Comments on: Spare $48 Million? Buy Oregon’s Ochoco Ranch for the Underground

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:09:40 +0000

Yeaks: Hope you’re right, though I’d certainly appreciate the trout environment a bit more if I got to fish it… 8-)

By: yeaks

yeaks — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:37:13 +0000

Whoa you all! No development here other than creating a beautiful trout environment for a potential new owner who will put the property in trust for future generations to come.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:01:38 +0000

Megan better keep the change. Poor dear’s in the hospital with an allergic reaction to a tetnaus shot.

Our thoughts are with you. Let’s hope the hospital cafeteria serves slaw dogs.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:11:06 +0000

I think I gotta buck or two in change in my couch cushions. That help?

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:11:17 +0000

What I mean is it’s literally zoned F-1 (Forest Zone). You couldn’t put tract housing on it, though it could be divided into a handful of smaller ranches.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:57:48 +0000

Tom,
Tom,
That’s nice thought but there isn’t much of an economy in that area other than the Les Schwab tire factory in Prineville. Plus the Bush administration still has enough time in office to sell out just about every acre of prime land to private interests and if they can equate a hatchery salmon to a wild one what’s to stop them from equating a forest with a few trees planted along the 8th fairway.

By: Tom Chandler

Tom Chandler — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:46:38 +0000

The land is designated as “forest” so I *think* it shouldn’t be subdivided.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:25:54 +0000

The Ochoco is not close to the Umpqua. The Ochoco Mountains are in East Central Oregon. The Umqua is in Southwestern Oregon.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:23:09 +0000

I spent my childhood in that area and the land is even better than the pictures. The sad truth is that it will probably go to some development company like the ones who have already taken over the Bend area with golf resort communities. Maybe the Nature Conservancy can get their hands on it though it’s a pretty big chunk of change.

By: C3C Rained

C3C Rained — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:07:48 +0000

*sunny*

By: C3C Rained

C3C Rained — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:01:31 +0000

Is Ochoco close to the Umpqua as well, ’cause I think it is…pic of that bug on the way too. The reason we didn’t see them at the AIRFIELD, here at USAFA, before yesterday, is that they hide under these little shrub plants when the sun is out and it’s too warm for them to handle. They are black after all – not good for suny climates. And if you still have not figured it out, no they are not aquatic, but that doesn’t mean they might not live streamside out here – as a matter of fact there’s a number of streams (yes, they have fish, TROUT even, in them) within 200 yards East AND West of the initial location of our bugs. Ok, I’m sending the picture now.