OUR FOREST
Trees In Our Forest Need To Be
Thinned 20 To 30 Feet Apart To
Avoid Forest Fire Tree Crowning
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As I 
See It
By The
Publisher
Gerald Pitts Auctioneer
and past livestock Auctioneer for K-Falls Live
Filming rodeos and calling auctions across the country, this travelling microphone has had the privilege of living in the Southern Oregon Cascade Forest for over 20 years. Over the years I couldn't help but notice how much our forest needs cleaning up with all the dead kindling laying around, a huge fire potential waiting to happen.
Living on the Jerry Whitlatch Ranch between Rocky Point and Fort Klamath much of this time, Jerry continually harvested both timber and cattle at the same time. Select cutting and leaving trees 20 to 30 feet apart for future harvest. I enjoyed watching deer, elk and other animals walking down to Crystal Creek during the evening to drink.
Recentley a long time forest expert took me for a ride into some timber where trees and undergrowth were so thick that if a fire got started there would be no way to stop it, destroying thousands of acres of valuable timber as it has in the past with millions of acres of timber destroyed by fire I soon realized and was quickley educated that over 75% of our timber resourses need thinning. We must act quickly to save precious timber that we and our grand children will need in years to come.
FIRE BROKE OUT
SUMMER OF 2006 - In the Southern Oregon Cascades
Recently (under a 3 year contract agreement) I was privledged to do fire & security watch for a third generation logging company and a fire broke out late one afternoon near our logging operation. If I hadn't been there to report the fire potentially timber in a 30 to 50 mile square radius could have burned to the ground before the fire stoped. In the over 20 years that I have lived in the Oregon Cascades this was the only time I had ever been this close to a fire. Within 5 to 7 minutes I was able to contact the LOCAL and the FOREST SERVICE FIRE DEPARTMENT to help put out the fire. Within 10 to 15 minutes the fire trucks had arrived and help was there on the scene putting out the Blaze.
The fire was out by sundown and had burned up 1/4 acre of weeds and dry brush kindling around a rock pile and lost one tree. Needles to say that night I was up every 1/2 hour checking out my rear window of my travel trailer for a flair up. As things calmed down I slept better the 2nd & 3rd nights checking where the fire was every 2 to 3 hours.
THE DOORS JIM MORRISON
Discovered Living In The
Pacific Northwest -
Recently Jim Morrison nearly lost his ranch home due to a devastating fire because trees were growing too close together and there was no way too stop the fire tree crowning. More about this in the Jim Morrison discovery DVD & VHS Video. Click on the RM JM DOORS navigation bar above right.
BILL WATENBURG SHOW
KGO RADIO OUT OF
San Francisco -
I was pleased when I heard Bill Wattenburg on KGO Radio announce to millions of listeners in the summer of 2004 that 75 percent of our Timber Resources need to be thinned. If we don't act quickly we stand to lose millions of acres of our precious timber due too fire crowning of trees growing to close together.
You can listen to Dr. Bill Wattenburg every Saturday & Sunday night at KGO-AM 810 on your radio dial.
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