came back to
dump league winner Dodson’s 17-3. The win put Ron’s
into the finals and its opponent turned out to be old riva l
Dodson’s.
Dodson’s fought back with a 14-12 win over Circle D in
the double elim ination tournament to earn another shot
at Ron’s in the finals.
With one loss already, it would have taken Dodson’s a
two-game sweep to win the title. A second game wasn’t
necessary. Undefeated Ron’s exploded for nine runs in
the first inning and went on to defeated Dodson’s again
this tim e by a 12-5 score.
Now i t ’s the women’s turn. The firs t Sandy Women’s
Softball Tournament w ill be played Aug 8-9 at Sandy
High School. The opening game w ill at 9 a m. First
round opponents w ill be Carlson Chevrolet against Tri-
County E lectric and The Store against Wholesale Auto.
At 10:30 a m., Tollgate w ill tangle with Brightwood.
Regular season champ G.T.E. w ill get a bye.
The finals are slated for Sunday at 1.30 p m.
G T E placed third recently in the Dea’s Invitational
held at Sam Barlow High School Carlson Chevrolet won
the sportsmanship trophy, the same title it took at last
week’s Estacada Tim ber Festival.
Hun's No Place used its tight defense to dump Dodson's in the finals of the
Sandy Softball Tournament. Ron's third baseman slaps the tag on a
Dodson's runner (top) as Ron's pitcher Wayne Stone shows off his form
(le ft). Dub llayes was a catalyst for Ron s in the outfield and on the
basepaths (m iddle). Sandy City Council president Deane Wesselink
presented trophies after the tournament.
Fish and Wildlife Department stocking lakes by helicopter
Some places it is said to rain cats and
scene on an experimental basis and was
dogs But last month, from the skies
used to stock some of the sm aller or
over nearly 450 lakes along the Oregon
more difficult lakes The small scale
Cascades, it literally rained fish
operation proved such a success that
Shortly after the July 4th weekend,
the program was expanded this year
the Department of Fish and Wildlife's
annual high lakes stocking program
began In the past, nearly all this work
had been done from fixed wing aircraft,
the fingerling trout dropped from
by Ken
several hundred feet into the alpine
lakes That works well in the larger
Durbin
lakes The fall of the tiny fish is slowed
by a ir resistance and they settle lightly
to the water, little the worse for wear
Fisk W iN lifa
from their experience
With smaller lakes and those tucked
in the bottom of a hole, however, the job
is less than foolproof The problem is
Stocking was divided this season bet
hitting the lake The fixed wing craft
ween helicopter and fixed wing a ir
drops its load from an elevation of too to
craft (M 445 lakes scheduled for stock
200 feet at speeds of around 80 miles per
mg. 140 were done by helicopter and 305
hour When the pilot is trying to
with fixed wing Some 455.000 fingerl
maneuver amongst the peaks and fight
ing trout were stocked in all; 106.000
conflicting air currents, it can be a
rainbow trout, 314.000 brook trout, and
tough proposition to hit a lake only a
35,000 cutthroat
few acres in size
The large helicopter is under contract
I-ast year the helicopter entered the
to Region V I of the U S Forest Service
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for fire control During times between
fires it is on standby And during this
period it was available for stocking fish
with the understanding that in the event
of fire it would be pulled off stocking
and returned to its prim ary use
Stocking had to be delayed for a few
days, in fact, because the helicopter
was called to a fire in northern Califor
nia.
Fish and water are carried in plastic
buckets with air-tight lids which have
been fitted with ordinary tire valves so
they can be pressurized with oxygen In
addition, ice is sometimes added which
reduces the metabolism of the fish and
also increases the amount of oxygen the
w ater can hold
Each bucket is
numbered, and a master plan aboard
the helicopter indicates which buckets
go in each lake
Inpractice, the helicopter proves an
ideal tool for stocking the hard-to-reach
lakes It can hover as low as 20 feet off
the w ater while a crew member simply
dumps the appropriate buckets of
w ater and fish from an open door Hit
ting the lake is assured, and in some of
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the lake basins where there are many
lakes close together, it is possible to
stock them more quickly by helicopter
than with fixed wing
I he cost of stocking with helicopter is
only slightly higher than with fixed-
wing and the assurance of success on
the sm aller lakes makes the slight addi
tional cost worthwhile
f ishing in the high lakes is pretty
much a man made recreation as most
of them were historically barren of fish
Many of them also lack conditions need
ed by fish to spawn and must be stocked
regularly Through the years the stock
ing program has adapted to technology
During the early days the fish were ca r
ried in milk cans by mule train and
stocking took all summer Then came
the airplane and now the helicopter,
and the job takes only a few days in Ju
ly
The silver gray squirrel is the focus of
a research study which began this spr
ing and will continue the next three or
four years Susan Foster, doctoral can-
didate in the Environm ental Sciences
Program at Portland State University,
is asking the cooperation of Oregon
squirrel hunters
Cooperating hunters w ill be asked to
provide certain nonedible parts of the
squirrels they shoot as well as brief in
formation on each kill Foster hopes to
learn more about silver gray squirrel
population size, age structure, habitat
requirements, size of home range,
migration habits and other factors
Relatively little is known about this
unique animal which is found only in
the Pacific Northwest Its range ex
tends from San Luis Obispo, C a lif , on
the south. F o ster said, to m id
Washington on the north The species.
Sciurus gnseus, is found in a much
more restricted range than its eastern
cousins, the eastern gray squirrel and
the fox squirrel
In Oregon it is most abundant in the
pm eoak habitat of Hood River and
Wasco counties, and in the southeastern
corner of the state Some are found
throughout the W illam ette Valley
Foster's study will center prim arily
on the White River W ildlife Area
bordering the east edge of the M t Hood
National Forest. She said seven drop
boxes will be set up in the study area.
The drop stations will have plastic bags
for parts collections, and tags for recor
ding information about each squirrel.
Also at each station will be information
on the study and instructions to hunters
about the specific data and parts need
ed
The drop stations will be located at
Rock Creek Reservoir, Pine Hollow and
Jordan Creek campgrounds. Bonney
Crossing. L ittle Badger campground.
Barlow Ranger District office in Dufur
and at the O D FW district office in The
Dalles
Hunters interested in cooperating in
the study can learn more by writing
Susan Foster, Box 335. Gresham. OR
97030,
or
by
c o n ta c tin g
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department s district office in The
Dalles telephone 296 462«
The study is part of Foster 's doctoral
work, but information from it will be
available to the Department a manage
ment program