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Beyond that, Mr. Sheets refused to comment on the situation. He declined to provide a timeframe for the restoration of the riverbed. “I’d just as soon not get into all this — we don’t feel it’s a public forum. We’d just as soon deal with them (the state officials).”
Mr. Neal stressed that the state has no power to stop the logging operation from driving heavy vehicles across the stream as long as they use a recognized ford. “The state law does not — and rightly so — give regulatory authority over the type and weight of vehicles” using the ford, Mr. Neal said. “The whole thing in a nutshell is that it’s a recognized fording area. Logging trucks have as much right to use it as anyone else.”
Mr. Neal added that “I do not feel that it was intentional that they set out to violate the law in building a road to get to the timber.”
Will the damage done by the logging operation be put right by the measures agreed to at Friday’s meeting? Mr. Neal said that “if the company does what they agreed to, the damage will be kept to a minimum.” He noted that the river had begun to repair itself during the heavy rains last weekend; that part. of the berm had washed out even before his department ordered it tom out. He predicted the natural repair would continue each time it rains and the river comes up.
He acknowledged that the heavy trucks could continue to cause damage to the streambed, but emphasized again that the state has no power to bar their use of the crossing.
Mr. McGrail was less sure of the healing process. “Every time it sprinkles, you can see what will happen,” he said, pointing to the muddy puddles in the road. “All this silt will end up in the river . . . This will not clean up, as long as this operation continues up here.
“His putting it back in “the way he took it out’ is not going to happen.
(See LOGGERS, p. 4)
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