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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1959)
SIWDAY, JUNE 7. 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE SEVEN Sportsmen Must Police Own Ranks If They Are To Keep Priviledge Of Open Hunting (rem Amrrlran Forest Products Industries, Inc. At the annual meeting of the American Pulpwood Association in New York late in February, the industrialists who are charged with meeting payrolls and mak ing a profit for their stockhold ers, took time out to listen to a panel on the "Impact of Recre ation on Privately Owned Lands." The discussion centered primar ily around hunting and fishing on lands held in sizeable blocks for industrial forestry. A year or two ago, because of constant but rather vague com plaints regarding closure of ex tensive forest lands to recreation by private industry, the Ameri can Forest Products Industries, Inc. conducted some careful re search on the subject. They found that 92.4 per cent of the large private holdings were open to hunting and fishing. It was further established that a number of timber companies had already initiated their own programs of dealing with this problem on a more or less local ized basis. Industrial forest com panies from Washington and Ore gon to Virginia, and from Michi Preliminary Figures See Big Fire Protection Cost SALEM Preliminary figures in dicate that upwards of six million dollars will be spent during the coming fire season on the 15 mil lion acres of forest land coming under the jurisdiction of the statj forestry department and its co R 'n R Hits Dublin, Too NEW YORK VPI Question: What kind of music do the teen agers in Ireland dig? Answer: The same kind Amer ican teen-agers dig. Our authority are the eight members of an Irish dance band, the Clipper Carltons, who recently visited New York and Chicago to play at dances that preceded the at. Patrick s Day festivities and. in passing, to catch up on some of tne sounds that are currently pop ular. "The surprising thing about it," said Hugo Quinn, a trumpet play er and spokesman for the Clip pers, "is that the youngsters over here are so much like the ones we play for at home." Quinn said the band, basically a Dixieland group, has kept up with rock n roll, calypso, cha-cha, skiffle music and "cool" iazz. "Whatever trend is popular in America becomes popular in Ire land, so we've been through all the trends, said Quinn, a stocky 30-year-old crew-cut laddy from Strabane in County Tyrone. "Right now," he added, "there's no real definite craze over there. We've found out that it's the same way over here. The Clippers also reported that similarities in the musical tastes of the Irish and Americans ex tend even to language. "We use the word 'dig' a lot, just like musicians over here, Quinn said. "There are only two differences in our jive talk. We call people 'heads' instead of 'cats.' In Ire land, we use 'cat' as an adjective meaning 'bad.' If something is cat.' it s bad. "In New York the other night we played 'Bird Dog' and at the end, we sing as the tag line. 'And that's cat.' Nobody knew what we were talking about. At nonie, it always gets a laugh. SPEED MERCHANT MELBOURNE (UPD Herb El liott, Australian miler, ran the dis tance in less than four minutes ) tunes in gan to Alabama, have concerned iiicmseives io tne point of placing torest and wildlife ecologists on their payroll. The fact that these leaders of luresi inmistry would listen to a panel on the subject of recreation as it affects thpir hnlriinue they recognize it as a problem and are willing to evaluate it in relation tn thoir nrimu ol producing timber. just wny should forest owners have any doubts regarding the use of their InrwU far hiini;nn- u'u.. can they lose and what can they The ISSlie hac its starting with the fact that the public has an equity in all wild game re gardless of where i tmay roam. Based On thic num-eliin furUm segments of the public assume iney nave certain legal rignts ol trespass, for which there is no substance, or that continuing priv ileges necome a pre-empted right A Sllhctnntiul nnrlinn nt I Via ntik. Ii hat O hllilt.in An,M,.l Inn Ihnl they have certain preferential i ignis un wiiu, unienceu private forest land. Pnccihlv thm Wnct aln,A.-nV,WA unconsciously stimulates the pre- umisc ui riiiuuiimg tut- pioneer tra- operating forest protective associ ations, according to Theodore W Maul, protective assistant. The state will administer near ly three million dollars of this amount while private industry ex pends a corresponding amount on the protection of Oregon's tim berlands. The state protection districts will spend one million dollars on five protection activities while an additional $750,000 will be contract ed -to the private fire patrol as sociations and the federal forest service for the protection of pri vate and state lands within their boundaries that are not members of private associations. Some $1, 333,000 of this will be contributed by forest landowners in payment of their fire patrol assessment through the taxroll. An expenditure of $415,000 is scheduled for administrative ex penses such as the tremendously important radio communication system, central dispatching, fire cache, personnel training and the two 20-man emergency lire tigni- mg crews. Maul pointed out that the gen eral public will contribute $1, 342,000 toward the protection ol Oregon's forest lands. Of this, ap proximately $582,000 will come from the state general tuna ior the conservation activities of the department and the fire protec tion administrators in ine iieiu Another $200,000. financed through a bond issue, will be spent in fire'proofing the state forest land under tne renaoiinauun ivj". The balance will come from fed eral funds in tne amount oi w. 000 which are allotted under the Clarke-McNary act, the foiester added. , . The private timberland owners will exnend the other three million dollars on their forest acreage. This will include sww.uwu spem by their private forest protective associations and $2,400,000 that wil. i.. .vended nn snag falling, slash disposal and additional fire fight- ing, patrol ana equijii:" for extra hazardous conditions. Maul stated that the emergency fire fighting funds are available for a total of S1.M9.000 should project fires occur demanding ex penditures of large sums of mon ey. One fund that now stands at $J89,000 is made up through a severance tax on all timber har vested from lands within the boun daries of the forest protection units in western Oregon. The other is a fund of $300,000 which has been set aside for a similar purpose where fires break out on Hate owned land. ditions. Further the average hunt er sees no harm in his trespass, and private and public lands are often intermingled. The least valid reason is based on a belligerence toward extensive forest land own ership and big industry in gen eral, with the additional fact that publicly owned game uses the land. This is all associated with a defensive attitude that trespass to hunt public game is justifiable. But, in dealing with people en masse, many an individual wears two hats, though his station in life may not be indicative of attitudes. He may be a fence cutter, or with a million Christmas trees surrounding him he may sneak one home in the trunk of his car: or he may suddenly get the urge to use the carburetor of a bulldozer as a target for his .30-06. The forest owner also has the constant fear of fire. Whether in cendiary or through carelessness, lire can be equally damaging. A fire can upset a program of sus tained yield or block cutting and put the company in the red. If the public is going to continue to hunt on private lands, then by all justice the hunters should help ponce themselves. One company that has spear headed hunter-company relations recently reported with regard to the use of these lands: generally the hunters, during the 158 buck season, were reported to be safer with firearms and less inclined To vandalism. "The . conclusion that over-all hunting behavior is improving was made in spite of evidence that hunters in 1058 caused more fire damage, stole more equipment. disobeyed more signs and got lost more often. "The number and size of huuter- caused fires noted was nearly dou ble the 1954 record. "Asserting that the first obliga tion of tree farmers and forest management agencies is to pro tect the woods from fire," the re port warned that "threat of fire is the most important single fac tor affecting the hunter's future recreational opportunities in the woods. "Theft of company property and equipment was higher than in 1954. Tools of all types, gasoline, anti freeze, oil. blasting powder and caps were stolen, twenty-three blankets and first aid kits, two stretchers and three fire extin guishers." The vast army ol sportsmen, the good guys," are allowing a small minority of cheap, petty larcenists, "the bad guys," to de Time to Freeze STRAWBERRIES! 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The conference table has not been used enough by those repre senting the public, industry and the state conservation agencies in improving the situation. Too prevalent is the fact that foresters talk to themselves and not the opposition, hunters talk to each other and not the for ester, and to further stir the pot the resort interests in some areas who capitalize on public property as well as the misguided purists develop astonishing techniques to cloud the basic issue of deer man agement. With 92 4 per cent of the in dustrial forest lands open to hunt ing and fishing the hunter will Fiberglass Boat Building Materials The Gun Store 714 Mai Ph. TU 4-3843 PAINT THINNER 55'.. VflESFS FULLER PAINT STORE 2899 So. 4th ' TU 4-4377 itfpn iirrffTifrrrt iMiwfte PRE-KUT Ornamental Iron PRACTICAL.. . BEAUTIFUL You Can Afford It - Call for FREE Estimate Sivan Lake Moulding Company ' 3226 South 6h have no one to blame Dot bun self if these privileges are lost. 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