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Pioneer
Press
page
E30, column 1
To the Editor:
When I was a young man in the early sixties there were two sawmills in
Chiloquin and one at Modoc Point. Most every town around the forest had
at least one and Lakeview had several plus numerous logging companies.
Our young men here started to work after high school setting chokers in
the woods or worked at the sawmill. There was a sense of pride and
heritage from their father's to work in timber. We all made good money
and the community thrived.
Now we're all hunting, timber families and towns. The county is hunting
with virtually no timber payments.
The administration of the Klamath Tribe and various environmental groups
have appealed forest service timber sales for years, which has killed
the timber harvest and hurt all of us. I wish they could realize, by
their actions, that this has hurt our community and young men w ho need
jobs.
The forest service with vast areas of dead and dying timber on the
forest put up virtually no timber sales. It is their responsibility to
manage our forest. The only way to do that is through increased logging
to clean this mess up. The forest supervisor and officials in the
Fremont-Winema receive huge salaries for letting the forest deteriorate.
Now the non-producers in the forest service have decided to shut down
most roads for us forest users.
It seems like our tax dollars are being used to fund our own
destruction.
Jack Ziegelmeyer,
Chiloquin
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