His reputation is good because what we see here is it's a really nice clean logging job in terms of the slash is dealt with
There's a lot of care taken to protect
Residual trees and he places a lot of emphasis
he's the kind of operator that we would like to see operating near the streams in the RMAs
Very conscientious operator very concerned about protecting
Oregon's resources Water Resources and wildlife
Wayerhaeuser is looking for somebody that's gonna
Move and extract the volume that we're looking at in the field
Maximize the value of that be safe operating and be a good representative for the company in the field
And this is one of those jobs where
there's all kinds of concerns for a company like us where we've got public interface right there and
We needed somebody that would come in there and do a really excellent job and put a good face to the name of Wayerhaeuser with this town of Butte Falls.
When I drive by here to go to work every day, I get a look at it and
I've had comments on it that it looks good. So that's
That means a lot to me right there
Dave exceeded all of my expectations on that job as he did on all the jobs that I worked with him on.
He interface directly with the mayor, he dealt regularly with the people that were transferring through the job site. we had
We had homeowners that needed to get through on a daily basis we had transients going through the property
We had blaggers that he had posted on the highway through the whole portion of the job that was around the highway and worked well
With the trees Inc company that worked with the power company.
The number one thing on this when I first came here to this was a safety
Because it had a power line running through it
I needed to protect the guys that work for me the general public driving up and down the road
This was a unique site. It had a lot of people that walk through here
I had to put people on each end of it a guy a flagger
To keep people from walking through it so they didn't get hurt. That was my number one thing here
I was afraid I didn't want someone walking in underneath the tree power line going that type of deal here
Here each logging job is different
You know, each sites different and that's what you have to pick up on a lot of times is the site.
What the site dictates or some stuff that you could cut everything and it'll grow a tree and then there's other ones that don't.
On every operation that I've worked with Dave on, there's always a variable a number of
Environmental concerns. On this particular unit there was a medium fish stream Hugle Creek that ran through the unit as well
As intermittent channels that flow into that stream. So the
Written plan that was turned into the state says that we're gonna honor the buffer that's been flagged in the field and it meets certain
Objectives and then there's acquirement for felling away from or parallel to that stream buffer to keep the integrity there
One of the things that's not written in that written plan is how we're going to protect those side channels that are intermittent streams
Dave will go out on each of those projects
He'll go and walk the entire unit find those intermittent channels, even though they're not running water today
They will be in the future and he's looking for a way to design a harvest around those streams so that he's not impacting those
Intermittent waterways, that'll eventually possibly deliver sediment into the streams.
They would want you to like fall, directionally fall, everything away from it, you know.
And so that's what we've done in here. That's a that's a real good rule to have.
He's really conscientious about protecting Oregon's resources, especially our streams
He's a really good operator to have near the streams in terms of protecting
Working with in, doing directional falling, minimizing the impact to not just the merchantable timber
But the brush and the other vegetation inside that stream area.
Yeah, Dave goes above and beyond looking at the Forest Practices Act
He's not just looking to meet those requirements that it sets forth
he's looking to
Put his image on every job that he works on he's looking to not only meet but exceed all expectations
The Oregon forest Practices Act is really designed to help Oregonians protect their own
resources, the streams, the fish, the wildlife, the trees and it just gives them the
Sideboards which they can operate and from that he always strives to leave more trees near the streams
Leave additional trees. Does a really good job of protecting residual trees like we see here
So the landowner doesn't have a higher reforestation expense.
If an operator isn't careful with an over storey harvest
There can be a tremendous amount of value loss and each stand that they harvest because they're they're going to wipe out the next
generation essentially
Dave puts forward the energy and the effort and the dedication to make sure that that understory is
left free to grow and that it's healthy and ready to move into the future.
If you got 25 year old trees that are 20 or 30 feet tall
There's no sense and knocking them down or cutting them If you can, you know, save them.
If you look around he cleans up all his slash, he brings it
He hauled trees, which a lot of operators do but even the branches that break off and stuff
He'll put them back in the skid trails and use that as a mat to run on and kind of break it down
So what you don't see is jackpots or big buildups of slash outside of the piles. He just cleans it up
So it looks really nice and then it's easier to plant for the landowner
We took a lot of effort in here cleaning this up to make it look good
This should have a bunch of slash on the ground and then don't.
Once slash piles are burnt by the landowner this winter you won't really be able to tell and that was probably a
comfort for the people that live out here and Butte Falls, that they didn't have a high fire hazard
But right next to or inside the city limits
It's a good occupation. You know, you can look back at things like this and say yeah, you know, we logged that look at it's
Still trees on it and it's growing