Lane's been in Baker County as long as I can remember. As long as I've worked for
ODF and and so that's quite a while now. And he's consistently produced high
quality work. I'm one of 14 landowners that were affected by this fire. That
worked with Lane Parry. Actually drove through some fire on this on on this draw.
Just watched it go down through there. Everybody was sad deal, you know. We talked to the
consulting foresters and Lane was really the only one that said yeah I'll take on new
clients and all just to do their salvage logging and planting. This is the Windy
Cornett fire. This portion here is a the Cornett. You know we started out with
salvage, you know figuring out to salvage logging on those clients
properties. And then that kind of steamrolled or spread to other
neighboring landowners and other landowners in the area that had had well fire
damages and needed to salvage log and needed to look at reforestation.
There was a lot of landowners that we hadn't worked with before that were now coming
and wanting assistance because their trees have burned up. And there's just a
lot of risk financially and in other ways involved there. The stream you know
it was it was a little bit of a challenge, but thankfully with Oregon
Department of Forestry we have the ability to do the alternate plans. And we
could get in there and made it you know feasible to get in here and get these
these trees out take care of the hazard that's along the road and mitigate it by
putting the logs and stuff in the stream to I guess maintain the fish habitat. And
you have a very short window to log that after it burns. And that's basically the
winter and spring after it burns. And if it's a warm spring you don't even have
spring. The bugs get in it. The wood starts to blue. And the value declines
quickly. By the time it was all said and done you know had landowners that would
probably net between 200 to 400 dollars an acre from salvage logging. But, then
the biggest factor there is okay you're going to be required to replant
and the planting cost is gonna be around 300 to 350 dollars an acre. So, a lot of a
lot of the landlord's had the potential to have a loss, if they did the salvage
logging. So, the cost share came in is was pretty key to making it feasible to do the
the salvage logging. Even though it was not probably the most profitable thing. In fact, it wasn't
but just you don't want to see a bunch of black trees laying out there on your
property. I think helping with that challenge was to really educate them
before we started cutting trees. That you know before you cut one tree we really
need to identify this reforestation issue. An d then the planting we were
racing a lot of other fire s in the Pacific Northwest to secure nursery space
and get trees growing, because a lot of Washington burnt that year. There
were other fires in Oregon. And, so, just getting our foot in the door and getting
on the list to have nursery space was important and we had to do that fairly
quickly. He just basically took care of it. Went into the FSA and got all that
stuff lined up. Didn't have to worry about anything. And, he's willing to go
the extra mile or take the extra effort to get a landowner engaged and keep them
engaged. And it's made our life somewhat simpler in some respects, because he's
doing a fair amount of that on our behalf. While he wasn't doing the actual
logging work, he coordinated all of it. He was the one that hired. I think he worked
with five different loggers across these landowners. And, he was the one that
coordinated that. He's the one that talked to the landowners.He's the one
that was telling the loggers what to do, where to cut, what trees not cut. And, he's
the one filing the notifications with ODF. Really, you know, I guess I would kind
of describe it as like it's a wagon wheel I was at the center of the hub, but
pulling resources from all over, all the way around from that wagon wheel. And,
without them, it wouldn't have, you know the wheel wouldn't have spun.