SIGHT The Gazette-Times,
Cont. from page 5
What this shows is a
potential for population in
crease with timber manage
ment. Wilderness : 'lows an
equivalent of 510 elk. Nonwild
erness shows an equivalent of
664 elk.
The main value of the
Wapiti Wilderness is that
these roadless areas presently
support about 3,000 elk sum
mer population and 2,000-2,500
winter population. It must be
remembered that elk use
habitat outside the roadless
areas, but under stress the elk
depend on these areas.
Again the land use plan has
been inadequate in addressing
the site-specific values of the
roadless areas for the elk.
Three land allocations un
der Alt. E, 3, 3a, and 25 are
very close in management
objective, except for restrict
ions on road management.
The objective of these three
allocations is to manage the
commercial timber resource
to its potential yield while
providing forage for domestic
livestock and wildlife grazing;
maintain and enhance elk
habitat; maintain wildlife
habitat that will provide for
viable populations of snag and
cavity users, (that is old
growth wildlife).
This totals 126,554 acres
which will be managed for elk
and will allow timber harvest
ing and domestic grazing only
when elk habitat can be
maintained. The allocations
include parts of all roadless
areas and effect all remaining
oldgrowth timber and main
watersheds of the unit. Nine
hundred steelhead trout use
water which flows from or
through the roadless areas
and are an indicator to the
water quality in those
streams.
Oldgrowth will be managed
at a level of 30 acres average
for every square mile, on
26,698 acres at a level of 25 per
cent of the trees over 20 inches
diameter breast height, or at a
300-year rotation. This will be
achieved by a minimum of 3
per cent of the commercial
forest land, plus streamside
and visual management
zones.
The Forest Service has
stated to meet this manage
ment objective for oldgrowth,
that they will have to allow for
a large number of small tree
acres to return to oldgrowth
through rotation to achieve
this goal. Rotation means,
(the planned numoer oi years
between the initial formation
of a stand of timber and its
final harvest at a specified
stage of maturity which is an
average 120 years on the
Umatilla Forest). The aver
age age of timber comprising
the oldgrowth ecosystem is
about 300-plus years which is
far beyond any wildlife biolo
gist's ability to model a
management program for.
The Forest Service plan
doesn't mention that the
majority of this acreage of
allocation 3 which is over
90,000 acres contains 17 pre
sently active and proposed
timber sales. The remaining
not included in this has been
logged or is being considered
for logging within the next five
years.
Big Game Recreational
Values
During 1977, big-game rec
reational value was $5,417,100
for deer and elk for the
Heppner and Fossil Game
Units. This figure includes
hunter expenditures and tag
fees for these areas. A total of
41,140 days of elk hunting at an
average cost of $38.17 per day
and 66,210 days of deer
hunting at an average of $52.27
per day ; a total of 107,350 days
of hunting in the unit.
A resource like oldgrowth
timber which has taken cen
turies to develop is non-renewable
as invisioned by what the
Forest Servie calls "old
growth management." At
stake is the value of these last
remaining areas of roadless
forest land for the many
values to recreation wildlife,
soil, stabilization, and most
important, in the proposed
Wapiti Wilderness the contri
buting value to maintaining
water quality and the ground
water aquifers. The ground
water aquifers, both shallow
and deep, maintain the flow of
water to streams and re
charge ground water, miles
away from the source of
infiltration into the aquifer.
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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, May
Wildlife affected by logging roadless areas
'me Wapiti Wilderness con
tains the major summer and
winter habitat for elk herds;
includes our main watersheds
for fisheries and ground water
recharge; would protect the
last of the oldgrowth forest
ecosystem; its wildlife and
natural diversity of landform
and landtype that remains
undisturbed from roading,
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stock grazing. Page 19 of the
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area is allocated to grazing
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mands for these areas will be
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which we all have to come to
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