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| Rep. Jeff Reardon, Bob Luotto, Andrea Salinas |
State Representative Jeff Reardon, D-Happy Valley, spent a
day with logger Bob Luotto, Cross &
Crown, Jim Geisinger, Associated
Oregon Loggers and Ralph Saperstein,
timber industry spokesman visiting an active unit that Luotto’s company was
logging for Stimson Lumber Co.
Rep. Reardon was interested in seeing the Oregon Forest
Practices Act in action. The Stimson tract, outside of Cannon Beach, was smack
in the middle of Cannon Beach’s water supply. Stimson forester Tim Shiel
described the coordination with the City and the details necessary to conduct
the logging of the unit.
It is not an understatement to say that that Rep. Reardon
was impressed with the detail that went into logging the tract. Previously,
Reardon had worked out in the woods for Weyerhaeuser in the 1960s.
Bob let Rep. Reardon climb up to the cab of his log
yarder/processor to see a high tech version of machinery that has been around a
long time. Bob’s processor operator reports that operating a modern high tech
helicopter is less complicated than controlling the log processor.
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