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Church donates stockings to Redshirts By Arwyn Rice Pilot staff writer Brookings-Harbor Redshirts received 56 holiday stockings from members of the Brookings Presbyterian Church last week. Church members decorated the stockings and stuffed them with gifts for injured troops. The Women’s Prayer Breakfast donated $100, and the Mission Committee provided $200 to pay for postage. The church also donated $500 to the St. Timothy’s Free Clinic. “We try to see our mission money goes back into the community,” church member Barbara Ratliff said. The stockings will be sent to two military hospitals in Afghanistan, Redshirts president Frank Muller said. “This Christmas we will send at least 150 packages to hospitals and individual soldiers,” Muller said. Many of the troops who receive Redshirts packages are from Oregon National Guard units.
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Barbara Ratliff and Frank Muller display stuffed stockings for U.S. troops. In addition to the group’s usual care packages, the Redshirts are shipping small ar-
tificial trees, ornaments, Santa hats, candy and fruitcake.
“We’ve been wrapping presents for the last month,” he said.
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Christmas tree tags go on sale Nov. 24
With the holiday season coming, a great family activity is to cut your own Christmas tree in the woods. A permit tag is required for the harvest of each individual tree. Christmas tree permits from the BLM Medford District, BLM Coos Bay Dist r i c t a n d R o g u e R i v e rSiskiyou National Forest go on sale at all office and vendor locations starting Wednesday, Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving. The permits sell for $5 per tree and are non-refundable. There is a limit of five tree permits per person. The permits cover a large area that includes the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and the Coos Bay and Medford Districts of the BLM, where lands are open to personal- use tree harvesting. Maps with directions to cutting areas will be provided. The Christmas tree permit tag is validated after harvesting your tree by cutting out the date, month and year on the tag and se-
curely attaching it to the cut tree in a visible location before transporting it home. Christmas tree harvest is not allowed in wilderness areas, campgrounds, developed recreation areas, National Monuments, Research Natural Areas, Area’s of Critical Environmental Concern, within fences or posted tree plantations, within 200 feet of state highways or on private lands. Christmas tree cutting is also not permitted within the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, the Wild and Scenic Rogue River corridor and Recreation Areas. This is why it’s important to have a tree permit map, along with a Forest Service or BLM map, and a good understanding of your location prior to cutting. Keep in mind that roads on public lands administered by the Forest Service and BLM are not plowed in the winter and can present some situations that quickly become dangerous if you’re not properly pre-
pared. You should be prepared for winter weather, check weather conditions prior to departure and travel with a full tank of gas. Bring along adequate winter clothing, blankets/sleeping bags, food, water, warm beverages, a first aid kit and flashlight, whistle, m i r r o r, s h o v e l a n d c e l l phone, though in some remote areas cell phones don’t work. Always let someone know where you plan to harvest your tree and when you expect to return. Consider going out with a more experienced friend if you are new to this activity or unfamiliar with the area in which you will be travelling. The Bear Camp Coastal route is not advisable for travel this time of year; the route is not maintained for winter travel from Nov. 5 through May 31. The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
The Agency manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world. The BLM manages more land — 253 million surface acres — than any other fede r a l a g e n c y. T h i s l a n d , known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 western states, including Alaska. The bureau, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM’s multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands
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MEDFORD (AP) — The Oregon State Marine Board is looking for ways to better serve nonmotorized boaters, including a very modern approach to reaching out to a growing number of kayakers, canoeists and others. The effort marks the first time the marine board has invited boaters to help develop a plan to guide the agency’s future. The board traditionally serves powerboaters. “We recognize that we serve that constituency, and we also recognize that we’re not very good at it and we’re trying to improve it,” a marine board policy analyst, Randy Henry, told the Mail Tribune newspaper in Medford. Agency leaders are reaching out through socialmedia outlets such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as through its website and at a series of public meetings. The agency was formed
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boaters have paid is a onetime, $5 fee used to fund a new program shared with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to battle nonnative invasive species that can be transported between waterways on boats. Henry said boaters have told the marine board they would like to see more boat-cleaning stations to help them curb the transport of aquatic plants and animals on hulls and in bilge water. He also said the plan is not a way of trying to register the estimated 100,000 nonmotorized boats 10 feet or longer in Oregon or requiring their owners to pay fees. A draft is expected to be completed in the next legislative session that starts in January.
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