Special firewood cutting area open on Chiloquin Ranger District
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Spring Creek personal use firewood cutting area.
CHILOQUIN, Ore. – The Chiloquin Ranger District of the Fremont-Winema National Forest recently opened a special personal use firewood cutting area approximately 4 miles north of Chiloquin.
The Spring Creek Personal Use Firewood Cutting Area is accessed by National Forest System Road 9730, commonly known as the Williamson River Campground Road, and the 040 spur road. The Williamson River Campground Road is east of U.S. Highway 97 and north of Collier Memorial State Park.
Personal Use Firewood permits are required to cut and gather firewood in this area. Permits are available for $5 per cord with a minimum purchase of four cords for $20. Each household may purchase up to eight cords per year. Permits are available at Fremont-Winema National Forest offices and expire December 31.
The Spring Creek Area will be open until wet weather and snow prevents access. Access is only permitted while roads and access lanes are dry enough that rutting doesn’t occur. Users may be cited for damage if they cause rutting on roads and access lanes. The area will be signed when it closes for the season and will reopen in the spring as conditions allow.
This special firewood cutting area is marked with signs and flagging. Any areas with black and orange striped flagging are closed to both vehicle and foot traffic.
The area includes pre-created access lanes. These lanes are trails, not roads, and require high clearance vehicles and there may be stumps, limbs or other forest debris on these roads that could potentially cause damage to vehicles. Users should use caution in this area and be prepared to cut or move debris if necessary.
The firewood area is primarily dead and down lodgepole pine. Dead lodgepole pine trees have been cut, pre-bunched and decked in small bundles along the sides of access lanes to promote a safe opportunity for public access to firewood.
Firewood cutters will be required to pile slash in 6-foot-by-6-foot piles or lop and scatter.
Additional information, permits and maps are available from the Chiloquin Ranger District at 38500 Highway 97 North in Chiloquin during regular business hours Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The District can be reached at 541-783-4001.
For more information on the Fremont-Winema National Forest, visit www.fs.usda.gov/fremont-winema, follow the Forest on Twitter @FremontWinemaNF or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/R6FWNF.