Blue ribbon. Pink ribbon. Green circles and orange slashes. What do those ribbon and paint marking colors represent? SROA's Environmental Services staff performs a variety of inspections in Sunriver throughout the year, both on private property and commons. To track locations of certain trees, noxious weeds and property lines, we use a range of materials including wire flags, paint and ribbon flagging.
Please do not remove the flagging. When a project is complete, the flags will be removed.
Green Paint
• Green paint slash – tree is designated for future removal on commons.
• Green paint ring around the tree trunk – indicates a mountain pine beetle (MPB) tree on commons.
Orange Paint
• Orange paint slash on trunk – tree has been permitted for removal on private property
• Sometimes a tree is marked with an “A” to indicate an active MPB tree. If the “A” is orange, the tree is on private property or golf course.
Blue Paint
• Blue paint on bucked-up wood on commons notes firewood available on a first come, first served basis.
Blue Flagging
• Blue flagging tied around a tree trunk – notes a MPB tree identified on private property
• Blue flagging on limb – notes approximate golf course property line.
Pink Flagging
• Pink flagging tied around tree trunks, branches or shrubs marks general property lines. This occurs in areas where ladder fuels reduction will take place on commons.
• Pink flagging tied to blue flagging on tree trunks, branches or shrubs – there is a sharp turn in the property line.
Yellow Flagging
• Yellow flagging tied to tree branches - marks noxious weed locations on commons.
Orange Flagging
• Orange flagging is used by SROA Public Works to note a variety of their own projects.
Wire Flags (white, red or yellow)
• Sometimes used to indicate special project areas such as ponderosa planting locations.
There may be exceptions to these designations. Please call the SROA Environmental Services staff with any questions at 541.593.1522.
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