Luckiamute State Natural Area Hike with the Luckiamute Watershed Council
Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers
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1758 NE AIRPORT RD
ROSEBURG, OR 97470
Coordinator: Bob Kinyon
E-mail: Bob@UmpquaRivers.org
Website: www.UmpquaRivers.org
The Council meets every third Tuesday of the month at 9am.
The Partnership received a donation of 12 wrecked railcars from Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad after a train derailment in August of 2006. The council applied the salvage value to the purchase of 6 railcar bridges from Rick Franklin Corporation in Lebanon. Using Ross Crane Company, a local contractor, Sigfridson Construction, Inc., installed three of the bridges at historic livestock crossings where cows had seriously eroded stream banks. Sixty-foot bridges were installed on Norton Creek and Fate Creek. An 89-foot bridge was placed over Olalla Creek. The three other bridges replaced culverts on Buck Fork, Letitia, and Reding Creeks.
One of three railcar bridges used to prevent stream bank erosion from cattle crossings.