g lUrtDAY. JUNE 23. 1M3 MEDFOHD MAIL TKIBOWE. MEDFOHD. OHEGOM - .
Indication of -Howard f rairie Lake, Recreation Area Scheduled
Howard Prairie lake, one
of Orefon'i newest and raet
popular recreation areas, will
be formally dedicated Satur
day, June 29.
Dedication ceremonies will
commence at 1 p.m. with in
troductory remarks by Earl
M. Miller, Jackson county
Judge, , and Larry Espey,
chairman of the Jackson
county recreation commission
and president ot the Oregon
County Park association.
Glenn L. Jackson, chair
man, Oregon state highway
commission, will act as mas
ter of ceremonies.
Also planning to attend
are William I. Palmer, assist
ant commissioner, U. S. bu
reau of reclamation, Washing
ton. D.C.; M. Boyd Austin,
assistant regional director,
and Thoralf Torkelson, chief,
lands branch, U.S. bureau of
reclamation, region 1, Boise,
Idaho.
Representatives from other
agencies will include Mark
Pike and Ed Arnold, U.S. bu
reau of outdoor recreation,
Curt Ncsheim, Oregon state
forestry department, and
Harold Schick and Dave Tai
bot, state recreation division.
Representatives from the
state game commission, stale
marine board, state park ad
visory committee, U. S. Na
tional Park service, U.S. for
est service, bureau ot land
management; Douglas, Jose
phine, Klamath and Siskiyou
counties and private organi
zations will also participate
in the event.
Unveiling of Plaque
The unveiling of the dedi
cation plaque will be done by
Assistant Commissioner Pal
mer, Judge Miller and Ho
mer Moore, long-time mem
ber of the board of directors
Talent Irrigation district.
This will be followed by an
old-fashioned family style
picnic in the Howard Prairie
Recreation area.
The land the leak now cov
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DEDICATION PLANNED-Howard Prairie recreation area
will be dedicated Saturday, June 29. The public Is in
vited to inspect the facilities at the lake which Include
the new concession building. Plana for the dedication were
announced recently by the Jackson county parki and rec
reation commission. Nell Ledward, department director,
explained that arrangements for parking to accommodate
the anlclpated crowd are being worked out. (Hooker-Johnston
photo)
Completion of Timber Sale
Program Noted in Area Forest
The advertising of the low
er' Copeland Blowdown Tim
, ber sale in the Union Creek
Ranger district last week
marked the completion of the
Rogue River National 'ore t
timber sale program lor me
fiscal year ending June 30.
Six sales are now adver
tised for sale in the week ot
June 24-28 to complete the
The scattered blowdown In
the Inaccessible areas away
from existing roads, and the
debris left from logging the
blowdown, will be the great
est threat to the forest.
Bettle broods could build
up In the isolated blowdown
to cause local epidemics, and
the dry logging debris will
be an extreme tire hazard
: program, I until It Is Isolated ana dls-
"Itae total volume that wllll posed ot. Brown said.
. have been sold la 234,865,0001 The public hat been asked
board feet, enough to menu-1 to use extreme caution In all
facture lumber tor eonstruo-
tion ot about 34,000 average
" sized homes. The sold volume
is the second highest in his
tory for the Rogue River
1 forest.
In I960, 280,314,000 board
feet of timber was sold, but
this included the Klamath
Ranger district program
which is now part of the Wi
nema National forest. The an
nounced program for the cur
rent fiscal year was 218,200.
000. The forest exceeded
this goal by 16.665,000 board
feet or about 1i per cent.
Includtd In Program
Included In the sales pro
a-ram was 103.083,000 board
feet of blowdown timber in
53 tracts, the forest service
noted,
Resulting from the Oct, 12
windstorm, the timber was In
cluded in the annual program
. In order to prevent dcterlora
tion of the down timber,
beetle Infection ot surround
, Ing standing timber, and loss
' of grade from blue-staining of
the pines,
. Inclusion ot this timber re
quired complete alteration of
; the Union Creek and Pros
pect Ranger district sales pro
grams after most ot the pre
paratory work lor tne regu
lar sales had been done. Only
by considerable extra effort
by the foresters and tcchnt
cians on the two districts was
this program accomplished,
Forest Supervisor C, t
Brown. noted. The other dis
tricts on the forest did their
part by furnishing ext. a men
to help as needed.
Logging of the blowdcwr.
timber has been accelerated
' to the extent that new rec
ords for logs scaled at the
Prospect log scaling station
have been established, Brown
noted.
Two hundred seventy-two
truckloads of logs were
scaled, that is, the net board
feet contents Were measured
on the record day, compared
to a previous high in form-r
years of 11 loads. The aver
age daily output now is about
250 truckloads or more than
1,000,000 board feet per day.
Cooperation ot Industry
The cooperation of the
lumber industry in accelerat
ing logging of blowdown by
' deferring logging of green
standing timber will mate
rially reduce losses from de
terioration and beetle eoi-
, demies.
Although bark beetles have
1 already attacked many of the
' down trees, the beetles nd
their broods will be removed
with the logs, and drowned In
! the log ponds before they
i have a change to emerge to
infest surrounding green tim
ber, forest service personnel
said.
wooded areas to rule out the
possibility ot man-caused tires
under the hazardous condl
tions caused by the slash.
Bark Beetle Threat
The bark beetle threat in
the Isolated areas Is being ex
amined by a crew of two for
estry technicians who are
cruising the back country in
strips one quarter mile apart
recording and mapping blow
down. Two areas ot conccn
Drivers Asked to
Support Precautions
Chief of Police Charles
Champlin has urged local drl
vers to participate in the Ore
gon Safety Shield program
this summer by practicing
"common sense safely pre
cautions and supporting po
lice and court action against
errant drivers.
Chief Champlin said the
Shield will be used to -smlnd
the public ot the necessity for
obeying traffic laws and driv
ing defensively during the
heavy summer travel months.
Slogtm tor the program Is
"Shield .irsclf fn i traf
fic trouble."
Need for such a public edu
cation program, Champlin
said, Is emphasized in the
traffic toll recorded last sum
mer when 143 deaths occur
red during June, July and
August. August was the worst
single month In the history
of the state with 69 of tho&e
deaths reported.
trated blowdown have been
discovered this way and will
be sold this summer.
Flights to look for beetle
activity have been scheduled
throughout the summer so
preventive measures can be
taken based on early detec
tion, Brown said.
Although the cutting of
timber will be accelerated
this year, the calculated an
nual allowable cut governs
the amount ot timber that
may be cut on any national
forest. The cut la calculated
using volume ' and growth
data collected by sampling all
the timber stands on the for
est, Brown said.
No more timber may be
cut than Is grown and the
present Rogue River National
forest annual allowable cu
of 176.4 million board feet
could be cut each year with
out ever endangering the re
serve of timber.
However, conditions change
and the forest will be re-examined
in detail each 10
years to detect changes and
adjust the cut figures.
In the event that extreme
overcultlng results from the
sale of blowdown, future
compensating adjust ments
may have to be made in the
timber sale program, but this
is unlikely since deferment
of cutting in green timber
will probably make tho pro.
gram self -compensating,
Brown added.
Four Flights Are
Made by Ambulance
Two Gold Beach men were
returned home from Rogue
Valley hospital Thursday,
Mercy Flights service report
ed Friday.
Richard Larson was return
ed after having a back fusion
and Fred Burgess was return
ed after suffering injuries in
an accident last week.
Orville Strahm, 16. also of
Gold Beach,' wag taken to
Rogue Valley hospital by
Mercy Flights after being In
volved in an accident and a accommodate the rapidly
ers was originally composed
ot two prairies known as
Grizzly Prairie toward the
north and Howard Prairie
toward the south. The prai
ries were homesteaded in the
1880's and for many years
served as pastures for horses
and cattle and tor harvesting
native grasses which grew
there.
The farm at the northeast
corner of the lake was also
the post office for the area
known as "Lily Glen," which
is now the name of the riding
stables located at the same
site.
33 Miles From Ashland
Howard Prairie Reservoir
project is . located approxi
mately 33 miles east of Ash
land and is a part of the Tal
ent Irrigation project; was
undertaken by the U.S. bu
reau of reclamation to pro
vide water for many pur
poses. The primary purpose being
for irrigation in the Talent
irrigation area, which con
tains 14,000 acres of agricul
tural land in the Rogue val
ley. Other benefits include
power development, recrea
tion and wildlife preserva
tion. The Howard Prairie proj
ect was started in May,
1958, and completed in the
fall of 1959. The dam, which
crosses Grizzly creek, is a
compacted earth and rock
fill type, 105 feet high and
990 feet long at the crest. It
backs ud a lake of 60.000 acre
feet of water and is 5'4 miles
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lung auu uiie nine wiuc. xne
elevation when the reservoir
is full is 4,526 feet above sea
level.
Recreation Area
The recreation area encom
passes 1,904 acres of land
which surrounds 2,000 acres
of reservoir surface making
a total of 3,904 acres. The
initial recreational develop
ment was constructed by the
bureau of reclamation under
the direction of the National
Park service and amounted
to an expenditure of $126,-225.00
On Dec. 30, 1958, the Unit
ed Slates entered into s 50
ycar lease agreement with
Jackson county for adminis
tration of the area for recrea
tional purposes.
Since then, Jackson coun
ty has expanded the facilities
many times including the in
stallation of a marina and
boat launching facilities, a
concession building and many
new picnic and camp sites to
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have been evident at Howard Prairie lake this spring as hot
weather arrived in the valley. The lake, at its maximum
depth, has been a popular recreation spot this year. Among
the activities available in the Howard Prairie recreation area
are horses for riding at the Lily Glenn ranch which recently
was opened by the Clyde Wilhelms at the upper end of the
lake. Picnicking and overnight camping facilities also are
available at the lake. (Hooker-Johnston photo)
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Jackson county, under the
direction of Neil Ledward,
ot the park and recreation
commission, is making plans
for the continued expansion of
all facilities to meet the an
ticipated increase in use of all
types of outdoor recreation.
Original estimates forecast
ing use of the area indicated
there would be approximate
ly 25,000 visitor days each
season. A check on the use
during the 1961 season re
vealed that there were over
213,000 visitor days during
the season.
Cole Rivers, fishery biolo
gist, made spot checks dur
ing the season and estimated
that over 600,000 fish were
caught in the reservoir in
1961.
Present Indications are that
both records are in danger of
being surpassed this year.
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The boys and girls in Medford and the Rogue River Valley are out
of school now to enjoy a summer of fun. PLEASE help them to
keep enjoying it! Youngsters will still be going to school play
grounds and playing at home . . . they are apt to dash into the
street anytime . . . into the path of YOUR car. The Medford Traffic
Safety Council urges YOU to make SAFE DRIVING a very person
al responsibility. Have your car thoroughly checked for safety . . ,
be doubly careful to observe traffic signs and regulations ....
watch out for children everywhere - and give them the right of
way!
Published in cooperation
with the Medford
Safety Council by The
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