| By Bob Weaver
After overloaded log trucks had been spotted by Rowel's Run residents,
one of which
was lodged in the "Holl Kerby Turn" last Saturday night, Spencer
logger Jerry
Saunders has agreed to improve his logging practices. "I will take
care of the
overload problems," he told The Hur Herald Thursday night.
Local Forester Joe Taylor had cited Saunders with "several violations
of best
management practices" at his logging site in "Hippie Hollow" about two
weeks ago.
Joe Webb, the assistant Calhoun road supervisor, evaluated stretches
of the newly
topped Rowel's Run road this week. "They have ruined what we did last
summer. It is
showing severe damage," he said. (SEE February 1 story in The Herald
regarding road
damage)
Jerry Saunders, owner of Saunder's Logging, said "I will not move the
new logs we are
cutting until the ground is frozen or dry."
Forester Taylor said he issued a compliance order to Saunders, which
allowed him to
sell the logs he had already cut, but suspending new activity on the
site. Taylor said
logs and trees were down in the drainage and there was a log jam in
the creek. "It
was a mess. He was supposed to have contacted me before he moved to
the other
site."
Taylor explained one of the best practice rules is to "keep mud out of
the stream."
He said most loggers in Calhoun County are currently idle because of
the thaw and
"Most of them try to do the right thing."
Meanwhile, the West Virginia Department of Highways is evaluating the
current
damage.
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