TWO - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Willow Creek Road update
I'he U.S. Dept, of Trans
portation lists its planned
construction activities on Willow
Creek Road for the week of
Monday, Oct. 5:
Tidewater plans to continue
working on the cut slopes above
Smith Ditch and building the
subgrade with some of the
material from these cut slopes.
They w ill be hauling to the new
•vaste sites established off the FS
53 road on FS 53-020 road (the
old 20 mph comer) for this week.
Drivers, be aware that the FS 53
road will be busy with the truck
hauling waste from the Willow
Creek Road Project and the log
truck traffic from the various
timber sales this week, and both
construction and logging traffic
next week. Emergency access
through the project will be
maintained
throughout
the
construction season.
Notice to the citizens that
utilize and enjoy the Willow'
Creek (Coal Mine Grade) area:
Willow Creek (Coal Mine Grade-
FS 53 road) will remain closed to
through traffic from Cutsforth
Park to the intersection of FS
roads 5350 (Texas Pit Road) and
FS 53 (Coal Mine Grade) for the
w inter season. Due to additional
construction activities on the
project, the project has been
extended
into
the
1999
construction season. Work during
the 1998 construction season will
continue until weather conditions
prohibits construction activities.
Presently, Willow Creek Road
(Coal Mine Grade) is closed to
through traffic from Cutsforth
Park to the intersection of FS
roads 5350 (Texas Pit Road) and
53 (Coal Mine Grade). This
intersection will remain open, to
the logging contractor only, for
the removal of timber sale
material. The FS 21 road,
Penland Lake Road intersection
will remain open during
construction activities, controlled
with flaggers.
Willow Creek Road remains
open, to local traffic only, to
Cutsforth Park. The park will
remain open through the
construction season.
The detour route through the
Shaw Creek Road to the four
comers to Penland Lake and
Ukiah is open for all traffic.
Additional temporary signs have
been placed for directions to the
Penland Lake access and Ukiah.
Please watch for logging truck
traffic and observe the warning
signs, including the speed limit,
on the Shaw Creek road detour
route and observe the barricades
at both ends of the construction
zone. Please have a safe summer
and remember that the barricaded
road closures are for the traveling
public's safety.
Federal Highways asks the
traveling public for their
patience, consideration and co
operation during this construc
tion season and hopes that the
work will be completed with a
minimum of delays.
For more information, contact
Robert G. Toops, project en
gineer, at 676-5904 in Heppner.
Wheat Growers plan lone meeting
The Morrow County Wheat
Growers will hold their annual
fall meeting at Beecher's Cafe in
lone on Monday, October 12,
beginning at 3 pm.
Topics to be addressed at this
year's meeting include: "De
mystifying the Market Plan"
with Dr. Larry Lev, an OSU
marketing specialist; "No on
Measure 64" with Paulette Pyle
of Oregonians for Food &
Shelter; and 'Varieties for the
Future" with Dick Fritz of the
Oregon Wheat Commission.
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Other items to be discussed
during this portion of the
meeting will be the election of
county officers and new
committee chair volunteer sign
ups. All growers are encouraged
to get involved as a volunteer on
both the county and state levels,
said a MCWG news release.
A no-host social hour hosted by
the Morrow County Grain
Growers will begin at 5 p.m.
immediately following the
meeting. Dinner, sponsored by
the Morrow County Grain
Growers, will be served at 6
October 16th - Friday
R etirem ent Party for Glen Ward after 40
YEARS of being Secretary!!! Social Hour
6-7 p.m. No Host Buffet Dinner at 7 p.m.
RSVP 676-9181, 676-5303 or 676-9164.
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p.m. Door prizes will be
awarded along with a grand
prize trip for two to the Oregon
Coast donated by the Bank of
Eastern Oregon.
County
President
Suzi
Fredenckson encourages all
growers to attend and asks that
RSVPs be made to her personal
answering machine at (541)922-
4546 to ensure that there is
enough food and seating for
everyone.
Prescribed burn
planned
Hunters can expect to see more
than campfire smoke in the air
now that the forest's fall
prescribed burning program has
begun,
announced
Les
Holsapple, Umatilla National
Forest's fuels specialist.
"Prescribed bums are used to
achieve several goals. Logged
units are burned to reduce
potential fire hazard and to
prepare
the
area
for
reforestation," stated Holsapple.
He explained that reforestation
will be accomplished by hand
planting of tree seedlings or by
natural seeding from seed trees
selected and left standing in the
unit. Removal of slash will also
stimulate plant growth for
wildlife winter forage and
reduce fuel accumulations.
"In addition," Holsapple noted,
"some unharvested areas are
prescribed for burning for the
purpose of reintroducing fire
into fire-dependent ecosystems.
Resource objectives include
species diversification and
reducing potential impacts of
wildfire, disease and insect
infestation."
Prescribed burning is weather
dependent and is scheduled to he
completed before the end of
November. Fall and spring
weather provide the best
conditions
for
prescribed
burning: moist soil, dry material
and cooler temperatures, lie said.
All prescribed burning will
comply with federal, state, and
local air quality and smoke
dispersal guidelines to reduce
the impacts of smoke on forest
visitors and local residents, he
added.
For more information
concerning
the
Umatilla
National Forest Prescribed
Burning
program,
contact
Holsapple in Pendleton (541)
278-3729.
For information about specific
Ranger Districts, contact the
following persons: Deb Roy.
Heppner RD, (541) 676-9187;
Dan O’Brien, Walla Walla RD,
(509) 522-6290; Lowell Smith,
North Fork John Day, (541) 427-
3231; Chris Schulte, Pomeroy,
(509) 843-1391.
The schedule of prescribed
bums is as follows;
-The Walla Walla Ranger
District: Burning will occur in
harvest units in: the Tiger
Canyon area, approximately 13
miles southeast of Walla Walla,
WA; the Horseshoe Prairie area,
11 miles northwest of Elgin, OR;
and near Elk Flat, 22 miles north
of Elgin. A total of 652 acres
are planned.
Prescribed burning planned in
unharvested
forest
stands
include: the Stumbaugh Ridge
Wildlife bum (1830 acres), the
East Coyote prescribed bum
(1400 acres) and the Bear Creek
prescribed bum (6600 acres).
-The North Fork John Day
Ranger District's fall burning
plan includes about 2,500 acres
in natural fuels. The largest
bum (2000 acres) is located
north of the junction of State
Highway 244 and Forest Road
54. Other areas include Turner
Basin and Indian Creek. Pile
burning will take place at
scattered locations throughout
the district.
-The Heppner District's natural
fuels program includes: 1600
acres in Upper Skookum just
south of Madison Butte and an
already completed 5-6000 acre
bum south of Forest Road 21
between Forest Road 2115 and
2120. The active fuels program
include 200-500 acres off Forest
Road 5350 and 2107.
- The Pomeroy Ranger District's
fall burning plan includes: 2000
acre landscape bum for North
I Fork Asotin Creek; 300-acrc
I activity fuel bum in old logging *
I units; and a 1000 acre prescribed
I burn currently taking place in
I the Grouse Flats area near Troy,
¡Oregon.