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Special Edition to the Lake County Examiner
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Ranch, Farm & Timber 2019
Welcome to our annual Lake County Ranch, Farm and Timber edition. Lake County is fueled by its three industries that are mentioned in this edition’s title, seeing a wide array of personalities, stories and experiences including a little preview into what the Lake County Round-Up is doing in preparation for the Centennial Celebration. These stories and topics always keep Lake County unique. With every edition, we as a staff have done our best to compile a wide variety of information and narratives to keep you, our reader, informed while piquing your interest into what goes on
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 2 Collins Pine: The Place to Be by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . . . page 4 A Rancher’s One Stop Shop by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . page 10 Farm Bill Now in Effect by Michael Acosta. . . . . . . . . . page 14 Red Rock making Progress by Michael Acosta . . . . . page 18
Editorial Index
North Lake FFA: What We’re All About by Chad Waldron . . . . page 34 Watershed Council looks forward to 2019 Progress by Marci Schreder and Collen Withers . . . . . . . page 36 Cowboy Poetry Show every July by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . page 40
Royalty Past Remembered with Chaps by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . page 24
Surprise Valley Electric keeps Ranches First by S. Garrett Shaw . . . . . . . . . page 44
New Business opens for Ranchers and Farmers by Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . page 28
Beware of Creepy Crawlers in Timber Products Michael Acosta . . . . . . . . page 48
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As an entire staff, we are always looking for new and interesting stories that keep our section of Oregon’s Outback thriving. Our goal was to spotlight the ranching, farming and timber industries and recognize those people, places and industries who help our local economy so much. I always find it interesting learning more about what goes on at a ranch on a daily basis. We hope that you will find the content fascinating as you dive into the stories and the people behind the wheel, on top of a saddle or behind the chainsaw. — Michael Acosta, Sports Editor
in these thriving industries. The entire staff of: Tillie Flynn, Garrett Shaw, Paul Raines, Aimee Albertson, Charley Tracy and myself combined efforts to bring this edition together. Colleen Withers and Marci Shreder of the Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council contributed a few articles to give further insight and expertise to all the exciting happenings throughout the County. Lakeview’s and North Lake’s Future Farmers of America chapters contributed articles about SAE projects and what the FFA Chapters are all about for this edition.
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Neil Hansen, l-r, and part of his yard team, Jeff Warburton and Larry Mclain operate at the yard bringing in hundreds of logs daily.
S. GARRETT SHAW/Lake County Examiner
Hansen believes that his team is the best in the business and makes operating the yard a breeze.
Collins Pine: ‘The place to be’ By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner An opportunity can come out of thin air, or it can come at the hands of a part-time replacement for a few weeks that turns into a career. That’s the story of Neil Hansen and his beginning working with Collins Pine in Lakeview, but before this, who is Neil Hansen and what got him into the business? It’s been rooted in him since he was a little boy. Both his grandfathers worked in the logging and timber industry. Hansen is sure there’s even more further down the line that he doesn’t even know about. The love for the timber industry wasn’t always there though. Hansen tried his hand at becoming a drummer in a band and moved to Eugene shortly after high
school before coming home and working under Jim Walls and the Lake County Resources Initiative (LCRI). This is where it started. Hansen was interested in the timber industry in the scientific sense at first. After some work with Collins Pine in association with LCRI, Hansen was given his shot to fill in and never looked back. He worked part-time for 3-4 years after his short stint filling in for the vacant position and began working the scales weighing in trucks. Fast-forward 10 years later and Hansen is now titled as “head of the log yard”. Hansen only manages four individuals, but believes wholeheartedly that his team is the best in the business. He’s accountable for several different things, but mostly managing the direction of the
timber being brought into the yard and where it’s headed after it rolls through the gate. The foresters set everything up from private timber sales, to forest service stewarded sales or Collins Pine’s own projects. For Hansen, the title speaks for itself. “This is the one to have,” he said with a chuckle. “I like heavy equipment first and foremost.” And operating it is part of the job. When the logs show up, Hansen already has it mapped out in his head where it’s going, either being fed to the sawmill or he plays the chess game of building low decks or adding to the high decks Collins Pine with his shovel See page 6 machine.
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Collins Pine From page 4
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Stacking logs on these high decks creates a surplus of various species all sorted accordingly. The stacking process creates a surplus at the yard and is sorted through using Hansen’s shovel to
get the logs at these high heights. There’s hundreds of rows of logs in total and each have their own purpose in the yard and then of course, once they leave.
The yard is full of roads, mud holes, rock patches and other obstacles, but this is all part of the job of maneuvering it around the yard. A normal work day begins around 2 or 3 a.m. and lasts at a minimum, 12-13 hours on average. With three kids and a wife, Lacey, time at home and awake is valuable for Hansen to spend his time and create a balance between work and family. However, during the months of August to January, the grind gears up into overdrive. A general rule of thumb for the yard is 35-40 loads of logs, once you start getting over that number it’s putting them into high decks and creating a surplus. There is planning for more though. Once you get into the 100 plus talk of logs, the yard is in a hustle and bustle. With the stewardship work in Bly, work has been hopping. There can be about a dozen projects currently being worked on and another dozen waiting in the works for Hansen and his team. All of the work done is mechanized from the logging to the buncher, skidder, delimber/processor heads and other machines. All of this work couldn’t be done without the “army” of individuals roaming the forest and doing what is known as “the dirty work”.
People may think logging is just cutting down a tree, but there’s much more to it. “You cannot just go out into the woods and cut down logs willy nilly and throw them on a truck and have them be worth any money,” Hansen says. The cutting to length of the delimber is easily the hardest job, working through eyesight and knowledge of the field. There’s a way to make a log worth a lot of money or little at all, dependent all on how you cut it and it takes a very skilled individual. “For the next couple months after that time we work as much as we need to, but not anymore than we do,” said Hansen. The loads stay steady, so steady in fact that the sawmill hasn’t run in five weeks. Most of his time though is spent in heavy machinery. Aside from handling logs, Hansen is in dump trucks, excavaCollins Pine tors and other machines handling material aside from logs. See page 8 However, without his team, Hansen
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Collins Pine From page 6 says nothing would be the same. Even on days he’s out from the yard, the worries are fleeting with a core group of individuals he can trust and count on. The ship would run just as smooth he believes with or without him and that’s something that can’t be replaced. Job aside and thinking down the road, Hansen is unsure what he will be involved in through the logging business, but one thing is certain. “If you like swinging logs, it’s the place to be.”
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Grabbing the logs off the truck is the next step in the process at the yard. Once the logs are grabbed, Hansen already knows where they’re headed either to the sawmill or a low or high deck which his team sorts accordingly.
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Dave Heath has been running the show at the Hart Mountain Store for the last 14 years. The store is a stop for ranchers and the
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A ranchers one stop shop By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner In a place with zero cell service and no stores within miles, a one-stop shop for everything a rancher needs is a necessity. Hart Mountain Store has been in existence since Raymond Morris opened its doors in 1934, but for the last 14 years, Dave Heath has been running the show. After moving to Lake County in 1962, Heath has been a cowboy through and through, working for the previous
MC owners Kittredge and Nichols before it was split up, starting when he was 15 years old. Once he took over the store, fulfilling the needs of the ranchers around the area has been of the utmost importance. The families around the area are a huge part of the Hart Mountain Store’s business year round. Until summer when through traffic, tourists and hunters come rolling by, winter is a slow time. “The thing that keeps us going is the ranchers and their hired hands,” said Heath.
As a convenient store, the Hart Mountain Store sells drinks, wine, beer, groceries, ice, snacks and other easy fill ups, including diesel and gasoline. One of the store’s biggest delicacies is the burgers. Flipping plain old hamburgers, bacon cheese or jalapeño, Heath has heard rave reviews regarding the bun and patty combination. “People say they’re not just the best in the area, but some of the best they’ve had,” he said. “We’ve built up a great reputation
with burgers.” They do have a menu that features other items as well. Heath also caters branding lunches in the spring when the weather warms up and ranchers gather around. Aside from being a convince store, Hart Mountain acts as a get together stop for locals to come together, talk shop and enjoy each othHART MTN er’s comSTORE pany.
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HART MTN STORE
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“It’s a gathering place for them when they’re coming in off the desert,” said Heath. Without other stores in town, locals have been coming for nearly a century to talk about the long hours on the ranch and spending even longer ones chatting up the crew and locals. Another one of the biggest pulls to the store is a working land line phone. With cell service at zero and power outages potentially around the corner, individuals use the Hart Mountain Store to make phone calls when they’re in need of parts or sometimes emergency situations. The location isn’t just for the ranchers. Over the years it’s been ideal for tourists coming through town or headed to the sunstone mines only 25 miles north of Plush. As one of the only places in the world with this gem, the store actually sells jewelry made of the stone and has built up a reputation as a spot to stop for hundreds of diverse individuals traveling from across the world. Even closer, in fact, right in the store’s backyard is the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge that drives in dozens of individuals as well all looking for their own unique leisure opportunities. With ranchers using the Hart Mountain Store as their number one options for all their needs, providing for these individuals is a pleasure for Heath and his staff. The store is located at 28229 Hogback Rd. in Plush and is open from 10 a.m. till the crowd thins out, and can be reached by telephone at 541-947-2491.
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Pres. Donald Trump signs the Farm Bill into law after the bill passed both the house and the senate. The $867 billion bill passed both the
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Farm Bill now in effect By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner A recently passed Farm Bill is in effect and will benefit Oregon Ranchers and Farmers in a big way. The $867 billion bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a 386-47 vote on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, while the U.S. Senate passed the bill with a 87-13 vote the day before. With such a hefty price tag, the farm bill will not increase the federal deficit, according to numerous reports that previously speculated that it would. According to information provided by the Farm Bureau, Oregon
boasts 34,400 farms that cover 16,300,000 acres. The bill is targeted to farmers and ranchers used to support infrastructure and economic development in rural communities, while helping provide access to food for those less fortunate, while also providing breakfast and lunch for school children. Rep. Greg Walden applauded the bill, but expressed disappointment that more federal forest policy wasn’t included as it was in the version passed by the House. “These fires are monsters when they light up and they kill,” Walden said in December. “It’s unfortunate that the provisions that the House passed as part of the Farm Bill were rejected by the Democrats in the Senate. It’s un-
fortunate because after these catastrophic fires, we should be able to get in and remove the fuel load so the next fire does not burn even more intensely, which is what happens.” Speaking at a Town Hall in Lakeview in August, Walden spoke about the success in passing some changes to deal with fire borrowing that will kick in in 2020. The changes would help end the depleting resources to pay for fire suppression that increases the risk of catastrophic wildfires year after year. Walden’s goal is to put more people back to work in the woods. One of the biggest obstacles that the new bill faced was in regards to food stamps. In one version of the farm bill, states would
have to “impose work requirements for food stamps on older workers ages 49-59 and parents with children 6-12. In the final version of the bill, none of those requirements are present. The bill also has provisions expanding federal agricultural subsidies to nieces, nephews and first cousins of farmers. The new bill legalizes the production of hemp, a form of cannabis that has lower THC levels than marijuana. Since the passage of the farm bill, it is now legal to
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FARM BILL From page 14 transport across state lines. Many farmers across the state have begun growing hemp, an industry that is widely projected to be a multi-billion dollar industry within the next five years. One of the other portions of the bill that most people may not know is the inclusion of the Timber Innovation Act. The act encourages domestic manufacturing, while allowing for a new research and development program.
Rep. Greg Walden applauded the bill, but expressed disappointment that more federal forest policy wasn’t included as it was in the version passed by the House. Securing broadband across rural parts of Oregon was part of the final bill. Gov. Kate Brown signed an executive order on broadband internet late last year, something she’s wanted to do. “This is an economic and equity issue, “ said Gov. Brown. “Broadband is essential for businesses to grow, and for schools, health care providers, and first responders to deliver the highest quality of service. We will continue to push for policies that help all Oregonians thrive.” Overall the bill targets farmers and ranchers and encourages economic development in rural communites across the state, where many rural communities rely on agriculture as a means to survive, while providing a “safety net” during difficult times.
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Red Rock making progress MICHAEL ACOSTA/ Lake County Examiner
By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner
Winter in Lake County may be in full swing, but for Red Rock Bio Fuels there’s still work to be done as they look to be fully operational by the end of this year or early next year. Most of the onsite crews have stopped working for the winter, but should be back on site in March. According to CEO Terry Kulesa, most of the dirt work has already been done at the site and construction crews took about three feet of soil off and replaced it with rock to stabilize the site for foundations. “We have some tanks being built and we will be pouring the foundation for that this winter,” Kulesa said. “Some of the build-
Most of the dirt has been poured at the Lakeview site of the new Red Rock Bio Fuel site.
ings and equipments should start arriving in the spring, when crews return to work and they’ll start putting things together with alot of activity on site. We’re very happy with the progress we’ve made and are ready to ramp up come spring time.” This Bio Fuel plant located on Kadramas Road in Lakeview is the first of its kind, but the technology isn’t anything that’s really new. “The technology is done in pieces,” explained Kulesa. “Taking the wood and making heat out ofit has been done before, but we’llbe one of the first plants in the country to make jet and diesel fuel out of it.”
Once Red Rock is fully operational, the company expects to hire
“All of the wood that we’re going to purchase is going to come from about a 125 mile radius,” Kulesa said. approximately 35 personnel to run the facility on site. Eight of those 35 would be management, with the
rest serving as operators, maintenance guys and more. “We will be sourcing all of our woody biomass from a 125 mile radius,” Kulesa said. “This will have a big economic impact to the local community wtih the people working at the plant, hauling and delivering wood to the plant and more.” Once everything is finished, the wood that is being used right now in slash piles, won’t have to be burned, thus creating what Kulesa said hopefully RED ROCK i s See page 20 less of a
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While many of the construction crews will report in the spring time, some crews are still on site working to get the plant ready.
fire risk come summer time. The ranching and farming community will also see the impact, especially those who have juniper trees and would like to eliminate those trees from their ranch land. Kulesa said that juniper trees take a lot of water, so Red Rock would gladly take those juniper trees. “We’ll also produce a biochar which is left after the wood is gasified,” Kulesa said. “Biochar is very water absorbent and is added to soils to improve production and sequester carbon. Some of the biochar may go into power plants to replace coal and lower their emmissions. Biochar will be available
to the local AG producers as well.” With their offices headquarters located in Colorado, Red Rock has experience some of the wildfire activity that led to the idea of a facility like this. Seven years ago, Kulesa was dropping his son off at a sports camp and the kids were not allowed to play outside that day because of the thick smoke from the wildfire in the mountains near town. In talking with his Dir. of Engineering about what could be done with some of the wood that was burning up. “We just started bouncing ideas off of each other,” Kulesa said. “Some of the ideas we dis-
cussed had already been done and that’s when we came up with the jet fuel idea and it took off from there. Like most ideas, it was one of those that happened on the back of a cocktail napkin. One of the reasons Lakeview was chosen, was the work that had been done previously by Iberdola renewables, a Spanish company who had made plans to build a bio fuel plant in Lakeview and had done some ground work until the deal fell apart. “Iberdola had made plans to sell that wood to California, but they had said no that the power had to be made in California so the deal fell apart,” Kulesa said.
“They had already had the wood rounded up, so we thought that we should give it a shot and see if that location would be a viable option.” So far, everything is on schedule and they would only get delayed, if some of the equipment arrives late. By the end of June or July, Red Rock plans on beginning the hiring process and then the maintenance and operational people right after.
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RED ROCK From page 20 “We’ll be working with the hiring agencies right there in Lakeview,” Kulesa said. “I tell people, to just be patient and by the middle of the year we’ll be beginning the hiring process.”
“We’ll be working with the hiring agencies right there in Lakeview,” Kulesa said. While Red Rock had hoped to get more foundations poured before the winter, Kulesa assured that Red Rock is here to stay. “We’re very happy with the progress we’ve made and are ready to get back at it come spring time,” he said. Within the first six months, Red Rock expects to see the revenue, but patience is key while some of the kinks get worked out. For more information, visit redrockbio.com.
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Previous Queen Jessie May Plechaty, l-r, Round-Up 2019 Queen Alena Vickerman, Princess Becca Warner and Alejandra Villagomez have all experienced the Royalty Court. Vickerman and Warner will
be the first court to wear the 100th annual chaps and honor all the women that came before them.
Royalty Past Remembered with a Pair of Chaps By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner Creating a pair of chaps is a costly and time-consuming matter. Although most counties receive new chaps every year for their Fair & Round-Up festivities, Lake County isn’t like most counties and the budget for the royalty court can’t cover the potential $600-$1000 price range of a set. Enter Kirby Flynn and her idea to honor not only the 100th
year of the Lake County Round-Up, but future Round-Ups for years to come. Flynn has called upon past Round-Up Queens, 90 of them in fact, to reach into their pockets and donate $50 a piece to the creation of a pair of 100th year chaps. In return, a brand of their family’s ranch, initials or some form of related association will be branded down the chaps’ legs honoring both past and present. There will be a few repeats along the way, but it’s common to see some familiar
names and even some familiar faces. Only two queens have been selected twice to the royalty court; Ehtel Robinette and Maddie Vickerman. This instance will probably never happen again, and that’s the way it should be. Still, Flynn believes nearly 80 percent of the families are still in Lake County. Even with this high percentage, rounding up the rest of the queens has been taxing and the process hasn’t been easy. Planning to have the work
done in November, she’s spent hundreds of hours scouring phone books, family heritage records, the well-known Barry family book and asking around Lakeview for the memories and recollections of past queens. Currently, Flynn has reached nearly all the previous queens
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ROUND-UP ROYALTY From page 24 celebration at the Lake County Fairgrounds. As for the chaps, the current royalty court of Queen Alena Vickerman and Princess Becca Warner, will wear the chaps while traveling all spring and summer until the Pendleton RoundUp. Once their rounds have been made, the chaps will be hung in the Ed Garrett Memorial Past Presidents Round-Up Museum for display. Accompanied with the chaps will be a “key” plaque, locating and describing each and every brand on the legs. The work may be nearing the end for Flynn, but this isn’t her first rodeo. Flynn has been involved with the Royalty Court for some time now. After being crowned as queen in 2004, Flynn returned back to the court to run the show in 2017, watching the process of Lisa Schullanberger and Jody Graham the year before taking over. With this being one of the most exciting times in Lake County, everything has to be perfect for the moment. “It has been really fun to do it, just because I love history,” said Flynn. “This is one way I can get them marked down for who they were.” The Lake County Round-Up has had a long history and remembering its past while looking to the future, boots pointed forward and eyes wide, the 100th celebration will be one to remember.
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aside from seven or ten all of which are within the first 15 or so queens. “There’s been a lot of hunting, digging, but I wouldn’t have done it if I wouldn’t have had every person I asked say yes and then leave someone out I couldn’t find,” said Flynn. The conversations have racked up plenty of hours, but the history itself is what makes the process fun, especially for someone as interested in the past as Flynn. “It’s really awesome talking to some of these women in their 60s, 70s and 80s,” said Flynn. “They’re all still diehards”. Tales of queens past have trickled through the families and relatives of former royalty and there’s no shortage of pride for representing Lake County. The chaps will honor those women, and the hands that craft them will be just as important. Sue Cleland of Adel will be donating her time to create the chaps and Flynn is responsible for the cost of materials that go into the $1100 job. “We couldn’t do it without Sue,” said Flynn. “Even with all the women donating and how detailed it is.” At this point, Flynn has received enough donations to cover the cost. The remainder of the money will go towards purchasing memento gifts for past royalty that are coming to the 100th year
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New Business Opens for Ranchers and Farmers
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CK Farm and Ranch owner Karen Taylor is a new business owner looking to service the local ranching and farming community. By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner
Lakeview has a new business town, designed to help ranchers and farmers with anything they might need. Longtime Lakeview resident Karren Taylor has opened her doors as CK Farm and Ranch offering a variety of products and services, like fencing, stock tanks, feeders and gates including one of the more sought after items: twine
used for haying and baling hay; wanting to help rural Lake County stay local. “I may reside in Lakeview, but I do a lot of selling in Christmas Valley and all around the county.” Taylor said. “I love it here The business is still fairly new, opening up Dec.1, 2018. Taylor has previous experience working for Ag and Auto for seven years, SS Equipment who bought out Ag and Auto for six years and than KBE who bought out SS Equipment “I stayed in the same chair
for three different companies for 13 years,” Taylor said with a laugh. “I have done twine sales with these customers for over nine years.” She’s currently working out of her house, fielding phone calls and emails and then driving out to see the ranchers personally, should they contact her. “With the majority being farming and ranching based, a lot of the ranchers and farmers especially up in the Christmas Valley and Silver Lake area buy what they call pre-season twine,” explained
Taylor. “I can get a special discount from my distributors to pass along to my customers, because a lot of them buy twine by the pallet usually 50 boxes to a pallet during my pre-season sale.” A lot of the ranches in the Christmas Valley/Silver Lake area
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CK FARM From page 28 irrigate more than most ranches, so their growing season is longer, so they’re able to get an extra cutting of hay that Lakeview doesn’t normally receive. It’s cheaper to buy twine during the preseason, which is generally October - January; if ranchers and farmers wait until summer than the price increases, because there’s more of a demand for twine. “October is the best month to buy, with January being the last month that people are able to get good deals,” Taylor said. Her inspiration for doing this business was former Ag and Auto owner Don Lasley. “He has always been an encouragement for me and told me that I would be really good in this business so I should really spread my wings,” Taylor said. “I’m self motivated and am very goal driven.” She likes owning her own business because it allows her to make her own decisions and interact with each and every one of her customers. “I’m not out to gauge customers. I want to help them in any way I possibly can,” she said. With other stores such as Bar None and Five Corner Feed, she knows the competition is fierce, but she strives to treat each customer the same and really connect with them in any way she can.
“October is the best month to buy, with January being the last month that people are able to get good deals,”
Taylor said.
“I worked in banking for 12 years and I have one philosophy,” she said. “The only thing a bank has in competition with another bank is the way they treat their customers. Customer service and what you do to help them out as much as possible. I was raised on that and am a firm believer and treat my business the same way.”
Taylor enjoys each one of her customers and encourages people to stay local instead of having to drive to Klamath. “My promise to my customers is if they choose to do business with me, I will always try my best to give the best service I can and to help them out as much as possible,” she said. “I don’t cringe when people come through the door.” Taylor is in the process of creating a business plan, so she can apply and hopefully get one of the incubator buildings in the industrial part on the south side of Lakeview. February – April, it typically slows down, but the rest of the year is busy with people buying their twine and other equipment to keep their farms and ranches running in tip-top shape. She places her orders for the season during the slower months and then typically they get delivered by April and she’ll go out and deliver the products, because she likes to see where the ranches are located. “I appreciate Lake County and everything they have to offer,” she said. “If there’s anything I can do within the scope of the business, I’ll be glad to try it.” For more information or to place an order, contact Taylor at 541-219-2225 or by email at karrentaylor@yahoo.com.
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Tony and the other chapter officers visited with Congressman Greg Walden in Washington D.C. to discuss agriculture policy and other challenges facing rural Oregon communities.
What North Lake FFA is all about Tony Anderson, or “Big T” as he is known at North Lake School, is a prime example of what the Agriculture Science and Technology department is all about. As a senior, Tony serves as the FFA student advisor for Mr. Chad Waldron, helping and mentoring the younger students. Tony has invested hundreds of hours learning and developing leadership skills from participating in FFA State Conventions, District Leadership Camps and the National FFA Washington Leadership Conference held in D.C. during the summer months. Over the past four years, Tony has excelled in the FFA Chapter. He was an integral part of North Lake’s teams that have won four straight District Shop Skills, Tractor Driving and Soils championship banners. Tony helped North Lake place 3rd at State Soils this fall, earning a spot to represent Or-
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egon at the National Soils Career Development Event held in Oklahoma City in May. He raises pigs and works on Dinsdale Farms during the summer for his Individual Supervised Agricultural Experience project. It’s not only about cows and plows in North Lake Agriculture classes. Over the years Tony has demonstrated proficiency in operating the latest shop technology. Tony documented the progress and construction of the school’s new track and field facilities using aerial photography from the shop drone. He’s also produced dozens of metal signs and artwork using a PlasmaCAM. Tony has placed first at the district level in the FFA GPS and Surveying events, and he is currently learning in his Emerging Ag. Technology class how to code spherobots and manage the shop’s aquaponics system where the student raise tilapia, koi and
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Anderson has done some work programming spherobots in Emerging Ag. Technology class. goldfish to fertilize the greenhouse and hydroponic crops. Tony does more than just focus on shop and agriculture. He’s a complete student, involved in all aspects of North Lake School. He’s a three sport athlete, participating in football, basketball and baseball, and is a member of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and FBLA. After graduation he plans to attend Crown College in Minnesota, where he will be major in Communications and then use his leadership skills and talents to hopefully go into a career in sports broadcasting. Agriculture and vocational classes are staples for all students who choose to attend North Lake School. Seventh and eighth graders have required agriculture classes built into their schedule in which they learn basic woods and metals, and go through a rigorous five
week safety training to earn their Tractor and Machinery Operator’s license. Freshmen are also required to take a year of Introduction to Agriculture, which covers a multitude of topics including soils, parliamentary procedure and public speaking, in addition to continuing metal and wood shop. The high school offers a wide variety of CTE classes for upperclassmen: Advanced Metal Fabrication, Wood Shop II, Ag. Mechanics, Natural Resources, Emerging Ag. Technology, Animal Physiology, AutoCAD and Horticulture. To keep up with what’s going on with the North Lake FFA, like us on Facebook. Also check out our website: https://sites.google.com/site/ northlakeffa/home.
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Watershed Council looks forward to 2019 Progress Submitted By Collen Withers and Marci Schreder Lake County Examiner
“You don’t find a place like Lake County often—where you can see the sun rise and set every day…and folks who smile and wave as you drive down the road.” Words spoken by Brandi Neider, a Lake County native and the new watershed technician of the Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council (LCUWC), provide insight into one of the many reasons Neider is an outstanding addition to the Council’s contracted staff. Valuing productivity, hard work, and solid relationships, Neider was drawn to the LCUWC and believes her career change will be a “perfect fit.” Her extensive background in ranching, teaching, science, and
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agency work certainly helps. Raised on the Westside of Lakeview on her grandfather’s cattle ranch and a Lakeview High School alum, she is no stranger to the uniqueness of Lake County and its reliance on natural resources. After earning a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education at Western Oregon University as well as a Master’s Degree in Geosciences at Mississippi State University, Neider returned to the Westside of Lakeview, where she currently resides with her husband Coley and three children: Haley (10), Quincie (8), and Corvin (5). As it seems to be tradition in Lake County, Coley and Brandi are continuing to raise and sell beef cattle. Coley also works as a Fire Management Officer for the Lakeview Ranger District. As Watershed Technician, Neider WATERSHED looks forward to investing time and energy into the local area and serving landowners COUNCIL in areas of restoration and enhancement See page 38 projects.
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WATERSHED COUNCIL The Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council consists of other Lake County residents and has not only recently contracted Neider as its Watershed Technician, but will continue to contract two other staff members-- Marci Schreder as project manager and council coordinator and Colleen Withers as fiscal administrator and education coordinator. Council Members include Tom O’Leary, John Taylor, Pete Talbott, Roger Linton, Jack O’Leary, and Matt Withers. Since 2005, the LCUWC has completed over 150 watershed restoration projects within Lake County. In 2018, the Council used $800,000 from federal, state, and local grants to begin and complete multiple land restoration projects. The Council hired 15 different contractors (10 local) to assist in planning, implementing, and monitoring these projects. The LCUWC looks forward to an even more productive 2019, already securing $1,313,341 in funding for projects. Two projects will be at the center of this year’s Council efforts. This includes the North Warner Forest Health projects, which focus on upland forest health treatments and the Warner Basin Fish passage projects, which concentrate on species recovery for the Warner sucker. The Council and its many partners are addressing large landscape level projects that will improve
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forest health conditions in the uplands and instream habitat and fish passage for native fish. The North Warner Forest Health project, which began in 2017, encompasses approximately 150,000 acres where private landowners and agencies are working across ownership boundaries to promote forest health and fire resiliency. The project is unique due to the extensive stands of old legacy ponderosa pine mixed with aspen and meadows, with greater sage grouse habitat to the north and east. The landscape is at severe risk of uncharacteristically intense wildfire. The Council and its partnership collaboration among the Oregon Department of Forestry, United States Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Oregon State University Extension, and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have worked to conduct forest thinning treatments, aspen stand enhancements, and juniper removal treatments in a large-scale effort of developing fire resiliency in our Lake County forests. The Council and the NRCS have each been awarded funding for a second phase of forest heath thinning for 2019-2021. Shifting from restoration in the uplands to the stream bodies below, the Warner Basin Aquatic Habitat Partnership (WBAHP), a local group of individuals consisting of the Lakeview SWCD, the BLM, ODFW, USFWS, the Council,
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Ernie Sites is one of the performers at this year’s Cowboy Poetry in Paisley on Friday, July 26.
Cowboy Poetry Show Every July By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner
Plans are being finalized for the fourth annual Leon Flick/Sunny Hancock Cowboy Poetry show on Friday, July 26 at the Paisley Community Center. There will be a pre-show BBQ beginning at 4 p.m., with the show beginning between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Live music will follow the performance. Last year, approximately 200 people filled the Paisley Community Center and organizers are trying to eclipse that mark this year. This year’s act features two performers; Ernie Sites and Jay Snider, both of which were friends of Flick and Hancock. Emceeing the show for the third year in a row will be Kathy Moss. Snider is a award winning Cowboy Poet, born into a ranching and rodeo family in Southwest Oklahoma. His dad was a top roper and rodeo cowboy, while his grandfather was a brand inspector for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association. Snider is an award winning poet, winning the Best of the Best at the National Cowboy Poetry Rodeo in Kanab, Utah and was the 2008 Academy of Western Artists Top Male Poet. Snider has been reciting poetry since 1996 and got into the business by listening to old stories, while working in his personal experiences. He’s appeared all across the southwest including all throughout Texas and has appeared in British Columbia and made several appearances out west including in Nevada. Sites is a western entertainer from Idaho and is a songwriter, cowboy poet, trick roper, bull rider and much more. He’s played the guitar for as long as he can remember and started playing in the local barber shop, with the barber who was also a musician. He formed his own band when he was 15 and since then has traveled and met a lot of people like him at the National Cowboy Gathering in Elko, Nev. He’s been a guest on TV stations like CBS, PBS, TNN and Good Morning America. Moss a.k.a. A.K. Moss will be the emcee of the show. Moss is the winner of the 2017 ‘Keeper of the West, people’s choice award, Kamloops
Canada, Member of the Western Music Association and Women Writing the West according to her bio. Preceding the main event, will be the deliverance of two $1,000 scholarships to worthy Lake County high school students. The scholarship opens on Friday, Feb. 15 and will be available in the counseling offices of Lakeview High School, Paisley Charter School and North Lake High School. Applications need to be mailed back by no later than Wednesday, May 1. Applicants will be notified by the 15th of May. There is also a silent auction, that will be full of quality items featuring “cowboy gear and flair” with a little bit of jewelry and art that will also be available. Proceeds from the event will go towards the Cowboy crisis fund, a fund set up as a way to lend a helping hand, with insurance not as
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common in the ranching and farming community. According to Billie Flick one of the organizers, the non-profit crisis and scholarship fund was set up four years ago in memory of Flick and Hancock who were cowboy poets both big in the ranching and farming community. “Jessica Hedges was the person who really started this fund,” Flick said. “She thought this would be a great way to honor them” Neither Flick or Hancock owned a huge number of cattle, but they both ran ranches in their lifetime. “All of the proceeds we can muster up throughout the year we put into this big pot,” Flick said. “These funds are available for agriculture families and since insurance isn’t a big thing in the ranching and farming industry, this fund is a way to provide a little relief.” If a rancher or farmer get hurt while out on the ranch, they are on their own and are stuck with a high out of pocket cost emergency room bill and in some cases, the money that may be used for groceries or basic necessities will have to go to medical bills. “We can give them a little cash out of that fund so they can put gas in the car to go to the hospital, buy groceries, find a babysitter or whatever the case might be,” Flick said. “We want to try and relieve that stress as much as we can.” There was also a scholarship fund set up in both men’s honor and monies raised throughout the year goes into both funds. Last year the Cowboy crisis fund gave out $1600 to recipients in need. Donations are also accepted for the fund and can be mailed to P.O. Box 61, Summer Lake, OR 97640. Tickets will go on sale in the middle of May. Prices and locations to purchase tickets will be announced at a later date. For more information, or to make a donation contact Flick at 541947-2635, Kevin Leehmann at 541-408-0919 or Marie at aroyal_rose@hotmail.com.
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Jay Snider will partner with Ernie Sites at this year’s Cowboy Poetry Show in Paisley. Snider and Sites were friends of the late Leon Flick and Sonny Hancock.
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and Surprise Valley Electric is still putting ranchers and farmers first. The non-profit rural electric cooperative, owned by those it serves has been providing a reliable electric service to its members at the lowest cost possible for decades. With the lowest rates in California and among the lowest in Nevada and Oregon, these affordable rates don’t lack in quality or service. Some of the most effective ways Surprise Valley provides for farmers is with pump efficiency tests, provided to members of the business at no charge. These tests will measure the flow in gallons per minute us-
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Getting the piping system up to snuff is key in the process, even during the winter months. ing an ultrasonic flow meter. The pumping water level will also be measured and, if possible, will be done using a water level indicator tool. The pumping plant pressure is measured at discharge with a pressure gauge and motor electrical horsepower is calculated from the electric meter. The use of this data allows Surprise Valley to accurately calculate pumping plant efficiency and provides information to the individual aiding in determining if the pumping system improvements are necessary. Pump tests have been done by the Adair Brown Ranch in New Pine Creek, Louie Brown, Jay
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Beware of creepy crawlers in Timber products By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner With timber a “dieing” industry in many parts, a pesky little insect could spell big trouble for the timber industry. The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) says that an insect called the elongate hemlock scale that measures less than a quarter inch and is commonly found on the bottom of needles, where it can be seen feeding has been “imported” into Christmas trees here throughout Oregon. Many experts and scientists believe that Japan unintentionally introduced the insect to the United States and the insect was first discovered in New York in the early 1900s.
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Elongate Hemlock scales, measuring less than a quarter inch were found on trees originating in North Carolina and shipped to Oregon late last year.
“Anytime we get an invasive species it is a concern because we don’t know how it will interact with our native environment and our native species,” ODF employee Danny Norlander said. It’s hard to imagine something measuring so small could cause so much damage, but the scales on the insect can insert their mouthpart into needles and withdraw vital nutrients necessary for plant growth from its mesophyll cells. A loss of nutrients can cause harm to plants. The pesky insects were first discovered on about 8,000 Fraser fir trees that originated in North Carolina and came to the west coast, mainly Oregon. While the Oregon Department of Agriculture requested that the infected trees be destroyed, many had already been shipped
out to stores up and down the coast. The color white on the bottom of the needles signifies that there’s a good chance that the tree could be infested. While the creepy crawlers are most common in the summer time, from late May into June, the best way to treat them is with a registered insecticide. Experts recommend if you see one, it’s best to spray it rather than wait for it to spread their eggs. These creatures can monopolize quickly and are drawn to plants such as INSECTS trees. While the See page 50 pests are mainly found in states
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Page 50 — 2019 Ranch, Farm and Timber LAKE COUNTY EXAMINER back east such as Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Virginia, there’s still the possibility that they end up out west, as referenced earlier. Department of Forestry officials are worried that if the insect gets established in Oregon or other states in the western part of the United States, they will get drawn to native tree species like true firs, spruce and Douglas-fir something that could be very harmful to the timber economy, a substantial part of the state economy.
“Any time we get an invasive species it is a concern because we don’t know how it will interact with our native environment and species,”
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Residents that are looking to cut down trees, to cut it up into smaller pieces and rather leave it in their yard, cut it up and bag it and dispose properly, in order to stop little creatures like the elongate hemlock scale from breeding. Anyone who thinks they may have an insect attached is urged to contact the Oregon Department of Forestry.
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Stockgrowers Pres. Tom Flynn, pictured with his wife Elise hopes to continue on with what his predecessors started.
Stockgrowers still going strong By Michael Acosta Lake County Examiner Lake County’s Stockgrowers Association has been around for many years and each year gives back to the community in many different ways. New president, Tom Flynn has taken the reigns and is looking to keep the tradition going. Flynn has been very active in the last few years, but has been affiliated with the organization throughout his whole life, as part of a ranch family growing up in Lake County. “When I was a high school student, I was fortunate to receive a Heifer award through the program,” Flynn said. “I also received an educational scholarship that helped aid me as I went to college.” Flynn was awarded the Heifer award in 2003 and a scholarship recipient in 2008. The Heifer award is a program in which
any youth with a beef project at fair can interview for a chance to receive a heifer calf to enhance or start their own herd. Interviews are based around the youth’s experience, goals, abilities and available livestock facilities. The goals of the program are to give the young cattlemen a leg up in the cattle industry, a chance to develop their own herd and their own operating program. While the scholarships each have their own criteria, the Stockgrowers give out the awards based on somebody who is looking to go into an agriculture type career path and hoping to return to Lake County and put their degree to good use to benefit the county. They hand out two $1,000 scholarships at their year-end banquet and this year’s recipients were Jonathan Villagrana a sophomore at Treasure Valley Community College and on the rodeo team. Cotter Shullanberger was the other recipient; he is a freshman at Treasure Valley Community College, studying AG business and ranch
management. He’s on the rodeo team, where he competes in calf and team roping. “These scholarships are a good way to promote our youth,” said Flynn. Becoming a Stockgrowers Association member is a simple process, according to Flynn. If you’re an Oregon Cattleman’s Association member, than you instantly gain membership into the Stockgrowers Association. As an Cattleman’s Association member, fees are based off how many head of cattle the rancher runs. “We’re more or less the local or county organization of the Oregon Cattleman’s,” Flynn said. “Every county in the state has their own
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LAKE COUNTY STOCKGROWERS Cattleman’s Association. So we’re just one piece of the puzzle.” The Association looks to be active and represent the livestock producers of Lake County. “Our involvement in the community is geared a lot towards our youth,” Flynn said. “We want to promote stewardship of the lands and trying to put a lot of effort towards the youth that participate in 4H or FFA. Those kids are the future of our industry.” Flynn took over the presidency from Bret Vickerman who had been president for the last two years and really learned a lot from him, after serving as his vice president the last two years. “With Bret coming to the end of his term as president, I felt now was as good a time as any to step up,” Flynn said. “Bret really did a lot for me and it was only right that I do my part also. I hope to continue on what he started.” Flynn said that Vickerman was very good at really enforcing what the Stockgrowers is all about, which was being supportive for the youth in Lake County and that’s the one thing that he wants to ensure stays constant during his term as president. “At a local level, the best thing we can do is be there for the youth that are coming up,” Flynn said. “Agriculture is huge in Lake County and every year it feels like there’s less and less young adults that want to come back to this lifestyle here in Lake County. It’s good to have some sort of encouragement at the local level.” Even though they don’t have a lot of meetings throughout the year, their main push for the Stockgrowers is the annual fall meeting, which is a dinner and banquet. The Cattleman’s Association holds quarterly meetings, but at the local level, the fall banquet and meeting is their annual gathering. “Our fall meeting is complete with silent auction and is one of our largest fundraisers of the year,” explained Flynn. “It’s a big money maker and we use that money to put in our scholarship fund.” Their annual end-of-the-year banquet is held in November and is at Christmas Valley and in Lakeview. The purpose of the banquet is to bring everybody together and have a night of fun while reflecting on the previous year, while also looking towards the future. Many community members who are part of various organizations such as the Cattleman’s Association, Cattlewoman’s Association and more get up and say a few words about their respective industries and any current issues that may be facing the ranching and farming community. The banquet hands out scholarship winners, carcas of merit winners, Heifer award winners and so much more. One thing Flynn is going to focus on during his term as president is increasing membership. He would like to involve more of the younger crowd, so the Stockgrowers can continue on strong.
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The home that Elizabeth and her husband, Kent, currently live in is tucked away toward the back of the ranch in a peaceful and tranquil
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area. This property wasn’t fully lived in until 1972 and without electricity, the ranch depended on generators and propane.
Tradition tucked into a ranch By S. Garrett Shaw Lake County Examiner
Named for its thousands of little springs surrounding the property, Thousand Springs Ranch has been around as early as the 1900s, and the family that purchased the land all the way back in 1909 still owns the property. Purchased by Leonidas Hoy, Thousand Springs was previously owned by Irishmen who homesteaded there, but the property where the current owners, Elizabeth and Kent Helling live now wasn’t obtained until timber culture made its way up the property. Hundreds of poplar trees were planted around the house and to this day three remain making them 100 plus years old. So what has separated Thousand Springs from the other ranches around the area? In a word -- tradition.
Elizabeth’s mother, Teressa and her late husband James Foster, settled on the property in 1972. Fast-forward to 2019 and at the age of 98, Teressa still brings the same charismatic smile and love for the history of Summer Lake and Thousand Springs to each conversation. When Teressa and Jim moved out to the property, the two had a two room cabin by the barn, but relocated to a low hill near an artisan well where they built a cabin and settled in. Aladdin lamps were the only source of light for some time, until Jim finally purchased a generator. In order to combat against the lack of electricity, the ranch has installed solar options over the years beginning in 1997. Although electric power came to the ranch in the late 1940s, it was said that power couldn’t be run out to the ranch. Back in the 1970s, Teressa’s mother-inlaw always said there wouldn’t be anyone living that far out on the ranch. That same place now
is the home of Elizabeth and Kent. “The head of the household use to get up and turn off the generator and then it was time for bed,” said Elizabeth. “With solar power came freedom.” Although there’s solar power now, all of the appliances in the house are propane based, from the drier to the refrigerator. The couple moved to the property in 1992 after Elizabeth had left the area for 20 or so years. One of the most unique things about the development of Thousand Springs is Hoy’s love for two places in the world; Thousand Springs and Phoenix, Ariz., as fate would have it the town that Elizabeth’s husband grew up in. Down the road, the Hellings are planning to turn over the reins to ElizaThousand beth’s youngest son, Matt and his Springs family. See page 58
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THOUSAND SPRINGS From page 56 Although there’s years of history throughout the family and the property, what has remained a constant all these years is the ranching. A normal day begins with getting up to feed the animals. During this time of year, the ranch is prepping to start calving in February and is working on other various projects around the property. Building a barn for calving season is one of the main projects, but with the winter at a minimum right now, Elizabeth is considering spreading manure around or disking without the usual snowfall. The next project on the list is leveling the land that hasn’t been irrigated further down the ranch. One of the biggest pulls to the property is the natural water/artisan wells and springs which are flowing heavily right now. Solar pumps have also been integrated into the ranch and aid in the irrigation piece during the summer months. Due to the tough dirt of the property, the wells are the biggest aid in trying to create a healthy and thriving planting for the ranch. When they first moved to the property, there weren’t any trees, only sand dunes. What they don’t grow on the ranch Elizabeth and her family head to Bend to stock up on groceries and supplies twice a month. The 100 mile trek is a journey Elizabeth doesn’t always want to make, but it has to be done. Summer Lake has always been home for Elizabeth. A graduate of Paisley High School, the love for the area has always been there. “It’s a great community with people who live around here and have been here for generations,” she said. “You have to like who you are to be out here.” Facebook and social media as a whole has been a great outlet for her and the ranch, creating conversations with individuals from across the county, all looking for something different. The only time Elizabeth leaves the ranch is for church or bible study in Christmas Valley, but for her family, the ranch is home. For Teressa, this has been home for the last 17,000 days or 47 years. “My husband wouldn’t believe
Elizabeth Helling and her mother, Teressa Foster have been manning the ranch for years with a family invested in Thousand Springs since the what they have done to the ranch,” she said pridefully. Across nearly 200 acres of land, the Thousand Springs ranch has seen change over its 110 years in existence. In the next 100 years, who knows what could be coming around the corner and what will be in the works with the future families coming down the line. History will remember the work of Hoy and the Foster family, but only hard work and dedication will hold true in a business that is sometimes unforgiving and requires long hours out on the ranch working for every last cent. There has been a lot done to Thousand Springs, but the tradition has remained in tact. With other projects on the horizon, the family ties to Summer Lake and this property will always exist and be remembered.
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beginning. The tradition has stuck around since the beginning in 1909 and the family doesn’t plan on looking back anytime soon.
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Turning into Thousand Springs, a large sign greets all visitors established all the way back in 1909.
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LHS FFA Kids Work on SAE Projects
Lakeview High School ag students have been busy with their Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects. From the classroom to the field, they all have different projects that have taught them many skills. Showcased in the article are five members that have projects that are outside of the traditional FFA market sale project. Karly Thomas, a junior in the LHS ag program, has been working at the Five Corners Feed Store since June 2018. Thomas works roughly twelve hours a week. Fulfilling orders, cleaning, and stocking the store are her duties in which she does each day. Thomas has always loved animals and wanted a job related to the live-
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Brette Graham shows off her steer at the 4H/FFA Livestock sale during the 2018 Fair and Round Up.
stock industry and to save money to further her education past high school. Keeping records, financial skills, and time management are all skills she has learned from being in the classroom that she has taken with her to her job. This job is helping her to build a resume and have references for later in life and give her experience in customer service. This SAE is teaching Thomasthat she really enjoys helping others and she hopes to pursue a career involving animals. Abbie Stephens, a senior, is doing an ag based work program through her ag advisor at LHS working daily at the Oregon Fish and Wildlife along with a fish biologist and a wildlife biologist. Stephens first got interested in this
field when she was in second grade on a field trip with Craig Foster. She has also learned so much from her dad and he was a huge inspiration towards to career choice. Being in an ag class has taught her time management, and most importantly, the value of keeping records and data online. Abbie has spent over seventy hours in her work experience since she has started. The skills she has worked on are data entry, mapping, and dealing with all kinds of wildlife issues on a daily basis. One of the coolest things that she has done with working alongside the biologists is when they tranquilized a buck, took an arrow out of his face, doctored him up, and relocated him. Stephens said, “That was tru-
ly an amazing day and I learned so much.” Abbie also has an SAE in market hogs. Jocelyn McCallister, a senior, has taken two floral design classes, two horticulture classes, and the Ag 1 class. Going from taking the ag class to taking horticulture and floral design has helped her find her career path. McCallister has fallen in love with the idea of becoming a florist, because she has been pushed to try new things in floral design such as, entering an arrangement in the fair, where she
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LAKEVIEW FFA earned a champion ribbon and was complimented on her skills, and competing in a floral competition. Flower arrangement, complimentary flower choices and how to manage and care for flowers are all skills she has learned in class. These have made her want to become a florist. Taking these classes has helped McCallister choose a career path because of the learning experiences that she has encountered along the way. Jocelyn has also had an SAE project in market hogs. Caley Creager, a senior, has gone from raising a market hog to raising commercial hogs. This last year, Creager purchased six hogs from Vale, Oregon. Raising them from March to the end of August, the pigs weighed in between 220250 pounds each when they were butchered. All of the pigs were sold to private individuals. This 250 hour project included traveling four hours to purchase the hogs, time daily feeding and checking them and contacting buyers. She plans to study dental hygiene, so she will not be repeating her project. Caley has learned a tremendous amount from being in an agriculture class in high school. From keeping financial records to managing her time, Creager has gained everyday knowledge through ag that will help her in years to come. “Watching the pigs grow and develop was such an awesome learning experience,” reported Creager. Riley Shullanberger, a junior, has multiple SAE’s relating to beef and forage production. His beef entrepreneurship SAE centers around a yearling calf project that he shares with his brother. In this project, the pair buy, put weight on and sell yearling calves for profit. Shullanberger has had to use information on vaccinations and diseases that he learned in class to keep his animals healthy. Riley is an integral part of his family’s haying operation and can be found changing wheel-lines, swathing, raking, baling, and delivering hay. In addition, he contracts with Rondo Proctor to haul the hay on the family ranch. Through these SAE’s, he has had to become familiar with basic maintenance on farm machinery and uses welding skills he has learned in the classroom. Riley says, “The best part
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Riley Shullanberger with his forage production SAE. about being in ag class is that what I learn there, I can take out to the field and use.” There is a total of 65 ag students that have an SAE’s in the chapter. Many of these include participation in the Lake County Fair. There they sell a market animal at the auction and it is a way for these students to enhance their education after high school. The ag students show an extreme amount of gratitude to this community that makes finding their passion in or out of agriculture possible. The triangle of agriculture is composed of FFA, classroom, and SAE projects. Students in the LHS ag program have many opportunities to increase their leadership capabilities through the FFA, they have structured lessons that teach about all components of agriculture in the classroom and have successful SAE projects that teach them skills to be successful in their futures. By Livy Hamrick Lakeview FFA Reporter
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Cara Albertson shows off her market goat to the crowd.
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