UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE ROGUE RIVER-SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST MEDFORD, OR

ORDER NO. 06-10-00-20-02 ROGUE NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVER – WILD SECTION STAGE 2 FIRE RESTRICTIONS

Pursuant to 16 USC § 551 and 36 CFR § 261.50 (a), the following acts are prohibited within the boundaries of the Wild section of the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River within the Rogue River- Siskiyou National Forest, during the annual Oregon Department of Forestry Southwest Oregon declared closed fire season as described below and shown in map attached as Exhibit A. This Order will be effective beginning 18 July, 2020 until November 30, 2020, unless rescinded sooner.

PROHIBITION:

1. Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire except; a. In commercially produced pressurized liquid or gas stoves. Cooking areas are to be naturally free of vegetation. Each group must have a shovel and bucket. b. Using charcoal briquettes only within a raised fire pan or similar device that will contain the fire and its residue, free of natural vegetation, below the high water mark from Marial downstream to the mouth of Watson Creek. All ashes are to be carried out. [36 CFR § 261.52(a)]

2. Smoking except within the following locations: a. While aboard a watercraft while navigating or at rest on a waterway. c. On sand and gravel bars between the river and the high water mark naturally free of flammable vegetation. [36 CFR § 261.52(c)]

Description of River Corridor

The Wild section of the Rogue Wild and Scenic River beginning at the Forest boundary in the southwest ¼ of the southeast ¼ of Section 9, T.33S., R.10W., following downriver in a southwesterly direction to the mouth of Watson Creek in the northeast ¼ of the northeast ¼ of Section 17, T.34S., R.11W., within the Willamette Meridian, Oregon as shown on map attached as Exhibit A. EXEMPTIONS:

Pursuant to 36 CFR § 261.50(e), the following persons are exempt from this order:

1. Persons with a permit specifically authorizing the otherwise prohibited act or omission.

2. Any Federal, State, or local officer, or member of any organized rescue or fire fighting force in the performance of an official duty.

This prohibition is in addition to the general prohibitions in 36 C.F.R. Part 261, Subpart A.

Executed in Medford, OR this 20th day of July 2020.

Digitally signed by MERV MERV GEORGE Date: 2020.07.15 12:02:29 ______GEORGE -07'00' Merv George Jr. Forest Supervisor Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest

Violations of this prohibition is punishable as a Class B Misdemeanor, by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual or $10,000 for an organization, or imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both (16 USC § 551; 18 USC § 3559 and 18USC § 3571). 143 505 Applegate Lake 33 5591 34 35 36 1253 31 32 33 144 Order NO. 06-10-00-20-02 ExhibitA 34 35 140 155 36 31 32 50 33 3358 084 130 1253A 10 Fire Restriction 086 11 3347 494 1113 12 07 08 087 Wild And Scenic Fire Restriction 253 09 10 135 151 11 12 080 250 082 ª33 083 06 Private150 05 04 03

160

175 161 090 120 050 14 071 162 080 13 110 15 5520 Forest Service BLM Boundary 18 17 070 174 164 163 16 080 1253 0 0.5 1 2 Miles ¹ 14 207 070 13 3347 BYWAY 3348 071

1257 206 3347 07 08 09 030 10 23 24 SCENIC 19 052 204 20 21 3343 030 5520 22 090 23 24

1262 5520

202 050 COQUILLE 1160 200 18 17 054 16 15 1253 26 25 30 020 29 1160A ROGUE 28 27 26 25

3343 590 365 1162 1253 550 19 20 35 21 22 360 362 5325 36 31 060 570 32 068 33 067 34 36 33 35 ª 069 110 30 27380 101 29 100 28 1160 02 080 064 065 01 06 05 04 03 394 02 01 2309 081 06 097 3340 061 060

107 31 32 393 34 33 ROGUE COQUILLE 12 3730 08 11 07 127 1160 09 10 716 11 07 2309 SCENIC 12

300 375 I 490 402 BYWAY 300 06 114

715 05 493 04 03

14 013 491 014 Watson Creek COUNTRY 13 18 17 016 16 010 713 33 15 018 ª 14 710 650 ª 712 13 115 18 BYWAY BACK

019 107 23 07 08 09 ª 10 ª23 23 24 020 19 20 21 700 088 HELLGATE 22 23 24 19 375 770 TO 18 17 I 16 15 26 25 30 29 28 27 748

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