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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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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.
For more information on this project,
contact the North Fork John Day Ranger
District at 541-427-3231. For more infor-
mation on the Umatilla National Forest,
visit fs.usda.gov/umatilla.
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