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12B Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011
Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter
Participants in the Sierra Institute tour "Sustainable Forest Management and Fire Ecology" get
an inside look at the Collins mill in Chester. This year, the tour will be held Friday, Sept. 9. For
information, call 284-1022. Photo courtesy Sierra Institute Center of Forestry
Tour looks at forestt'y
On Friday, Sept. 9, the
Sierra Institute is offering
residents and visitors a tour
of the Collins Pine mill and
the Almanor Forest to learn
how Collins works to main-
tain a productive mill and
achieve its dual objectives of
economic and ecosystem
health.
While other mills are
pulling out of rural areas,
Collins has done just the op-
posite by investing in its
lumber mill and its commu-
nity. In 2002 the mill under-
went a high tech
state-of-the-art upgrade and
is now capable of producing
almost twice the volume of
the original mill.
Northern California and
many other Western states
have seen an increase in
high-severity fires over the
last few decades. Plumas
and Lassen counties have
seen several large fires in
the last few years. Tour par-
ticipants will hear from
Collins employees about
their efforts to reduce both
the size ,and intensity of
fires on their land through
forest management prac-
tices and sound science.
This daylong tour, "Sus-
tainable Forest Management
and Fire Ecology," will be-
gin with a presentation on
the history of Collins Com-
panies, which owns and
manages forestland in Ore-
gon and Pennsylvania, in ad-
dition to the Northern Cali-
fornia site.
The Collins timberlands
were acquired in 1902 and
the Collins mill in Chester
has been a local institution
since 1943. The Collins
forests have been managed
on an uneven-aged, sus-
tained-yield basis from the
beginning. Collins Compa-
nies is the first privately
owned forest products group
to be certified sustainable by
the Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC); the Almanor
Forest was the first of
Collins' properties to be-
come certified. The FSC logo
on a product provides con-
sumers with an assurance
that the wood comes from
forests managed in an envi-
ronmentally and socially re-
sponsible manner.
After hearing the history
of the company, participants
will take a driving and walk-
ing tour of portions, of the
Collins Almanor Forest, a
94,000-acre mixed conifer
stand, where Collins em-
ployees will discuss forestry
management practices, for-
est processes like carbon se-
questration, and the ecosys-
terns that thrive there.
After lunch, participants
will put on safety glasses
and hard hats and tour the
mill facilities, highlighting
the 21st-century technology
and equipment. The tour
will conclude at the Collins
Museum to allow partici-
pants a chance to explore
the museum and historic
logging equipment while
asking any final questions.
Morning refreshments,
lunch and bus transporta-
tion are provided as part of
the tour, which begins at
8:30 a.m. and concludes by
4:30 p.m. Tour costs are $50
per person or $95 per couple.
Reservations, closed-toe
shoes and an ability to as-
cend and descend multiple
stairs on the mill catwalk
are required. Visit the Sier-
ra Institute's Center of
Forestry on the Web at Sier-
raInstitute.us or call Lauri
Rawlins-Betta at 284-1022 for
more. information and to
make reservations.
The Sierra Institute for
Community • and Environ-
ment is a not-for-profit orgY=
nization promoting healthy
forests and watersheds by
investing inthe well-being
of rural communities and
strengthening their role in
decision-making.
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It's not a pretty picture, so Lassen National Forest's Hat Creek Ranger District staff have begun
the initial stage of the Whittington Forest Health Restoration and Fuel Reduction Project.
Public input is a priority. "We'd love to have the public involved," said District Ranger Kit
Mullen. The district holds an annual field trip to educate the public and take comments. This
year the outing will be held Sept. 13. Participants will visit a section of the forest that was
converted to a plantation of pines decades ago. Old plantations like this, in their current dense
state, pose a fire hazard. The purpose of the proposed Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group
project is to improve forest health and retain and restore ecological resilience, ensuring a
functioning and sustainable ecosystem. "Before we do the work, we want to know what are
all the things we are going to be challenged by, in order to do the best we can for restoration,"
Mullen explained. The ranger district is seeking as much input from as many interested
perspectives as possible. The field trip will also examine three additional areas: an aspen grove
being re-established, a grassland ecosystem and a location where the rare but indigenous
Baker cypress is making a good show. The tour begins at 10 a.m. at the Hat Creek Work
Center. For more information, call 336-5521, Photo courtesy Hat Creek Ranger District
luseum sfl00)ws Fine/,rts Guild
The Plumas County Muse-
um .will feature several
artists from the Feather Riv-
er Fine Arts Guild through
the months of September and
October.
Based out of the Lake A1-
manor Basin, the Feather
River Fine Arts Guild is
made up of painters, photog-
raphers, weavers, potters
and Other fine artists who
share a love of creating and
the creative process.
Drawing on the beauty of
the surrounding area in
which they live, the artists of
the guild are inspired to cre-
ate works,of art that not only
reflect their native surround-
ings, but which also inter-
pret this beauty in new,
imaginative ways.
Ten artists from the guild
will exhibit a variety of
in and around Phlm Is County
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works, including watercolor, .
acrylic and oil paintings,
fine art photography and
raku pottery, in the muse-
um's Stella Fay Miller Mez-
zanine Gallery through Octo-
ber, with an artists' recep-
tion planned for Friday,
Sept. 30, 5 - 8 p.m.
All are encouraged to stop
by the museum to view the
artwork of these fine artists.
Feather River Fine Arts
Guild members exhibiting
their works at the museum
are Barbara Ricau
MacArthur, Robbie Laird,
Jan Cox, Sally Posner,
Jacqueline Cordova, Kate
Rondon, Kim James, Dottle
Clark, DeDe Peterson and
Becky Compton.
The Plumas County Muse-
um is located at 500 Jackson
St. in Quincy. Hours are
Tuesday - Saturday, 9 a.m. -
4:30 p.m. For more informa-
tion, call 283-6320.
LEVINE, fo page lob
much weight of meaning and
clarity, they slipped from our
hands and sank like a
smooth, glowing stone in a
pool of clear water.
I mean, here's this slight,
60-something poetry profes-
sor pulling my poems out of
his worn, leather satchel,
and I have to sit at my desk
and accept he knows much
more about them than I do. A
truly humbling experience.
I'm a little bit surprised to
see Levine criticized on some
blogs as a socialist or a com-
munist professor. I guess
that's the big hurt hurled
from those on the right these
days. Ouchy wouchy.
Sure, Levine frequently
writes about his working •
class roots, his Russian, Jew-
ish immigrant heritage, and
he often uses his hometown
of Detroit as a locale. He is
the poet of the working man,
no doubt.
I'm sure most of us work-
ing class heroes understand
what he means when he
talks about being stuck in a
succession of "stupid jobs."
But we riever discussed his
poems or his politics in class.
Ever. We always talked
about our work and what we
could do to become better po-
ets. His classes were writer's
workshops, and that's all.
Sorry, folks, there was no in-
doctrination.
Congratulations, Phil.
"They still feed they lion,"
you know.
ot let us work for youl
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