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December 2019 Newsletter

Black Butte Cupola Restoration Friends of the Metolius, in collaboration with the Forest Service and numerous local volunteers, completed structural repairs on the 1920s cupola on Black Butte in September. Lanny Schriener, a Camp Sherman resident and retired contractor, lead the all-volunteer effort. This was a major project to restore the iconic structure that is […]

December 2018 Newsletter

Prescribed Fire Returns to the Heritage Forest Demonstration On October 14, the Sisters Ranger District conducted a successful, well controlled, 171 acre prescribed broadcast burn at the junction of the Forest Service Roads 1216 and 1419, the Four Corners, west of Camp Sherman. Heritage Forest Demonstration plots burned included the Larch Restoration plot (Plot 1A) […]