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ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL, McCOMB, MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY, JULY 7, 2018 B7 www.enterprise-journal.com SUBMITTED Shane Norton. Below left is big-bass winner Elizabeth Moree. Winners at the recent Bee Lake tournament are, from left. Tommy Cook and Gary Burris, Elizabeth and Joe Moree, Brad Wooley and Chris Toler, Johnny Rials and Cook, Burris win at sweltering Bee Lake tourney lines in at 5:30 a.m. Twenty-one teams with 37 anglers showed up to compete in the tournament with hopes of bringing in the largest bag.

Baits used that were successful included spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, frogs, small plastics, jigs, chatterbaits and crankbaits. Fishing conditions were a toasty 72-94-degree air temperature, water temps 83-85 degrees, water clarity stained to muddy, and winds 5-10 mph SE (felt like 0 mph). Needless to say it was a blistering day on the water, but these anglers still made it happen and brought fish to the scales. Weighing in the biggest bag of the day was a father-and-son team, by marriage, Tommy Cook and Gary Burris. They weighed in five bass BY ELIZABETH MOREE FOR THE ENTERPRISE-JOURNAL Southwest Bass Club fished its eighth derby of the season on June 16 at Bee Lake in Tchula.

Bee Lake is a oxbow said to have been formed by the Ohio River, and is roughly 14 miles long from the upper to the lower end. The average depth in Bee is 5 to 6 feet deep. Compared to the other lakes we fish, Bee has a limited amount of piers but an abundance of cypress trees and floating vegetation to fish. The morning began with Jesse Mabry setting the weigh-in time for 2:30 p.m. and Joe Moree leading us in prayer.

Flights were called out by Will Duncan and Other anglers catching were Will Duncan and Donald O'Brian with five fish at 9.6.6 pounds, Jesse Mabry and Dale Causey five at 9.6.2, Randy and Josh Simpson five at 9 2 Chris Thompson and Artie Faucett five at 8.11, Scott Toler five at 7.6, John Bruce four at 6.4, Eric and Pat Wilson five at 5.6, Darrell Parks and Terry Vin-ing five at 5 5 Buddy French five at 5.4, M.T Martin and Sawyer Wallace five at 5.3, Stuart Middleton and alternate Kyle Middleton four at 4.2, and Bobby and Michael Reynolds five at 4. 1 Also fishing were Way-Ion Book, Jeff Brown and Tyler Lumley Eli Fowler, CG and Joseph Hart, Kell Thompson and Buddy Roberts. Southwest will meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Burger King on Delaware Avenue in McComb to vote on where we will fish next. If you have any questions find us on Facebook southwest bass club or contact Jesse Mabry at 601-248-8283.

at 12.2 pounds. Gary spoke with me after the tournament, laughing, and said they targeted the biggest and ugliest trees they could find and created a pattern where they could catch a least one good fish off each tree. Their key bait was a craw. Coming in second place was husband-and-wife team Joe and Elizabeth Moree. They weighed in five bass at 11.14 pounds.

They targeted shallow bass in 2-3 feet of water using a Wild Craw Jr. as their main bait. Elizabeth won big-bass honors with a bass weighing 3.8 pounds. Third place payout went to Chris Toler and Brad Wooley. They weighed in five bass at 9.15 pounds.

They found luck on a jig and a crankbait. No whop-per-plopper action from this dynamic duo. Final payout went to Johnny Rials and Shane Norton. They brought five bass to the scales weighing 9.9 pounds. They rotated baits using a spinnerbait, buzzbait and chatterbait.

Weyerhaeuser a hero at St. Helens May 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 5 7 people, destroying pretty IIIV mucn everything northwest of the mountain for 200 square miles and spreading ash for hundreds of miles across the United States. Nowadays, as you're approaching Mount St. Helens from the west along PAT PARKER ROAMING PARKERS McComb Wholesale Paper We have all your concession needs! Plates CupsLids Straws Plastic Cutlery Food Containers Lids Napkins Bags We now offer an assortment of Popcorn Candy Chips and Snacks "Serving This Area Since 1948" Mon.

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PARKER I ROAMING PARKERS The Toutle River Valley was completely denuded by Mount St. Helens. Now it is covered in mature fir trees. Connect with us on Mondays ran across a buddy of mine who is a forester for Weyerhaeuser. He said he thought that somewhere on the order of 500 truckloads are harvested from all of Mississippi each day, and that it is quite a logistical feat to do that much.

So 1,000 workers hauling 600 loads per day for two years really is monumental! According to Weyerhaeuser, that salvage operation recovered 850 million board-feet of lumber, which they say is enough to build 85,000 three-bedroom homes. I wonder just how many early- to mid-1980s homes were built with wood from Mount St. Helens? But Weyerhaeuser's efforts were not finished after that Herculean 2-year salvage effort. They had yet to replant and nobody really knew anything about growing trees in areas covered with inches-to-feet of volcanic ash. Their forest scientists did test plantings and determined that they could grow healthy trees if the roots were planted in the natural soil underlying the ash so then an army of forest workers dug through that hundred square-mile field of ash and replanted millions of seedlings of native species by hand.

Now, almost 40 years later, some of those trees are 70 feet tall and ready for a new cycle of harvesting and replanting. Weyerhaeuser is careful to maintain their forest resources by only harvesting 2-3 percent of their timber per year in the Pacific Northwest, and by immediate rehabilitation and replanting of the harvested areas. This is the definition of a sustainable resource one that can be regenerated within about one generation. During our recent trip to Mount St. Helens, I was, of course, impressed by the destructive geologic power of the volcano but I was equally impressed by the beauty of the second growth forest and by Weyerhaeuser's careful stewardship of the natural resources.

Everybody knows that a volcano can kill and destroy, but seeing the rebirth and re-growth of an utterly devastated forest was really to- (put ittfotmed and cvuMMct "Piz I wL Washington Highway 504, you drive through several tiny communities including Castle Rock, Silver Lake, Toutle and Kid Valley. These communities were right along the southern edge of the blast zone and barely escaped the brunt of the eruption. Then you pass into the actual blast zone surrounding the North Toutle river valley. President Jimmy Carter described the devastation of the blast zone, "It's the worst thing I have ever It had been described to me earlier, but it was much worse Someone said it was like a Moonscape but it's much worse than anything I've ever seen in pictures of the Moon's surface." Just before you reach the Johnston Ridge Observatory, Weyerhaeuser has built an impressive Forest Learning Center dedicated to the memory of the 57 people killed in the 1980 eruption and to the honor of the thousands of forest workers who helped to rehabilitate the forest. The Learning Center has a historical movie, museum and a beautiful overview of the Toutle River valley and the distant volcano.

When St. Helens erupted, it blew down almost 100 square miles of the Noble fir, Douglas fir, hemlock, and Eastern red cedar that were growing on the slopes northwest of the mountain. Nearly 63,000 acres of that was harvest-ready timber. More than 1,000 Weyerhaeuser workers leapt into an urgent recovery and salvage operation that removed about 600 truckloads of downed timber per day for most of two years. That sounded like a lot when I heard it, but not working in or around forestry I had no way to know just how much until I Enterprise-Journal classifieds.