Medford mail tribune., March 26, 1961, Image 14

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SUNDAY, MARCH 26. 1981
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD. ORE.
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Medford BLM Office Scene of More Than Usual Activity Last Week
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Timber Sale, Road
Programs Reviewed
Cruisers at Class
The Medford office of the bureau of land management
was headquarters for somewhat more than the usual
amount of activity last week, as timbermen from
throughout southern Oregon gathered here for a meet
ing Wednesday on proposed BLM timber sales and ac
cess road construction program for 1961-1962 fiscal,
year, which was followed by a three-day training
school for BLM cruiser-appraisers from eight districts
in Oregon.
The accompanying pictures show some of the activi
ties that look place during the four-day course of events.
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Above, right, the group of timber operators get the
low down" on what the BLM plans to do about ac
cess road construction next year, and how many
board feet of timber will be taken out, as prescribed
by the BLM's long term sustained yield program.
Areas involved included Glendale, Galice, Applegale,
Trail and Greensprings forest management areas.
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At left, top, more than 50 BLM limber cruisers, nflor
attending an all-morning class session, got busy scaling
a series of test logs supplied by Kogap Lumber In
dustries, Medford. The logs, all defective old growth
fir from the Dead Indian , area, presented some chal
lenging problems that can best be solved by experience
in the business.
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At left, second from top, Cecil Smith (left), chief cruiser
for the state BLM office, Portland, chats with Floyd
FoRelqtiist, chief cruiser for the Medford BLM dis
trict, as the class measured logs in a drizzling rain.
Smith, and Fogelquist conducted the three-day school.
Other instructors were BLM scaler Clarence Guilder-'
son and George Harlman, Oregon state office timber
appraisal technician.
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At right, second from top, one of the test logs Is cut
up the next day in the Kogap mill as the class looks
on. How accurately the men have figured defects in a
log shows up at this point.
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In third piclure from lop, left, Larry Gangle, district
appraiser for the Rosebuig BLM district, uses a scale
slick to measure the end of a log as Bob Liourance,
unit cruiser from Rosebuig, looks on. Cruising timber
is (he process of estimating (he number of board feet
in a plot of standing timber, while scaling is done on
the logs. A number of cruiser-appraiser schools are
held throughout western Oregon each year to sharpen
the techniques of BLM employees.
In fourth picture at left, David Brown and John Four
nier, refer to deduction symbol in data book after
measuring "problem" log. Scaling is supposed to be
an accurate calculation of the amount of usable saw
timber In a log. taking into account the loss due to
several kinds of rot. pitch rings, bow and other de
fects that must be deducted.
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Willi their notes before them (third picture, right) the
men stand on stairs and catwalks inside the Kogap
mill as (he lest logs are cut into timber. The log, which
travels on a farriiige through huge bandjaw, can be
seen in the (,ir right of the picture. A number of
cuts have been taken off, reducing It to a square shape.
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Picture at bottom right shows Kogap deck scaler Bill
Russell as he "whacks" a log in two with stationary
chain saw. Most logs come into the mill in 32. 34. or
Sfi-foot lengths and must be cut in two because saw
cannot handle a log over 24 teet long, BLM men In
background go over their estimates on Ihe test log.
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III the bottom picture at left, Dave Meyer. Areata,
puts a tape across the end of a log to find its diameter.
Measurement is taken in two directions, on the small
end of the log then, by checking a table, the number
of board fi'ot In a log can tie ascertained. Deductions
due to flaws In the log are figured by subtracting
from th diamtttr.
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