2014 Ranch, Farm and Timber

Ranch, Farm and Timber

2014

A Special Edition to the Lake County Examiner

Page 2 — 2014 Ranch, Farm and Timber LAKE COUNTY EXAMINER

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 2

Information Sharing— Important Priority by Ryan Bonham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 4

Public and Private Concerns Cooperate on Juniper Takedown by Eric Hedlund. . . . . . . .pg. 6

Six Generations of Ranchers, Six Years of Trucking by Eric Hedlund . . .. . . . . . . . . . pg. 10

Klippenstein Herd Has Roots Spread Across North America by Eric Hedlund. . . .. . . . . . . . . .pg. 14

Five Corners Sees Continual Growth by Ryan Bonham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 16

Sage Grouse Habitat, Wild Horse Concerns Run Parallel by Ryan Bonham. . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 18

‘Ag in the Classroom’ Program Engages Students by Ryan Bonham . . . . . . . . . .. . . .pg. 22 Shakers and Movers... It Continues by Eric Hedlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 24

Husband and Wife Forestry Grads Say OSU Prepared Them Well by Anne Kinkley. . . . pg. 28

Cut-to-Length...Helps Slope Hill Harvest by Eric Hedlund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 30

USDA Offers Help for Growers Interested in High Tunnel Greenhouses by Eric Hedlund. . . . . . pg. 34

Local Finds More Than Hobby in Silversmithing by Eric Hedlund. . . . . . . . .pg. 36

Western Heritage Museum Opens by Lee Juillerat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 40

Andy Rieber, Adel Cattlemen’s Advocate by Eric Hedlund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 44

New Contractor, Lumber Biz Serves North Lake Area by Ryan Bonham. . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 46

Scholarship Opportunities Abound forAgriculture Studies by Ryan Bonham. . . .pg. 48

A Flock of a Different Breed by Lee Juillerat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .pg. 50

Husband and Wife Duo Active in Agriculture Advocacy by Ryan Bonham . . . . . . . . . . . pg. 52

Welcome to our annual Lake Coun-ty Ranch, Farm and Timber edition.

Lake County is a diverse and inter-esting county — playing home to a vari-ety of agriculture and timber endeavors.

As always, the Examiner staff has done their best to compile an array of information and stories to pique your interest and curiosity. And of course to keep you, our valued reader, well in-

formed!The entire staff of: Ryan Bonham,

Eric Hedlund, Dava Harrington, Jennifer Antle, Kristin Keiser, Ashley Chen and myself combined efforts to bring this edition together.

We also have included a few stories written by some folks outside of Lake County, about folks in Lake County that we are certain you will enjoy.

As we are always looking for inter-

esting story ideas, please don’t hesitate

to contact us with your suggestions.

But for not..... sit back, relax and be

prepared to gain some new knowledge

about our wonderful county and the

unique people who live here!

— Tillie Flynn, General Manager

Ranch, Farm & Timber 2014

Editorial Index

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In this ever-increasing digital age, infor-mation sharing is all the more important for those making their living in agriculture.

This is an important fact for groups such as the Lake County Hay and Forage Association, a group featuring a countywide membership. Its current president, Leon Baker, is in his second one-year term and has been involved since the association’s inception in the early 1990s.

The group is currently in the process of revising its objectives, but as a whole provides a vital support network for those involved with hay growing in the county.

“Basically, it is to support hay growers in the Lake County area,” Baker said, “through information, practices and things that would enhance their operations.”

The base membership currently stands at about 43 members, he said, which includes associate members who are retailers selling to farmers. The roster is inclusive of hay growers in North Lake, Lakeview and the Warner Valley communities of Adel and Plush, Baker said.

The majority of the members, however, live in the Christmas Valley region, he noted.

Other officers include Joe Baertlein, vice-president (also serving as the Oregon State Hay

growers treasurer), Kathy Stout, secretary and Sandra Overton, treasurer.

Monthly meetings are held at The Lodge at Summer Lake, with the exception of the sum-mer haying months of June through August.

Baker said that business meetings typical-ly cover general topics and finances, along with occasional guest speakers that have included National Weather Service representatives to independent business spokesmen. Lake County Commissioner attended last fall, speaking with the members on road weight-mile tax issues and other topics.

“We’ve had very good meetings with those folks who talk to us, on many varied matters,” Baker said. “We’re trying to educate growers… for the sake of marketing and production.”

Larger-scale issues affecting hay grow-ers include trucking-related topics, specifically related to taxes and varied laws, Baker said. Since this is the means of transporting product out of the county, it continues to be a major con-cern for producers.

Baker noted that the group is interested in exploring potential use of the Lake County Rail-road as a transportation tool. He said it could be especially useful in the export of hay and

import of such amendments as soil fertilizers.“It would be a major project to bring that

forward,” he said, noting it is a very tentative matter at this stage.

Environmental issues, of course, affect anyone involved in virtually any form of agri-culture and the Lake County Hay and Forage Association keeps tabs on things that may af-fect their livelihood.

Among these are the well-publicized con-cerns over genetically-modified organisms, or GMOs, with specific concern as to traveling GMO pollen may invade other farmers’ crops.

“There’s just a lot of issues seemingly now that are coming up that years ago you couldn’t predict…,” he said.

The association participates in a yearly hay and straw competition, with a revolving lo-cation. It was held in Lakeview in 2007, and this year’s competition was held in Medford and sponsored by the Southwest Oregon Hay grow-ers Association.

Lake County Hay and Forage Association meets on the first Thursday of each month at 6 p.m.

For more information, contact Leon Baker at 541-576-2367, or visit www.lakecountyhay-growers.org.

Lake County Hay & Forage Association membership regularly participates in the annual Straw and Hay King contest, which changes location each year. This year’s contest was held in Medford, while the 2007 event was held in Lakeview.

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Unlike many other species of concern to those that manage both public and private lands, juniper has always been a native species that overstepped its boundaries rather than an invasive noxious weed.

Right now, programs to reduce the impact of juniper overgrowth have made and continue to make strides of thousands of acres. The Nat-ural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), a part of the US Dept. of Agriculture, has a few different ongoing programs to help private land-owners take out encroaching juniper.

A project overseen by the Bureau of Land Management in acreage designated the South Warner area will cut around 25,000 acres of juniper on 55,000 acres of BLM-managed lands.

Two different programs – the Mule Deer Initiative and the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI) - fund private side juniper removal efforts, ac-cording to Brandi St. Clair, a local Oregon Department of Fish and Wild-life habitat biologist. She says that, so far, the Sage Grouse Initiative will fund around 4,000 acres of cutting this year alone, with the Mule Deer Initiative possibly funding another 4,000 acres.

“Most of the funding have been secured for our county from SGI. The next deadline for private landowners to sign up for the program is

March 21,” said St. Clair.“With SGI, we always seems to get some kind of funding, but the

Mule Deer Initiative is more restrained,” she added.In June, she said, the BLM will be partnering with private interests

to make sure juniper gets removed all across needed parts of the South Warner area. “We’re working on a blanket approach, treating a big area without worrying as much about public or private boundaries,” said St. Clair.

Todd Forbes, assistant field manager for the local BLM office, gave some explanation of why juniper has spread so much since the early 1900s. “Around the turn of the century, the amount of livestock grazing limited fuels that would allow the fires to spread,” he explained. “After World War II, people got really good at putting out wildfires, too.”

Fires in grassier areas once spread quickly and eliminated small juniper trees that were growing into the areas, according to Forbes. Ju-niper was then restricted to areas that weren’t burned frequently.

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why the juniper coming into areas of grass and shrubs could be a problem. “The shrub component can be lost as juniper density increases, which can then lead to losing the grass component as well,” he said.

Juniper will not only deny sunlight to grasses and shrubs underneath its canopy as it grows, but possesses the ability to take in large amounts of water, from 50 to 80 gallons per day. This denies water in an area to both plants and wildlife.

Another concern is the loss of habitat for mule deer, sage grouse and bighorn sheep as juniper moves in. Sage grouse in particular will leave an area that’s even 10 percent cov-ered by juniper, according to Forbes.

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All in all, Lytle says he enjoys his work and appreciates those that continue to take advan-tage of the service. “We’re trying to survive and make money but also provide good ser-vice,” he said.

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Very few ranchers around Lake County don’t know ‘Sonny’ Lytle and Dustin Simms, according to them. They own Simms Trucking, and haul cattle both in and outside the county.

The place the Simms call home is east of Valley Falls, sitting close to Abert Rim. The Simms Ranch will see its sixth generation raised on the property in Dustin’s son Jacob.

With their cattle hauling business, the ranch hasn’t been their main source of income for some time. Before they bought their two trucks, Lytle said he worked out in the forest running a cat.

After trying some longer hauls that many cattle transporters prefer, Lytle says he would rather stay in Lake County as much as possible. “I like to be home at night,” he said. “When I started I went to the Midwest, but found out quickly it was something I didn’t want to do.”

Another reason to stay closer to home is the chance to stay in contact with a lot of ranchers and friends he sees through his busi-ness. As one of the commercial trucks for hire in the area, Lytle’s able to see a lot of people he might otherwise not see very often if at all throughout the year.

“We’re able to pretty well take care of ev-eryone,” he says of their work. Gabe Cobian, another local, also works as a cattle hauler often working with the Simms father and son team on some of the same jobs.

Dustin started hauling in 2008, with Lytle joining in the next year after they bought a second truck. “We needed the extra income, so I started hauling for other ranchers. Cattle hauling has become a pretty steady business,” said Lytle.

They stay pretty busy most of the year, but only run one truck during slower seasons according to Lytle. Fall is their most busy time, when many ranchers send their cattle off to be sold.

Lytle tries to allow Dustin time at home during their less busy seasons, reasoning that he needs it more with a child at home.

Otherwise, they move a lot of cattle be-tween winter and summer ranges. “A lot of ranchers graze their cattle on BLM lands in spring and March until early summer, in Mid-June they come off there and graze in public or private forests,” said Lytle.

He does take cattle to Vale, Shasta or Ma-dras cattle auctions, and as far as Idaho for the ZX ranch near Paisley.

One thing the Simmses have learned with hauling cattle is to be careful with loading and unloading their charges. “A load of cattle is $75,000 to $100,000 worth of someone else’s per-sonal property,” said Lytle. “You have to drive safely and load correctly.”

He also has to keep up on the rules and regulations of the trucking business, of which he said there are many. Luckily, he said, they’ve had few breakdowns, with no major re-pairs needed to their truck.

“We try to do our own maintenance, but

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Lytle Simms, known as ‘Sonny’ to most, works with his son Dustin hauling cattle for ranchers around Lake County.

Though the Simms family owns two trucks that they use for their cattle hauling business, Simms Trucking, much of the year they only run one at a time as fall and spring are their busiest seasons.


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Sometimes the best education comes through direct involvement; just ask Gabriella DeSimone, the current Oregon Beef Ambassa-dor.

DeSimone is currently in the middle of her tenure for this position, which has had a total of three focuses: consumer promotion, classroom presentations and social media.

All of these elements share a common thread of public outreach and education, rang-ing from the sharing of general information pertaining to the beef industry with the general public to educational presentations to students of high school age and younger.

Classroom presentations typically include topics such as nutrition or the pasture-to-plate cycle, which examines the varied stages of beef production.

A 2012 graduate of Crater School of Busi-ness, Innovation and Science in Central Point, DeSimone is no stranger to agriculture. Her grandparents, Billy and Athena Fluornoy of Likely, Calif., own and operate Likely Land &

Livestock, a cow/calf operation featuring Har-ris Ranch as a cattle customer.

DeSimone’s parents, Mike and Dawne, of White City, own and operate Southern Oregon Select, a pear packing shed, while her brother recently opened the Old 99 Wine Shop, both in Medford.

DeSimone first heard of the Oregon Beef Ambassador program through friend Katie Stroud, who served as the California Beef Am-bassador as well as the National Ambassador Team last year. Each state assigns its own ambassador, selected on specific criteria and through an application process.

This process includes a 5-8 minute speech related to the beef industry recorded on DVD, a 200-word response to a provided article, a gen-eral application and a telephone interview.

Through her involvement, DeSimone said she’s improved her public relations skills in articulating clear and concise thoughts while interacting with consumers.

“I have been able to meet so many won-derful people and made great connections,” she said, “and I have further discovered my passion for the education and public relation aspect of the industry.”

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Gabriella DeSimone the current Oregon Beef Ambassador, is the granddaughter of Billy and Athena Fluornoy of Likely, Calif. owners and operators of Likely Land & Livestock.


The position has afforded her an oppor-tunity to interact with such organizations as the Oregon Cattlemens Association, Oregon Cattlewomen, American National CattleWom-en, the California Cattlemen (her grandfather is currently the First Vice President and the California Beef Council.

DeSimone recently transferred to Chico State University from Oregon State, with a targeted graduation in the spring of 2015. She is pursuing a degree in agricultural business management, with a minor in Spanish.

Long-term goals are most certainly cen-tered around agriculture; namely livestock.

“My main goal is to work here at the ranch and start my own cattle company, my own brand…,” she said.

DeSimone said she also hopes for opportu-nity to travel and continue to be involved in the outreach and educational aspects of promoting the beef industry.

“I know I’m going to be in beef produc-tion,” she said. “I really love being here on the ranch, and I really love the education and out-reach piece.”

DeSimone encourages youth to take the proactive approach in getting early involve-ment, based on her positive experiences.

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Eventually, they worked their way to Bend before finding a cozy 105-acre place near Lakev-iew to come and live with their cows, Marc’s brother Kent and Kent’s wife, Marcia.

Marc himself was born into raising Her-eford cows, according to Rachel, as his father managed a herd of horned Herefords that he convinced his boss to buy. “Marc as a young boy didn’t like de-horning,” said Rachel, “so he got polled Herefords.”

Marc says he can trace every cow and bull in his current herd back to cattle purchased in Saskatchewan, Canada or Maryland.

In Maryland, he bought a heifer from a well-known breeder for $600, making monthly payments on what was, at the time, a fair sum. Another of his initial investments was funded by a $5,000 loan that went to purchase a Cana-dian bull.

This took place around the early 70s, when Marc said the cattle industry was going to breeding for larger sizes of cattle. Such bulls became hard to find in the US, so he decided to go into Canada.

Out of the $5,000, Marc said, $2,760 went to buy a new truck to get him to a breeder in Saskatchewan, from which he bought a bull for $1200. After bringing it back to the states, he

Rachel and Marc Klippenstein, l-r, have been together for 50 years, raising polled Herefords for even longer.

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traveled to a national cattle show in Houston, Texas with the heifer and bull.

Traveling around with the two, he managed to generate enough interest in them to sell some of the breeding rights to the bull. This gave him funds to purchase a larger herd.

He bought one part of his herd in Georgia, from a man who had kept 20 years worth of re-cords on his cattle. “The guy who owned them was one of the first to keep performance records, what they call EPDs (Expected Progeny Differ-ences) now,” said Marc.

Marc has kept up on genetic advances re-lated to cattle breeding over time, but Marc says he has a sense of what the outcome will be of a mating a particular cow and bull.

The Klippensteins later entered pens of three to five bulls at the National Western Stock Show in Denver for several years. “It gave us legitimacies for people we sold bulls to in South Dakota,” said Rachel. “We’ve had three cham-pions at the show,” she added.

Marc thinks Lake County and nearby ar-eas make for a good place to raise Herefords, as the stock here are mostly dark cows. “When Herefords are crossed with black breeds, it will increase the performance of the calf, fertility of the females and give them a longer life span,” he said. “The two breeds together have a hybrid vigor.”

Now, he says, they have enough cattle to get him out of bed in the morning to take care of. Lakeview has become an ideal setting for them and their business, sharing expenses between Marc, Rachel, Kent and Marcia.



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By all indicators, Five Corners Feed, LLC, is continually seeing growth under the new ownership. The business was acquired from previous owners in the summer of 2013.

The new owners enjoy the experienced services of family member Bryan Ensley who oversees general management of operations.

Grant Wishart, co-owner with Bryan’s fa-ther, Gordon, report the business has steadily increased sales since August of 2013, a trend all business owners like to see.

“We’ve seen sales increase as much as 30 percent,” Wishart said.

Located in the area known commonly to locals as Five Corners about 5 miles west of Lakeview, Five Corners Feed, operating as a limited liability corporation, features an ar-ray of inventory appealing to its local customer base.

In the agricultural realm, this includes a range of livestock feed and pet supplies, along with clothing and more in the realm of miscel-lany. Though primarily a Purina brand outlet on feed, Wishart said the store is looking at in-troducing additional brands down the road to broaden their offerings.

Customer demand will largely determine this factor, as certain order quantities are nec-

essary in order to earn a break on freight, he said. The idea is to help customers avoid trav-eling long distances by meeting their needs lo-cally, Wishart added.

Customers regularly request specific prod-uct lines, he said, such as horse feed, oats and dog food. With horse feed, specifically, custom-ers often shop with specific needs in mind, par-ticularly nutrient composition, Wishart said.

Mineral content and chemistry of varied feeds are common customer interests, par-ticularly as they pertain to senior animals for which they may be shopping.

From the start, Wishart said operations have centered around a philosophy of not mak-ing radical changes. We wanted to get a feel for the business and the needs of the community before doing anything groundbreaking. “I be-lieve the way to take the business to the next level is to bring in varied and different products when the time is right,” he said.

The store’s co-owners are looking to be-come more involved within the local commu-nity as well, Wishart said. He expressed a continued interest in supporting local 4-H pro-grams and the annual Lake County Round-Up and Fair, specifically.

That’s our customer base, he said. We want to be more of a presence than we have been in the past, to show our appreciation for our customer base.

Perusing the storefront reveals brands that

ring familiar with customers, including Wran-gler, Muck boots and Montana Silver jewelry.

Whether it’s livestock feed or a new toy for Fido, customers have plenty of options where product lines are concerned.

Business hours for Five Corners Feed, lo-cated at 93839 Hwy 140 west, are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

For more information, call 541-947-4224.

Five Corners Feed Gen. Mgr. Bryan Ensley and staffer Wendy Wilson proudly display just a sampling of the store’s inventory, which ranges from livestock feed to western wear and pet supplies.


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At present, there are separate but equally significant management issues related to each species.

Sage grouse management is currently under examination in an effort to prevent the bird from being listed as threatened or endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2015.

Wild horse numbers, particular-ly in the Beaty Butte area, are grow-ing at an ever-increasing rate due to the lack of available management practices.

In November 2013, the Bureau of Land Management announced the opening of a 90-day public comment

on its environmental impact state-ment related to sage grouse manage-ment strategies.

This EIS is a component of an amendment to its 2003 Resource Management Plan, and details var-ied alternatives related to managing sage grouse habitat.

The BLM’s preferred alterna-tive calls for a potential removal of grazing from some 118,000 acres throughout Eastern Oregon, a pro-posal which has many in the cattle ranching community concerned about local impacts.

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September.About a month prior, the Beaty Butte Graz-

ing Association discussed the excessive wild horse population with Lake County Commis-sioner Ken Kestner during an October meeting.

Andrea Rieber, a public lands consultant who serves as an independent contractor for those ranging from individual ranchers to the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association, said the wild horse numbers in the Beaty Butte area are about 400 percent of their appropriate manage-ment levels.

Rieber said ranchers object to grazing ab-sorbing blame on impacts to sage grouse habi-tat in the Beaty Butte area, citing belief of the growing wild horse population’s influence.

“There’s a real concern that the horses, due to their vast overpopulation, could be neg-atively affecting the sage grouse,” she said, “while the ranchers are going to essentially be taking the blame for that through grazing cuts.”

Lakeview District BLM Field Mgr. Tom Rasmussen noted that the agency’s Wild Horse and Burro Program is managed by its national program office.

The population numbers, under the plan, in Beaty Butte should be between 100 and 250 horses, but current population numbers are es-timated between 800 and 900.

“We’re way over the appropriate manage-ment level,” he said.

The agency is hamstrung, Rasmussen said, in the fact that it lacks the necessary funding as well as space for these horses, which annually grow at an estimated rate of 20 to 22 percent.

There’s no space for more horses in the BLM’s varied short- and long-term holding ar-eas, he said, so horse-gathering activities can-not be held.

Beaty Butte is the highest priority in the state for such a gather, Rasmussen said.

Historically, gathers in the Beaty Butte area used to be held every two to three years, he said. The last such gather was held about three years ago.

Public adoption events aren’t an option due to limited demand for horses, whether do-mestic or wild, Rasmussen said.

The wild horses impact sage grouse habi-tat on a variety of forefronts, including feeding on area grasses and trampling riparian areas where both species typically find water, he said.

The sage grouse EIS addresses the issue to the effect that it calls for wild horses to be man-aged at the required level, Rasmussen said, but the agency finds itself in a Catch-22 situation.

“The problem we’re up against is it’s so expensive to keep horses in short or long-term holding,” he said, “and we’re running out of money at the present.”

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Practical expe-rience is often among the most effective ways to learn.

The ‘Ag in the Classroom’ program is an ex-ample of such methodology, as the OSU Extension Lake County can attest. The agency introduced this program in the fall of 2012 and initially relied upon it as a recruitment tool for the Lake County 4-H programs, said Laurie Rice, an educational program assistant for the local extension office.

The initial incarnation of the program spanned five weeks in the spring and fall with ac-tivities for local second and third-grade students, Rice said. The feedback from students as well as school administration came back extremely posi-tive, she said.

“It evolved from a recruitment tool into its own thing,” Rice said.

Rice brought the program to both Fremont Elementary and Union School once a week for five weeks, usually based around a variety of sci-ence-related activities inclusive of a measure of rudimentary agriculture education.

Some of these activities centered around pumpkins, with students measuring their size and weights, while a ‘pumpkin pie in a bag’ proj-ect proved to be delightfully messy in the most hands-on fashion, Rice said.

This project afforded students the chance to combine milk, vanilla pudding mix and graham crackers into a swift pumpkin pie simulation.

“The pumpkin pie in a bag was a hit, of course, because they get to eat,” she said. “The potential for mess makes it a really good time.”

Another project included dirt babies, which centered around a small-scale grass-growing ac-tivity. This project was tied in with a study on the life cycle of a plant, and the typical growth duration was three to five days.

Students also enjoyed an opportunity to make butter from scratch, utilizing buttermilk.

Rice noted that the program meets state-wide educational requirements for mandated skill performance expectations at the state level.

As a result of the program’s popularity, the Extension Office expanded it in 2013 to include grades K through three as well as four through six, Rice said.

The curriculum is primarily built around topics relating to the life cycles of animals as well as plants, with compare and contrast components a primary part of the studies, she said.

The program’s implementation is chiefly in the Lakeview area, as Rice said Paisley School already had a similar component as part of their curriculum.

North Lake School’s four-day weekly sched-

OSU Extension Lake County’s Ag in the Classroom program affords students hands-on educational opportunities in a fun and exciting setting. Ashley Strubel, l-r, and Denver Johnson, both second-grade students of Trevor Arsenault at Fremont Elementary, eagerly engaged in learning about agriculture through the program.

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ule limits time available for such a program, but Rice said the annual outdoor school program in the spring affords students a chance to enjoy those activities.

This spring’s program is currently in devel-opment, Rice said, and activities will be rotated year to year to keep things fresh. Future changes will address what works well and what the needs are for the program, depending on how student performance testing results turn out.

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A large number of construction jobs related to irrigation and water systems for local farms and ranch-es mark the history of the Pardues. Their legacy goes back to when Par-due Construction was still Sheer’s Construction before Kevin Pardue took over the company.

Though they do a variety of work, much of what the Pardues have been called upon to do has been related to irrigation ditches, water-hole cleaning, leveling land for irri-gation pivots and filling the ruts they leave behind.

The group also owns a rock pit,

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“We have excavators, loaders, bulldozers, scrapers, skid steers, trucks and the rock crusher,” said Kevin.

Kevin isn’t the only member of the family currently keeping the company going, however, as both his wife and two sons have a stake in it. Linda, Kevin’s wife, takes care of much of the ‘dirty work’ according to Kevin, while their sons, Andy and Ste-ven, have operated e q u i p -ment

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lizing some of their own gravel, and done work on both private and public lands. “We’ve done some work for Ducks Unlimited and the Lake County Watershed Council,” Kevin said. “We worked on fish ladders and a resting pond on Crooked Creek, cleaned waterholes on BLM land and helped both create firelines for the Barry Point fire and do rehab work afterwards.

“We’ll do just about anything for money,” joked Kevin, commenting that he’s been asked before if he would jack up a house and help move it. “Business hasn’t been that slow yet,” was what he told the man that asked.

When the Ruby Pipeline came through the Lakeview area, much of Pardue Construction’s work consisted of rock crushing and trucking for the pipeline. Returning to their normal regi-men, they’ve come back to doing more work for ranches and farms around the area.

August of 2011 was when the company be-came Pardue Construction. Kevin bought the company from his wife’s father, Arthur Sheer, who founded it with his brothers back in 1981.

Later on, Steven was brought on board when he got his driver’s license, though he had helped run loaders and the rock crusher when he was younger. At age 21, he got his Com-

mercial Driver’s License, in order to drive the larger trucks.

The family operates out of their house at 610 S I St. in Lakeview, which is the same house that Sheer bought when he moved to Lakeview in 1960. Sheer Construction started in Sprague River two years before.

Both Linda and Kevin were born and raised in the area, with Kevin working on lo-cal farms and ranches before he started in the construction business. He spent one summer with the Forest Service, but chose not to make it a career.

PARDUE From page 24

Their future plans are to slowly upgrade their equipment, looking to acquire smaller pieces of equipment for in-town work where their current excavators and the like are just too much. “Almost everything we have is for large volumes of work,” said Kevin.

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Their commute to the office is a snap, but Chaylon Shuffield — who earned degrees from Oregon Sate University in 2007 and 2011 — and Amber Craigg Shuffield, a 2010 OSU graduate, don’t spend much time there.

Forest managers on the vast, 2.3 million-acre Fremont-Winema National Forest — which borders Crater Lake and the eastern slopes of the Cascades — they live next door to the headquarters of the Paisley Ranger District.

Chaylon grew up on a ranch north of Paisley, watching the local mill shut down and huge wildfires scar the land.

“I consider the Fremont-Winema to be my backyard,” he said. “In 1996 when the sawmill

shut down, my dad said, ‘You need to go to college.’”

His OSU forestry degrees pre-pared him to return to Paisley to help protect the land he loves. He credits the forest resources de-gree program and OSU Associate Professor John Bailey, a 1997 OSU graduate, for preparing him to be the fire ecologist for two ranger districts.

“He really pushed his students to figure out the best answer,” he said of Bailey.

Chaylon’s wife and fellow OSU forestry graduate, Amber, man-ages vegetation and plans harvests and conservation efforts in the for-est. Her family moved throughout the western states to several for-est districts with her dad, Terry Craigg, a soil scientist who earned a master’s in forest resources from OSU in 2010 and is working on a doctorate in forest engineering at Oregon State.

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The challenges and rewards of their jobs are huge.

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To increase their ability to harvest timber on more sharply sloped hills, Collins Company has taken to employing a form of equipment isn’t new, but has seen little use locally.

Through Miller Timber Services, based out of Philomath, Collins was able to make use of what is called ‘cut-to-length’ equipment. As stated by Lee Fledderjohann, resource manager at the Fremont Saw-mill, this sort of equipment is most used in countries like Finland, Swe-den and others near the Baltic Sea.

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With cut-to-length harvesting equipment, the second necessary piece is the forwarder, shown above. It comes in behind the harvester, picks up logs, and then transports them to a staging area, also loading them onto trucks.


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Mark King, working for Miller Timber Services on a contract with Collins in the Barry Point fire area, demonstrates the workings of a ‘cut-to-length’ system harvester.


Miller Timber Services uses a brand of the cut-to-length machines called Ponsse, which is based out of Finland.

The ability to operate on steeper slopes than conventional systems isn’t the only advantage of the technology, however. Harvesting only requires two pieces of equipment with the cut-to-length system, a har-vester and what is referred to as a ‘forwarder’.

The harvester operates by grabbing a tree with a hydraulic arma-ture, which then cuts the tree off at the base, delimbs it, and cuts it into operator-specified lengths in one go. “The harvester cuts and processes the trees into lengths, and the forwarder picks them up and loads them into the log trucks,” said Miller Timber harvester operator Mark King.

Most commercial timber harvesters use some combination of fell-ers, skidders, delimbers and log loaders. Trees are felled, skidded out in bunches from the cutting site, delimbed, bucked and then loaded onto logging trucks in conventional ‘whole-tree’ logging.

Along with other members of a Miller Timber Services crew, King has been working on areas of Collins land burned by the Barry Point fire. The cut-to-length technology allowed them to harvest on some of the land that would have otherwise gone untouched.

The operation also generally leaves less impact on the ground in terms of compaction from the weight of their wheels, compared to regu-lar timber cutting. In the fire harvest area, this was less true, as it depends on running over green limbs that the harvester drops on-site.

“Most of the slash ends up in the trails,” said King. “With green slash, we can run in wetter conditions. The tracks and design of the ma-chine helps spread out our weight and break down the material.”

When it comes to disadvantages of the cut-to-length technology, there are a few limitations that have kept it from becoming widespread. One is the fact that the harvester King uses can only process trees of up to 29.5 inches in diameter.

Another is the capability of traditional harvesting practices to produce greater log lengths for later milling.

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Those interested in growing vegetables locally to sell through co-ops or the farmer’s market have an avenue of assistance from the US Dept. of Agriculture in which to take advantage. The USDA offers financial assistance on the purchase of so-called high tunnel greenhouses, which provide a means of extending the growing season in areas like Lakeview.

The basic structure is simple – steel hoops that are set in the ground and covered with plastic, concentrating heat and moisture inside. So far, the only ones to take advantage of the program in Lake County have been the Buntens, who live just north of Lakeview and put in two of the structures this past year.

“It’s been a test to see what will come up without heat,” said Hugh Bunten. So far he’s been able to grow kale, chard, some varieties of cab-bage and lettuce among others during the winter season.

Many of the plants were able to survive the record-breaking cold of early December. Bunten does fertilize with manure, compost and ashes, as well as keeping the plants covered much of the time with greenhouse cloth.

When the USDA program began, they asked those given funds to keep track of what they grew and how it did in order to secure more in-formation on how well the high tunnel greenhouses worked.

According to Max Corning, who works for the Natural Resource Conservation Service of the USDA in Lakeview, that part has been dis-continued. “We were asking for records at the end of a 3-year period. That was an interim practice, which just changed for out 2014 sign-up period,” said Corning.

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In other parts of the US and Oregon, according to Corning, the pro-gram has helped a lot of growers of organic produce. Sometimes, he said, it helps just to have a covered area to start plants before trans-planting them to an open garden.

High tunnel greenhouses are available as kits, which are a required purchase as part of the USDA program. Each kit comes with a instruc-tions on how to assemble the structure and properly install it in the ground.

“Each one has to have a height of at least 6 feet,” said Corning. “There’s a max square footage that we’re willing to help pay for, which comes to about 2,198 square feet,” he added. They reimburse clients who have signed up at a rate of about $2.54 per square foot once they have the structure together.

Other requirements to take advantage of the program include being an agricultural producer and owning land designated to be crop land by the USDA. “Those like the Buntens that are producing vegetables for some restaurants and the Saturday market could probably benefit from a high tunnel greenhouse to extend their growing season,” said Corning.

The early years of the program, which came about as part of a national initiative stemming from the 2008 Farm Bill, gave the USDA a lot of data that they have made available to clients. “When Oregon was getting into the program, we were gleaning info on research done in the Midwest states and extension service in Wisconsin that was beneficial in understanding how the high tunnel structures work,” said Corning.

“Some information from other states has been really helpful, which has been given to those involved,” he added.

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A 6-hour session with a silver engraver got local Sheena Felder hooked on designing her own silver jewelry, something she’s continued with for the last three years. Finding herself with some time on her hands at the 2010 Ranch Rodeo Finals in Winnemucca, Felder visited a booth run by someone she knew that had an engraver set up.

After finally being convinced to go ahead and try her hand at the work, she soon found it was something she wanted to be able to do on her own.

“He told me I should probably pursue it because I had a knack for it,” said Felder. It ended up giving her a hobby to do during the winter months when she couldn’t ride her horse.

As an avid rodeo fan, Felder enjoys both riding her horse, roping and designing jewelry and silver hardware for western-style belts and saddles. The connection seemed obvious to her later, as she had always admired silver items sported by cowboys, cowgirls and buckaroos since moving to the Lakeview area.

“I thought it would be good to combine something artistic and west-ern,” she says of her engraving designs. She started with some work for herself and for her horse’s saddle.

Locals saw her work, and wanted to buy it, so now she maintains a Facebook page for her work and takes orders locally. Still, she says, team roping is her main passion in life.

As a full-time employee of the Lakeview Medical Clinic, her time is limited, but she still takes the time to make and design silver pieces when she can. “All the stuff I think up in my head. I don’t like to repli-cate things I’ve already seen and try to be original,” Felder said.

The silver she uses comes in a sheet that has to be cut by hand with a jeweler’s saw, which Felder says is the most tedious stage. Larger engravers have stamps, she says, but her operation hasn’t gotten that big yet.

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ing out the basic design first and engraving over the top of it. “If any soldering is involved, like on a buckle or anything that involves joining pieces, I have to heat the whole thing up,” said Felder. She commented that she isn’t a fan of soldering, and would rather not have to do any metal fabrication.

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All in all, she has made buckles, cantle plates, bracelets and some wrap-around rings. For her work, she’s acquired both the jeweler’s saw and motorized buffing wheel, as well as a pneumatic engraver, ball vise and a number of different engraving tools.

“I never expected to be metalworking,” said Felder. “I didn’t know it would become as big as it has, which keeps me very busy. The silverwork is pretty popular with people.”

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The final meal, appropriately, was a feast.The last meal ever served from the MC

Chuck Wagon was dished out to more than 400 people at the (August 10, 2014) grand opening celebration for the MC Chuck Wagon Western Heritage Exhibit.

“It’s gratifying this many people came out to put the MC Chuck Wagon in the rest home,” quipped D.L. “Jack” Nicol, who ate meals pre-pared by chuck wagon cooks while worked as a cowboy with the MC Ranch, which he later managed. “I spent five summers on this wagon . It was a kitchen on wheels.”

“It really ultimately was the center of the universe,” Phil Reynolds, editor of the maga-zine Ranch & Reata and the event’s guest speaker, said of the importance of chuck wag-ons that accompanied MC Ranch and other ranch’s cowboys during their months moving cattle. “Really, what it was a home, and now it’s got a home.”

“Home” for chuck wagon is a small park on the site of a former gas station near the in-tersection of Hwys 395 and 140 in Lakeview. Al-though the chuck wagon was on the property’s lawn for Saturday’s dedication, it will be moved inside a newly built ranch house-style building. Along with the chuck wagon, the building dis-plays will include saddles, bedrolls, chaps, hats and other gear used by MC cowboys. Display

items can be seen through windows from a cov-ered porch that wraps around three sides of the exhibit.

At its peak, the MC was one of Oregon’s largest ranches, covering nearly a millions in Oregon and Nevada and running upwards of 19,000 Hereford cattle.

During the ceremonies, Nicol turned over the deed for the property and display to Lakev-iew Mayor Mike Patrick and Town Manager Ray Simms. Nicol also created a fund that will cover ongoing maintenance costs at the small park.

“It’s a great tribute to the western way of life and your family,” Patrick said, referring to Nicol, who dedicated the project to his mother, Marie, father, Henry, and grandparents, Bill and Maude, who raised him after his mother died when he was a young boy.

Simms, who comes from a ranching fam-ily, said the exhibit celebrates “the heritage of working cowboys. We’re so proud to have this here.”

David Simon, an attorney for Nicol, said Nicol was the driving force for the project, which faced significant hurdles because the ex-hibit site had been a gas station and had Oregon Department of Transportation access issues. He credited the Oregon Department of Envi-ronmental Quality for working with the family,

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Joining the celebration were some of the few remaining MC cowboys, including leg-endary cattle boss Clevon Dixon and his wife, Anola, along with Max Elliott, the late Gary Gooch who passed on last December, Dick Read and Cliff Gunderson.

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Jack Nicol and his niece, Amy Thompson, traced the exhibit’s history and significance before turning over the property’s title deed to the Town of Lakeview as part of the dedication.


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“I knew it belonged in Lakev-iew,” Nicol said. “And, from the amount of people here, you agree with me.”

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The MC Chuck Wagon pro-vided moveable feasts for eight or nine MC Ranch cowboys from early spring to late fall.

The wagon was pulled by four large Belgium draft horses and usually driven by the cook or buckaroo boss. It was filled with sacks of flours and beans, dried fruit, coffee, sugar and such staples as eggs packed in gelatin and ranch cured ham and bacon. Cattle were killed on the desert to provide fresh meat.

When moving from camp to

camp, the cowboys bedrolls were stacked atop provisions, and a canvas cover was placed over the wagon to keep items dry. The cook was assisted by a wrango boy, who gathered sagebrush to provide fuel for the stove that was attached to the wagon. The wrango boy also moved the cow-boys strings of 50 to 60 horses. The MC crews made three circles a year, each cover-ing a distance of about 160 miles with ten defined campgrounds. The spring drives began from the ranch headquarters in Adel and moved cattle to the desert for summer grazing. A second drive in June was centered on brand-ing calves. In early fall, cattle were gathering and trailed to the ranch for the winter. Break-fast typically included bacon and ham, sunny-side up eggs, baking powder biscuits and “cowboy cof-fee” - a two gallon coffeepot was filled with four handfuls of cof-fee. Meals also often included thick pancakes that were crisp on the outside and doughy inside.

BUCKAROOS From page 40

Clevon and Anola Dixon were among the hundreds to attend the formal dedication of the MC Chuckwagon exhibit last summer. Clevon, a legendary cattle boss, is among the few remaining MC Ranch cowboys.

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Freelance writing opened up a whole new world of options for Andy Rieber after she moved to Adel in 2009. She began writing for the Western Livestock Journal early the same year after sending a sample that was well received by the editor of the publication.

Rieber says she’s written quite a bit about issues dealing with public lands and wolves in Or-egon from the standpoint of their impact on grazing. After a few conversations with John O’Keeffe, current president-elect of the Or-egon Cattlemen’s Association (OCA), she agreed to do some research for the group on public lands issues.

“I’ve kind of developed two careers,” Rieber said of her work as a writer and public lands con-sultant. She’s also been called upon to give presentations and public speeches for various groups associated with the cattle industry and natural resources.

She never really thought she would end up in the position that she has, however. Rieber grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, and attend-ed college first in Massachusetts, majoring in philosophy at Smith

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University of St. Andrews for her graduate studies, later teaching undergraduate classes on philoso-phy as an instructor and teaching assistant at the University of Pitts-burgh and Harvard University.

Her interest in ranching led her to work as an intern on ranches around Utah, Nevada, Maryland and Montana.

Rieber’s life changed direc-tion when she contracted Lyme disease at around 30 years old. For the past decade or so of her life, she has suffered from chronic symptoms of the disease, which kept her from continuing to pursue the work in which she was familiar.

She lived for a while with her parents on the Oregon coast, Jo and Roger Rieber before coming to the Lakeview area where she hap-pened to have a contact.

Freelance writing came as an outlet that allowed Rieber to work from home, continuing to maintain a connection to the ranching and agricultural communities.

Her philosophy is that the many uses of public land are valu-able and don’t have to be mutually

exc l u s i ve. W h e t h e r it’s grazing, recreat ion or timber harvesting, each can be done in a sustainable, ecologically c o n s c i o u s manner, she said.

“ I t ’ s really im-portant for county governments and ranchers throughout Lake County to engage in discussion on important issues,” Rieber stated. Her concern is the difficulty for the ranching community of being po-litically active in addition to their work.

However, she says, the Lake County government has done a good job of ensuring the economy and culture of the county are sus-tained.

On her side, she keeps track of specific laws pertaining to grazing on public lands, and tries to make sure organizations keep to the law. “I keep an eye on special interest

groups that want to limit natural resource use on public lands, and ensure the livestock industry has a voice,” said Rieber.

Her passion is not only being an advocate for those that depend on public lands for their livelihood, but also writing about the culture of ranching and the type of people who make their living off the land.

“It’s part of our national iden-tity and character. Traditional ranching culture is still thriving in the back-40,” commented Rieber. She thinks that people around the nation like to know that ranching and traditional values are still alive.

Having to change how she thought of herself through the ex-perience of becoming a writer, con-sultant and public speaker taught her a lot, Rieber said.

“If you have a passion, you can really sink your teeth into something. It’s not something you need a degree in. I know now that I can create and re-create myself in a way I hadn’t imagined before,” she concluded.

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Late last De-cember, Jacob Lam-bert hung his shingle in Christmas Valley.

Such a platitude is more than appropriate for Lambert, who is currently growing his new North Lake business. Along with serving as a retail outlet for lumber and other building ma-terials, Jacob Lambert Construction, LLC, also focuses on large-scale contractor work.

Lambert is no stranger to the North Lake area, having grown up in Silver Lake from the fourth grade on, and graduating from North Lake High School in 1993.

Initially, his high school and post-high school working years brought him into agricul-ture, he said.

“I worked for Bell A Land and Cattle Com-pany, when I was about 15, and worked there until I was 23,” Lambert said.

He then worked for his uncle, a contractor, building a bunkhouse for the ZX Ranch, which was his first-ever project. After work slowed, he went to work for a masonry company in Sisters building houses. It was circa 2000 that Lambert made the decision to go into business for himself as a general contractor.

For the next five or six years, he built homes around Sisters and Bend, relocating back to Lake County to go to work for the Bell A Land Cattle Company, initially part-time while

still doing part-time contracting work. The lat-ter eventually grew into a full-time pursuit.

The storefront site, located conveniently off of the Christmas Valley Highway, features a fenced-in lumberyard area just north of the building. All dimensional sizes of Douglas fir are available, as well as sheeting materials, in-clusive of plywood, siding and sheet rock.

A related service includes lumber take-offs, utilizing either basic plans or detailed blueprints in gathering a customer’s needed materials, Lambert said.

Assistance in planning such smaller proj-ects for do-it-yourselfers, such as storage sheds, is also offered by Lambert. Virtually any mate-rials or tools can be ordered, also.

As he doesn’t seek to compete with local hardware retailers, Lambert said that he’s fo-cused on bringing in materials not available at local merchants.

“Basically, anything you need to build a house, we can get,” he said. “We’re just trying to provide a service here so people don’t’ have to go out of town.”

Orders placed on Wednesday typically ar-rive by Friday, and contractors are afforded a five percent discount.

Contractor jobs such as window replace-ments and small remodel projects Lambert hopes to turn over to other local contractors, as his main focus is on larger scale work. He

currently has three homes slated to begin con-struction this spring.

Business hours for the storefront are cur-rently 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Fri-day.

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High school seniors mapping out their pathways to college should take note that schol-arship opportunities exist for those whose inter-ests are leaning toward agriculture.

Lakeview High School Counselor Lonnie Chavez has information compiled on varied scholarship programs, including those ear-marked for agricultural studies, in an infor-mational brochure. Chavez is also prepared to help students find their way as needed through the application process.

Deadlines for some of these scholarship programs are approaching as early as mid-February, so students are advised to approach programs of interest with due diligence.

The Chuck Reed Memorial Scholarship is the earliest of these programs, with appli-cations due by Feb. 20. Chavez said that this program is overseen by a private family and focuses specifically on students pursuing horse-related activities or studies.

Some programs, such as the Klamath/Lake County Farm Bureau scholarship pro-gram, as well as the Lake County Stockgrowers Association scholarship, require the applicant’s to have family involved with either organiza-tion.

The Farm Bureau scholarship (May 15 deadline) is a one-time $500 grant, with two grants issued each year. Eligibility criteria re-quire students to be graduating seniors from

Klamath or Lake county preparing to enter an Oregon college or university. Applications need to be accompanied by two letters of recommen-dation to the Farm Bureau Committee.

The Lake County Stockgrowers Associa-tion scholarship (May 10 deadline) features two awards of $500 and $300, respectively.

Criteria examined by the Stockgrow-ers’ Scholarship Selection Committee include grades, SAT scores, application completeness and neatness, involvement in the beef industry, leadership qualities, goals for the future and letters of recommendation.

Applicants must have one parent that’s a member of the Stockgrowers and Lake County resident of at least two years.

Another popular local program is the Jama Harms Memorial Scholarship (Aug. 1 deadline), established in 1996 in memory of a Lake County 4-H member that passed away a year prior. Scholarships awarded annually to students that had participated in 4-H, with funds supported by an animal auctioned off during the annual 4-H and FFA Fat Stock Sale during the fair weekend.

Shasta Livestock Auction Yard, in Cotton-wood, Calif., has preserved the memory of its late former manager, Andy Peek with a schol-arship program. Recipients of the scholarship are announced each year during the Red Bluff Bull Sale at the end of January.

Criteria include full-time enrollment and pursuing a career in agriculture, with an em-phasis in the livestock industry. For more infor-mation see shastalivestock.com.

The Klamath Falls-based J.W. Kerns Ir-rigation Company also offers up an endowed scholarship (deadline April 4) each year, first established in 2004. The program is open to stu-dents from Klamath, Lake and Modoc counties. Criteria include agriculturally-based family in-come, level of community service, participation in school activities and level of financial need.

Numerous statewide and national scholar-ship programs are also in abundance, Chavez said.

Chavez said that agricultural business ma-jors are a popular pursuit for students, while others seek out veterinary science. The long-standing heritage of family ranching operations serves as a primary influence, she noted.

“When I first came to the county, I was just amazed at all the ranchers who had gone off to college, and that encouraged that,” Chavez said. “It’s a very educated group in this com-munity.”

As the saying goes, the early bird gets the worm, so Chavez encourages students to begin planning early for scholarships.

For more information, contact Chavez at 541-947-2287.

A lamb is auctioned off each year during the fair weekend’s 4-H and FFA Fat Stock Sale in s u p p o r t o f t h e J a m a H a r m s M e m o r i a l Scholarship. Numerous Lake County students have benefitted from this program. John Flynn, l-r, purchased the lamb from the 2012 Jama Harms Scholarship recipient Brittnee Kezer, on behalf of the Lake County Round-Up and Past Presidents Museum.


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Churro sheep, an ancient Iberian breed prized for their wool, roam at the Ovie Ranch near Lakeview.

When Mike and Jannice Cut-ler decided they liked working with churro sheep, a breed that’s rela-tively rare and has a fascinating history, they started a small flock and then faced a challenge.

“We have the animals. What do we do with them” Mike remem-bers.

That was eight years ago. And over those years the Cutlers have found multiples, including their wool, excess lambs, breeding ewes, fleeces, pelts and even the skulls. Skulls, for example, are sold af-ter being cleaned and decorated. Some sheep and lambs are kept as replacements, others sold as breeders or sold for meat.

“We feel a little said when they go in the trailer,” Jannice ad-mits.

For the Cutlers, the primary use for their small flock - 24 reg-istered adult ewes, 20 lambs and three rams - is selling the wool as fleece or as rovings, or long, narrow bundles of fiber that can be hand-spun, weaved, felted or braided. Most is sold, but the couple keeps a supply for their own use, includ-ing weaving and spinning.

“We’re in a big learning phase,” Mike says. “It’s cool work-ing with the natural fiber.”

“It’s our hobby business,” Jan-nice says of their business, Ovie Ranch. “We’re not getting rich. But it’s enjoyable working with the ani-

mals, with the wool.”The Ovie Ranch, located west

of Lakeview, is literally a business that’s spun off from their primary jobs. Both are range manage-ment specialists for the Bureau of Land Management, Mike from the Lakeview office, Jannice from the Alturas office.

It was through their jobs they learned to appreciate sheep and, specifically, churros. While work-ing for the BLM in Utah, both had permittees with sheep “and we both decided we like sheep,” Mike says.

“We’re able to deal with sheep and goats with minimal facilities,” Jannice says, noting they also have a small herd of angora goats they primarily raise for mohair. While they find much to like about chur-ros, both are intrigued by breed’s history.

Churro are descendants of Churra, an ancient Iberian sheep that was the first breed of do-mesticated sheep imported to the American continent by the Span-ish in the 1500 to provide feed and clothes for Spanish armies and set-tlers. Native Indians, who gradu-ally acquired flocks, also used the wool for textiles. Then, as now, the fleece from churro sheep is regard-ed for its luster, silky hand, variety of colors and durability. Especially prized, the Cutler’s say, is lamb’s wool because of it softness and color.

Churro became part of the culture of Pueblo, Dine’ (Navajo

people) and Apaches, but it was the Navajos who expanded the flocks and uses. In 1865, because the Navajos resisted settlers mov-ing on to their homelands, the Unit-ed States government killed flocks of churros. Navajos who escaped capture also preserved churros, which kept the breed alive. Later, in the 1930s, the U.S. government reduced churro herds during a se-vere drought.

Preserving the churro tradi-tion and culture are among the rea-sons the Cutlers gravitated to the breed. Their sheep are registered with the Navajo-Churro Sheep As-

sociation and the couple regularly attends annual The Sheep is Life celebrations in Arizona.

“We thought it interesting that we could do something with a rare breed,” Mike says, noting that in addition to the durable lustrous wool, churros are also hardy and disease resistant. Most of the Cutler’s rovings, batts, pelts, fleeces and related churro items are sold through their website, which has attracted buyers from Alaska, Canada, England, Hawaii and throughout the continental U.S.

For the Cutlers, working with the churros has fit in well with liv-ing near Lakeview. They previous-ly worked for the BLM’s Klamath Falls from 1993 to 2003. Their jobs took them elsewhere, but they re-turned to the Klamath Basin, this time to Lake County, in July 2012.

“We finally made our way back,” Mikes says. “Somehow,” Jannice says, “the sheep were call-ing.”

Information on the Ovie Ranch and their products is avail-able from their website at www.ovieranch.com, emailing [email protected] or calling 541-947-2008, although they prefer emails. Churro sheep, including breeder animals, locker lambs (all the 2013 lambs and mutton is sold out), raw wool fleeces, wool roving and sheep pelts, are offered along with Angora goats, kids and mo-hair. The Ovie Ranch also has a Facebook site.

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During the day, John and Tillie Flynn work in opposite settings, but they share com-mon ground in their advocacy of agriculture.

Both share roots planted in family opera-tions off of the land. John continues a long leg-acy in the form of the family cattle ranching business, Flynn & Sons, LLC, with ranches sited in both Beatty (Klamath County) and Plush.

Tillie, general manager and advertising director for Lake County’s weekly newspaper

of record, the Lake County Examiner, original-ly hails from Merrill in Klamath County. The Walker family potato business continues under the operations of her brothers to this day.

Both of their daughters are currently fin-ishing doctoral programs, with eldest Kirby fin-ishing a veterinary program on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts. Kelsie is closing in on com-pleting her pharmaceutical program at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.

Reflective of their support for the beef industry at large is their involvement with ad-vocacy organizations. This past fall, John was appointed to serve on the Oregon Beef Council’s board of directors while Tillie is currently serv-ing as the vice-president in charge of fundrais-ers for the Oregon Cattlewomen.

Oregon Beef CouncilRelatively fresh in his term on the Oregon

Beef Council board, John was appointed in Sep-tember of 2013, and serves as a representative of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association.

The group meets on a quarterly basis, discussing varied beef industry-related topics. A fee is collected (10 cents per head) through coordination by the state brand inspector on cattle sales.

The council then discusses funding re-quests for trial operations, which once approved are issued as grants. John noted that professors conducting research often submit funding re-quests, which are submitted in September for the council’s consideration in their December meeting.

“A lot of our money will go toward beef promotion in the schools,” he said, noting the council has about $80,000 per year available for dispersal.

John is one of eight board members in to-tal, which includes representatives of feedlots and other facets of the industry. Members of the board are appointed by the state’s secretary of agriculture.

A member from the Portland area, he said, is the last home economics teacher in the

Portland area. Once she retires, the program will vanish with her, he said.

For more information, visit www.orbeef.org.

Oregon Cattlewomen Along with overseeing Lake County’s

weekly news source, Tillie is active as an of-ficer in the Oregon Cattlewomen organization.

The group dates back to 1953, known at that time as the Oregon Cow Belles. A local chapter existed up until its dissolution about 20 years ago, becoming a part of the Lake County Stockgrowers Association.

Tillie opted to join the Klamath County chapter, the nearest option and also appropri-ate in light of the Flynn family’s ranching op-eration in Beatty.

As third vice-president in charge of fund-raisers, Tillie is working with the 2014 executive board toward kick-starting the state organiza-tion. Current projects related to this effect is development of an informational brochure on the organization, including a mission state-ment.

The larger-picture mission of the Oregon Cattlewomen include promoting the sale of beef and development of resources for dispersal to county organizations. Educational components include in-school activities to further bring awareness to younger generations, she said.

A unique fundraiser at present includes the sale of a limited-run (250 in total) cutting board, from which proceeds will support the Oregon Cattlewomen’s activities and projects.

Periodic dinners are held statewide featur-ing state dignitaries, she said.

Officers include Melodi Molt of Burns, president, Katherine Jackson of Klamath Falls, president-elect.

“I’m committed to the ranching industry, and the one thing I definitely see is the cattle-men have trouble uniting,” she said, noting the importance of information sharing and aware-ness for maintaining this livelihood.

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Relatively fresh in his term on the Oregon Beef Council board, John Flynn was appointed in September of 2013, and serves as a representative of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association.

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Shown above Oregon State Cattlewomen (OCW) 3rd V.P. Tillie Flynn presents Lake County Stockgrowers Pres. Todd Muller with a donation in memory of May Fitzgerald a former OCW president.



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211 Hwy. 20Hines, OR 97738

(541) 573-128087000 Christmas Valley Hwy.Christmas Valley, OR 97641

(541) 576-3026

NEW T5 Series tractors from New Holland mean business. Productivity and versatility come standard thanks to robust power, superior comfort, ergonomic controls, and numerous options. Using state-of-the-art virtual reality techniques, New Holland designed the T5 Series as the ultimate tractors for mixed farmers. Welcome to the business class of farming! Visit us to see them in person!

New Holland T6 Series tractors are a natural fi t wherever hard work is done. Every model features a clean-running engine with ECOBlue™ SCR technology that delivers a minimum 10% fuel savings. And every model gives you the ultra-quiet comfort of the spacious Horizon™ cab to keep your productivity at maximum level all day. After that, you can specify your T6 tractor with the features you need to meet the exact requirements of your operation.

New Holland BigBalers are the new benchmark for baling capacity and productivity. They deliver up to a 20% increase in baling capacity and a 5% increase in bale density compared to previous models. The industry-leading New Holland pre-compression chamber assures dense, perfect fl ake formation and now gets a little help from the new standard roller windguard that helps to pre-compress the crop before it even reaches the pickup tines.

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