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Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9B
LOG, from page 8B
him to let go of them again.
Each turn over Lights
Creek Road that day took
only about 90 seconds, even
with two trees on the line.
Pew was the only bidder on
the sale, which includes more
than 60 million board feet of
timber.
It took two teams to get this
sale going: the Forest Service
and Pew.
The Forest Service first
had to perform all the requi-
site studies and courtroom
battles with environmental
groups like the John Muir
Project.
Then Pew's son Jared spent
countless hours tracking
changes in the lumber mar-
ket and studying helicopter
logging and myriad other
details, all the while trying to
figure out a way to make the
job pay enough to employ the
number of people it would
take to get it done.
Pew hired Colombia Heli-
copters, and its people, in
turn, hired one of Erickson's
Canadian subsidiary ships:
Pew figures he has about 15
workers at the landings, six
of his own trucks, nine other
trucks, and about 15 fallers
altogether, all mostly local
employees, some of whom
can stop their trucks at home
for lunch on the way to the
mill or back.
and he is again.
"It's a minor miracle that
we're even here and able to
work," Randy Pew said. "I
think it's one of the biggest
things that has happened
here in a long time."
Small, more rotted trees
will be left behind, and there
will be untouched patches of
big timber where there are
still live trees.
There will be a lot of fire-
wood to harvest in this area
when the job is over in the
fall, Smailes said.
This brings to an end the
timber harvesting jobs on
public lands in the 2007
Moonlight and Wheeler fire
areas, although there may be
a small job near Wilcox.
About the helicopters
Colombia Helicopters was
founded in 1957 by World
War II veteran Wes Lematta,
who used the GI Bill to finish
his flight training before pur-
chasing a used Hiller 12B
with his brother Eddie.
By 1960 they were awarded
a power-company contract to
place wood poles, which is
how he developed the direct
visual operational control
method still used today --
they lean out the left window
so they can see what they are
doing with the long attach-
ment lines and conduct an
operation with safety and
precision.
Erickson Air-Crane was
a new company in 1971,
started with a leased S-64
Skycrane helicopter by
Erickson Lumber Company
owner Jack Erickson, a
second-generation logger.
It was Erickson who first
developed a way to make heli-
copter logging economical,
after less successful efforts
by people in other countries.
Erickson has expanded
operations ever since and
now boasts three internation-
al subsidiaries and a base of
operations in Central Point,
Ore., that employs more than
500 people.
Grapple hooks (above) are one of many adaptations that make this job possible. No choker
setter has to work in danger underneath the copter wash, while the pilot maneuvers to pick up
sometimes three logs in one trip, or "turn." At top left, an old tail propeller is f'rom the first U.S.
logging job -- in 1970-71 -- which was also done near Engelmine and the Moonlight Valley.
Photos by
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