Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-03-04
Timber Sales
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infestation indicates control action
is needed.
cORAM DISTRICT
Sullivan creek: $4,000, 900 board
feet including 100000 spruce, IA
miles road to build, May adver-
tisement and three year sale.
Weyerman remarks are: "Infest-
ed spruce sale. Seriously infested
at the heads of all tributaries.
Will include Slide creek, which is
almost totally infested or dead.
viii require about 6 miles Of sys-
tenn road and about or more mil
es OF secondary roads, plus spur
roads" This sale is about As miles
above Hungry Horse Dam.
Lost Johnny creek: $500, 900
board feet including 1000, 900
spruce, six miles of road, May adj
vertisement, and two years to cut,
Weyerman remarks are: "Infest-
ed spruce sale. Serious infestation
in one fork of creek. Requires 3.3
miles of system road, plus spur
roads" This is sale on west side
of Hungry Horse reservoir road
about four miles above dam.
| The regular sales program, not
yet determined, includes Wheeler
Forest creeks of Coram district
with total offering of $4,000, OO(
board feet. Sale depends on avail
ability of funds, and possible adj
vertising date is next fall. Pur-
pose OF this sale, Weyerman COM
= mented is to bring Coram Working
circle up to its allowable cut, ant
provide larch and fir for bette
balanced lumber production. Sal
!; also hinges on improvement Q
west side road for heavy hauling
Sale would include gravel and bet
terment of the road.
> TALLY LAKE DISTRICT
Upper Martin creek: 100000
, board feet including 100000
, spruce, 3 miles road, June adver
: tiSement, two year sale.
Weyerman remarks are: Area &
a whole not seriously infested. He
few hot spots and small tributar
|. moderately infested. Addition;
: field observations will be mad
:. Will be desirable to offer as res
: ular sale if not spruce sale, to fl
: out cut of Tally Lake district. Ao
jacent to existing Flathead sprut
sale and proposed Kootenai sprut
SALE"
The Kalispell Working circle a
SO includes proposed regular sa
: on Wild Bill creek of 4,OOO,Ot
board feet including 100000 spruc
: 6 miles road.
IS Weyerman remarks are: "Plan
e sell during late summer to provit
i balanced lumber production |
se right-of-ways in addition to S
g, miles of system roads and sp
roads"
l. SWAN DISTRICT
te Fatty creek: 100000 board fe
) including 100000 spruce, 6 mil
/ road, May advertising, two yeal
y Weyerman remarks are: "Infes
! ed spruce sale. Joint action
Forest Service and Northern Pa
~ ific reached. N. P. will probab
X offer 3 to 100000 nearly simu
er taneously with Forest Service c
Fe fering." Forest Service and N.
8 own alternate sections here.
South Lost creek: 8, 4OO, 900 boa
y feet including 100000 spruce,
70 miles road, May advertising, ty
> years.
- Weyerman remarks are: ISM
.. infested spruce sale to complime
Z, similar action contemplated by t
n State on adjoining lands"
~ The proposed regular sales pr
- gram includes Porcupine creek
- the Swan with 100000 boa
70 feet, 1000, 400 of it spruce, 10 mi
- road.
lie Weyerman remarks are: 1T
g. sale is contingent upon constrl
ton OF the Swan bridge (under
f}state secondary program). Brio
T. is scheduled for construction t
summer. Sale will be timed
completion of this project. T.
D. sale is primarily to capture ms
II losses in white pine and to deve,
"a the upper Porcupine drains
where heavily infested sprl
bark beetle hot spots threaten
spruce in the drainage. Also to
= itiate action which may result
- logging control on adjacent heav
], infested Indian lands on the FL
= head Lake side and hot spots
~ an intermixed N. P. section. D
!, ireable to have joint effort by +
- est Service, State, Indian and
~ P. This sale will probably not
~ =, offered until late fall"