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News Blue Mountain Eagle Wednesday, July 26, 2017 A3 Old trees brought down to preserve buildings Locust trees thought to be 150 years old Blue Mountain Eagle The Eagle/Rylan Boggs Julie Mansfield Smith and her husband, Brad, stand for a photo at their ranch outside Kimberly Tuesday, July 18. Local real estate broker named one of best in country By Rylan Boggs Blue Mountain Eagle Julie Mansfi eld Smith runs a one-woman operation. Her real estate brokerage, Cupper Creek Land Com- pany, was just named one of America’s best by the Land Report. “Being named a best bro- kerage by the Land Report is an incredible honor,” Mossy Oak Properties Inc., CEO Chris Hawley said. “It is an honor based not only on the success a company has, but also their reputation in the land brokerage industry.” Though she doesn’t deal in the same volume as other bro- kerages that won the award, she said she makes up for it in sheer work ethic. Smith will wake up as ear- ly as 3 a.m. and put in 80 hour weeks. The long days are nec- essary to cover the amount of ground she does. She works in Grant, Wheeler, Umatilla and Morrow counties, but can sell anywhere in the state. “I can go anywhere in Or- egon, but there is only one of me,” she said. She tries to work within a two- to three-hour radius The Eagle/Rylan Boggs Raymond Fields cleans up after felling a locust tree that was a safety hazard to the Grant County Genealogy Society July 18. B RIEFLY of her home and offi ce near Kimberly. “I get pulled in a lot of directions, and I’m not com- plaining, but I don’t know how my workload could get any easier unless I hired peo- ple,” she said. Her husband, Brad, is get- ting his real estate license to join her team and help her show properties. “He’s a chick magnet, so I’m sure those little old ladies are going to be liking him,” she said. The couple spent decades managing ranches before go- ing into real estate. This expe- rience has become invaluable in selling rural properties. “All that experience I went through, and never got paid, it’s coming back to me now because when I got my license I was already familiar with a lot of what I needed to know,” Julie said. She deals strictly with ru- ral properties. There is a huge market for land, she said, because it is limited, and people are want- ing to get out of the city and invest in property. “Everybody wants to be out on a boat, out in the coun- try, to be quiet and walk in the timber,” Julie said. “And if they can buy that, they get so excited.” Long hours pay off for woman Two locust trees were felled to protect the Grant County Genealogy Society and Advent Christian Church last week. The trees, thought to be as old 150 years, were taken down by Raymond Fields of Fields Tree Service. Fields said the trees were rotten and posed a threat to the genealogy building and the church. Some of the wood will be used for fi rewood, and the John Day Public Works De- partment will take care of the rest, Fields said. The tree removal was paid for by a $3,000 grant through the Grant County Chamber of Commerce, funded by the transient room tax, according to Karin Barntish, the secre- tary/treasurer at Advent Chris- tian Church. The church was fi nished in 1900, and limbs from the tree falling onto the building were a concern, Barntish said. Once the trees are fully re- moved, the church will focus on landscaping the property. Those interested in donating can contact Barntish at 541- 575-2721. Blue Dollar Complex Grazing Allotments Project open for comments The 30-day comment period for the Preliminary Environmental Assessment for the Blue Dollar Complex Grazing Allotments Project on the Prairie City Ranger District began July 19 with publication of a legal notice in the Blue Mountain Eagle. The Malheur National Forest is proposing to implement decisions re- garding livestock grazing permits and rangeland management actions on the Bluebucket, Dollar Basin and Star Glade grazing allotments. The project planning area is located about 25 miles south of Prairie City, in Grant and Har- ney counties, and encompasses just over 40,000 acres of National Forest System lands. Approximately 2,200 acres of additional private and state lands are also within the overall project planning area boundary. The Prairie City Ranger District proposes modifi cations to graz- ing practices, changes to pasture and allotment boundaries and additions of structures and improvements to meet the purpose and need to refl ect current management direction, policies, other applicable laws and regulations and to address resource concerns to achieve desired conditions. The project documents can be ac- cessed on the Forest Service website at fs.usda.gov/project/?project=48798, or copies can be requested from Mari- on Mahaffey, range NEPA coordinator, at 541-575-3302 or by emailing com- ments-pacificnorthwest-malheur-prai- riecity@fs.fed.us. Kelsay Creek culvert work will close 1011 road periodically through August Construction work is underway on a portion of Forest Service Road 1011 at Kelsay Creek. The construction project is a contin- uation of ongoing aquatic restoration work in the Desolation Creek area and the result of planning completed through the recent Granite-Desolation Aquatic Restoration Project Decision Memo, according to a Forest Service press release. Kelsay Creek is a peren- nial cold-water stream that is designated critical habitat for threatened Mid-Co- lumbia River steelhead. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife screens shop out of John Day will replace the stream crossing culvert at this location with a new 18-foot wide bottomless arch culvert that will allow for improved fi sh and aquatic organism passage and allow for larger stream fl ow events to pass under the road without causing infrastructure damage. The con- struction work will require that the full length of FSR 1011 will be periodically closed through Aug. 15 and will reopen once work is completed. Closure signs will be posted on FSR 1011 at the junc- tion with FSR 1010. This project is being conducted under the Good Neighbor Authority, a state-fed- eral partnership that allows for pooling of funds and more effi cient forest, rangeland and aquatic restoration to occur. Forest Service partners have already begun hauling heavy equipment and supplies in to FSR 1011, and construc- tion activities will be ongoing for several weeks. 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