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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2018
Oregon park using old-fashioned
horsepower for logging work
A lighter touch
than bulldozers
By JEFF DUEWEL
The Daily Courier
GRANTS PASS — “Hup.
Hup. Hup,” yelled Nick Rod-
gers, hanging on to ropes
attached to his Belgian work-
horse, Maggie, who strained
up a hill pulling a several-hun-
dred pound log.
“That’s a lot of horse-
power,” said Vince Randall,
Bureau of Land Management
forester, overseeing logging
of bug-infested trees at Cathe-
dral Hills Park south of Grants
Pass.
Rodgers and his nephew,
Bennett Rodgers, horse log-
gers from Butte Falls, hope to
get three or more truckloads
of saleable timber out of the
project. They consider any job
with at least a truckload wor-
thy of their time, with the cur-
rent high timber prices.
The 400-acre park with 10
miles of trails for horses, hik-
ers and bicyclists is a perfect
place for logging with horses,
which use a lighter touch than
bulldozers and cables and are
quieter.
“We could have done it
faster with mechanized equip-
ment, but because of the situa-
tion here it’s kind of set up for
horses,” Randall said.
In fact the BLM would
like to revive horse logging
to some degree, Randall said.
The Rodgers’ already took
out close to 700 hundred trees
around campgrounds at How-
ard Prairie and Hyatt reser-
voirs east of Ashland earlier
this year. The BLM hadn’t
done a contract with horse
loggers in more than three
decades before that, Randall
said.
He could see it happen-
ing on an annual basis at
Cathedral.
“We’re really trying to
make this work so we can get
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ABOVE Astoria firefighters battle a blaze at a house on
14th Street Sunday afternoon.
BELOW Smoke billows from a house on fire in Astoria
Sunday afternoon.
Basement fire
in Astoria
displaces five
The Daily Astorian
A house fire Sunday on the 660 block of 14th Street dis-
placed two adults and three children.
Astoria fire responded just before 3 p.m. to a fire in an exte-
rior basement. After extinguishing it, fire personnel removed
smoke from the rest of the building.
No injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is still
under investigation.
After the fire, Jeff Newenhof — owner of City Lumber —
donated plywood to help secure the building.
BIRTH
born at Legacy Good Samar-
itan Medical Center in Port-
land. Grandparents are Steve
and Becky Roman of Astoria
and Stan and Leslie Yeend
of Beaverton. Great-grand-
mother is Ethel Wilson of
Astoria.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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Cloudy most of the time
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Some sun, then turning
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Times of sun and clouds
Timothy Bullard/Grants Pass Daily Courier
Bennett Rodgers moves logs from Cathedral Hills Park
with Percheron team Rook and Jody.
“We’re in a bit of a pickle
as far as forest health in south-
west Oregon,” Randall said.
“We’re overstocked with
vegetation.”
He noted in the distant past
that fire swept through the
area in 20-year intervals, but
has been shut down in the last
century by fire suppression.
“The bugs are just trying to
do what fire has done histori-
cally,” Randall said. “We need
to do more fuel treatments,
that’s a given.”
Rook, Jody and Maggie
seemed plenty happy to help,
dragging 18-foot lengths sev-
eral hundred yards to a land-
ing at the Espey Road parking
area.
At 2,000 pounds apiece,
Percherons Rook and Jody
can pull their own weight in
logs, Bennett Rodgers said.
In the right conditions, even
more.
“When we were up in the
snow, they were pulling some
pretty big logs,” he said.
Cloudy with a few
showers in the afternoon
Salem
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Newport
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First
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Coos Bay
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Full
June 20
sop County Sheriff’s Office
on U.S. Highway 101 and
charged with DUII.
• At 1:45 a.m. Saturday,
Emil Eckstrom, 45, of Van-
couver, Washington, was
arrested by Seaside police on
Lincoln Street and 10th Ave-
nue and charged with DUII.
• At 1:43 a.m. Saturday,
Elizabeth Noel Entenman, 50,
of Clackamas, was arrested
by the Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Office near Oceanway
Street in Seaside and charged
with DUII.
• At 7:23 a.m. Saturday,
Erik Garcia, 35, of Beaver-
ton, was arrested by the Clat-
sop County Sheriff’s Office
on state Highway 104 in
Warrenton and charged with
DUII.
• At 9:34 p.m. Friday,
Chad Michael Haderly, 32, of
Scappoose, was arrested by
the Clatsop County Sheriff’s
Office near Sunset Beach and
charged with DUII and reck-
less driving.
June 1, 2018
NORLING, John Marshall, 67, of Seaside, died at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in
Portland. Ocean View Funeral & Cremation Service of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
La Grande
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
Baker
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MONDAY
Astoria City Council, 7 p.m.,
City Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Ontario
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TUESDAY
Seaside Community Center
Commission, 10:30 a.m., 1225
Burns
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Roseburg
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Brookings
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June 27
John Day
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Bend
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Ashland
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Tonight's Sky: Emerging in the eastern night sky
are the three stars of the Summer Triangle - Vega of
Lyra, Deneb of Cygnus and Altair of Aquila.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
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Low
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Avenue A., Seaside.
Port of Astoria Commission, 3
p.m., executive session, 4 p.m.,
workshop, Port offices, 10 Pier 1,
Suite 209.
Seaside Library Board, 4:30
p.m., 1131 Broadway, Seaside.
Miles Crossing Sanitary Sewer
District Board, 6 p.m., 34583
U.S. Highway 101 Business.
Cannon Beach City Council, 7
p.m., City Hall, 163 E. Gower St.
Seaside Planning Commission,
7 p.m., City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Estimated jackpot: $6.8 million
Saturday’s Powerball: 23-25-
37-44-64, Powerball: 7
Estimated jackpot: $87 million
Friday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 2-2-6-0
4 p.m.: 1-6-1-2
7 p.m.: 4-5-0-5
10 p.m.: 5-0-9-3
Friday’s Lucky Lines: 03-08-09-
14-17-21-26-29
Estimated jackpot: $34,000
Friday’s Mega Millions: 5-24-
52-62-66, Mega Ball: 17
Estimated jackpot: $110 million
17-18-29-30-37-45-46-48-56-62-
69-71-73-75-77
Sunday’s Match 4: 01-06-15-23
Saturday’s Daily Game: 8-6-2
Saturday’s Hit 5: 02-14-26-29-36
Estimated jackpot: $320,000
Saturday’s Keno: 02-05-06-10-
11-27-31-34-35-39-44-46-48-50-
60-61-62-65-77-79
Saturday’s Lotto: 07-08-22-24-
31-48
Estimated jackpot: $3.1 million
Saturday’s Match 4: 03-08-09-
10
Friday’s Daily Game: 3-9-8
Friday’s Keno: 04-05-07-10-12-
22-23-27-33-37-38-48-52-53-54-
59-61-67-71-75
Friday’s Match 4: 09-11-18-19
LOTTERIES
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Prineville
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Eugene
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Sunset tonight ........................... 9:02 p.m.
Sunrise Tuesday .......................... 5:26 a.m.
Moonrise today ......................... 12:55 a.m.
Moonset today .......................... 10:53 a.m.
New
Pendleton
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The Dalles
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Portland
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DUII
• At 2:41 a.m. Sunday,
Richard Empie, 50, of Port-
land, was arrested by Seaside
police on Avenue K and Hol-
laday Drive an charged with
driving under the influence
of intoxicants, reckless driv-
ing, refusing to take a breath
test and third-degree criminal
mischief.
• At 11:35 p.m. Satur-
day, Eric James Reposa, 45,
of Lake Tapps, Washing-
ton, was arrested by the Clat-
DEATH
Tillamook
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SUN AND MOON
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Denver
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ASTORIA
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Precipitation
Sunday ............................................. Trace
Month to date ................................... Trace
Normal month to date ....................... 0.31"
Year to date .................................... 33.14"
Normal year to date ........................ 33.67"
High
7.1 ft.
7.0 ft.
FRIDAY
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Sunday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 60°/50°
Normal high/low ........................... 62°/49°
Record high ............................ 84° in 1987
Record low ............................. 38° in 1976
Time
5:51 a.m.
7:44 p.m.
THURSDAY
64
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Mostly cloudy
ALMANAC
June 6
people comfortable with haz-
ard and salvage tree logging
out here,” Randall said. “I
think the bugs are just getting
started here. It could explode
again this summer, is my fear.”
Most of the bug damage
is from flatheaded fir bor-
ers, which have swept across
southwest Oregon in recent
years, fed by drought-weak-
ened trees.
While the Rodgers’ should
get more than 5,000 board feet
of timber, selling it to South
Coast Lumber of Brookings,
they’ll have to leave a lot of
the most rotten stuff on the
ground.
The onslaught of fir-bor-
ers leaves trees orange on top,
visible driving out Williams
Highway in the Applegate
Valley.
Annual aerial surveys indi-
cate 127,000 dead trees in
southwest Oregon in 2016
from fir borers, by far the most
in 40 years. Last year’s cold,
wet winter slowed the bugs
down, but Randall said they’re
back in force this year in their
typical range below 3,500 feet.
ON THE RECORD
May 16, 2018
YEEND, Molly and
Kelly, of Portland, a girl,
Margaret Caroline Yeend,
Last
Timothy Bullard/Grants Pass Daily Courier
Nick Rodgers, left, and his nephew, Bennett Rodgers, pose with Percheron team Rook
and Jody and have been horse logging in Cathedral Hills Park outside of Grants Pass.
OREGON
Sunday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 6-0-2-4
4 p.m.: 1-7-0-5
7 p.m.: 9-4-6-0
10 p.m.: 2-6-2-1
Sunday’s Lucky Lines: 01-06-
10-16-20-24-26-31
Estimated jackpot: $37,000
Saturday’s Pick 4:
1 p.m.: 5-9-1-5
4 p.m.: 2-3-4-7
7 p.m.: 7-5-0-4
10 p.m.: 9-7-8-0
Saturday’s Lucky Lines: 02-06-
12-16-17-22-26-31
Estimated jackpot: $35,000
Saturday’s Megabucks: 7-9-12-
26-37-44
WASHINGTON
Sunday’s Daily Game: 4-3-8
Sunday’s Keno: 06-07-13-14-16-
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