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Mike & Nancy Oft Rose
Joe
Manis
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Siri
Vik
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman, 1963
Thursday March 13
to cut down by March 18. I urge everyone
to phone the Urban Forestry Offi ce at 682-
4800 to voice your concerns.
Planet Glassberg
Eugene
SELLING THE ELLIOTT
I received an odd piece of mail recently,
a sales brochure trying to get me to buy
a chunk of our publicly owned state
forests! Turns out Gov. John Kitzhaber
and Secretary of State Kate Brown are
facilitating the auction and privatization
of 2,700 acres of the Elliott State Forest,
presumably to avoid protecting the
threatened marbled murrelet as well as
threatened salmon runs.
Ancient forest ecosystems like the
Elliott Forest just east of Reedsport and
Coos Bay store more than 300 tons of
carbon per acre, and if left standing for
another 50 years could store more than
500 tons of carbon per acre. This is not
to mention the mature forest’s ability to
provide the highest quality habitat for
endangered species like the marbled
murrelet, northern spotted owl and Coho
salmon.
Add the benefi ts of increases in water
catchment from fog and drizzle, as well
as fi ltration, storage and erosion control
as the forest ages, and you’ll come to
realize that no technology created by man
can remotely compare to what our ancient
forests do for free.
Kitzhaber, Brown or any politician
should not be allowed to auction off and
privatize the publicly owned Elliott State
Forest to fatten the bank accounts of the
wealthiest families in Oregon.
Jim Flynn
Springfi eld
TOPPING IS FOR PIZZA
In one unusual ice storm, the minds of a
lot of people raised the perception on trees
from graceful beings shading our town to
likely dangerous entities to be removed
before doing more damage.
One main problem happening after
such an event is the classic human desire
to make things “safer” by reducing the size
of a tree by one-third or sometimes more.
This is called topping and it is wrong for
a few reasons, one of which I want to
mention because it relates to what just
happened.
The majority of the damaged trees I
inspected after the ice storm had large
broken branches that grew after the tree
was topped in the past. Topping only
reduces risks for a few years, but it creates
Hanneke
Cassel
Wednesday March 19
Solas
Thursday March 27
Coming to The Shedd
(full, updated listing at theshedd.org)
3.13 Manis & Vik: You Are Too Beautiful
3.19 Hanneke Cassel
3.27 Solas
4.4-6 Siri Mix
4.10 Battlefield Band
4.12 Give Me Sight 2014
4.26 The Ungar-Mason Family Band
5.1
Chris Botti
5.2-11 The Jazz Kings: Bésame Mucho
5.3 Black Prairie
5.7
Carol Burnett (Hult)
5.9-11 TAC International Film Festival
5.9
Steve Martin w/ Edie Brickell (Hult)
5.19 Chamber Music Amici: Guy Few
5.23-24 SheSings 2014
5.31 Moombah! Skyscraper Caper
6.11 Chamber Music Amici: Lane County
6.12 Dave Douglas Quintert
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