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THE ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2022
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Miethes gain top softball league honors
The Astorian
COASTAL RANGE
ALL-LEAGUE SOFTBALL TEAM
The Miethe family swept the top individ-
ual awards this year, on the Coastal Range
All-League softball team, as voted on by the
league’s coaches.
Senior Avyree Miethe — who recently
signed a letter of intent to play at Blue
Mountain Community College next season
— was selected as the league’s Player of the
Year, while mom Staci Miethe was named
Coach of the Year.
In all, the Warriors had six players
selected all-league (including four soph-
omores and one freshman), while league
champion Taft had seven all-leaguers.
The Coastal Range League will look
much diff erent next school year. Warren-
ton and Rainier will be the only two teams
returning to the league. The Coastal Range
will lose league champion Taft, along with
Clatskanie and Willamina.
Joining the league will be Banks, Cor-
bett, Neah-Kah-Nie, Riverdale and
Yamhill-Carlton.
Banks and Corbett both lost in the fi rst
round of the 4A state playoff s this season,
while No. 1-ranked Yamhill-Carlton lost the
3A state championship to Burns, 3-1.
League champions: Taft
Player of the Year: Avyree Miethe, Warrenton
Coach of the Year: Staci Miethe, Warrenton
First Team
Avyree Miethe, Sr., Warrenton
Olivia Coulter, Sr., Taft
Laney DeLoe, So., Willamina
Addie Gates, Sr., Taft
Nat Gates, Jr., Taft
Jamie Knox, Sr., Rainier
Lacey Makinson, So., Rainier
Emmalee Melvin, Sr., Rainier
Chloe Peterson, Sr., Taft
Emma Smith, So., Warrenton
Kylie Thomas, Jr., Clatskanie
Anjolena Wakefi eld, So., Warrenton
Second Team
Karielle Carlson, Fr., Clatskanie
Kendall Crape, So., Rainier
Paisley DeLoe, Fr., Willamina
Maddy Diehl, Sr., Willamina
Bridgett Marsh, Jr., Taft
Meagan McClure, Jr., Clatskanie
Cloee McLeod, Sr., Clatskanie
London O’Brien, Fr., Warrenton
Madison Oelhafen, Fr., Willamina
Jazmin Short, So., Warrenton
Paige Taylor, So., Clatskanie
Hailey Weaver, Jr., Taft
Honorable Mention
Delaney Fortelney, So, Rainier
Allyson Hall, Jr., Taft
Talia Marrufo, Sr., Willamina
Reilly Norgren, Sr., Clatskanie
Kaylie Poe, So., Warrenton
Gary Henley/The Astorian
Warrenton senior Avyree Miethe pitched and hit
the Warrior softball team to a second-place fi nish
in league play this season. She was selected as
the Coastal Range League Player of the Year.
Community college students cruise timber to determine volume
By CRAIG REED
For Capital Press
ROSEBURG — Four Umpqua Commu-
nity College Forestry Club students took a
recent break from classroom work to take a
cruise — through the timber.
They were able to experience an actual
boots-on-the-ground timber cruise and do
the work themselves on 57 acres of private
property several miles northwest of Rose-
burg. Their goal was to estimate the volume
and value of merchantable timber on a steep
north facing slope that was a mix of Douglas
fi r and incense cedar trees.
Timber cruising normally involves only
coming up with a volume of board feet fi g-
ure, but Isaac Cherry, the project leader and
a Umpqua Community College freshman,
planned to add an extra step and determine
a value estimate for the timber.
“Knowing the price (from a sawmill) per
thousand board feet per species and includ-
ing logging and trucking costs, you can fi g-
ure the value of the stand for that species,”
he said.
“Being out here is extremely valuable,”
Cherry said of taking data from random plots
within the acreage. “It’s an experience where
you’re able to connect technical knowledge
from the classroom with real world job
experience.”
Each plot was 1/20th of an acre and all
merchantable trees within the plots were
recorded. After locating each plot using
GPS, the students measured a radius out to
26.3 feet to identify the plot boundary. Then
the species, diameter and height measure-
ments of each tree that measured 10 inches
or greater in diameter at chest height within
that area were recorded. A hypsometer was
used to measure the height of the trees.
The project came about when Cherry,
who is majoring in forest management, was
asked by a family friend if he’d be interested
in cruising the timbered property. Cherry
accepted the challenge. He contacted Javier
Goirigolzarri, a forestry consultant who
Craig Reed/For Capital Press
Javier Goirigolzarri, left, discusses timber data with Umpqua Community College students
Isaac Cherry and Joe Godawa during a recent timber cruise.
owns Resource Management Services in
Roseburg, for advisory help.
Goirigolzarri volunteered his time, meet-
ing with Cherry to discuss mapping of the
property and marking desired plot locations
with GPS. On the day of the timber cruise,
Forestry Club members Jake Gerrard, Joe
Godawa and Thomas Williams joined
Cherry and Goirigolzarri for the hike in the
woods.
“They’ve done the classroom work and
had occasional fi eld trips, but this was actu-
ally getting out on the ground and doing it,”
Goirigolzarri said. “It adds to their depth of
understanding, the practical experience any
student needs to develop into a professional.
“I was truly impressed with these guys
and their eagerness to learn more about for-
estry … whatever aspect they decide to pur-
sue,” he added. “Their objective was to learn
about timber cruising, but they were eager to
talk about so many other aspects of forestry.”
Cherry said he and the other students
learned the “bare bone basics of timber
cruising.”
“We enter the information in an Excel fi le
and it will calculate the board foot volume
of each tree,” Cherry said. “Then there’s an
expansion factor, multiplying out the sample
plots across the whole stand of trees.
“You’re able to create averages for trees
per acre and then how many thousand
board feet per species in the 57 acres,” he
explained.
The students cruised 22 plots.
“The big thing is being effi cient, learning
how best to use the technology,” Godawa
said. “It was a great outside classroom. It
was beautiful to have Javier (Goirigolzarri)
come along beside us and provide valuable
knowledge that he’s accumulated over time.”
The fi ve year old Umpqua Community
College forestry program off ers majors in
engineering, fi re, management and opera-
tions. The program has grown to having 25
to 30 students in each of the past couple of
years.
Oregon State University and the commu-
nity college have a partnership in forestry,
allowing forestry students to transfer all their
community college credits to the four-year
university.
“Students are getting an excellent for-
estry foundation at UCC,” said Goirigolz-
arri. “It’ll help them as they consider further-
ing their education.”
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