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Diluting Property Rights
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Land use planning has become a mania. A leader in the field of
natural resources warns that land use planning must recognize that
private land ownership is the cornerstone upon which this country
has been built. Pressures against private ownership of land, he
adds, include ever-mounting taxes, the uses permitted under local
zoning, compensation for loss of value if taken for public purposes
and regulations relating to the environment.
The belief has been encouraged that private landowners are
exploiters and wasters of land. Such a belief is utterly false. The
best evidence of its falseness is the thousands of miles of farm and
ranch lands -and timber lands- stretching from coast to coast.
They furnish mute testimony to the truth of the observation of
the natural resource leader that, "American farmers and ranchers
have given this country the greatest record of conservation in
recorded history." It has been achieved within the framework of
private landownership. It should be remembered that while
planning has its place, so does the right of property ownership.
Heppner Ranger District Has Varied
Job Assignments
1972 Livestock Losses Bring Complaints
Three hundred eighty-nine
complaints concerning live
stock losses were received by
the Livestock Division of the
Oregon Department of Agricul
ture in 1972, but by the end of the
year 171 of these complaints had
been cleared, leaving 218
pending.
The year-end statistics com
piled by the Livestock Division
showed the complaints covered
2.377 head of livestock, with
lis) of the livestock cattle.
Other livestock involved in
these complaints included: 873
sheep; 85 horses; 24 swine and
five other animals not enum
erated. Those cases still pending
involved 1,723 head of livestock,
with the greatest totals being
8tn head of cattle and 820 head
of sheep. Sixty of these animals
were killed and left laying.
Investigations of the com
plaints resulted in 110 of them
being recorded as documented
thefts and these Involved 407
animals. Sixty-two of the ani
mals, 61 of which were cattle
and one sheep, were listed as
having been butchered and
taken for meal.
As a result of the complaints
received by the department a
total of 54 arrests have been
made by department livestock
police officers, state police,
county sheriffs und local police
officers. Forty-six of the arrests
involved cattle, three involved
horses and five sheep.
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Timber Management person
nel on Heppner Ranger District
of the Umatilla National Forest
are doing a number of tasks this
winter, including preparation of
environmental analysis reports,
layout, marking, and apprais
ing timber sales, log scaling,
and layout and preparation of
precommercial thinning con
tracts. Preparation of environmental
analysis reports on six proposed
timber sales is the responsi
bility of Chuck Rouse, Forester
in charge of silviculture on the
District. The purpose of these
reports is to determine the
effect of the proposed sales on
the environment and to present
a course of action that will
minimize any adverse impacts.
One alternative course of action
that is fully considered is not to
sell the timber if the impact on
other resources is felt to be too
severe.
Norman Clow of Heppner has
been in charge of the timber
sale marking and has been
assisted by Don Kenison also of
Heppner, and Mattlon Hicks of
Lone Rock. Most of their work
has been concentrated on the
Two Spring and Bull Timber
Sales.
Two timber sale appraisals
are being prepared on sales
scheduled to be sold during the
next few months, and Warren
Plocharsky, Supervisory For
ester in charge of timber sale
preparation, is currently
spending much of his time on
this project.
Log scaling is a year round
job on the District and currently
personnel under the direction of
Mattlon Hicks are scaling
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1 Coast to Coast:
Forest Service logs hauled off
the Silver Creek Sale on Ukiah
District, and logs from numer
ous sales off Heppner District.
Logs are scaled at both the
Kinzua Mill in Heppner and at
Kinzua, and at the present time
Jack Graham of Heppner is now
working at Kinzua and taking
care of the scaling responsi
bilities there.
Don Kenison, who is respons
ible for the District precom
mercial thinning program, has
been preparing contracts for
thinning young stands of trees
as a means to increase the
growth rate, and to later
dispose of the thinning slash
through use of a Tomahawk
Brush Roller attached to a
crawler type tractor.
Jobs Open
The Cooperative Rural Man
power Project, with the help of
the secretaries in the Extension
offices in Morrow, Gilliam,
Sherman, and Wheeler
Counties, has the following job
openings:
MORROW COUNTY: House
cleaning, yard work, summer
farm work, babysitting, general
farm work; GILLIAM
COUNTY: Three farm jobs,
plowing; SHERMAN COUNTY:
Plowing jobs, housekeeper;
WHEELER COUNTY: Plowing
job, saw filler, heavy duty truck
mechanic, mill wright.
People with the following
experience are looking for
work: Heppner Area: Motel
maid, office workers, sales
clerks, bar tender, farm me
chanic; Fossil Area: House
keeper; Condon Area: Office
worker; Moro Area: Secretary,
year around farm worker.
For further information, con
tact your local Extension Ser
vice, Employment Service, and
the people of this area.
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