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8 B SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Total Timber Volume of Rogue Forest About 1 9 Billion Feet Thp tnlal timber volume in the Rogue River National for est is approximately 19 bil lion board feet, and the an nual net growth is 133 million board feet, figures resulting from a timber inventory proj ect started in 1957 show, ac cording to Forest Supervisor C. E. Brown. The 161 page summary report shows the findings of the 3 year inventory project which include the establishment of more than 1,500 sample plots distributed in clusters of three each at 1.7-mile intervals over 866,000 acres of national for est land. On each of the plots every tree over 11 inches in diameter was tagged with a Small Worlds Around Us f Jfc Lynn W.' Watkins (Reglitrr & Tribune Syndicate, 10ft I) What W Know-and Don'l Know About Hibernation The mystery of animal hi bernation is still to be fully explained. Cold weather ap parently pulls the trigger and the bear and the woodchuck seek a retreat under a log, in a cave or beneath the tangle of roots from a fallen tree and go to sleep in fact they al most die. How long the si ceo lasts often depends on the severity of the weather. Both of these animals prepare for their long sleep by building up a heavy cushion of fat. They emerge In the spring lean and hungry, with the bears' cubs being born during the "little death." When in the depths of this trange sleep the body temper ature of the animal is very low, but slightly higher than their surroundings. The heart action slows down percepti bly. All the normal body func tions are either arrested en tirely or continue at a verv low, reduced rate. Life Itself, seems at a very low and dan gerous ebb. ' , i Many Hibernal , There are many varieties of animals that escape tne cold of winter by . this stupor known as hibernation. Bats, bears, woodchucks, some ro dents such as prairie dogs and chipmunks, as well as many reptiles, go to sleep and snooze out the cold spells Some fish, together with toads and frogs, bury themselves in the mud, below the frost line, and sleep until the warm rains of spring release them from their "little death." Even a bear who Is immov able, and apparently uncon scious, becomes lively and very much awake If brought Into a warm place. A sleeping woodchuck, almost stiff, and i lifeless, awakes after it is sub-1 Jccted to warmth for a few hours, but acts .drowsy and groggy for a considerable per iod. Taken back Into a cold place, the animal curls up and goes back to sleep, Many Explanations There have been many and varied explanations for this strange condition we call hi bernation. One seemingly plausible theory is the action of a gland, or duct, perhaps in the animnl's brain or spinal column. For a long time the pituitary gland was thought to be the sparkplug that fired the shot, but the removal of the gland from bears and woodchucks only resulted in the animal shedding its hair. The urge and the necessity to hibernate was still present. Supposedly an animal re treats to Its den for the long sleep when food becomes scarce, during periods of heavy snow or extreme cold, yet in the warmer regions, many animals become sleepy, or semi-dormant, during hot weather or even during ex ceedingly dry seasons. Apparently this form of lit bcrnation is brought about by the heat rather than the cold Many students of animal be havior suggest the varying de grees of daylight may influ ence the chipmunk, or the woodchuck, to periods of sleep. The true secret of exactly why or how an animal almost dies, and wakes when It should, is still obscured by a curtain of mystery. Young Democrats Elect New Officers Mrs. Margaret McGinty was elected president of the Young Democratic club of Mcdfnrd at a meeting in the Labor Temple Thursday. Other new officers are Vice President Jerry Christean and Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Poston. Plans were made for ticket sales for the Roosevelt Me morial dinner April 8. Sen. Frank Church of Idaho will be the main speaker at the dinner. - The club also started a membership drive, and plan ned a program for Its next meeting. permanent number and care fully measured at a point that was then marked to provide for future rcmeasurcment at exactly the same point. Brown said the forest serv ice plans to remeasure the same plots at 10-year intervals to get recurrent checks on volume, growth, losses, and effects of management. Copies of Report Copies of the inventory re port are filed at each of the six district rangers' offices: Ashland, Applcgate (Star Ranger Station), Butte Falls, Prospect, Union Creek, and Klamath Falls; and with the Jackson and Klamath county courts. Another copy of the inventory report has been pro vided to the secretary manager-forester of Southern Ore gon Conservation and Tree Farm association, Brown said. The only portion of the na tional forest not included in the timber inventory was the Mountain Lakes Wild Area, an area of about 23,000 acres of high country east of Lake of the Woods. The wild area classification permanently ex cludes logging from this area. The total volume, and growth figure includes other areas of the national forest that are reserved from timber use. Timber resource data on the areas is needed to aid fu ture management decisions. The volume on land available for commercial timber man agement is placed at 17.2 bil lion board feet in trees over 11 inches In diameter breast height. The Douglas-fir timber type makes up the major acreage, accounting for 340,252 acres and 10.1 billion board feet. On the west side of the Cascade divide, the average growth Is 279 board feet per acre per year. Ninety-three board feet per acre per year is lost due to timber dying from all causes, leaving 186 board feet per acre per year in net growth. East of the divide, growth is 221 board feet per acre per year, of which 40 board feet is lost through mortality. Brown said the inventory data has directed new atten tion to the need for aggressive management aimed to salvage a higher proportion of this loss. He pointed out that much of it occurs in inaccessible portions of the forest where salvage is presently out of the question. "The need for additional ac cess roads is more evident than ever," he said, "if this dying timber is to be used for human benefits. In the areas now accessible by a network of forest roads, we are able to make salvage timber sales and recover considerable of these mortality losses, and also to make light harvests of 'high risk" trees to prevent the losses before they occur." Two Working Circles For administrative purposes the Rogue River National for est is divided into two work ing circles, the Rogue basin located on the west side of the Cascade divide, and the Klam ath basin working circle lo cated on the east side of the Cascade divide. Within the Rogue basin working circle the forest is now operating on an interim annual allowable cut of 140 million board feet per year. The Klamath district within the Klamath basin working circle is operating on an in terim allowable cut of 40 mil lion board feet per year, or a total of 180 million board feet per year for the entire forest. 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