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o O O n SUNDAY, JUNE S, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. n A 7 National May Exceed Previously Announced Goals Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown has announced that the Rogue River National for est's timber sale program lor the current fiscal year will meet or slightly exceed pre viously announced goals. He said the important spring sale program an nounced in February for the forest included 41 individual sales and a total volume of 205.8 million board feet. All the units listed, and three ex tra ones, have been sold, or are advertised for bid during June. The June sale program in cludes 27 separate tracts or of ferings with a total volume of 140 million board feet. Brown said the individual sales vary in size from two small ones of only 300 thousand board feet each to the largest one of 19 million feet. Total Value Total value of the June sales is $2,918,667.00 at ad vertised minimum acceptable bid rates. This total is made up of S2, 564,000 foideposit in the Na tional Forest fund (and the O and C Fund for a small por tion); $159,000 to eo into the forest service ftioperative slash disposal fund to pay the cost of disposing of logging slash; and $195,000 of "Sale Area Betterment" funds to be used by the forest service to reforest and do timber stance improvement work on the cut over areas. Twenty-five per cent of the National Forest fund receipts are paid to the states for dis tribution to the counties in which the national forest is lo cated. The O and C fund re ceipts are from timber cut from certain sections of na tional forest land subject to the O and C formula. Brown expfained that the sales recently made and those now advertised for sale in June represent the accumulat ed work of much of the na tional forest organization for the past year or more. Stilled Vorft Many man-months of skilled vr goes into the prepara tion of a major national forest timjjer sale. First, district rangers sched- uled each of these major sales during the annual revision in January, 1959, of the "five year timber sale action plan." Next, duringthe spring and erly summer of 1959, the ranger or one of his assistants made a general reconnaissance of the area and tagged out the location that the main access roftd should follow. Reconnaissance is the stage where multiple use consider ations are carefully weighed. The ranger considers correla tion of road construction and timber harvesting plans with soil and watershed protection, preservation and enhance ment of aefthetic values, of recreational opportunities and fish, game and range re sources as well as all other posible uses and values of the portion of the forest affected. Sometimes sale plans are drastically altered or can celled when the ranger de termines that serious conflicts would otherwise develop, Brown noted. Detailed Job Started Brown explaifibd that after the major multiple use con siderations had been recon ciled, the detailed sale layout job was, started. Engineering crews made a detailed survey of each road location, and pre pared a "road design," includ ing plan, profile, quantity and cost estimates, and specifica tions for the road to be built. Simultaneo u s 1 y foresters were marking the timber to be cut, in many cases putting paint spots on the individual overripe trees, and in other circumstances posting a boun dary around entire patches or blocks of uniformly mature or overmature timber to be "clear-cut." Next, the timber to be cut was cruised to determine nuantity and quality. The Qruiser completes his job by preparing stand valuation ta bles showing the volume of timber in each log size and quality class, and by develop ing maps of the sale area. Finally, usually about a full year after the ranger's recon naissance, the information is all brought together in an "ap praisal report." The district ranger submits his report to the forest supervisor for re view by his staff offices. In the case of large sales exceed ing 10 million board feet, the supervisor subts the report to the regionaJ forester for re view and approval. After ap proval of the report, the ad vertisement for bids is pub lished and about 150 copies a prospectus are mailed to ail parties having a bona fide in terest. Pleased With Teamwork Supervisor Broi said he was picked with the team work of the Rogue River Na tional forest organization that had resulted in bringing this year's large timber sale pro gram to completion "on schedule." Porestfo Timbor Sale The June sale program in,. eludes eight sales totaling 21 million feet of dead timber only. ,This volume in not chargeable against the limita tions on the annual cut of green timber. Most of the volume in the harvest sales is in "develop ment" projects that will result in roads being built into cur rently inaccessible areas. Combined, the several proj ects call for construction of 67 miles of mainline forest access roads, 4 miles of per manent low - standard spur roads, and rock surfacing on additional 12 miles of existing forest roads. The total value of the required road vork in these sales exceeds $1 million. Offerings by District The 27 offerings are spread by districts as follows: Apple gate ranger district, 3 tracts totaling 24.8 million; Ashland ranger district, 6 tracts for 18.8 million; Butte FallsQang er district, 2 tracts for 14.5 million; Prospect ranger dis trict, 7 tracts for 40.6 million; Union Creek ranger district, 4 tracts for 34.2 million; and Klamath ranger district, 5 tracts for 27.6 million. Brown said this group of sales will bring the total sales for the current fiscal year to more than the allowable an nual cut. This is necessary to rebuild the backlog of timber under contract. In each of the past two yers volume cut has exceeded volume sold. After a normal backlog of timber under contract is restored, fu ture sales programs will con form quite closely to allowa ble cut limitations. Fir-Ply, Inc., of White City, was high bidder May 31 for an estimated 5.6 million board feet of Rogue River National forest timher in the Anderson Mountain unit, Prospect dis trict, according to H. G. Hop kins, timber staff officer for the forest. Seven other firms submitted bids on the tract, with Mc- Grew Brothers of Medford as runner-up. Fir-Ply's winning bid was $28.6.1) per thousand board feet for an estimated! 4.54 million feet of Douglas-1 fir, $10.90 per thousand for Shasta red fir, and $5 per thousand for white fir and other species. Total bid value was $138,439. Forest service advertised minimum price was $90,088. Wilsoa High Bidder Steve Wilson of White City was high bidder for another national forest sale on the same day with a bid totaling ! THE PENNEY PLUS"? Quality Dross Shirts at Big Savings! VENTED SHORT SLEEVES! PERMANENT COLLAR STAYS! World renowned cotton and Penney'e superior Towncraft' construction make these) Sanforiz ed dress whites an exceptional value at 2.981 Pima is soft 'n lustrous . . , machine wash it, wear H again with little or no ironing. Vented short sleeves, permanent stays. $101,630 for an estimated 3.9 million board feet in the Wil low Prairie No. 8 unit of the Butte Falls district. Timber Products Corporation of Med ford was runner-up for this sale. O Wilson concentrated his bid ding on a minor species group, white fir and other species, and set a new high record for stumpage prices with a bid or $223.55 per thousand board feet for the group. The forest service estimate included only 100 thousand board feet in this category. Wilson's winning bid aver aged $26.06 per thousand for all species. The forest service appraised and advertised the tract at a minimum acceptable DiaMou.ioawmcnaverageui1B60 summer institute in ra $20.IJT per thousand boareff .. ,. ,,,, h. s( Pai feet, In a sealed bid sale on the same day for 180 thousand board feet of Shasta red fir tirrfier at Huckleberry camp ground on the Union Creek district one bid only was re ceived. This was from Wayne Ash of Shady Cove. Klamath District Sale Chiloquin Timber company of Klamath Falls was high bidder May 25 for 3.1 million board feet in the South Scott Creek unit of the Klamath dis trict of tlfe Rogue River Na tionalOforest. Modoc Lumber company of Klamath Falls was runner-up in this sale. Chiloquin's high bid was $36.30 per thousand board feet for ponderosa pine, $47.20 for sugar pine, and $8.7u for white fir and other species, for a total of $90,310. Forest service advertised min imum rates dor the tract to taled $83,770. The fire season was delayed a little bit this year mm previous years, according to Robert Torheim, fire 6ntrol officer for tjp Rogue River National forest. When it did arrive, it came sucjlenly after a relatively wet spring. Fire danger is now moder ately high, especially in the lower elevations, so the forest is manning Squaw Peak, the first lookout station on the forest to be manned this year If danger continues to be high, the other lookouts on the forest wil be manned, he said. The public Is encouraged to recognize that fire season has arrived and to exercise cau. tion when in the woods. Only one fire has occurred on the Rogue River National forest this year to date-six acres in size. Several new persons have -cSNOt- MOWCXAY Tilt Proqram CD been added to the office staff of the forest within the past few weeks. They include J(K?k Fitch, Mae Baxter, Florence Emery, KathryitNVellman and Charleen Kannasto. 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