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o 14 B , SUNDAY, JANUARY IS. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Upward Trend in Activities in BLM Noted in Three Months No downward trend was noted In the bureau of land management Medford district activities during the last three month period, according to District Manager Ross ' Youngblood. A number of BLM activities , on the 9,005,742.40 acres in the Medford BLM district show an upward trend, he noted. The bulk of the BLM lands is situated in Jackson and Josephine counties. The remaining BLM Medford dis trict lands are in Curry, K.la math, Douglas and Coos coun ties. The upward trend of aclivl- ties is in recreation, Inquiries for homesites, occupancy tres pass, reforestation, Christmas tree cutting, and mineral in quiries. Youngblood said. The back - bone activity, however, on the BLM lands of selling and harvesting of tim ber continued at a satisfactory pace. - Board Feet Sold The district, under the gen eral direction of Operations Forester John Carnegie, had planned to sell 36,619 thou sand board feet; BLM sold , 33,628 thousand board feet. One year ago for the same three-month period, the dis trict planned to sell 32,360 thousand board feet; actual volume sold was 31,793 thou sand board feet. Bidding for the BLM limber was strong in the three-month period, but not quite as strong as one yeur ago, he noted The average bid price for the past three-month period was $22.70 per thousand board feet. For the same three-month period one year ago $36.88 was the average ' bid per thousand board feet. High bid for this report period on Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine was $37.10 and $36.25, respectively. A year ago, the high bid for the same species was $65 and $51 per thousand board feet. : Youngblood noted that dol lar comparison, while impres sive, doesnot reveal all the facts. The "quality of the tim ber has an impact on bidding. However, demand for the raw product is the best reliable in dicator on where bidding will atop. Still Big Business Even though bidding by comparison withthe same per iod one year ago slacked, tim ber selling and harvest on the BLM land is a big business The 35,628 thousand board feet offered sold for $808,- 814.43. Actual collections in this period totaled : $915,784.03. One year ago the collections totaled $1,153,038.80, off $137,254.77. Of the total for the past three-month period, O and C accounts receivable collections tallied out at $905,440.39.- The $10,343.64 difference is non-reimbursable monies consisting of iervlce fees, sale of maps, and road maintenance collections. By federal law, however, 75 : per cent of the accounts re ceivable collections are re turned annually to 18 O and C western Oregon counties as lieu tax payment. On the basis of agreement with the O and C counties one-third of the 75 per cent, or 25 per cent is appropriated by the congress ' for use In capital improve ment in the 18 O and C coun ties. The capital improve ments being made to the O and C lands are reforestation, construction of recreational facilities, and access road con struction. Reforestation Noted Progress in reforestation Is about even with the district plan for this period, Young blood said. A total of 1,883 acres was reforested. Seed potting, or the planting of forest tree seed, mostly pine, was done on 625 acres; seed lings were planted on 785 acres; and aerial seeding of Douglas-fir by helicopter was done on 473 acres. Planting seedlings or tree seed was done in this period by four. different means: aer ial seeding by BLM procure ment contract; planting by BLM planting crews, termed force account; and reforest ing BLM lands by planting crews under the employ of the purchasers of BLM timber This type of reforesting was a requirement by the terms of the timber sale contract. Highlighting BLM Med ford district reforestation pro gram for the three-month per iod Is research experiment on survival. This project is un der the general direction of the district plans foreslcr, Robert Hostetter, in coopera tion with the Oregon Forest research Center at Corvallis. Richard Herman 'of the Re search Center is the technical director of the project. The survival experiment tracts are exclosures. They are located in Klamath coun ty near the California-Oregon line. One is accessible by the Ward road and the other by the Dixie road. One of the most unusual happenings was a small forest fire that burst forth after ly ing dormant one year. It was a hold-over slashing fire set in the fall of 1959. The hold-over was in debris from logging. No damage occurred. Trespass cutting of BLM timber in the period on single stumpage basis total $2,135.70. Fifteen new timber trespass cases were discovered: eight cases were closed. While only one occupancy trespass was reported, it is es timated there are possibly 2,500 occupancy use viola lions, mostly squatters, pres ently on BLM lands in the dis trict. This estimate was made by projecting, using known number of cases as a base. Keno Access Road Award of bid for the con struction of the 27-mile Keno timber access road was made to G. Frank King of Portland. Bids were opened Dec. 28. The contract calls for the completion of a 24-foot finish ed road ready for rock surfac ing. Target date for comple tion Is mid-October this year. The "C" section of the Ga Iice timber access road is 95 per cent completed, Young blood said. Eventually one should be able to drive from Galice almost directly west to Marial. The road, upon com pletion of the "C" section, is about 30 miles long. Also the C section ends just short of the Curry-Josephine county line. The Deer Creek timber ac cess road Is only 25 per cent completed. Progress was slow on this job. Upon completion of this access road one can drive from Williams to Selma. However, the Star Gulch bridge and approaches are about 95 per cent .complete. Star Gulch is a tributary to the Applegate river. Finish Traverses BLM Medford district engi neering personnel finished traverses, easement descrip tions, maps, and otner attend ant data needed for the pur chase of 75 miles of logging roads located principally in Douglas county. In this three-month period, BLM purchasers of timber built as a condition of the sale nine miles of logging timber roads at an estimated cost of $80,000. Two timber access road maintenance crows of the bu reau of public roads were maintaining BLM roads. The Galice crew began winter im provement on the Mt. Reuben road, meanwhile doing skele ton maintenance on the Ga lice access road, as log haul ing continued until about rhrisimas. The other crew stationed at Medford complet ed maintenance improvement on the Jamison Gulch, Sardine Creek, Middle Creek roads, all in Jackson county, as well as continued maintenance on the West Fork Evans Creek mainline access road. Study Appraisals Study continued in the tech niques of timber appraisal, with District Appraiser Fogel- quist assisting in a mill study at an Olson-Lawyer Lumber company mill. The study was nnrlpr the direction of the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment station. Prime purpose of the study was to observe the lumber recovery in Shasta fir logs. Over 700 Shasta fir logs were diagrammed, log graded, and scaled. The study in the form class of standing trees was contin ued. The object of the study is to determine averages in form class for the various spe cies of trees in the Medford district. This is a continuing study, Youngblood said. There were no lost - time accidents to BLM employees during the period. Activities in orientation, in the field of training employees, and par ticipating in various publio programs shared will in tha BLM agenda during the last three months. BLM Medford district discussed BLM pro grams on TV, at Medford Ro tary, Explorer Post 8, tho Methodist Men. 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