B2 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2022
Elk
Continued from B1
The Auburn and An-
thony Creek sites are the
two publicly accessible
properties with main-
tained roads where people
can park and watch the big
herds of elk, which usually
include multiple mature,
branch-antlered bulls.
To get to the Auburn
site, drive south of Baker
City on Highway 7 for
about seven miles, and
turn right on Old Auburn
Lane. Follow this gravel
road (maintained in win-
ter) for about 3.5 miles
where a sign marks the
Wildlife Area. The elk are
fed on a knoll south of the
road.
In 2021 the wildlife area
crew pruned many of the
ponderosa pine trees near
the road, improving the
view to the feeding site,
Marvin said.
To reach the Anthony
Creek site, from North
Powder drive west on
River Lane for about 8.5
miles. The elk are fed in a
meadow south of the road.
You can also reach River
Lane via Haines and the
Anthony Lakes Highway.
OUTDOORS & REC
Firewood season ends Nov. 30
on Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla
Woodcutting allowed year-
round on the Malheur
National Forest
EO Media Group
LA GRANDE — Firewood cut-
ting season ends Nov. 30 on the
Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla
national forests.
Woodcutting is allowed year-
round on the Malheur National
Forest.
During the final days of the
woodcutting season on the Wal-
lowa-Whitman and Umatilla, for-
est officials remind woodcutters to
expect winter weather and difficult
driving conditions, and to avoid
driving on saturated roads to re-
duce erosions.
Another concern for late sea-
son woodcutting is the potential to
mistake dormant tamaracks, which
can’t be cut for firewood, for dead
trees, which can be cut.
Tamaracks, also known as west-
ern larch, are deciduous conifers
that are prized as firewood, but the
live trees lose their needles late in the
autumn and can appear to be dead.
Firewood permits include tips
U.S. Forest Service/Contributed Photo
Firewood cutting season ends Nov. 30 on the Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla
national forests.
for distinguishing between live and
dead tamaracks.
The firewood cutting season re-
sumes on the Wallowa-Whitman
and Umatilla national forests on
May 1, 2023.
Pier
Continued from B1
After choosing your meal, you could pick one of
several restaurants to cook it for you. I chose two lob-
sters and had them prepared two different ways (one
steamed in garlic and butter and the other stir-fried
with local veggies). I added an order of seafood fried
rice, a coconut shake (coconut meat and water blended
together) and gorged myself as rain turned from drizzle
to downpour. You’d be bitter if I told you how little the
meal cost me, so I’ll keep that to myself.
With a full belly, I returned to the pier and continued to
catch fish nonstop even as the rain soaked me to the bone.
In the end, I outlasted the rain. As is usually the case in
tropical seas, darkness killed the bite.
I told myself “one more species,” maybe 30 minutes be-
fore catching a milkspotted puffer that fit that bill and sent
me back to the car.
By then, locals were charging tourists to park all around
me on the public street. Being early had quite literally paid
off and saved me the price of a fresh seafood dinner which
I promptly spent at the seafood stalls for another meal (al-
beit a little smaller this time). As I quaffed two more coco-
nut shakes, some seafood soup and another plate of sea-
food fried rice, I began tallying my day’s catch.
All told, I’d caught more species there in Rawai in a sin-
gle day than anywhere else I’ve been. More than Kona,
Kauai, Baja Sur, Singapore or the Florida Keys. Though
I caught 34 species of fish on the Rawai Pier that day, 11
were repeats from the prior month spent in Singapore,
Malaysia and Indonesia, so not all were new, but 23 of
them were.
Though other people were fishing the pier on my sub-
sequent trips to Rawai, I had it all to myself that first day.
It was just me and a record-breaking 23 new species that
day. 23 and me.
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