News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
A timber harvest on Highway 20 near The Jack Lake Junction just east of Suttle Lake will reduce ice and snow build-up on the dangerous curve.
The North Slope Timber Sale was sold February 6 to Curtis Wicks Contracting of LaPine for $90.25 per hundred cubic feet of timber for the 3,450 cubic feet of timber in the sale. The advertised minimum bid was $58.95 per hundred cubic feet. Four bidders competed for the timber sale. The harvest must be completed by June 30, 1996.
Smaller material between four and eight inches in diameter will be yarded and decked and left for firewood use, Heath said. The sale included 4,431 trees of all sizes.
"The Oregon Department of Transportation has requested we do this for quite awhile," Heath said. He expects the award letter from the Supervisor's Office, Deschutes National Forest in Bend, this week.
After-harvest restoration will include planting varieties of shrubs to give the slope more color, Heath said.
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