Removing large amounts of slash accumulations in the creek as a first step to ecological restoration of the property's riparian area. Piling brush for foxes and other wildlife. Maintaining watering holes and constructing a small pond to benefit band tailed pigeons and other wildlife. Designing and constructing a wetland where there had been nothing. Improvements that we make in habitat today are for future generations of children and wildlife species.
Good things take time.
Eastern Oregon Landowners Recognized Thomas Shaw, ranch owner, John Merwin, range manager, and Dan Applebaker, forest manager, of J-Spear Ranch, Klamath Falls, were recognized for actively managing a healthy and productive forest that provides habitat diversity for wildlife in the high desert region of Klamath and Lake counties. Dan Applebaker was present to receive the award. These individuals have shown a keen interest in using the latest in information technology to inventory the many resources on their property - to improve the data used to make sound resource management decisions. Significantly reducing erosion of pumice soil based roads using innovative crowning and ditching road maintenance strategies. Fencing and planting willows along Coffeepot Creek - a tributary of the Chewuacan River and home for a healthy population of redband trout.