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SUNDAY, JUNE S, 1960
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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
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$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
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same day for 180 thousand
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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.
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few weeks. They include J(K?k
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employees on the forest are
two engineers, Robert Vent
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two foresters, Ellis Humphrey
and Joseph Genre.
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Attend Institute
Arthur R. Scott, 17 Haw
thorne ave., biology teacher
at Medford high school has
been selected to attend the
diation biology at the St. Paul
campus of the University of
Minnesota.
Scott will be one of the 20
teachers attending the insti
tute. There were more than
144 applicates for the course,
it JA'as reported.
The institute, sponsored by
the National Science Founda
tion and the Atomic Energy
Commission, pays tuition and
living expenses of sudents. It
will start June 13 and con
tinue through July 23.
This summer institute will
be the third consecutive insti
tute attended by Scott. Last
summer he attended Purdue
university, West Lafayette,
Ind., and the previous summer
he was on the Berkley cam
pus of the University of Cal
ifornia. Scott has been a biology
teacher at the high school for
11 years. Mrs. Scott, first
grade teacher at Roosevelt
school, will visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller,
St. Louis, Mo., while her hus
band is in MinnefitEL
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