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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
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f Jfc Lynn W.'
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(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.
One part of the inventory
job remains to be completed.
This is a utilization study
which will give the latest in
formation on conversion of in
ventory net scale to woods
net scale. This part of the
study is planned to be com
pleted during 1961, Brown
said. After that is done, firm
allowable cuts can be deter
mined for the forest.
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