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Home My WebLink About2008-0805 Documents Submitted at Meeting Huntington, police settle over firing-range cleanup - Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2007 /jan/24/local/me-gunrange24 Iros .~n!leles <tinles California I Local I ~l2.;~-~ $~ , '6 ~ Y A / ~ fo ~ $JUJ>nutlrJ hunf!MJ/Uit( Return to your last page Archive for Wednesday, January 24,2007 Huntington, police settle over firing-range cleanup By Ashley Powers January 24, 2007 in print edition B-3 Ending a five-year legal skirmish that pitted Huntington Beach against its police union, city officials announced Tuesday that the union and other agencies would help pay to decontaminate a portion of Huntington Beach Central Park used for a quarter-century as a firing range. The Huntington Beach Police Officers Assn.'s $150,000 share is among the nearly $615,000 that the city will collect from organizations that used the now-closed Central Park range, including a sportsmen's club, a police academy and more than a dozen cities in Orange and Los Angeles counties. The settlement, however, was not enough to recoup the $1.1 mllion the city spent on litigation, rruch less the estimated $1.5 million to $3 million for cleanup costs. City Atty. Jennifer McGrath defended the lawsuit as producing "$600,OOO-plus that the taxpayers of Huntington don't have to pay. I don't think it was money badly spent." Settlement talks took on new urgency as the suit inched toward a trial scheduled for next month, said Det. Kreg Muller, president of the union, which has about 200 meni>ers. The agreement also shielded the union from any further litigation related to the cleanup. The group's insurance cOrJ1>any - which is also the city's insurer - is covering the payout. A recent change in city administration has helped ease strained relationships, Muller said. The police union in 1971 began leasing 5 acres in Central Park and training Huntington Beach officers at the firing range. Other cities, including Bell, Gardena, Manhattan Beach, Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, also used the grounds, adjacent to the recently cOrTl>leted sports COrTl>lex in Central Park. The shooting range became grist for controversy in the mid-1990s, with residents complaining about noise and safety. In 1996, a bullet pierced the window of a nearby home. Soon after, the City Council terminated the union's lease. Soil testing found that the area's dirt was tainted with enough lead - presumably from bullets - to be considered hazardous waste. Exposure to high levels of lead can cause headaches, hearing problems and slowed growth in children, and nerve disorders, high blood pressure and reproductive problems in adults. In 2001, Huntington Beach sued the police association, asking for help with the cleanup cost. A few years later, the lof2 8/5/20084: 13 PM Hmrtington. police settle over firing-range cleanup - Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2007 /jan/24/local/me-gtmrange24 city added to the suit other agencies that had trained at the range. "It's been a long, tough battle," said Mayor Gil Coerper, a retired police officer. "Both the city and the association thought they were right." ashley.powers@latimes.com Related Articles · IN BRIEF The Region I 81MI VALLEY - Boeing pays fine for water quality violations 8ep 12, 2007 · Deal set to clean two aquifers May 03, 2007 · Business briefs Mar 26, 2008 · Maker of popular treat for dogs settles lawsuit 8ep 18, 2007 · AutoZone settles state suit Jun 09,2007 More articles by Ashley Powers More articles from the California I Local section California and the world. Get the Times from $1.35 a week Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times 20f2 8/5/2008 4: 13 PM EXHIBIT 'A' LAND DESCRIPTION P/6/~ (!if U/-k, 1:eu ~ Commencing at a 1 inch diameter galvanized iron pipe with 2 ~ inch diameter bronze cap situated at the Section Comer common to Sections 12 and 13, Township 39 South, Range 1 East and Sections 7 and 18, Township 39 South, Range 2 East of the Willamette Base and Meridian, Jackson County, Oregon; THENCE North 00007' 11" East along the section line common to Sections 12 and 7, said Township and Ranges, for a distance of 786.11 feet to a 5/8 by 24 inch iron rod with aluminum cap marked: City of Ashland, LS 759 for the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE leaving said range line, North 890 57' 38" West for a distance of 1340.70 feet to a 5/8 by 30 inch iron rod with aluminum cap marked: City of Ashland, Prop. Cor., LS 759 and situated in that boundary line common to Donation Land Claim No. 53 and Government Lot 8, Township 39 South, Range 1 East of the Willamette Base and Meridian, Jackson County, Oregon; THENCE North 000 13' East (deed record North, 462 feet) along said common boundary line for a distance of 462.00 feet to a 30 inch long by 1 inch diameter iron pipe with a 3 inch diameter bronze cap situated at the comer common to Government Lots 1, 8 and the East boundary line of Donation Land Claim No. 53, said Township and Range; THENCE continuing North 000 13' East (deed record North) (government record 273.9 feet) along said common boundary line for a distance of278.42 feet to a found % inch galvanized iron pipe with mushroom top situated at the ACCEPTED Northeast Comer of Donation Land Claim No. 53, said Township and Range; THENCE continuing North 000 13' East (deed record North) for a distance of289.58 feet to the Northwest comer of that tract of land as set forth in Volume 182, Page 379 of the Deed Records of J ackson County, Oregon; THENCE Easterly along the Northerly boundary line of said Volume and Page and being parallel with the Northerly boundary line of Government Lot 8, Section 12, Township 39 South, Range 1 East for a distance of 108 feet, more or less, to Emigrant Creek; THENCE Southeasterly along said creek line to a point in the Easterly boundary line of that tract of land conveyed by the CITIZENS BANK OF ASHLAND to the CITY OF ASHLAND and set forth in Volume 182, Page 379-380 of the Deed Records of Jackson County, Oregon: THENCE leaving said creek line, Southerly along the aforesaid Easterly boundary line for a distance of 200 feet, more or less, to a point in that boundary line common to Government Lot 8 and Donation Land Claim No. 51, said Township and Range: THENCE South 890 57' 38" East along the Southerly boundary line of Donation Land Claim No. 51, said Township and Range for a distance of 594.40 feet to a 30 inch long by 1 inch C:\DOCUME-I \thomtm\LOCALS-l \ T emp\XPgrpwise\Gun Club Property Description 7 OS.doc PAGE 1 of2 diameter galvanized iron pipe with 3 inch diameter bronze cap situated at the Southeast comer thereof; THENCE continuing South 890 57' 38" East along the Southerly boundary line of Donation Land Claim No. 38, Township 39 South, Range 2 East of the Willamette Base and Meridian, Jackson County, Oregon for a distance of 680.35 feet to a 30 inch long by 1 inch diameter galvanized iron pipe with a 3 inch diameter bronze disk situated at the Southeast comer of said Donation Land Claim No. 38; THENCE North 000 11' 51" East along the boundary line common to Donation Land Claim No. 3 8 and Government Lot 5 for a distance of 73.37 feet to a 30 inch long by 1 inch diameter galvanized iron pipe with a 3 inch diameter bronze disk situated at the Northwest comer of Government Lot 5, Township 39 South, Range 2 East of the Willamette Base and Meridian, Jackson County, Oregon; THENCE South 89047'.06" East along the Northerly boundary line of said Government Lot 5 for a distance of 306.00 feet to a 5/8 by 30 inch iron rod with aluminum cap marked: City of AsWand, Prop. Cor., 1992, LS 759; THENCE leaving said government lot line, South 420 17' 06" East for a distance of 130.70 feet to a 5/8 by 30 inch iron rod with aluminum cap marked: City of Ashland, Prop. Cor., LS 759; THENCE South 63007' 06" East for a distance of 347.00 feet to a 5/8 by 30 inch iron rod with aluminum cap marked: City of Ashland, Prop. Cor. 1992, LS 759; THENCE South 100 37' 06" East for a distance of 185.50 feet to a point; THENCE North 890 57' 38" West for a distance of942.11 feet to a point; THENCE South 600 30' 00" West for a distance of281.23 feet to a point; THENCE North 90000' 00" West for a distance of232.58 feet to a point; THENCE North 00007' 11" East for a distance of 40.00 feet to the point of beginning. Together with and subject to covenants, easements, and restrictions of record and those apparent on the land. . LESSOR: City of Ashland c/o Parks and Recreation Commission 340 S Pioneer Street Ashland OR 97520 Revised 7/31/08 LESSEE: Ashland Gun Club, Inc. 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Rifle & Pistol shooting area Jackson County taxlots GPS'd corner pin location file://C:\Documents and Settings\thomtm\Local Settings\Temp\XPgrpwise\Detaill.jpg 7/31/2008 Page 1 of 1 Page 1 of 1 Shotgun and Skeet l I I I \ \ \ \ \ , \ \ \ \\ ---~-l I -""'<-._- ~ ~----~~- "- ~ -------"'- ~'---.... file://C:\Documents and Settings\thomtm\Local Settings\Temp\XPgrpwise\Gun_Club_usa... 7/31/2008 July 25, 2008 Karl Johnson Assistant Engineer City of Ashland 20 East Main Street Ashland, OR 97520..1814' 2 ~fI~ /lDt( ~et ~~'E' C'J=~.r.V'Er"\ ! '\ Ut--~. ,U f'" t n-' ll\ f'" h vi y U~ !;.,\,~~~ S~bject: Siskiyou Pedestrian Safety Review Propos~1 Dear Karl: Based on the discussion between Mike 'Faught, Paula Brown, you, and me over the past weeks and in response to your request, we..are providing a.formal proposal to review pedestrian safety issues in the Siskiyou B~ulevard comdor. In response to staff and community concerns regarding the series of vehiCle- pedestrian collisions on Siskiyou Boulevard, HDR will conduct an examination of the collisio.n history, the design and operational,characteristics of the Siskiyou Boulevard corridor between East Main Street and ,Walker Avenue (excluding the Siskiyou/Walker interse~tion). HDR will examine the measures already taken by the City to address the collision history. As a result of the examination, HDR will make recommendations on measures the city should consider to address the identified collision history. The 'recommendations will be provided in order of increasing "effectiveness ratio" as estimated through a comparison of relative effectiveness version the effort toimp~ement (measured either by time or capital cost). ' , Scope of Work Task 1 Review Existing Information and Develop Range of Options HDR will review the following existing information provided by the City: · Collision reports for all pedestrian~vehicle collisions ,on Siskiyou Boulevard ,between East Main Street and Walker Avenue (but not including the Walker Avenue/Siskiyou intersection) during the 2003 - 2007 period (five years of data). · "As built" drawings for the most recent improvements to the Siskiyou corridor inclusive of any change orders for traffic signalization and signal timin'g plans · Traffic volume data · Pedestrian volume data (including consideration of changes in pedestrian travel patterns related to changes in near by land uses) HDR Engineering. Inc. 1001 SW 5th Avenue Suite 1800 Portland. OR 97204-1134 Phone: (503) 423-3700 Fax: (503) 423-3737 'IJVvw,hdrinc,com Karl Johnson, City of Ashland Page 2 ~ Siskiyou Pedestrian Safety Review Proposal · Minutes of the Traffic Safety Committee meetings when this issue was discussed. · . Actions implemented by. the City to address the observed collision history with the date of implementation, .including recently developed plans for the installation of flashing beacons at four 'locations on Siskiyou (Palm, Garfield, Avery and Bridge). Based on the review of existing information, HDR's professional knQwledge of " operational, design and traffic control measures, and research on new and . emerging roadway and traffic control technologies HDR will prepare a preliminary sorted" list of potential. measures for consiqeration. The sorted list will. be bas~d onan approximated "effectiveness ratio" which compares ane'st.imated effectiveness ofa measure with the effort, time arid cost to implement. Specific . cost estimates. will not be prepare~ but industry-standard urtit costs will be used in the "effectiveness ratio". . . HDR will visit the Siskiyou Boulevard corridor to observe traffic operations, collision' locations and to assess any possible . adjustments to the preliminary sorted list of potential measures. HDR will, if needed, revise the preliminary.sorted list of potential measures for consideration. Assumptions: : Two (2) members ofHDR will conduct one (1) field visit. coordinated with "meetings. with City staff and the Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc Committee (Tasks 2 and 3).' None Task 2 Meet with City Staff HDRwill meet with, City staff to discuss the preliminary ~orted list Qf potential . measures for consideratiQn; the purpose of the meeting is to. determine the.range of options for addressing the issue that the city' sstaff considers to be acceptable. HDR Will prepare and distribute a brief draft meetingsum~~. HDRWill revise. the meeting summary.based on a single set of consolidated comment's received from the City's 'proj ect manager. A final meeting summary will be prepared. Assu~ptions: Meeting will be held in Ashland, .Oregon: Two (2) HDR . . Team members will attend th~ meeting, The meeting will be held on the day after the site vfsit (part of Task 1) and on the same day as the meeting with the Siskiyou Safety. Ad- Hoc Committee (Task 3). HDR Engineering. Inc. ,1001 SW 5th Avenue Sliite 1800 Portland; OR 97204-1134 Phone: (503) 423-3700 Fax: (503) 423-3737 WVNJ.hdrinc.con'l . ~~~:,'u.~':'/Ii,(l::;.",~,~~"i!f'~!(:,':'1.r,',ji;i:iOIl{:>.'\,':)!'~~1;.~5i\.t"1l!;~..:.; (~ff:~ t1'.'B,:~""~'" ~'~~~~ ~,. '''''''''~;~'/f~''!3>;~,),~:!j4;'''';'''~~';i'''''''.;jj.'\''~''*'*\V.ili'' fl.M$ '''1~'',;'';.>9W>t''''''~3'''...~~. ~";,f,rjl.jllll!1Ii\"f1\l7Jl!~~~"'~~~~'1I\!f':l:,lI Karl Johnson, City of Ashland Page 3 <- Siskiyou Pedestrian Safety Review Proposal Deliverables: City' g' project manager will provide a single set of, , consolidated comments withintwo weeks of rec.eipt of the draft meeting notes. Draft Meeting Summary in Word format, Final Meeting' Summary in hard copy, MS Word and PDF formats. Task 3 Meet with Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc Committee , , HDR will attend one (1) meeting of the Siskiyou' Safety Ad-Hoc Committee to discuss the, preliminary sorted list of potential meas~es for consideration. The . purpose of this meeting is fo.r the Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc Committee to define t~e range of options considered to qe,acceptable for addressing the .issue. Assumptiuns: Meeting will be held in Ashland, Oregori on the same day as the meeting with city staff.(Task 2) arid as part of a regularly scheduled'meeting of the committee. Two (2) HDR Team members will attend the meeting. The City will ,be responsible for the preparation of meeting summary and ' , provision of that summary toHDR within two weeks of the .meeting. Deliverables: 'Meeting attendance. Task 4. Treatment Measure Refinement' ' HDR willrefip.ethe preliminary sorted list of potential' measures for consideration, , based on the input received in Tasks 2 & 3. The existing information examined, site visit notes and research will be summarized in a draft technical memo which . Will incIu~e the refined,sorted list of potential measures forcoJ;lsideration., HDR will respond to a single set of consolidated comments received from the City's project manager and will prepare a'final.technica~ memo. Assumptions: Amaximum.of24 person-hours of research is assumed to" , pursue requests from city. staff and the Siskiyou Safety Ad~ Hoc Committee for additional information'. City cons,olidated comments ,will be received within two (2) , weeks of the submission of the draft technical memo. Draft technical memo in Word format; Final technical memo in h~rd copy, Word,andPDF format Deliverab les: HDR Engin'eering. hIe; 1001 SW 5th Avenue Suite 1800 Portland. OR 97204-1134 Phone: (503) 423"3700 Fax: {5031423c3737 wWwhdrinc.com --ITr,'.._- Karl Johnson, City of Ashland , Page 4 - Siskiyou Pedestrian Safety Review Proposal Task 5 Meet with City Staff HDRwill meet,with city staff to discuss the final technical ,memo and review a presentation of the recommendations to the, Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc Committee. Assumptions:, "Meeting will be held in Ashland, Oregon. One (I)HDR ,team memberwill attend the meeting. The meeting Will be held on the same day as the meeting with the Siskiyou S~fetyAd-Hoc Committee (Task 6).' Deliverables: Attendance at meeting with City staff Task 6 Meetwith Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc Commi~ee HDR will attend one (1) meeting of the Siskiyou Safety Ad-Hoc C~mmittee to present the recom~endations from the final technical memo arid to answer questions from the committee. Assumptions: ' Meeting will be held in Ashland, Oregon. One. (1) HDR ,Team member will attend the 'meeting. The meeting will be heldon the same day. as the meeting with the City Staff ' . (Task 5). ' The City. will be responsible for the preparation of meeting , summary and provision of that summary to HDR. Deliverables: ' Meeting attendance . Task 7 'Meetwith City's Traffic Safety Committee (Optional) HDR will attend one{l) meeting of the City's Traffic Safety Committee in " support of City staffptesentation of recommended treatments, technologies or , actions to addr~ss the collision history. HDR will respond to questions from the Traffic'Safety Committee as directed by the City's project manager. Assumptions: ' Meeting will be held in Ashland, Oregon as part of a regularly scheduled meeting of the committee. One (1) HDR'Team member will attend the m.eeting. Deliverables: Meeting attendance. , Buc;tget . The total costofthiswork is estimated to be $20,620 inclusive of the one optional task. The cost of the optional meeting with the Traffic Safety Meeting is estimated ' HDR Engineering, Inc. 1001 SW 5th Avenue Suite 1800 Portland; OR 97204-1134 Phone: (503) 423-3700 Fax: (503) 423~3737 www.hdrinc.com {...,"t~";{-\:;~'~"(;:'"'l"I.>/,;,'~~j'~<",<, -"~-''':';'~'< ~~..'~: "it', ,. Karl Johnson, City of Ashland . . Page 5 - Siskiyou Pedestrian Safety Review Pi~posal . at. $1,515. If t~e optional task are excluded the estimated cost is reduced to '$19,105. The estimated budget includes the effort to manage the described work including monthly invoicing, monthly written progress reports and regularly scheduled project progress telephone discussions for the two-ca}endarmonth duration of this . work. . Schedule As we d~scussed during our July 10, 2008 project progr~sscall,we are prepared to' . proceed with this safety review upon receipt of written notice to proceed. It may be advantageous to strategically schedu~e the field work such that pedestrian . activity on Siskiyou connected with SOU and other educational fa~ilities is ata higher level than it is during July and August. Our discussion indicated that occurs in late September. Our most re~ent co~mui1icatiort indicates that the -City m~y be prepared to 'provide notice. to proceed on August 6, 2008 with an e~pectation that Task 1 would be conduc~ed on August 12 and Tasks 2 and 3 on August 13. If that . assumption is correct, the entire work effort (exclusive of the optional task). would be completed by September 19,2008. The overall schedule for this work is . , appr.oximately 6 calendar.weeks with some of those weeks providing staff. , adequate. review time for draft submittals. Project Team . To perform the specialized safety review proposed in our scope of work, HDR traffic safety engineer, Willard'Bradshaw PE,will be addedto our project team. Willard is registered as both traffic arid acivii engineer in the State of Oregon. He has over 30 years of experience of which 20 were spent as the State Traffic Engineer. Willard brings a depth of technical knowledge and professional judgment to helpclient~- address difficult traffic engineering issues. Willard's professional approach is' particularly helpful when the public has a heightened aware~ess.ofthetrafficor traffic safety ~ss~e in question. ' HDR. Engineering, Inc. 1001 SW 5th Avenue Suite 1800 Portland. OR 97204-1134 Phone:. (503)" 423-3700 Fax: 1503) 423-3137 WW\\I.hdrinc,com r~~IWJ"''''';'-'.~~I1,\\,~,'.14''~W''''~~lIljl~~'\'~~~f.l~~ 'l(~""'~~~~~~ t,I'lI"ftl.. -:-" I.,..., I!H ". ~ ,_ l '1,., ~, 4--Wll~rr!Sf.;'~p"~ Karl Johnson, City of Ashland Page 6 - SiskiyouPedestrian'Safety Review Proposal Thank you for the opportunity to provide this. proposal for, additional services to the City of Ashland. If you, Paula or Mike have questions, I would be glad to address them. Please feel free to contact me by phone at my office number, (503) 423-3705 or by cell phone at (503) 422-2420. - . Sincerely, .._ _ ~~' Evan Dust Senior Planner Michael Do ng Vice':'President/Department Manager Attachment: Budget estimate ResUme. for Willard Bradshaw HDR Engineering, Inc. 1001 SW 5th Avenue- Suite.18oo Portland. OR 97204-1134 Phone: (503) 42373700 Fax: (503) 423-3737 www.hdrinc.com AMBUJA ROSEN'S SPEECH IN PUBLIC FORUM I've heard the opinion that our tethering limit should be eight to nine hours instead of the three-hour limit in our proposal. I've heard that some people can't afford a pen or fence. Based on my research, I believe that with enough creativity, people can find free fencing. If people aren't willing to do that, they can find super-cheap fencing, using resources like Ebay, Craigslist, The Nickel, newspaper ads, or yard sales. If people don't want to take the time to do that, they can save up 50, 100 or 150 dollars and buy fencing at a hardware store. Officer Chris Robles successfully enforces a ban on unattended dog tethering in Austin. He told me that lots of people tell him they can't afford a fence, but he says the real reason is they're not willing to make the effort it takes. People of any income level can save money if they want to. For example, instead of going to M cOonalds for a month, they could serve their fam ilies beans and rice for pennies. The American Dietetic Association officially states that everyone, except infants, can get enough nutrients without dairy or meat. So how about this plan for people who say they can't afford fencing? Let them give up their restaurant meals, and their fish, chicken and steak, for one month. For one month, let them get their clothes at the free box instead of WalmarL let them get their movies from the library inlead of OJ's. let them give up cigarettes and alcohol for a month. ~ J If they did that, they'd probably have the fencing money, no matter what income level they were. If you're thinking, -How can you ask people to make those sacrifices?-, I say, Hlf people aren't willing to make those small sacrifices for a month so their animals don't have to make the huge sacrifice of spending eight hours a day--half their waking lives--on a chain, then I don't think they love their animals like family members. let them give their animals to people who are willing to make those sacrifices: Family members sacrifice for each other. I'm not saying that nonhuman animals are more important than human animals, or even necessarily that they're as important. But they're not that much less important that we can't temporarily give up a few conveniences so that they don't have to spend half their waking lives on a chain. [Show charts.] We share the Earth with all our fellow creatures. I invite you to move with me out of this paradigm, where aU the other animals exist just to sacrifice for us. A hundred and Fifty years ago, Afro-Amercans would have been _n -----nrT------ I III here. People believed they were here only to sacrifice for us. Now the animals are in that role. I invite you to move with me into this new paradigm where the animals are our brothers and sisters. We're all family, and we sacrifice for each other. The financial excuse for not having a fence is a mirage. It doesn't exist. But then may still be people who believe they can't save money for a pen or fence. For these people, I suggest that Ashland start a donation fund. I already have one donor who could give $100, and more money in the future. Thank you. FfC~VCDl,SOL0U~'-. . lkCLt ~lotj i1~t) ~ MwtAnJsfl1lo0 0Jf;j ft1fcmoy :~ To tr~ ~ cJ,tiW;, l ') M(?~ tfL~ S~V~N T/lous 18D te- CL~ ctj p~ ~, ~ ( Cill) r- 1Vlts hUe1l ha.J ~ r , _~.1k io~.3o~r is ~ 011- (Se1\~-tor A\~Y' ~ Slj~~ \'s.. ht3h.\\'C~ l~ ~Qt,lc,W~) . ../hIS ~ClJq}\. Se~ to be~ . ~~ ~. .eYL ~~S'. 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Jackson County allows animals to be tied fo~ their entire l~ves on short chains.- This is not a life that anyone in Ashland, including pets, ":;hould have to endure. Please pass a lal.11 to ma.ke. this kind of arfimal 'abuse illegal. Please heavily restrict the tethering of dogs and other a~imals at their homes~ . ' also help likely of ten a bit r king r dOQ's are. ~ - " :)c(l<.- .3 0/ ~ I 0 .,~ 0r~ re5;~j- ~~ Ie., I;; o.;r c5 f flAk) q I'.d 1) ?/ / ?" t'?'" -?t. '~:~'I;,~,Y't~<111 to "-T6-YJ,-':'CI),.~'e'.",~/J~ 1)~ I 4'1S~ '-//''1 ./O'Y. 7J(tuvSM~A1E I, S f( ,,#7Jb.. I.. ~At1Ar;z'~~ ~if::~~~~~~P ~~~n-o~ Olr, iJlse-hL!J p .- I ~-:3g 62' \>v-e\ '. ~ , ) --k:t~~~::,->~,:'.~ . (, ~L,{-I-vV~ '\' I o~; (!AtV~~ Pk 1> R.- 125 *!we'^. s~. ~i'~ ~_ ~~ oCl i!"~~~\~ Mt~. As L..t a,J ,hs~ ~2!-L.}K~Q., E -/-- III (509) 'I~7.... S- / S- f;< " '( -2;_<JJ:::i --- () Z bntwY\rnCU-'@_$~b ~ ~,^-. ~.~ SlA.{Ot~<1(J Cd wtlrJ..~lA..e .-'1V~f- \tte,~+er 0/<< Dear Councilors and Mayor: r~m concerned abou"l;; the animals in Ashland ~'\,ho ar'e i:{Jed up at their homes ft:lr e~<cessive periods. They suffer ll:Jneliness, frus;tration and boredom. They also run the risk bf strangling to death, getting abused by kids or "adults, t;}etting atta,cked by animals, o't' dying of heatstroke. Ja-ckson County' allof..\ISanimals 1';0 be tied for their entire live-::; CJn ':shc.n'i,; chains. This is not a life that anyone in Ashland, including pets, should have to endure. Please pass a laf..\1 to make. this kind of arfimal abuse illegal. Please heavily restrict the tethering of dogs and oth~r ~nimals a i; thai r homes. ' By doing ~ I \'q \ 0~ t,- i -1 -I) <6 // - /-, - 0 r .J..? ~ & -/7 - cd' ~J 7-' Q) ,~ , ...A ~ JA_ l/Jrl~ also help people. Chained mare likely to bi~e eORle st L l2-U if-+' cS -t8 AJ.J (( cflA 2-\ "-€- ~ e\\vs....i\~\(,,-R. ~~\O-\ ~ \"<.:;;'~e.t::L \N C~;~ l' / t:.NNr!Ti '13;?OWIV 1-/1 ~1/ KU/CF IltzYJrE e L L15' ~' " ( /;..,y,?'Q I~ U (...,' c---(.-r / ~ /7J.{^ . ale. S L.~'1 L1 <?:~-' ~ f ~ \ i \..l \( I(~ - LKc; -/~() ,{I('':; fn J ~.fp / / !.z ow:r Z 8- 3qG-'-'- .~( 'l (. 5'i{~ (j Cj;J-/33' . \~ ( OCl.. k~ C(. ~ . -:r;~ _) 0-. \ne~'~SCAm €gvnG\\\ \.(0W1 .If' . l' II i) ;1 /J II ,.,..) ~ ' . ScJ( :-IZ (.,{ p""':t;;- {---, )-/1,,;.,7'/'11/7' 'l r. ,A..7Ii"','.,,.~. L- ~ v' / J.q' F' (./ '-'(../~, t-c " '/). /0'1 _-,'~, \ L0<7: '1Tr'-T ;;---:-~--- ---~ /,~ &f' b?'O<'ttf G. 0170 ~ 7)r2 -~~ ~?5'-1cJ /1' ~ / %~ {}J , ;Jat!J' &-0.- ~7:fJ\. ~ ~ K~~ ( !~ , f~ t IJd~<< h-,;(5-C ~ c- -::l.S ~ () i ~~ ..~~ J{..l .~ . (t (en A V-t l;~~~ 00 <26 e,4r- 11II.0 ~..-"\' , ': I \_~ /l 9 0 W4.- (k ~ ~ i4-v~' ~-' . ~~')C ...~9 ()'80 afAR , ,~,:"t-':\: ICl;;r)P:.lA. /) (\~n~:'r' ,.."~,/c ~...';_../. .............................. .....'..".. ....' t, , ~, ,;, +,'~ JP /.' · :I / ./ I --r....~--..._ \"" ---r Dear Cauncila~s and Mayor: '1'\11 cancer"ned about thl: .3..nimals in Ashland '-"Iho ar'e tied up at their hClmes for' exc~ssive periods. They suffer loneliness, frustration and ~oredam. They also run the risk of strangli~9 to death, getting abused b~ kids or ~dults, getting attacked by animals, aT dying of heatstroke. Jackson Courl'I;';l allo!.~IS ,an~mals ,'1:;0 be tied for their entire lives C,HI short; chains. ThiS is not a life that anyone in Ashland, including pets, should have '1;0 ench.H'e,. Plea'5e pass a lal}; to make this kind of arf1imal abuse illegal. Please heavily re~~~ict the tethering of dogs and other animals a t 'l~hei r homes. -.. By doing this, you will also help peqple. Chained dogs are often a barking. TheY'i'e alsQ m(Jre likel~~ fo:pite J:>~Q}l,le than ot~.,~r dogs are.. r rr r\+ jUa_v" -f? ;' C-4/\~'+TtA'--0r'/11~/'1JVt. . t>~ h..~\A.J . cr.&f-' ?~ "'eCt.e~t/-rQ.1 ~<.~ il/~_., lJJ c.. 2..7 ~ 8 ~-, ~ '1- 0'6 '~-I-()~ ( I I 1 , , 7 ", I ~. (p 11 PM-t<:.. ~t. I AsJ.v/~ ')~( -,D R 'l ...,1.. "' 0<- \ 7) I j oW ' ~/~A~ '~Aj~J- L~lItV1 ~. ~ 6~ ff!1I! --rrr--r-' -- fi$ OJflA-'IVP '\ , 1 I La.-urr- Ne,(lMWfL,- f-c~-rtr- . C;L{~~ LVl ~ ~~ T~~~Gfq~/!Tb.. \..\.. - . ",ON\. CN~ 'l->-oi3\!)1\J ~-~ '7/3/ If. 1,\ ~\ a ~ ~~r1rv--. ~~r~ \\ D ,~/kran ' ,- ~ 1)~,~ l\ tf5!H ~ J1- a ttJ UL 1 l., I / '." to bL~ 0 t t>6kcLJ)" G-~li".->~) ,T~ ' '.:. ~~, . , . CJ~'.'~~" .- t f . . '-'\" it , c1r ,(J;Jm ~, . ... .. . D'VJ'D ~ 6\-~y\ k' i'i (-0(4 ( ,. ,?~q1-., ?iJ ( - qU(t:l( '. S-1/ ~.. ':':' &1:L~"b94pa~.~~~-, . / Dear Councilors and tr1a vo c : T I'm concerned, abocd; the anim-als in Ashland t11ho ar'e tied up at their hames far e:<I=e':;s1ve periods. They suf'fer lonelines':;, fru'Etr~tiQn .and boredom. They also run the risk of strangling to death, getting abused b9 kids or ~dults, getting att.cked by animals, aT. dying of heatstroke. Jackson chains. have to illega.l. at their County allowsaAimals to be tied for their entire lives on shert Th is is, nCJt a 1 i fe tha i; anyone in Ash land, i nc Iud i n9 pets, .:;hou ld endur~.." Please pass .a 1 a 1.11 to make this k~nd of an~mal abuse Pl~.a.seheavi~y restri~t the tethering of dogs and oth~r animals homes. By' doing also help people. likely to bite l ; <l ~~-olQ N 'DJ.A- Ke- 1(- ~3i 0 /'7 ~ c t ,'61!- f l f ,cp IJ C)~fi)tJ 01 ~ CfJr'- \\, { I -4v~ ~ /--if ~D ~ ,-OLt.-Of> br{nd~ @ ..~~~ l~ ~b'6 1<0~. we;v, CJ ,0; C V ~/ ~t -~--- P rat. , '~.s L./~.. _\, ~J.' -<.--;.-.;;;...:".; "~-'~-~.~.:"..,. Dear Councilors and Mavar: T !,'m concer-ned abotft the animals in Ashland ~l.ho ar-e .tiedup a.t their' hame.s far exc.ssive periods. They ~uffer loneliness, frustration and boredom. They also run the risk of strangling to death, getting abused by kids or adults~ g~tting att~cked by animals, aT dying of heatstroke. Jackson County allows animals to be tied for their entire lives an shert chains. This is not a life that anyone in Ashland,i~cludingpets, sho~ld have to endure. Please p~ss a law .to make this kind of ariimal abuse i lle;~al. Please heavily ,restrict the tethering tif dog's and ather-anima Is at their homes. By doing help p~ople. Chained likely 'to bite eo~le are of ten, a barking r do;~s are. ~. . Wt 97~~ ., W.I'+\ tT / '-11 in Ii /IJ2A(L! IrfLj~r: ~.i.;.~IJ.!Jj~ ~~ f~,4",l!r~ Go~ Ae, Cf '" " \I t\ (l \l \l '. 114 (;Ii. (JJ." si,' 1 - /1 " . TTr -,-- -- -- . -. ------.--~---___.._..~n_.______... ..___._._____~ Ao L I Ci:YY\ . -e J:[A"JtA4ffJ# G?N~ .1Jsr t2a1'1..e/l~~ ~ ~"f-./uy- 2 - /~3S- LS ~\ CJ 41 -, (J <4-'Zf- ~'-I ~Of'. - 7 - 71-7 )Cf~q ';:;'.~';. t/ ~ ~ -:~~~ .:- .,:%: "-;,;;~f::~ rtj~d -(jLLq) -"" .~\JN w~~~ ~ 4SW~vJ"t)~' ",z:,~~ Deap Councilops and Mayop: I , I"'m conc:epned about the animals in Ashland \l,ho a.re tied Ltp at their homes far excessive periods. They suffer loneliness, frustration and boredom. They .a.lsQ_J:,ur\__ihe_~!:,_isJ~__of strangling to death, getting abused by kids or adul ts, gett i n9 a tta,cked~by-anlmars-;--oT--oy1. ng-----OTuneat~ke-~-----u--------~-~--' Jackson Co~nty allows animals to be tied for their entire lives on short chains. This is not a life that anyone in Ashland, including pets, ";;h'::luld have to endure. Ple.ijl..~e- pass ,a; latlJ to make this kind of ari'imal abuse i lJ.egal. P lease hea'~i ly restrict the tether'"ing of dog's and other .anima 1s at their hom~s. . By doing help people~ Chained likely to bite eagle bar k i n9 ar'e.. " . ; ~1~ 59-'- 5 (j5~ 6lt.{ -- ctn- / t) ~ /!/UL( yg j/ -767-2- ;~/11~lU ,/I: 11. , e, ~ $W <..Rs.e5..:W "OK '11LJ D') ,( it .. . CJ~ o'b 1~e~ :}.. · 1:) c;- "7 ,j/(- ~ . u~. ' ? } ~ l t If!,(). €!; C~1f04~ 1./.1\ / c'letno;;,s~ ~Om CAJI-;/le;f- r -<- s+ ..e,4.1' ';~~~:~ : :,_.~t.: , I ~--..;~::'. ! .=~~~ ~<-; ~~(Q~ fY\ c\.~cl; \,\j'1 ~D~~ 'I rft. ttJ:lJf;r': " It u.. l{ r) ~ JtC ..' (./ Ar: /ll't. i a.dl ~ It~ .If- q 1S-~r;, . Lt t( ) l It '" 11s-'1 PMIc $1 /f~'~If,IV1J o/€ 'i " /J fn,.J I ~. ' I , -'C- i / vvV- . U J<-----"" Dear Councilors and Mayor: r~m concerned abou.J;; the animals in Ashland J),ho are tie~ up at their homes for excessive periods. They suffer loneliness, 'frustration and boredom. Th~y al.a run the risk of' strangling to death, getting abused by kids or adults~ getting atta,cked by animals, ':l't dying of heatsi;"'r-oke. Jackson County allows animals to be tied -for their entire lives on short chains. This is not a life that anyone in Ashland, in~ludin9 pets, should have to endure. Please pass a laJ..ll to make this kind of ari:imal .abu.se illegal. Please heavily restrict the tethering of dogs and other animals a i;, thei r homes. ' often a barking r dogs are. By doing a.lsohelp people. Chained likely to bite eORie PAr(lJUA 7.oU N~ 7...-'1,O( V(.~( P v.. I' S L-o \;oJ,. ()<?' 7 1/.0 f rhlos j~ f:R~ , ~ ;..- . . d"lhlDL i ~ e~~ ~Y'''1~~Vl<:-L '~ 4 ,~;.. A /.'~_ ...gt::J~~ ~~~ ", A "\ C , / M 1'/ j~_r_ ,.' "" " 1,l!O I\L(,I. ~ I M'H ~ f. ,Be O~U~'"1 C\~tJ(~.I\. Aal-tt~J,.; ~ 19Gb '~~' L~ , }'~'~Yl'fc,.~~~( 3'1- '\6m-t^AN, .) ~~;x. 1'3 t; ~ , /13 J-r{q'VJ J Cnz 97~~2..o ['/87 "tOS/StU ' , S It<- -z;o G:..I1- '9 5 l! ;L<j' 89.'S.~.. III . / ./1-8 1,./ ""-vt e{~ 01'( ;;(3&$' L::>V'"~'\-1.1'~o "M . it It 1 , to? t#/#2UJjyJC_ 7-\'{-O8' ' ~\"e O\~~\E~ lo'2 S-E -ru"N~(;E C~_ (i,~-\S ~SS . ill't(O~ 5~E:f05c 7-/fp-p8 " (1~ ,l, gt1~ ~f-S _7-18~g' _-"' jv'),~i ~'. -1/1.- J'() ~ " ~\..,;.~ . - - \~ ( n (( ~~ , '^ ~ Deap Councilors and Mavop: y I~m concepned about the animals in Ashland ~a,ho are tied up at their homes far excessive periods. They suff~r loneliness, frustration and boredom. They also pun the risk of strangling to death, getting abused by kids or adults, getting atta,cked by animals, OT dying of heatstroke. Jackson County allows animals to be tied for their entire lives on short chains. This is not a,' life that anyone in Ast!l.and, in~ludin9 pets, -sht::lu.ld have to endure. Please pass a law to make thi~ kind of ariimalabuse ills\3a1. ' PIe.ass heavi ly restril=t the teth~Ting of dog's and other -3.nima ls at thei r homes. ' '~~ ;:,~ ' M..... ' .-...,,~ '.t, By doing help people. Chained likely to bite eORle often a barking p dogs are. ~' , .713 -'11;1 ~ 301-Sl/0S r~}_<-} _ 0 ~ r- /73-1 17"&-1'11> \ ~~Lt B~€~ \'-\ ~~9 ( 'Po -ccl~ ~S-7~ '.., '7-li-a~ ~CJ.--r\ 0~~OOte. ~ c~ US'l rI 1fJ. hJ{ ~. . .. D"b'1 M M~ 4~ \) J ',:' flit') I) ~ \~. fl J) ~ fJ,.,..A.-1l\' \Q,,~~ III I L ;L'3[lJ \ ;. \f\, _ ' , ~~cr9:; ~ ,~~~~~ ~ I?,Llo JlI~ y,tfvt-y )' ~/l>c....# C", "I ~i , ... fi ~~~' . L i ~ M .h,Lbw; "(JiE ~JI1 "" ~ ~~"8;L, 'tS~6Ve.-\J ~ ~Ac...l<~\Cbr. CA. I . r[;t~ z 11t~ 1'1>'1' <:;; ........ .~. "') e (, r '" ~ tortS' t3o~ ~ VR.Dol/4 1AJ 3rol g- . 5';U::> pl1;-/~/ E'~ ff.H. 7) {7/ ,A/~/c,f5M/n-z/f ! tV-qt~ (p 7', N{ 4 KflJ fi fz>'" 10 lo-.J ~~. ~~~,.~ bifJ j1J~ Jf/fJ7J, \2L' ~l~~' a .~..., .....";..:... - .._~ --:;~., t\ Dear Council~rs and ~ayor: I'J'm concerned about the animals in Ashland, J.l,ho are tied, up at their homes far excessive' periods. They suffer loneliness, frustration and boredom. They also run the risk of stfiangling to death, ge~ting abused by kids or adults, getting atta,cked by animals, o't dying of heatstroke. Jackson Co,unty al,loJ..l's animals to be, t iedfof" ,tb~i r: ~nt ire 1 i v~so,n; 'short chain~. This is not a l,ife that anyone in A~hland, including pets, should have to endure. Please pass a law to make this kind of ariimal abuse illeQal. Plea~e hea~ilv restrict the tethering of dogs and other animals _ .. . eI .. a i; thei r homeS-. ' , also help people. Chained likely to bite eo~le are often a barking oth,::ar dOt:;ls' a. re. '7z,1 Ml1vAiftt, Van B Uu( ~ .llqlo ........ ' _1.\ \ \\~~__ '7 ~ L-\"' () ~ ',> 7;2 ~S~ q2~ , b ' ,\)t. '?t;~l 'wl\\\\v\ l lLl\le,~, . (t\CtC~ ..' ..,' CL, ~iG,r~~-tL ~', .rDh..~. ~ , '> \ ~ SfA,.) --y 01'\ ,~. I ~ l Porf'~. b{L q~o' z tbti Lnr~ . ~C>R 97bz(j ,':c-i ~ ' bv;d sc;~'vJ ~S~n Scctt9<V~' t1~~ yY'~5'{ep/, _ f)e'rY~ e eirTLIJ l PT,dc;t'< 7?Sdt- n I J J I {;Lv N. \Jill .~.~ r~ -;0 ;~;;.\! , rpv~O~L.w--.. \ , IJ1 ~rtJh ~ : I o'.~ '" ~ J1~{1l fjf Ar-sk~-'; ~q-tUwo z (( p~ cQJA... :lJS> ol/~ fh ~ c r / . ~. wt. .- ~ --- -(J;lh1oo;~-OL-q1Ti------ --- -=~- - J:?-.~, . ' :C Clfoth5 W/flKfl. 77 C;9t..cfoA (t.c/J sr. ' 10/:; j ;4s-)H~ a Ashland, Oregon Ashland City Council The express purpose of the Ashland Forest Resiliency Community /Alternative (AFRCA) Report was to discuss.with the Forest Service " Managing the entire municipal watershed including protection and restoration of aquatic and reparian conditions, to support and allow for continued production of high quality drinking water for the City of Ashland". The Report, extending through 650 pages, accomplishes '9#9'P;i#~f# an amazing feat. It does not include a single sentence relating Restoration of Water Tables in the Tributary streams of a Dd Drought- Stricken Watershed. Broken Water Tables, and Declining Water Tables are part of the Definition of Drought. Therefore, the Restoration of Reparian Water Tables in the Tributary Streams of the Ashland Creek - Bear Creek Watershed, (All Tributary Streams within that Watershed) as must be stated ~ the Primary Goal of Any City of Asfuland- Forest Service Response to the Danger of Catastrophic Fire in the Watershed. Failure to Place Restoration of ~j~d#did Reparian Water Tables as the Primary Goal of the AFRCA Report, and as the Primary Goal of any Forest Service Activities in the I Ashland severely diminishes the Scientific Quality and Report/. fOd You have to Restore Broken Water Tables in the of the Watershed, or BY THE DEFINITION OF DROUGHT, the City # Watershed, Scientific Value of the Tributary '~I.VjdftiJ.'!J Streams City of Ashland ~atershed, STAYS ,IN DROUGHT. Drought, and~broken Water Table_s are the Cause of the Danger of Catastrophic Fire in the Watershed. ~ 2/~/og &zu,tJ. ~ ~.h)1rtf!t!'i ~----~ IIII Ashland, Oregon Ashland t~t~~~ City Council If you really want another Catastrophi~ Flood to Occur, you should direct the U.S. Forest Service, per your explicit instructions, to Load the contributing mountain streams of the Ashland Creek _ Bear Creek Watershed with large Woody Debris Materials, and then, wait for a Hard Rain Situation of 2" to 4" of Rain over a 24 Hour Period. If you want Ideal Conditions for a Water-Born Epidemiological Vector, i.e. Water-born Epidemic, you should direct the U.S. Forest Service, to Load the Streams of the City of Ashland Wate~rshed, with Large Woody Debris Materials, that then break down Anaerobically into Methanols, Aldehydes, and Ketones, a lethal Toxic Brew, creating Anaerobic Conditions Ideal for Chronic Coliform Bacteria Growth. The Result will be Reeder Reservior clogged j!!~ with rotting wood, fetid water, (and a very expensive Water Bill Clean-up Surcharge), Ca~nons that you have to Treat with Aerating Water~, to kill the Coliform Bacteria ~~F~, or more Aluminum Sulfate, a chemical toxic to neuronal development, and implicated in Alzheimers Disease. I request that the City of Ashland, Oregon, Planning Commission, insert a single Ord enabling, Paragraph, to the Proposed Reparian Resources Protection Corridors Ord, that you are planning to present to the Ashland City Council, for consideration, and passage. ." All Streams, intermittant streams, ephemeral streams, and wetlands, within the legal jurisdiction of the City of Ashland, including the City of Ashland Watershed, Shall Have their respective Water Table Step Cascades Properly Maintained, and Restored, by the use of Stream Sourced Boulders and Rocks, with zero concrete, and zero rebars. The Express Purpose is to Preserve, Protect, and Restore Local Water Tables, Thereby Preserving, Protecting, and Natural Restoring a Limited W.W~~# Resource, Water. This substantially ^ Reduces the Threat of Fire in the Ashland Watershed Region" In the Background Material Provided to the Planning Commission, I have also included a Formal Request that the City of Ashland re-Step the Water Table Cascades of Neil Creek, and Upper Ashland Creek, effectively re-constructing over 500 feet (vertical) of mini-Waterfalls, I,E" Cascades, during July, August, September, 2008, Completion Date for Project: 30 September 2008. Your City Council will have effectively Doubled the local Snow Pack of Mount Ashland, guaranteeing healthy survival of your City Owned, Snow Pack Based Winter Tourism Industry. The Estimated Cost ,. for the 3month Project upon Neil Creek, and JJpper Ashland Creek,includ-ing salaries for the 3 person'crew, is $ 5~,000. The amount should be successfully billed to the U.S. Forest Service as a Hazardous Waste Fuel Reduction Project, Reparian Resources IA Restoration, under the Healthy Forests Restoration' Act of 2003. . -----'-- I am providing each member of the Ashland City Council with a copy of material sent to the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Parks, National Forests, and Public Lands, concerning a completed Demonstration Project, for the Forest Service, . under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, located in Ashland Creek, within Lithia Park. It involves a re-stepping of the Cascades of Rainshadow Mountain Streams, such as Ashland Creek, to re-establish Water Tables, Regionally, and, therefore, effectively ending Artificial Drought Cycles. The local Demonstration Project includes !d~iddjj 320 Cascades ~restored, 120 feet of water tables restored. Six members of the House Suucommittee have, so far, accepted the material: Congresspersons: Abercrombie, Hawaii, Ba9a, California, Cole, Oklahoma, Brown,South Carolina, Gallegly, California, and Miller,Californaa. By following the Demonstration Model, utilizing a standard Backhoe with 3 person team, and totally re-stepping the Cascades of Neil Creek, and upper Ashland Creek, above Reeder Reservoir, Re-establishing the Water Tables, effectively re-constructing over 500 feet of mini-waterfalls, I.E. Cascades, during July, August, September 2008, Completion Date for Project: 30 September 2008, your City Council will have effectively Doubled the local Snow Pack of Mount Ashland, guaranteeing healthy survival of your Snow Pack Based Winter Tourism Industry. , You ma~ also utjlize the Demonstration Model by allowing }t to fulfill Stage Orie, Demonstration Model, Completed, ,of the State of Oregon Mandate: that the City of Ashland 1,) Lo~er Water Temperatures, 2) Lower Stream Turbidity, and 3) f.i~jrBacteria Counts in the Ashland Creek - Bear Cre~k Reparian Zone., Each mini-Waterfalls, Cascade, effectively kills 10% of all Anaerobic Bacteria, since they cannot survive Super-Oxygenation of the Stream Waters, resulting from air churning at each mini-Waterfalls. The Other Direct Benefit is Saturation of Local Air Cells, nightly descending to Ashland Creek from the Rainshadow Mountain. The Local Air Cells undergo Air- Water Churning at each mini-Waterfalls resulting in Saturation of Local Air Cells, raising localized Dew POints, and, therefore, causing Morning mists to reappear upon surrounding Mountain Slopes. The Restored Morning Mountain Mists reduce most significant Fire Hazards to local Forest Environments. The Net Result is an increase in locally based Cumulus Clouds, with corresponding increases in Winter Snow Pack. That benefits Winter Tourism, regional Ecology, including Old Growth, rare and endangered Species, and the continued prosperity of local Vineyards, and Orchards. . The estimated cost for the 3 month Project upon Neil Creek, and upper Ashland Creek, including salaries for the 3 person crew, is $ 50,000. The amount should be successfully billed to the Forest Service as a Hazardous Waste Fuel Reduction Project, Riparian Restoration, under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of iOOl 2003. City of Ashland Ashland Parks Commi~ion / Ashland Forests Commission Should you dip your feet into Ashland Creek on the4th of JUly, 2005, you will notice the water temperatures are.back to frigid, a requirement for the restored primordial Salmon spawning beds located in Ashland Creek. Water Quality will be up all Summer as the temperature of the Stream will remain low due to the depths of the restored fish ladder pools. High temperature of water was due to low water levels and consequent exposure of stream rocks and boulders to constant solar heating leading directly to high bacteria counts. The Forest Servmce left the refrigerator. door open and the bacteria multiplied. It had nothing to do with ducks in the stream. The Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest Service, have been pulling the wool over the eyes of the Citizens of Oregon, including Dairy Farmers, Orchardists,Vineyard Owners, and all of your Sta~and City Commissions listening to their endless Bureaucratic Deceptions. Since the Death of Theodore Roosevelt, NOT ONE SINGLE STREAM HAS HAD ITS FISH LADDERS RESTORED FOLLOWING LOGGING AND MINING. The Water Tables of the Entire Western Mountain System have been annually DRAINED DOWN without replenishment. Flat water IN ANY STREAM, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, IS THE WATER TABLE FOR THAT LOCATION. ThAT IS THE DEFINITION OF WATER TABLE. ANY DAMNED FOOL KNOWS THAT IS TRUE. THIS INTENTIONAL MISMANAGEMENT OF RIPARIAN RESOliRCES,BY THE b~part~en~ of Agri~ult~re, s~o~ld be'halte~. What remaIns for Ashland, ar~ property ~urchases at the top of Lithia Park'to qualify you as an Entrance to a New National Park with ,h,iking trails to Mount Ashland. Your Parking_Infrastructure is already completie and adequate'. Ah_abatement ~t ~he ~crest _o~ Strawberry Lane, beside an entrance to a private d1rt road will complete, the Site requirements for th~ Top Entrance to, the Proposed National Park. ~ ~TIr T- MINUTES FOR A SPECIAL, MEETING OF THE ASH/4ND.FpJU1ST LANi!~Cl)#MISSION ASHLAND FIiiE:RESILENCt coKitltllViTY ALTERNATIVE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE July 12, 2005 Community Development, 51 Winburn Way . A. CALL TO ORDER: 4:40 PM Marty Main, Consulting Forester and Ashland Forest Lands Commission Liaison to the Forest Service, called the meeting to order. Other attendees included: Keith Woodley, George Badura, Chris Chambers, Nancy Slocum, Darren Borgias, Joan Resnick, Citizen Eric Navickas, Citizen Terry Stenson, SOU Sociology Professor Mark Shibley, SOU Student Ann Taylor, Joseph Vaile and Bob Plain, reporter for the Daily Tidings. B. NEW BVSINESS 1. Public Comment - Terry Stenson made available a study with associated photos of a Geological Meteorology and Allied Sciences project. He described the geological principle of meteorology and its effect on moisture in the watershed which in turn could effect wildfire suppression. Mark Shibley, Sociology Professor at SOU, appreciated the work of the Forest Commission and AFRCA T on the City Restoration Project Phase II. He teaches a class called "People and the Forest" and sees this project as an innovative educational opportunity for his students. Eric Navickas spoke against logging in roadless areas, the construction of helicopter pads to remove trees, compartmentalization and the lack of diameter limits. Main introduced Joan Resnick, professional facilitator and owner of The Real Life Training Group. She offered to facilitate the meeting with the focus on public process and developing a long term relationship with the Forest Service. Borgias thought the immediate task for committee members was to read and analyze the DEIS. Questions to answer during review include: How will the Forest Service measure the effects of treatment? How. well did the Forest Sexyice interpret the AFRCA? What , are the comments on,the For~st Service's AFR proposal (e.g. their proposal 0 inadequately addresses long-term soil productivity)?There was ~lso a need for definitions of technical terms. Navickas commented that the DEIS should have included a clear representafion of -previous treatments as well as the_modeling used for flame models. - Vaile thought an enormous issue unique to this project was that the Forest Service's - analysis was based solely on sat~llite imagery., How do you determine the acc~ra..cY of Plant Association'Groups (PAG)? On the ground inveptory{ground truthing) was - , , O:\pub~wrks\ei1g\dept-admin\FORESl\MINUTES\2005-'JUL Ii- AFRCA TEAM.doc Chapter 8 Ashland Forest Resiliency Community Alternative (AFRCAJ ,..r \ \ \ q 2. Manage the entire m~~icipal watershed including protection and restoration of aquatreandnpanan co-fiCtitions, to_sJ:!QQo~_ and allow JOL~Qlltinue~tp~QQuction of high quality dtj~,~i!.lg,\y,~~e~ fqrJl1e ().!y of ~shland. In riparian areas and upslope areas prone to landslide, snags of all si€e classes contribute the large ~QQ.Q.y pe~ris that is critical to creation and maintenance of stream structure and functIOn. R~_c~iJII1e,~~,5~f~~d~ inp~ts of rargewooaydebnstOstreams"ii<w~important .s~pp.oiifut" .~9u~~ecosystem inte-&~ty, ~m'p~~,~l}ysicaJ habit~l~.t.ructure as well as nUiilent ~ysling and .other in-?treil~~~ce~~~. Snags in various size classes also are important to the recruitment pathways of the do\\'n coarse materials important to soils. conditions~ ' Since 1960~ nearly 75 lightning ignitions in the watershed have been suppressed, with only fom fires that burned more than an-acre (1973, 350 acres; 1987, 13 acres; 1988, 60 acre5;and 2003, 15 acres) (Upper Bear Assessment, 2093). Riparian Areas ,FALSE :~ ~ - Riparian areas are dynamic portions of the landscape shaped both by disturbances characteristic of upland ecosystems (e.g., tire, windthrow, erosion and landslides) and those unique to stream systems (e.g.. lateral channel erosion, flood and debris tlO\V deposition). Important ecok"gical Junctions that must be conserved include storage, processing and deli very of orga(li~ i~the s~ maintenance of bank stability and-shading; delivery of large wood to streams and _to riparian areas; establishment of riparian)1}icroclimate; maintenance of water Quality (particularly as it relates to temperature and sediment); provision of wildlife habitat and moderation of hydrologic disturbances. Riparian habitat conditions, and as a consequence aquatic habitat conditions and water quality, are susceptible to degradation by management. Even fuel reduction treatments may alter the hydrologic function of the watershed by contributing to chronic disturbance, and or elevated rate of disturbance that exceeds the rate of recovery. These impacts to long-term aquatic ecosystem integrity can be greater than would result from a wildfire burning through the system. Where riparian and aquatic habitat has been degraded by past timber harvest and is not recovering naturally, however, management in and -'around rIparian habitat can be used to restore conditions. ~ .- ~ J.~ - processes and functions. Except for previQusly harvested areas, where special considerations are provided below, riparian area protections will include: , · areas dominated by riparian vegetation, W e also have added 50 toot no treatment buffers . outside of the areas of riparianvegetation~The buffers won't be treated either. · .lands im ort'ant to the recruitment athway of lar e'woody debris~(both directly'to the c, ~treamas well as to the riparian area) and sediment, an · headwater riparian ~?nes. (, , It J:- S E ~ithin the riparian a~eas, restoration treatments will occur onl where past timber harvest and -E'lanagement activities (includingestab IS ment ofplantations)'have encroached into the riparian, ~ea and natural recovery IS not occumng. Such treatments Will address problems associated ' -, with ~he p~st timber harvest. In such'circumstances. recruitment of large ~oody debris may have. ~en Impaired andlherefore, likely will need to be supp~e_menle~.. oJ=; A L 5"'E.. Public Works Tel:-S41/488.5587 ' Page 47 .. ~ 20 E, Main Street Fax: 541-/488-6006 "cr~,~, " Ashland. Ote9OO 97520 Trf: 8001735-2900 "1 - ,Y'NW .JShlandor us G PIJb.wrks'eng dept'admln'FOAESrCom~lty WildfifeProtecbon P'an'Ashland CWppg,3Q'04 doc (4/ '~ FAL s; (;Q' / "7" \ ' - '-..:.../' Purposes for the Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project: 1) It is the Basis for Grant Proposal for Federal Funds for New Research Grade Science Building at Southern Oregon University - Center for Stratospheric Studies of Casca~e Mountains Watershed 2) Permanent Demonstration Model for Proper Restoration of Ashland Creek - Bear Creek Riparian System Watershed 3) Permanent Demonstration Model for Restoration of Primordial Salmon Spawning Beds (now ready fot Test Study Stockin~ - Ashland nowqualifies for Federal Grant Funds 4) Permanent Demonstration Model for Restoration of Mountain Water Tables to end Drought Fire Syndrome under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. Since the Model is Demonstration Project Completed - Stage 5, Ashland and Southern Oregon University both qualify for Federal Grant Funds 5) Archeological Site Restoration with more than fifty Salmon Glyphs Present, qualifying Ashland Creek for listing as National Archeological Site Ashland qualifies for Federal Grant Funds 6) Following Stream Restoration Project, Ashland, oregon needs only to purchase several small land portions at the top of Lithia Park and to set up land abeyances on the top of Strawberry Lane, beside a dirt road with an iron gate, to qualify Ashland as Entrance to Proposed New National Park with T~o Entrances from Ashland with -Hiking Trails to -Mount Ashland- 7) Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project is intended to show Dep~rtm~nt of Agriculturei ~ureau of Land Management, and Department Interior what they have failed to accomplish in current - Fed~ral Court Appeal Cases in their Staternents that they have 'exhausted all other- R-em'edies an,d Possibifi ties of Fire Prevention in Western National Forests and are' left with the Necessity of Preventative LogginE pu/oses for Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project: /'- 7) Continued: Since the Death of Theodore Roosevelt, not a single Mountain Stream nor River have ever had th~ir Cascade Step Water Tables restored following logging and mining activities. The Flat Surface of a Stream, Lake, Swamp, of River is the exact Denotative Meaning of the word, Water Table. Ashland Creek, within Lithia Park, is/at present, the only extant restoration of the cascades of a mountain stream in the entire Western Mountains Region. Since the Department of Agriculture, through its Forest Service, has neglected, for one hundred years, to even begin Riparian Restoration, all of their Legal Arguements, in Federal Courts, concerning Drought Fire Syndromes and the necessity of extensive logging to prevent Forest Fires and crown fires are without legal merit. The Ashland Creek - Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project is, therefore, intendedto serve as Permanent Demonstration Model for proper Management of the Regional National Forest Watersheds. The Department of Agriculture needs to v~ally observe what it must accomplish with all Western Mountain Streams before returning to Federal Courts with more Drought Theory to Justify its Activlies. ^ \ ., Basis for Preliminary Grant Proposal for Federal Matching Funds for new Research Grade Science Building: . Geological Meteorology and Allied Sciences ------ Center for Stratospheric Studies of Cascade Mountains Watershed at Southern Oregon University Ideal: Completion of Scientific Depth of Grant Proposal with Study Region color photos of regions mentioned including habitats within ,-- It " /1 ' , "..,~/' _.~~[ ,-' ~~~. / ~ ///// ,/ I I Iv~KC(r \# " \. ~ .. /---- I ) , '/.' " -:.' / ,,"/ j. -'~'-'" /' "'~/ -~-". / j/ - -,~.,/ ,---r-~ ",,- _~ , - ---'" .- '- , - ----=.. " -' .. r'L~~. I ) /' ~ ;,..-,- .--- -/ Si:.:~~ 8~pJ,-' ~ Alternate Proposal to the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ashland Ranger District Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Jackson County, Oregon, as an Authorized Hazardeus Fuels Reduction Project under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. This Alternative Proposal requires the Total Restoration of all MINI-CASCADES, all MINI-waterfalls, to all Lands under the Stewardship of the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Department of Interior. This includes All National Forest Lands, and specifically, the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, and the Ashland Municipal Watershed. The express purpose of the Proje~t is to totally Restore Riparian Water Tables to the above mentioned RegiopB, thereby restoring Morning Mists to Tree Crowns resulting in Total Crown Fire Suppression beYOnJindividual Lightning Strike Occurrances which would be singular ~ events due to Restored Riparian Water Tables. Firefighter Safety~ is addressed by providing Ubiquitousg~jddid~ standing pools of Stream Water as Loci for quick airdrops of portable pumps and hoses for Rapiq Fire Fire Suppression. With Focus of the USDA, Forest Service redirected to Restoration of Riparian REsources, Fiee Hazard Syndromes will ra~idly recede. 'The RECIDIVISM in th~ - - Dep~rt~ent of Agriculture oand thB D~partment of Inter~6r-toward Pyretic 'dli~.j ,Policies laced with Pyroman~~ wi~l f~nally be permanently Extinguished~ Acknowledgement of Receipt of Alternative Technical Proposal . (Five Copies) to the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ashland Ranger District, Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest, Jackson County, Oregon, as an Authorized Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. Qece\vd '2:}10/05 ~~ Acknowledgement of Pictoral Evidence of Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project as Permanent Demonstration Model of Authorized Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project under the Healthy Forest Restora~ion Act of 2003 ./Yfriu.., u..... v l ~A(J~ f, /.:2- r- es Terrence C. Stenson 172 Alida street Ashland, Oregon 97520 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger State Capitol Building Sacramento, California 95814 Dear Governor; Enclosed are two copies of a Riparian Resources Restoration Proposal . to you, your Office, and the State and People of California. It concerns a Completed Demonstration Project, Reparian Resources Restoration, presently before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (second year of consideration). It concerns a Requested Legislative Mandate from Congress, to the Forest Service, for Proper Restoration of Reparian Resources of the Source Waters Aquafer for the Sacramento Valley Watershed (including headwaters for the Pit River Riparian System), which supplies Needed Water to 8 Percent of the National Food Supply. As half of the Requested Prototype Reparian Resources Restoration Project will Occur in Northern California, the other Portion being located in Southern Oregon, I wanted you, Personally, to become aware of the Intended Prototype Project. The only other persons in California presently aware of the Intended Prototype Project are Congresspersons: . Baca, Miller, and Gallegly. I look forward to the day when California Rainshadow Effect Streams and Rainshadow Effect River Systems, (including the Big Sur River), FINALLY have their Water Table Step Cascades restored under your Administration, and the Resultant Morning Mists are once again Restored to the Hills and Mountains of Northern and Southern California. SinC,erelY :OU~~'~,,' I~(-~~ Terrence C. Stenson . P. S. :' If you need more copies, please send,a lJier indica ting . the requested number of copies. 71lWt ~j!_ -9-;[ -;z.ooF! .1" Terrence C. Stenson 172 Alida Street Ashland, Oregon 97520 Office of the Governor Theodore R. KUlongoski, Governor State Capitol BUilding 900 Court Street NE. Salem, Oregon 97301-4047 . Dear Governor; Enclosed are two copies of a Riparian Resources Restoration Proposal for you, your Office, and the State and People of Oregon. It concerns a completed Demonstration Project, Reparian Resources Restoration, presently before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands (second year under consideration). It concerns a Requested Legislative Mandate from Congress to the Forest Service, for Proper Restoration of Reparian Resources of the Source Waters Aquafer for the Sacramento Valley Watershed (including headwaters for the Pit River Riparian System), which jd~~iUj supplies Needed Water to 8 Percent of the National Food Supply. As half of the Requested Prototype Reparian Resources Restoration (' PRject will occur in Northern California, the other Portion being located in Southern Oregon, I wanted you, Personally, to become aware o of the Intended Protkype Project., Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has also received the Same Material. I look forward to the day when Rainshadow Effect Streams and Rainshadow Effect River Systems of Southern (and eventually Northern) Oregon, FINALLY have their Water Table Step Cascades restored under your Administration, and its Successors, ,and Resultant Mornipg Mists_ , are once again Restcired to the Hills ~nd Mouhtains of Southern Oregon and Northern Califonia. P . S . -:' If y~u need~more copie~, ~inCeeelY your*.. _ ,~~,C... ~~, . . . _. Terren<r C . Stenson i'} _,' -7/?4,.,G-~2-<)l_?-O()~(J ~lease send ~ letter indicatin~ the r~quested number,of c9pies. Terrence C. Stenson 112 Alida Street Ashland, Oregon 91520 Senator Ron Wyden 100 NE Multnomah #320 Portland, Oregon 91401 Dear Senator Wyden; . I understand that you are Proposing Revision of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003. PLEASE Read the Enclosed, Scientifically Based, Reparian Resources Restoration Proposal, Presently being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, (second year under consideration), before you press forward with your revised Ord, concerning Hazardous Waste Fuel Reductions, and Forest Harvesting to Prevent Forest Fires. There exists a large gap in the emphasis of the Present Ord, that has NOT BEEN ADDRESSED BY YOUR EXPERTS, to any extent, whatsoever. It concerns PROPER MAINTENANCE OF WATER TABLES, which is not a difficu~lt concept to mentally grasp: " the flat water surface of any stream, lake, pond, swamp, river, etc., Restorlng Drought by R!dffii4t the Underlying Hydrology of local streams, rivers, i.e., Riparian Resources Restoration, NOT by removing CANOPY in Rainshadow Effect Stream Valleys. Such Canopy provides extended Surface " You deal, scientifically, with Areas Available for Condensation at Dew Pdl!dPoint, once the underlying Rainshadow Effect Stream Hydrology is Restored. The more Surface Area Canopy Available, the greater the Condensation, in quantity, without ANY SCIENTIFIC SHADOW OF A DOUBT, Will OCCUR, at Dew Point. Six members of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands ha~e considered the Proposal, Congresspersons: Abercrombie, Hawaii, Brown, South Carolina, Cole, Oklahoma, Miller, CA, Baca, California, and gGallegl~, California. P~S.~ -If you-need more=copies, please send a letter indicating the requested fiumbers of copies. Sincerely Yours', -I~ C.$~~ Terrence C. ,Stenson . mt1h.- ;!:-.;L 5' JLcJ. 0 3- I' Members of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands 1333 Longworth House Office Building (202) 226-7736 Fax: (202) 226-2301 Mr. Raul M. Grijalva, Arizona, Chairman Mr. Rob Bishop, Utah, Ranking Republican Member Dale E. Kildee, Michigan Neil Abercrombie, Hawaii Donna M. Christensen, Virgin Islands Rush D. Holt, New Jersey Dan Boren, Oklahoma John P. Sarbanes, Maryland Peter M. DeFazio/Oregon Maurice D. Hinchey, New York Ron Kind, Wisconsin Lois Capps, California Jay Inslee, Washington Mark Udall, Colorado Stephanie Herseth, South Dakota Heath Shuler, North Carolina Nick J. Rahall, 11/ West Virginia (ex officio) . John J. Duncan, Jr., Tennessee Chris Cannon, Utah Thomas G. Tancredo, Colorado Jeff Flake, Arizona Rick Renz~ Arizona Stevan Pearce, New Mexico Henry E. Brown, Jr., South Carolina Louie Gohmert, Texas Tom Cole, Oklahoma Dean Heller, Nevada Bill Sa/~ Idaho , Doug Lamborn, Colorado Don Young, Alaska (ex officio) ttp:1 /resourcescommi ttee.house. gOY / about! 2/1)/2007 ~embers '0- . ,. . Members of the Committee on Natural Resources U.S. House of Representatives 110th Congress 1329 Longworth House Office Building (202) 225-6065 Fax: (202) 225-1931 MR. NICKJ. RAHALL, II, West Virginia, Chairman MR. DON YOUN~ Alaska/ Ranking Republican Member (Ratio 27-22) )ale E. Kildee, Michigan Jim Saxton/ New Jersey :ni F.H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa Elton Galleg/~ California John J. Duncan/ Jr./ Tennessee Wayne T. Gilchres~ Maryland Ken Calvelt California Chris Cannon/ Utah Thomas G. Tancredo/ Colorado Jeff Flake/ Arizona Rick Renzi, Arizona Stevan Pearce/ New Mexico Henry E. Brown/ Jr./ South Carolina Luis G. Fortuno/ Puerto Rico Cathy McMorris Rodgers/ Washington Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Louie Gohmelt Texas Tom Cole/ Oklahoma Rob Bishop/ Utah Bill Shuste/; Pennsylvania Dean Helle/; Nevada Bill Sali, Idaho Doug Lamborn/ Colorado \leil Abercrombie, Hawaii ;olomon P. Ortiz, Texas =rank Pallone, Jr., New Jersey )onna M. Christensen, Virgin Islands :irace F. Napolitano, California ~ush D. Holt, New Jersey ~aul M. Grijalva, Arizona ,- ieleine Z. Bordallo, Guam 11111 Costa, California )an Boren, Oklahoma John P. Sarbanes, Maryland :Jeorge Miller, California :dward J. Markey, Massachusetts )eter A. DeFazio, Oregon V1aurice D. Hinchey, New York )atrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island ~on Kind, Wisconsin _ois Capps, California Jay Inslee, Washington "lark Udall, Colorado Joe Baca, California -mEta L. Solis, California ;tephanie Herseth, South Dakota -ieath Shu~er, North Carolina n ttp:1 Iresourcescommi ttee; house. gOY 1 about!.. 2/13/2007 Congress of the United States House of Re~sentatives Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands 1333 Alice B. Longworth House Office BUilding . Please be aware that a$50 Billion/year Asset Addition to GNP is Presently Lost in your Subcommittee. You need to appropriate a $5 Million/year for 10 years KEY to access this locked away Addition to GNP. Twenty minutes of your time is requested, to read a Technical Science based Proposal for Reparian Resources Restoration on Federal Public Lands under the Management of the Forest Service. The first $50 Billion/year addition to GNP will occur one Calendar Year after the first year of Reparian Resources Restoration. Light Wavelength is measured in Angstroms (one hundred millionth of a centimeter, 2.54cm.=1 inch). Humans see in the 4000-8000 Angstrom region of the Spectrum (VISIBLE LIGHT). Infrared (HEAT) is in' the 7500-8500 Angstrom region of the Spectrum. The Lava Beds National Monument and Wilderness Region, ~located in Northern California, is the largest Extinct Shield Volcano System in the continental United States. It presents a huge Surface Area of Black Lava Flows and Sun Baked Adobe. 365 days a year, Sunlight (4000-8000 Angstroms) is Absorbed by the Dark Surface Area of the Lava Beds Wilderness, and re-emitted in the 7500-8500 Angstrom region (INFRARED, HEAT), the Daily Equivalent to the entire Daily Energy Usage of the Los Angeles County Region, 10 million Persons plus industries. This Permanent Meteorological Phenomena Causes a Fixed Heat Pump Energy Source that Daily pushes HOT DRY AIR WEATHER CELLS Continuously into the Stratosphere (HOT AIR RISES), where the Weather Cells then drift across the Continent organizing Weather Patterns in the lower Troposphere beneath them~ If your Subcomm~ttee, via Legislative Directive to the Forest Service, Restore' the Wa ter Table Steps of 15 Rainshadbw Mountain Stream Systems, Northwest of the Lava Beds Wilderness Region on the Oregon - 'California Border Region, _using nothing more than Standard Bac-khoes with ~ver-sized Tires and large Buckets, Reparian Resource~ Restoration -A~tof Congress 2007,-Theodor~ Roosevelt Memorial Act (re: Alice B.), you immediately, a t a cost of, $5 -Million/Year", R?store the Most P?werful Beneficial Weather Formation System, in the Continental United States. Congress of the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Ntional Parks, Forests and Public Lands 1333 alice B. Longworth House Office Building I am enclosing a Modest Proposal for Legislation: Reparian Resources Restoration - Act of Congress - 2007- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Act, requiring the rebuilding of all Rock Cascade Waterfalls Water Table Steps (formerly known as Water Cascades), most are less than one foot in height, in all Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems of Southern Oregon and Northern California, specifically the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument, as Prototype, from in situ, Natural Boulders and Rocks, with ZERO concrete, ZERO rebars, i.e., free stone or free masonry style, using standard Backhoes and 3 man teams, 45 persons, total, with 15 working _teams, at a cost of $3.5 Million per year, with 60 linear miles of streambed restored per year, to permanently Preserve the Archeological basis of the Restoration, e.g., the Primordial Salmon Culture. Purpose: To Totally Restore Mountain Water Table Steps to All Rainshadow Mountain Stream Syst~ms of Southern Oregon and Northern I:::LIM.I ^' A rlN & California, thereby Permanently^the Drought Cysle from the Region, Restoring the Northern Rainforest Effect of the Klamath Siskiyou M~~d~ii~7 Rainforest Effect: S"/Y\AI-L G Itot>f S" of Dt/IV POINT" EFrEcT CD~l)L.V~ c/...ov/)S. " o~~ F()R.m/Nv IN 1eAtt\J ~HAOoW hI'v 'n OV~ cr 0 N ~ oN ST/(El! M ~ ~ ..,- .,-';:;<<< ~ l.i f\I '"AIr.) " o G()L~H /. 'OlrCSi", ---...... J ' f . ~\o ~ . "'<>"'>,\.,C, ~ l OYNj~ <;'fRJ'r'fO> f;JEJ.lc ~,' /,-: / LAv A _ ~ _ ~' C~ouO~ ' ~ ~ , " ',/7. B t;; as'. . S 1\'\ 000<: //--/,/ " .~'~ It " - W'LDGI<Ne~S ~. .'4' " " /, . / /. ~ "'E~"'€ . PLAT/iA C ,7KI-1f-lr ..~. .. m[NT 0# ~~ ~~~:~L ~_ l' -\ u . ~ vC/ / SHA~,A l q"~K&.J/~E: " ,-,,' ....... D - "In.,TJON ~ ------' , ~, i1 HE/tfC ~ 5if(ArOs ps LA.S'>EN NATiONAL Lt.;rJV -FoR.. E $' r . Mountains of the Cascade Range, and Guaranteeing Proper Annual Maintenance of the Sacramento Valley Watershed Source Waters Aquafer. ". Purpose: Rest~ation of Northern M OONl A'S J.(LAN/J ^ ,----- ~ 7f7' I Congress of the United States House of Representatives Greg Walden 2D District, Oregon Dear Congressman, I am enclosing a Modest Proposal for L~gislation: Reparian Resources Restoration - Act of Congress 2006 - Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Act, requiring the rebuilding of all Rock Cascade Waterfalls Water Table Steps (formerly known as Water Cascades) ,most are less than one foot in height, in all Mountain Rainshadow~ Streams of Southern Oregon and Northern California, from in situ, Natural Boulders and Rocks, with ZERO concrete, ZERO rebars, i.e. free stone or free masonry style, to permanently Preserve the 4~~Archeological basis of the Restoration, e.g., the Primordial Salmon Culture. Purpose: To Totally Restore Mountain Water Table Steps to all Mountain Streams of Southern Oregon and Nobthern California, therebyPermanently Eliminating the Drought Cycle from the Region, restoring the Northern Rainforest Effect of the Klamath Siskiyou Mountains of the Cascade Range, and guaranteeing Proper Annual Maintenance of the Sacramento Valley Watershed Source Waters Aquafer. Purpose: Restoration of Northern Rainforest Effect: ~~ ^ ~AS~HL~S-mAI..L c;..Ro~,Os c.F c..vh\UI-.US Ll..Ou..')~ / ~,~ f'OR.m.fNG- AT Daw p~:;v, iN lhou;VrAIA) ~ a !l ~_ \i' ~ ,,-A iN SHA~':'", ----e. . " " ^ e MV:;' ,1./.. ~ I (; [;., II A J..L.EY, <::: / .'/ (, frlEtl ie/tV IE -~ J.-A. K 6.. IY1 C/Joc fUtT6AV oINt A LA VA 5EIJS" l0 (t... 06R.NE<;;S ,/- j(t.Amffi~Jl-7- i~ /"J 'f/ mouCtfr, fJS'i~' , /, ,>./ Vv' / / TRATo>HflcRlc ~ Ct--OuD~ ~ B> , , I~ ~ L_Uh\OL/JS CLDUt) $"" t ~/z' /Yl oTI" C OU~~ - C;t-oc..K W ,/-ASS-EN N-ItTjoIJA~ 'fOR.6S1 ~. Dew Point Effect Clouds willimmediately (within two weeks) begin ^ to reappear above each of the 15 Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems (as is true whenever the underlying Hydrology, water table steps, cascades, is physically restored, anywhere in the world). The Dew . Point Effect Cloud Systems begin as low Cumulus Clouds, dependent on local Barometric Pressure, travel East Southeast through the Oregon Gulch region, and Flow Counter-Clockwise around the Lava Beds Wilderness Heat Pump as they Ascend into the Stratosphere as Exterior Moist Air Coatings around the Daily Upward Pulsations of Hot Dry Air Cells, ACTUALLY CAUSING the Counter-Clock-wise Rotation of the Rising Hot Dry Air Cells (that would otherwise turn Clockwise, producing desicating Upper Level Highs), MAKING THE SYSTEM INTO A CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION OF UPPER LEVEL LOWS, NASCENT OVER THE LAVA BEDS WILDERNESS, GROWING TO MULTI STATE SIZE AS THEY LEAVE THE REGION. The first destination of the rising Cumulus Clouds is over the Klamath Mountains of Northern California as an ANOMALOUS Westward Flow of Thin Stratospheric Haze, moving Again Clockwise over the Klamath _ Siskiyou Mountains of the Cascade Range of Northern California _ Southern Oregon, PRODUCING THE RESTORED NORTHERN RAINFOREST EFFECT, THE BPRIME SOURCE FOR RAPID CONIFER GROWTHCYCLES IN THE REGION. It must be annually ddd~#~U#~~~maintained by the Forest Service (NOT DONE IN 90 YEARS), as the indigenous Salmon Culture Peoples, who used to annually maintain the water step cascades of the discussed Rainshadbw Mountain Stream Systems, have not been present in 150 years t~ pepform the needed maintenance. The Demonst-ration Project that I began in 2003 and completedu in 2004, with maintenance in 2005 and 2006. re-established the Counter- Clockwise Rotation of the Hot Dry Air Upward Pulsations.Weather Pattern Formation over the Lava Beds Wilderness: one mile of Rainshadow Mountain Stream, System near, Mount Ashland, .320 Cascades. Restored, 150 vertic!e. feet of Mountain water Tables Re~tored, 25 tons of boulders reposi~ioned. My Working Model Predicted that a minor Reparian Resources Restoration, continuously maintained, sourced in a Critical Rainshadow Mountain Stream System, Ashland Creek, fed by the cold Snow-melt Waters from Mount Ashland, second hig~st peak in the Region, after Mount Shasta, ~~ . would End ~ Regional Drought Syndrome, that had endured for over a D~~~ Decade, cUlminating in a 200 Thousand Acre Forest Fire (Ashland Ranger District, U.S.Forest Service), ~by causing a return to Counter-Clockwise Rotation of the Permanent Meteorological Phenomena, the Hot Dry Air Pulsations into the Stratosphere, over the Lava Beds Wilderness, the Spiritual Center of the Ancient Salmon Culture, which is exactly what has occurred. That is why Oregon is called Oregon, "Father of Clouds". The Founding Fathers of the United States wore white Whigs until Circa 1835, to Symbolize that they received their Inspiration from the Clouds, Le Ords, including Le Ord beyond other Ords, and hence wrote Divinely Inspired instructions for the rest of the Population, Ords, Laws. The last time this Source Region for the MNorthern Rainforest Effect, the Critical Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems of the Cascade - Siskiyou National Monumebt was LOGGED OFF (Re: Ashland Ranger ~District, U.S. Forest Service Report, 2004, 350 Pages, Recomendation of Canopy Reduction (aOG IT OFF) of the Rainshadow Mountain Streams Systems to Prevent Forest Fires), -CIRCA 1915, the Dust Bowl followed i~ two Decades, as tl}e Lava Be.ds_W~ldern-ess Weather Formation-System began to spin Clockwise do to Lack of an Exterior Coating of Moist Clouds. You must NEVER use Concrete to cement the boulders and rocks together, ~s the Purpose of the Restoration is to produce air churning all the- way to the base of- the stre~m wi th each mini-water tabl-e step - cascade, Gausing local air saturation, raising localized BDew Points. Page 2 Reparian Restoration of the Rock Cascade Waterfalls Water Table Steps of the Rainshadow Mountain Streams System results in production of almost daily Morning Dewpoint Effect Clouds causing Morning Mists to reappear upon Mountain Slopes. The continuous Cumulus Cloud Formations arising . from the Geological Templates of the Rainshadow Valleys feed through the Oregon Gulch Region into the Lava Beds National Monument and Wilderness Region, the massive natural Heat Pump of the Northern RainforE Effect System. The Core Air within the Heat Pump Region will always be Driven Upward by Solar Radiation Absorption by the Black Lava and Sun-Baked Adobe in the 4000 - 8000 Angstrom Region (LIGHT, Visible) 7500-8500 and re-emitted in the li@@ - ii@@ Angstrom Rgion of the Spectrum (Heat). The Moist Cloud Coating is absolutely Necessary on the Outside of the Sky Bowl to 9ive the Sky Bowl a Counter-Clockwise Rotation, Pumping Cumulus Clouds into the Stratosphere above the Klamath Mountains resulting in the Cooling Northern Rainforest Effect of a Stratospheric Haze. Every few days, the Upper Level Low (Sky Bowl) breaks loose from the Permanent Potter's Wheel and Drifts across the Continent of North America as an Upper Level Low (the Center is filled with Hot Dry Air Causing the Air Mass to Rise, but it is Spinning Counter- Clockwise because of the Outside Cloud Coating corning from the Rainshadow Mountain Stream Sys tern), /A5HtJllIl () ^ ~ mt-. 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Jek;::/ /11~RA 6-rA PumP c::=:;::1' mf"OfC#~ . t- A K6: C Uf7\\ll-V.$ Ct...o u D s -1-ASs~ rJ- IV AT/6 tJ AL roR E ~T .1 -r A Two Paragraph Addition to one of your Funding Acts (such as the Refunding of the Forest service for the $1.5 Billion spent putting out Fires in 2006), would be sufficient to state the Act of Congress, RRR, TRMA 2007, Fund it: $5 Million/year, 10 years, and state Explicit Mandated earmarked Intent: 15 Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems, Location: Southern Oregon - Northern California, Cascade Siskiyou RdUi~r National Monument, Taskforce: 15 purchased Standard Backhoes with Oversized Tires and large Buckets, 3 man Crews, one Pickup Truck per Crew, purchased, 45 person total, Work Window: 1 July - 31 October, full time, at pay rate of $55 Thousand/year, Work Output expected to average 265 linear streambed feet of Rainshadow Mountain stream ~System Water Table Steps (formerly known as Cascades), averaging one Cascade Restored per 20 linear streambed feet,including the removal of All Log Materials that might float down the streams at high water if not removed, per backhoe Crew per workday. (That is 80 steps from your office down the hallway per workday, the typical stream being the width of your hallway or less). The 15 backhoe Crews of 3 men each, 45 person total, will Qave completed 60 MILES of Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems by 31 October 2007 after 4 months of effort beginning 1 July 2007, at a COST of 'if' $3.5 million, including the Cost of the Purchase of the Backhoes. In five years, the same number of backhoe Crews, 15, working the same 4 month work window each year, July, August, September, October, 45 men total, will have completed 240 MILES of Rainshadow Mountain Stream System W~j~# Water Step Mountain Stream Cascades. The Northern Rainj~dforest Effect along with the weekly Production of Upper Level Lows Sourced over the Lava Beds Wilderness, will be PERMANENTLY RESTORED, providing a steady supply of Rains to the Nation's Forests, crop Lands, Range Lands, along with Winter Snow pack. The Net Cost (before Hog Trough Bureaucratic Intrusions) will be $17.5 Million over a five year period ($3.5 Million/year). The suggested concurrent establishment of a Forest Service Funded Research Grade Building located at Southern Oregon University, Center for Stratospheric _Studies of the Cascade Mountains Watershed, staffed _by the best_ minds your "Subco_mmittee and the Forest Service can find, to study the Permanent Meteorolggical PhSnomena as it Strengthens and Endures with Each Addition~l Mile of~ Rainshadow Mountain Stream System Water Table Step Cascades Restored, is~ intend~d~ - that yourHo~se Subcommittee and the Fo~est Service ~ever Again Forget where .the Phenom~na is Sourced, Why, and what happens if you turn off the System again, as happ~ned in the era ending circa 1-915, when the Critical Rainshadow Mountain Stre?m Systems were ~Logge~ Off,resulting in the_Clockwise Rotation of the_Hot Dry AirNa~cent We~ther Cells _ Sourced over the Lava Be-ds Wilderness (w:hat hot dry air cells do when - - ~Lacking an Exterior ~8 Coating of Moist Air Cells, ~nd _being~the likely Source of the~ Dust Bowl two decades la terl c III .---- When the Jet Stream passes over the Lava Beds Wilderness, the masse~ of Hot Dry Air continuously Ascend, enter the Transport Mechanism, and are carried wherever the Jet Stream Journeys. As the Hot Dry Air masses are slowly spinning Counter-Clockwise, due to the introduction of a Moist Air Coating upon the exterior surfac~ of the Hot Dry Ascending Air masses, they are called Upper Level Lows. They then organize Weather Patterns beneath the Jet Stream into vast~ multi-State Weather Systems producing large quantities of Precipitation. Chemists at SOU engaged in research at the Proposed Center for Stratospheric Studies, would be working on Fluid Dynamics, Condensation Reaction Theory, Heat Pump Driven Systems Analysis, Phase Changes, and the Chemical Basis of MeteDrology. When studying monsoonal weather patterns over New Mexico arid Arizona caused by U~O~Upper Level Lows originating in the Lava Beds Wilderness, they might take time from their basmc research, to send suggestive Directives to the Departments of Agriculture and Interior, to send-their backhoes into the dry Arroyos -to rebuild the ancient Water Table Steps to Effect Permanent Changes in Regional weather Patterns by rock layer storage of Precipitation, to cause reappearance of Dew Point Effect Cloud Patterns. There are two basic designs of Reservoir Storage. One type uses massive amounts of concrete and rebars, and results in a presentation of a large surface area of exposed Water Table. The water stored is low in oxygen and incapable of sustaining large populations of fish species. Chemicals are used to kill simple plant life which would rot to cause putrescent water. The second type of Reservoir System stores the same amount of water, via Water Table Step Method, that all?ws sust-ained Flora and Fauna, since the mini-waterfalls OXYGENATE the water k~lling off pathogenic bacteria. Most of the water is stored unseen in layers- of semi~permeable - rock-. Such Re~servoirs _are extremely inex-pensi ve to _ buJld. -_ They must be- annual19 maintained. Reservaiir Capacity ~quivalentto_ very large Dams _can be built-from a few minor stream va-lleys via 1ft... the Water_Table Step Method with tERO concrete, at low cost. (N<;>to Bene; Moneo: The last time this particul-ar_ region was canopy r_edu-ced, circa. -1915,. causing th~ Heat Pump to have Clokk-wi~e rotation, I. E. 'produQing upper lev_el -Highs, ~ the Dust Bowl followed in 20 -years.) Page 3 I am enclosing copies of the Thesis Basis for the Permanent Demonstration Model, located in Lithia Park within Ashland Creek, Ashland, Oregon, for proper Reparian Resources Restoration of Rainshadow Mountain Streams. I have included the Thesis as an integral scientific . and archeological basis for my Alternative Proposal to the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Ashland Ranger District, Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest, Jackson County, Oregon, as an Authorized Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project, Stage 5, Demonstration Project Model, Completed, under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, received by the Forest Service, Ashland, Oregon on 8/10/2005. Other persons previously receiving copies include: 1) All members of Biology Department at Southern Oregon University 2*) All members of Chemistry Department at Southern Oregon University 2) All members of Geology Department at Southern Oregon University 3) Most members of Anthropology Department at Southern Oregon University 4) President of Southern Oregon University, Elizabeth Zissner 5) Mayor of Ashland, Oregon 6) All members of Parks Commission, Ashland, Oregon 7) Forest Service, Ashland Ranger District, 5 Copies, 8 October 2005 8) Ashland Forest Lands Commission, Ashland Fire Resiliency Community Alternative Technical Committee, July 12, 2005, 8 Copies ESTIMATED COST: $5,000,000 a/Year over a Ten Year Period. ESTIMATED BENEFIT: Restoration of Northern Rainforest Effect for the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains of the Cascade Range with Returnld to Rapid Growth Cycles in Conifer Forests. ESTIMATED BENEFIT: quarantee~by legislative mandate of proper Annua~ Maintenance of the Source Waters Aquafer for the Sacramento WV~lley Wat~rshed,~hich supplies needed water to 8-per c~nt of the riational Food Supply. Estimated BENEFIT: Tou~sm Revenues fr6m Annu~l increase in SNOWPACK. Page 4 Also included in the Propssed Legislation is Funding for a new Research Grade Building at Southern Oregon University, Center For Stratospheric Studies of the Cascade Mountains Watershed (to serve as the academic accomplice to the Forest Service in the Region, and to make sure that the Pure Scientific Bas~ for the Proposed Legislation as well as the new Reparian Resources Restoration science directed management of the Forest Service does not get lost in extremely expensive Bureaucratic Overthink and Hogwash. This will be the first regional Reparian Resources Restoration based in Pure Science, and upon the 4~~Archeological Evidence of the now Extinct Salmon Culture. The Feathers of thein Civilization were the Rainshadow Mountain Stream Valleys and the Distinctive Dew Point Cloud Patterns that issued almost every Morning from the Geological Valley Templates resulting from their Annual Maintenance of the Water Cascade Steps of their Stream -Cloud based Culture. Fact: Rebuild the Water Table Steps of the Rainshadow Mountain Stream System and the Cloud Patterns, not seen since Logging and Mining Destroyed the Water Table Steps, will IMMEDIATELY REAPPEAR. The Northern Rainforest Effect of the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains will be Permanently reestablished by a Single Signature by the President. This is to be a LOW TECH, LOW COST Reparian Resources Restoration, utilizing standard hydraulic lift equipment, to correctly reposition boulders in Rainshadow Mountain Stream Systems to Effect the Restoration of Mountain Stream Water Tables, causing the Restoration of the DewPoint Based Cloud Systems that will then arise almost Daily from the Restored Geological Templates. In five years, Most of the Rainshadow Mountain Streams System Water Tables Restoration will have been completed. ( By then, The Department of Interior will notice, with a RIGOR MORTIS TWITCH, that Drought Stricken Range Lands result directly from broken Water Tables in Streams under their Jurisdiction, and your Legislation will become one of the most Bipartisan politically PQpular Acts ever passed by Congress and Signed by a President. You will havebegun to switch City Green Votes toward Theodore Roosevelt Republicans, the natural center of Political Consciousness. Dew Point Conderisation oricUr~ ~upoi all surfav~ areas attiining the proper Dew Point Tempera,ture ona par-ticular day.. It is a Scientific fact that the more surfac~ area available for Condensation, at Dew Poipt, the more, _de facto, witho~t any shadow of a doubt, Condensation (ih qu~ntity) wi~l occur. When the Forest Service is P~oposing Canopy Reduction in a Rainshadow-_Mounaain .StreaIl! System to reduce chance of Forest _Fires (Ashland Watershed ;-- 350 page report, 2004), on a surface .scient~fic basis, they are~ Dead Wrong. Page 5 The Forest Service is headed in the absolutely wrong direction in terms /~ of Restoring the Northern Rainforest Effect in Southern Oregon and Northern California over the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains. In Rainshadow Mountain 'Stream Valley Systems, they Should be Seeking to Maximize Canopy. . Once they have correctly Responded to the HYDROLOGY PROBLEM of Drought by Restoring the underlying Hydrology of the Stream System, by building up the long neglected Water Table Steps of the Rainshadow Mountain Streams System, the maximized canopy surface win receive Maximum Condensation Amounts of Dew, Mountain Mists, and Rain from the Restored Geological Templates of Cloud Formation. The Restored Water Table Steps of the Stream Systems will begin to regenerate Dew Point Effect Clouds the Same Month the Restoration is completed. The Clouds will feed into the Heat Pump of the Lava Beds National Monument and Wil~erness, and the necessary Stratospheric Overcast over the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains will be Permanently Restored. That jflll will complete the Restoration of the Northern Rainforest Effect,_ resulting in Return of Rapid Growth Cycles in Conifer Forests of the Region. The renewed Morning Mists uponthe Mountains will once again become a Permanent Reality. Sincerely Yours, .- /~ C.~t.'i~ TerrenceC. Stenson .. 71!;r 5 _~DD b / The churning of air bubbles into the stream waters at each mini-waterfalls kills all anaerobic bacteria, constantly purifying the Mountain Stream waters. The Meteorological Advisors to your Committee, and Subcommittee, . can readily verify the Commencement of the Strong Upper Level Low Weather Phenomena over the Continental United States, including its Sourcing over the Lava Beds Ntional Monument and Wilderness, simply by re-winding theWeather Satellite Scans of the Continental United States back to 2003 and then fast forwarding to 2007 while they ~tudy Upper Level Lows continuously originating on the Oregon _ California Border Region. ( Or the Meteorology Experts could just dismiss the entire subject wi th a few well placed chants of " EI Nino, EI Nino, EI Nino'~ an endless Tautology of Inertia that plays well inthat great Wind Tunnel of Hot Gas, Washington, D.C.) Sincerely Yours, - " " v\.>.~-"-" L .j; ~ <'>-..... Terrence C._Stenson n10\-" [ ?- J-c 0'7 I Subject: Geology of Cascade Mountains and Their Effect on Meteorology Thesis: Restoration of Cascade Waterfalls to a Single Small Mountain Stream, Ashland Creek, Produces Effect of Changing Entire Weather . Pattern of Pacific Northwest Cascade Mountains Antithesis: Weather Patterns o~ Cascade Mountains are Resultant of both Oceanic Currents and Surface Geology Synthesis: The Fluid Dynamics of Meteorology is both sourced and congruent with Surface Geology Reference Map: Cascade Siskiyou National Monument During the Summer of 2004, I completed the two year Restoration of 320 Water Cascades (mini-Waterfalls) to Ashland Creek. The feat was accomplished by moving manually approximately 25 tons of rocks and small boulders into rock dams (often called fish ladders), covering a distance of about one mile. Result: Restoration of approximately 150 Feet (the collective height of the mini-Cascades restored) of W~ter Table flowing back into the Mountain Water System directly to the south of Ashland, Oregon. The exact location of the Cascade Stream Restoration Demonstration Project is Lithia Park. This allows otiservation by interested parties of small section of the Demonstration Project, or, consideration of the entire Demonstration Project via Park maintained pathways. The Project is intended to serve as the permanerit Demonstration Model for the proper Restoration of the Ashland Creek - Bear Creek Watersh~d, as well as, the rest of the Cascade Mountairis Watershed. It is, at present, the only ext~nt Restoration in the entire Cascade Mountains Region. Therefore, it is_also intended to bethe-Demoristration Model for proper Management of the- Regional National Forest Watersheds. Cold air descends each night from the steep, eastward facing slopes of the nearby Mountains of the Cascades. The Restored mini-Cascades (mini-waterfalls) cause the cold descending air to become saturated through the churning action of the mini-waterfalls. Each morning, Solar Radiation, 4000 - 8000 angstrom, warms toe Ashland Creek Valley . and causes the warming, moisture laden Weather Cell to rise above the surrounding terrain. At about 800 feet above ground level, dependent upon barometric pressure, condensation at dew point causes Cumulus Clouds to appear within the nascent weather cell, exactly mimicing the stream water Cascades Restored. c:- ----:::, c..----.-.. .... ~~ ~.~,~ c:::-- 1:...---- -==:::=:.. " ~----...-'"" -=::::=::::::.. ---- ------- <::: -' ------ These Cumulus Clouds drift east south-east and are replaced within 20 minutes by a new set of Cumulus Clouds within a new nascent weather cell drifting upward from the same geological template. This Pattern of cumulus cloud formation repeats during the morning until dew point is too high to be visually observes. ~~~-_-.--- c:--~-----~-~ --===~'-- ~ ---- ---' -- -> .--'- ~ :.:> --~~~ ~-- - -----.--......, ~~ <"".= . The steps of the cloud patterns, caus~d by the water steps of the Restored mini-Cascades o~-min-waterfal~s, aFe the archeolo~ical and anth~opological Basis fbr all the Steps in Annual Seasonal Weafher - - Dance Ceremonies of the Pr-im-ordia~ Peoples - of the Western Mountains of North America. -They annually maintained the Steps of their Wat~r- Temples, the .streams, ponds, and riveTs- of the Region. .~--, ~ - They b.rought~ the Drama a'nd_ Teaching of the maintenance activities intbthe shape of_a -Totemic Ciyilization: These repeat cloud patterns stay within the long geologically based valley patterns, continuing to ascend as they drift east south-east. After passing over a dozen different mountain ridges, they descend as a sequehce o~ moist cold air weather cells into the Oregon Gulch . Region. Southeast of the Oregon Gulch Region, are found the geological remains of the largest extinct shield volcano in the entire Westesn Mountain States region. It is identified as Lava Beds National Monument and Wilderness.. The vast. dry black lava beds result in a permanent Meteorological Phenomena, a constant upwelling o~ HOt Dry Air. Stream degradation caused by logging and surface hydrologic pressure gold mining removed the sources, mini-Cascades or mini-Waterfalls of the regional streams,of the peripheral coating of moisture laden cold air weather cells which were continuously added to the outer rim of the Hot Dry Air Heat Pump by the Salmon Culture. These peripheral weather cells generated by the now extinct Civilization gave the Hot Air Mass a slow counter-clockwise rotation. As the last of the mini-Waterfalls, maintained annually by the Primordial Peoples, was smashed by loggers, the fixed Heat Pump lost its counter-clockwi~ rotation, and began to spin Clockwise. The Clockwise rotation of this mighty Heat Pump results in pecmanent drying winds from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Systems, shifting upward toward Oregon without the balance of a border Low pressure system toiturn the Hot Dry Air into beneficial cloud building thermals. The Clockwise Rotation of the Heat Pump presages ~n end to th~ perennial r~in:foresteffec~ of the Co~stal Mountains including the Ca~cades. Hot Dry Air wo_uld c9ntinue _ to desiccate the Southern Oregon.. Border- Region and Tead to f~r~her Catastrophic Cascade Effect Drought and Fire Syndrome. Drought turns the clay sourced soil into Sun dried . -- Adobe, and the des:Bcca tion process tfkikiJa~/.11f1 acqelera tes. 1t-~QaJ:1 ~)'-":1 ~ Gc!J C::::J ~ ~ . ~ 1/ 3~~.. t i' . /1 s/<;;k~()~ 11Jot<-jCZ{'1) .~~.... ---.~"\: / ... -- ~ / . L:.. La. u<1. Be) S' 77/ (Jet :, ,.rr~ "~<o. LJ2P.Q,~nes5- f1t;' ~ -1-1 (..;1.~ J , .'\ ~('- f>)?~ 'v'<d'" ~G m;;J, . ~I -' JlY\I' , d" -, ~:y, C .:L~.if \ (' '~~,~,'.LD-(~ 'j;'\ -.IVwt 'i' "'/ :7" v .-:/- -:") C' ~ \ ......,.. - \ - --~' (j ~..- ,,:: $,' ':,~' g ~ ,// ",~, -' V 0 (5 "';I ~ ~~----- C~ _ /, ~-:'( ~,~ " . 4d-~ Y)<J ~-'1t AJfd /. ,/ .// ...-------- / /" wc.t~ P~f ~,/ .~. ~.....". ( fI~ fUm( j I ~ ; / / II -. Leaving the Oregon Gulch Natural Region, the cloud patterns within the new weather cells commence a journey I jilJi:ll:fl! over the Lava Beds National Monument and Wilderness Region. The old pathway of the Cloud Spirit Dancers has not yet permanently closed, and allows . admittance. The cloud weather cells begin the Dance Path as horizontal cascades of cumulus clouds. The Hot Dry Air of the Heat Pump becomes coated on its periphery with the moist weather cells causing the motion of the Heat Pump to return to counter-clockwise. The Cloud Dance takes the weather ~cells southeast over the Medicine Lake area. The hot upwelling thermals cause the cumulus clouds to begin to extend vertically and to appear, as they once did for the Salmon Peoples, as standing, Dancing Spirits, performing the Sky Dance that would return the Spirit Dancers to the Ords beyond the Cumulus Ords, where the Pink Salmon Culture Ords Dwell, the stratospheric Ords. The Dance takes the weather cells upon an eastward journey as they pass to the south of the hot dry bl~ck lava beds until they-approach the Modoc Plateau and slowly change to a pathway leading north. From the center of the Lava Beds Wilderness, the weather cells look like individual vertical cloud formations moving slowly counter-clockwise as they finally embark upon a west and then southwest pathway that carries the weather cells into the stratosphere. Over theKlamath- Siskiyou Mountains, they again become horizontal cloud patterns in the stratosphere. This is critical to the rainfores~ effect as it causes a Shadow - - from the stratosphere to fall on the -terrain below, l()wering temperatures and causing miststoappe-ar upon the mountain sides-. This is the vital - . ^ - - ingredient that causes rapid growfh ~f forests and actively sustains - the viability of the microclimates that preserve ecological diversity. v When the weather cells return to their source region, the Siskiyou Mountains, they appear as recurrent stratospheric clouss (Ord, Ora: Greek language), and the region begins to re-experience the northern rainforest effect with mountain mists. The Heat Pump of the Lava Beds . Wilderness is so powerful as a permanent Meteorological Phenomena that! it directly influences the Jet Stream and causes a sinesoidal wave in the path of the jet stream resulting in continental aberations in the weather as the Heat Pump returns to a counter-clockwise rotation. The Heat Pump provides the permanent Energy to Push the moisture laden weather cells above the incoming cold moist weather cells and upon the long southwest journey into the stratosphere above the Klamath - Siskiyou Mountains. The Energy of the permanent Heat Pump causes the stratospheric cloud formation weather cells -to enter the anomalous clockwise flow pattern of the WaterPump Effect Geological Pattern evidenced by the Cascade Stream REstoration Demonstration Project of 320 mini-Cascades (mini-Waterfalls) and 150 Feet of mountain Water Table restored. The 150 Feet of Water Table Hydrology restored, flows back into the semipermeable ji~sandstones of the rock layers immediately south of Ashland, and the Surface Water Table reconnects with the permanent deeper mountain geological Water Table,previously disconnected from the Weather Cell Breeder System Template by destruction of all mini-Cascades (mini- Waterfalls) in the streams of all the Western States National Forest Regions by intentional mismanagement of Riparian Reso~rces_by the Department of Agriculture. :Once the Stir-face Wa ter- Tab-Ie Hydrology is reconnected to the deeper - mountain~l_dgeological Water Table Hydrology, the Weather Cell Breeder Sys~em re-primes the W~ter Pump~ The Water Pump Effect counters incoming High Pressure Air Cells by pushing surface stream water tables downward into the deeper aquifers raising Dew Points of the incoming cool dry air masses by cooling and saturation effects resultant from churningair through the 320 water ^ . cascades, and more nascent weather cells arise from the geological cloud template. It takes no great leap of thought to begin to see entire strear and river valley geological formations as natural templates of huge Cloud Formation Weather Cells waiting to be restored by Homo Sapiens. Result: Permanent Change of Weather System from Catastrophe Theory Drought Forest Fire Syndrome Pattern toward Wet Cloudy Permanently Increasing and Self-Reinforcing Cascade Effect Rainfall Patterns geologically historical to the Cascade Mountains Regionjwith permanently increased Rainfall Patterns. The Restored Cascade Effect Stream Demonstration Project System will not dissipate since it is self- reinforcing. The clouds do not immediately leave the region. They merely drift higher and higher to form a repeat cumulo-stratus cloud formation Pattern that is permanent. The evidence can be seen demonstrated directly over Southern Oregon University each day and every week through the Repetitive Patterns of Cloud Formation. Because of the uniqueness of the Geology of the Region, with the large extinct shield vocano black lava flows providing the necessary Heat Pump to sustain the System, i it is a self-proven Thesis. Years og preliminary Research are avoided since Proof is immediate, ever present and geologically permanent. The Model being overthrown and - - discarddd as a-self-d~f~ating Tautology, is the Model th~t presently direct$ the management decisions of the Department of Agriculture _and through incompetent and fal~~ pseudo-science, the Nation~l Forest Servioe. All problems are- sourced in- El Nino of the Pacific Ocean; -- the Drought is expected to continue to 2052. wi thout serious _interruption to ~the thought~ of the Dep~rtment of Agriculture. Medicine Lake, near the California - Oregon border, is a geologically unique center of thermal upwelling. The surface geological deposits resultanti from the deep thermal upward-welling minerals include pink and blue rock formations. These light rocks, both in color and density, form the Spiritual Center of the ancient wa~er-based Civilization of the Region. The Sky blue and Dawn pink rocks, presently endangered by a private geothermal power plant scam based on a taxation avoidance' scheme that will scarify the archeological center of the extinct Civilization, were the basis of all the Totemic Painted Ritual Faces of the Weather Dances of the Culture. Medicine Men would make long pilgrimages to Medicine Lake to obtain the colored chalk rocks for the individual communities of the civilization. The lightblue and pink were used as face paint for rain dances, crop festivals,~ and most other totemic ceremonies. They danced with the pink skies of Dawn and Dusk and the light blues of the Morning Skies, thanking the Great Spirit for bringing Clouds and Rain to their Peoples, and for bringing the Pink Salmon from the Skies to feed their Peoples. They sought the denser geologicaIP~~~nitics from pebbles to large A boulders to haul great distances to place with the Steps of ~their Water Temples, the Streams and rivers, to be Spirit Guides to the Returning Salmon. Ashland Creek, alone, within Lithia~ Park, has over 50 large glyph boulders with Salmon images clearly discernable, a sufficient Number to have the stream declared a National Archeological Site protected EY Federal Law. The Peoples rebuilt and maintained the mini~Cascades- (mini-Waterfalls} each Summer and were the Water Fump maintamance groups of their civilization. The Totemic Patterns of the Dance Ceremonies to the Winds, Clouds, Rain and Thunder, exactly mimic,. the Wa_ter Steps of the individual streams of th~ir village regions, so the Peoples co~ld Dance the resulting Cloud Patterns dd~j co~ing from the clouti templates th~y seasonally m~intained. The Totemic~Peoples of the Ciyiliza"tionalwa~ remembered ~ - that Clouds arose from Mother Earth and formed distinct_Patterns in the Skies that exabtly mimiced~he pattern templates of the Streams, and rivers of their cloud building civilization. They Danced the Patterns of the Water Steps of the Streams and Rivers a3d knew they would always dance in the Clouds when they departed their bodies. They would watch over their Peoples from the Clouds and return as . Rains with the Salmon Peoples so no one would ever be left behind. The entire pattern and fabric of the Civilization endured for many th~sands of years for the ceremonies of totemic dance showed "- the exact weather patterns above the Peoples, which were the same patterns of the geologies of the Regions, and allowed the Peoples to look to the Skies and know, in detail, how they were connected together. The Culture of the Civilization extended to the Dakota~ and to the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon Region of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. In that Region, the Ceremonies became those of the Teosinte - Corn Culture. Their Pottery Culture of Chaco Canyon preserved the Medicine Men Culture of the Cascades in ~their Pottery Pattenns. (Original Thesis: no other soucee 1993 UNiversity of Kentucky, Lexington)/. The Pottery Bowls were the Totemic symbols of Mother Earth. The tops of the pottery showed the Weather Patterns of the American Southwest: Clouds, Clear Skies, and ~ ~ f ~ ~ Bolts of Lightning. The lower portion of the poetery bowls showed the geology of the region and the exact PLANTING CYCLE for Teosinte, th@jalJi[j to mL~Z~/n. ~J @Cl~ The-cycle of the seasons and the exact planting, and spacing of ~he - Teosinte kernaIs, along-with timing of plantigg was taught by a series of pobtery desi~gns wi,t-h geometric -patterns showing the geology of the region and timing from_rainfall at the tops of the Butte~ to water arrival via the ~ater Steps coming down the geological terraces to their planting fields~ The Pottery was then used to store thE Teosinte Kernals mixe.d and-capped with ashes to prevent insect predation, rot, and spoilag~.The ashes w~re left_with the kernals~~were ground in flour meal as they interacted with the starch to increase the protein. c:.'"lrb~ ~ 1 JJ r_:-~_ The Totemic Civilization recognized that the birds of the skies held upon their wings connection to the winds and clouds of the Salmon Culture. The Earth Bowl produces the Sky Bowl which spins round and round. Water added to the bowl while it s~ins, gives the sky bowl shape. The water clouds form upon the Sky Bowl from the Earth Bowl Template and repeat their formation from the same geological template. The sky Bowl pours Waters back upon the Earth Bowl to give all Creatures their sustenance. The toemic teaching bowls hold the knowledge of the Peoples that the wisdom never be lost. Fire seals thepottery to give the wisdom long endurance. Most other water-based and soucced civilizations followed a similar Path to connection with a Cloud Culture. Ord and Ora are Greek words t' for cloud and clouds. A cloud pazsed from hoizon to horizon in the ^ Mediterranean skies, 24 Ora (hours) in a night and a day. The Ora held the Spirits of all departed spirits of creatures whom had lived and also those great Spirits who watched over the Living. Primordial (from the clouds of beginning)Peoples of Europe considered the Spirit levels of the Ords were a hierarchy of wisdom. Zeus and Hera were the highest Ords beyond all other Ords of the Geeek southern European Civilization. They watched over the smaller Ords. The colder Ords of the far Northern European Peoples, the NOrds, were a different heirarchy of wisdom. French Culture transla ted- the _ message twelve hundred year_s - later into Le Ords and Le Ordsbeyond all other Ords who would bring them greenpastures. - However, European Civilization was under severe stress ^ from almost 800 years of warfare against A~iatic armies from Chosen China sweeping off the Asian Stepps atempting to ens~ave or murder all the Peoples between Mongolia and the Atlantic O~ea9. The nightmare of centuries of warfare against Asian armies eventually brought on the despotism of the Spanish Empire with the power of the Inquisition. The Spanish forces took to the seas and attempted to absolutely destroy all civilizations lencountered . through torture, inquisition, and complete enslavement of allY Peoples encountered. They totally destroyed all water-based civilizations devoted to continuous Cloud Making, Ord Making, as that lead to the Worship of Strange Ords. Four hundred years of inquisition, torture, and enslavement of the Peoplesof North America and South America has resulted in almost complete annihilation of all remembrances of the water-based civilizations and the Art of the Cloud Builders. By the above small digression, I have attempted t9~ummarize the present mindset of Homo Sapiens, and its effort to give the Surface Ecology a permanent case of Suhburn through pseudo-science techniques of herbicides, pesticides, and fire applications to Clay-based soils with resultant loss of permeability, through Adobe, sun-baked brick, formation. There is no serious soil scientist who is not aware that Stream J Degradation by loss of water steps, leads immediately to water table destruction, Drought, and fire hazard effect, which turns thousands of years of soil building efforts by weeds, insects, microorganisms, and vertebrates, into Adobe, sun-based bricks. The oxymorons issued by the Department of AgricJkure through the Forestry Servi~e are an excellent example: cahopy reduction to prevent forest fire. Nathaniel Hawthorne described the mehtality well, writing of the 'evil of departed years shaped into fallen leaves and dead stalks of lawless and vagrant plants:becomingDI4~lack rich so~l'-House of Seven Gables This Spring of 2005, based on all complex climate system software and dedicated advance computer systems of the United States Government, Dairy Farmers, Orchardists, and Viueyard owners allover Southern Oregon, were notified that their water allocations were totally cancellec . They could take their careers and their properties to their local Courts and file for bankruptcy. The only unnoted change in the entire system, was the singular and unique Project that I completed in the Fall of 2004. Therefore, potential allies for Professors inclined to put together a Grant Proposal for Federal Grant Funds for a new building on Southern Oregon University, dedicated as a ResearchGrade Facility: Geological Meteorology and Allied Sciences - Center for Stratospheric Studies of Cascade Mountains Watershed, are not financial lightweights. Therefore, the rainfall results can be immediately proven to benefit Forest Service Management of the Forest Service, significantly lowering the cost of Forest Fire Management and Prevention; orchard and vineyard management; as well as endangered species, and habitat preservation of micro-climate niches needed for continued species diversity. The small imput of cost of labor to rebuild the mini-Cascades of Mountain Streams with rock and boulders alreaay present in the streams as vestiges of the extinct water based civilization, with ZERO concrete, would result inextremely large economic benefit to tree growth, ^ old growth, and habitat sustainability for rare and endangered species of plants and fauna, _due -to demonstrated higher sustained -Rainfall Patterns and less need for irrigation waters in plant growth cycles. Geology and ~llied Departments of Science, Biology, Ecology, Botany, Forest Management, Mycology, and Genetics., of Southern Oregon University can readily document dthe Thesis bysuch simple techniques as computer I\. - - - - gra~hicsoverlays of dally weather satellite regional-meteorological f-ilmswi th The_si-s overlays of Heat pump - _Water -Pump Theof'Y over the affected areas o~~Caiifornia -Oregon to Demonstrate Effect~ Background of Author: Terrence Charles Stenson Bachelor of Science, Major: Chemistry, American Chemical Society Cert. . Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York 1968 United States Army 1969 1970 Honorable Discharge 1992-1995 University of Kentucky 55 Hours Geology, Archeology, Biology COMMITTEES: ..--:--^-.... ~.....:~~..~.'\, ~(,~ ').~ (tCOngre55 O( tbe tintteb ~tate5 1!}OU5t of !\tprt5tntatlbt5 GREG WALDEN 20 DISTRICT, OREGON DEPUTY MA.JORITY WHIp ENERGY AND COMMERCE OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS VICE CHA'RMAN ENERGY AND AIR QUALITY WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE: 1210 LONGWORTH HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON, DC 2051~3702 TELEPHONE: (202) 225-6730 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET RESOURCES DISTRICT OFFICES: 843 EAST MAIN STREET SUITE 400 MEDFORD, OR 97504 TELEPHONE: (541) 776-4646 TOLL FREE: (800) 533-3303 FORESTS AND FOREST HEALTH CHAIRMAN WATER AND POWER February 13,2005 . JAMISON BUILDING SUITE 201 131 NW HAWTHORNE STREET BEND, OR 97701 TELEPHONE: (54 1 I 389-4408 Terrence C Stenson 297 Garfield 8t Ashland, OR 97520-2217 WEBSITE: http://walden.house.gov (E-MAIL AVAILABLE ON WEBSITE) Dear Terrence: How Congrt:ss funds vt:lerans' st:rvict:s is especially importani. this year as iOO,OOO new combat veierans from Iraq and Afghanistan are entering the system. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (V A) expects to treat a record 5.3 million veterans (79 percent of wholp. are service-connected disabled veterans), while at the same time improving timely access for health care appointments across the system and reducing the processing time for disability -claims. I'm pleased that the President's budget singles out the V A to receive one of the biggest increases in discretionary spending of any government agency. The proposal would increase the medical care budget by a healthy 11.3 percent, the largest increase in discretionary funding for the V A ever requested by a President. ~..-- Enacting this proposal would mean ~hat Congress and the administration will have increased the VA budget by 69 percent since 200 1. As you know, Congress uses the President's request as a starting point from which the final budget level is ultimately determined. I will continue to engage with veterans' groups, the V A and my colleagues to make sure those who have worn our nation's uniform get the quality care they have earned. In just the last two years, Congress has increased funding for veterans' medical care by 18 percent while rejecting additional fees for those receiving care. In addition to my efforts to maintain increased funding, I also continue to support legislation to make V A healthcare spending mandatory rather than discretionary to further show our servicemen and women, past and present, that their country cares for them and supports them. On another initiative, recently I traveled to Vietnam and met with leaders of our country's POW/MIA recovery effort. I accompanied my colleague, Rep. Sam Johnson of Texas, who was held captive for nearly seven years. It was his first trip back to the "Hanoi Hilton" since his release more than 30 years ago. We wanted to both express our nation's appreciation for the level of cooperation that exists today, but also call for increased assistance, especially in recovery efforts in the ocean off Vietnam. America must never forget those who- were left behind. - Please stay in touch if I can be of assistance ~t any time. It's an honor to repIesent you in Congress. - - P.S. 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