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Dec. 10 Hope your Thanksgiving was warm, happy and filled with blessings. We are so thankful here at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang to have so many wonderful people playing such a huge role in saving these babies and helping the wild horses. We feel truly blessed to be surrounded by so much love for the horses and to be able to continue doing what we do. Y’all are the reason that each and every one of these babies have survived and have a chance at a wonderful life. As we approach the holiday season, we have once again been blessed beyond measure. We were able to get half the funds to purchase new tires for the Chilly Pepper truck. All of the rubber from the previous tires is spread across the western states, either delivering babies, picking up babies or transporting wild horses or picking up rescued horses, or simply picking up hay and feed. This is truly an “equine res-cue vehicle” and unfortunately we live rather far away from the babies we save. My wonderful hubby picked up the rest of the tab, so we once again have a safe vehicle for pulling the trailer. That is so important when it comes to traveling back and forth through the mountains, and being able to safe-ly transport our precious cargo. Once again we are “privileged” to be cleaning up the mess made by a mountain lion. We received a call on December 6 to come and pick up two young horses near Gerber that had been attacked by a big cat. I believe they are about three years old, and they were orphan foals saved by my friend and mentor Shirley Allen of Dayton, Nevada. She is the one that I work with to save the critically ill and orphaned foals. She has specialized in what we do for about 18 years. She brought Sassy and Magic back to life and then placed them with Lisa Ussery in California, who was working with them. Unfortunately, judging from the horses’ injuries, it ap-pears as though a mother cat was teaching her young how to hunt. We used to see this when I volunteered at the sanctu-ary. Although we don’t often think about it, the mountain lion kittens are not born hunters, so their moms need to teach them how. When mama cat takes them out, they “practice” until their skills are honed enough to bring down their din-ner. Magic’s sides are raked with claw marks that are now scabbed over. PTL the cuts were not deep, although one cat did manage to take a chunk out of his cheek. He is doing very well, however, and is having lots of fun visiting with all the critters here. Sassy, on the other hand, has some serious injuries on her leg along with lots of swelling and heat, so she is a very un-

and wiped out. So, since I have gained quite a bit of experi-ence with the care of mountain lion injuries, it made sense for the youngsters to come here. So once again we are non-stop busy caring for sick and injured animals. We want to send a huge shout out and thank you to Larry and Sharyn Cornelius of Palo Cedro for fostering Tawnee for us. If anyone wants to make a difference, there are lots of ways to help our beloved horses stay away from the slaughter trucks. Larry and Sharon opened up room for another baby at our place by taking care of Tawnee for us, not to mention all the love that Tawnee is getting from them. So thank you - Larry and Sharyn. Mica is heading to her wonderful new home in Liver-more for Christmas. There she will be reunited with River, her nursery buddy from Shirley Allen’s, so her new home is blessed even more. And that pretty much sums up life here at Chilly Pepper - Miracle Mustang. Oh, Honey Bandit has one Christmas request. He asked me to tell y’all that he would love a bucket of Amplify from Tractor Supply. He has difficulty keeping his weight on dur-ing the winter (unlike his mommy) and that supplement is beyond amazing. Thank you and God bless!

happy little girl right now. When we went to pick her up, she was so traumatized, she was biting and acting a bit crazed. When Lisa led her up to Matt, he could smell the stench from about 20 feet away. Her infection has become systemic and was traveling through her body. Even her waste smelled hid-eous. She bit Matt and trying to bite Lisa when she was in the trailer. By the time we got her home she had settled and remembers me as Mom # 2, because we spent quite a bit of time together when she lived at Shirley’s. So this is the fifth day they have been here, and Magic has improved a great deal. His face is healing up very well and his scratches, although frighteningly visible, are healing nicely.Sassy continues to pour out the poison that was trapped in her body, thanks to the Green Clay that was sent by Shirley and her husband Bruce. All of her care and feed is being funded by Bruce and Shirley Allen as both horses are pri-vately owned and therefore cannot be supported financially by the rescue. Any donations made for these two would not be considered tax deductible, again, due to the fact that they are privately owned. However, as always, Matt and I work for free, and these horses were in desperate need of someone with experience in this type of care. Big cat attack wounds can turn fatal quickly if the infection is not managed

December 10, 2014

Report tracks almonds’ economic benefits Almond production generates more than 100,000 California jobs and adds $11 billion dollars to the state’s economy, according to a study issued Tuesday. The report from the University of California Agricultural Issues Center says almonds account for nearly one-quarter of the state’s agricultural exports. The study tracked the economic impact of almonds at every stage of production, from growing through hulling, shelling, handling and manu-facturing.

Wheat plantings may recover Drought helped propel California wheat plantings to their lowest levels in 23 years, but the crop could rebound. Farmers often grow wheat in rotation with other crops and, in particular, plant it after growing tomatoes. Because the 2014 tomato crop was big, wheat marketers expect more of the grain to be plant-ed next year. Farmers who grow wheat with-out irrigation say autumn rains have helped, but more rain will be needed in the winter and spring.

Predators to be tested against citrus pest Looking for ways to slow an insect pest that threatens California-grown cit-rus fruit, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, plan to release a natural enemy of the pest. The experi-mental release will occur in a campus grove of citrus trees. Specialists hope a tiny wasp from Pakistan will attack the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest that can carry a fatal plant disease. It will be the second predator species to be introduced into the groves. Farm Bureau honors longtime service

Decades of service to California farm-ers and ranchers led to awards for two people at the California Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting this week in Garden Grove. Sutter County farmer Russell Young won the Farm Bureau Dis-tinguished Service Award for more than 60 years of volunteer service. Longtime Tulare County Farm Bureau staff member and agricultural advocate Shirley Kirk-patrick was honored with the Lifetime Service Award.

Educational activities by two county Farm Bureaus in California have earned na-tionwide recognition from the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Shasta and Sacramento County Farm Bureaus each earned Coun-ty Activities of Excellence Awards and will demonstrate their programs during the AFBF Annual Convention, to be held in San Diego Jan. 10-14. They are among 24 county Farm Bureaus from throughout the nation to be honored for innovative pro-gram ideas. The Shasta County Farm

Shasta and Sacramento County Farm Bureaus earn honors for innovation

Bureau won its award for sponsoring a series of sum-mertime Farm Camp pro-grams. The brainchild of Te-resa Urricelqui, Recreation Supervisor for the City of Redding, who approached the Shasta County Farm Bu-reau and the Shasta Union High School District about the summer camp, allowed participants to engage in ag-riculture in a safe, fun and active environment. The camp proved popular with students and their parents, with full sessions and a wait-ing list of 75 campers. The week-long camps of-

fered separate programs for children between 6 and 12 years old, and between ages 12 and 14. Lil Farmers (ages 6-12) activities included feeding and cleaning live-stock, planting and watering crops, hands on experiences with volunteer agricultural professionals in the areas of dairy, beef cattle, bees, meat goats, forestry, rabbits, GPS, rocketry, crops, chickens and much more. In addition to performing daily basic farm chores, Farm Hands (ages 12-15) learned about sheep, horsemanship, welding, trac-tor operation, roping, irriga-tion, crops, and meat quality from volunteer agricultural professionals. The Sacramento County Farm Bureau earned recog-nition for its Farm Bureau University program, which provides classes and learn-ing laboratories for farm-ers, ranchers and their em-ployees, and includes an FB Ambassadors program that engages high school stu-dents to be involved in Farm Bureau. The Farm Bureau University offered 16 classes and seminars, attended by more than 200 members, on topics including estate plan-ning, water quality regula-tions, handling of hazardous materials, first aid and other safety training. The FB Am-bassadors activity provided a three-month program to in-troduce high school students to Farm Bureau, agricultural issues, government advoca-cy and etiquette training.

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Foster mom Sharyn Cornelius and Tawnee finish up a lesson on loading in a horse trailer. Tawnee needs to learn to ride in the Cornelius's trailer so they can take her to the vet for sur-gery on her umbilical hernia.

The young mare Sassy’s right foreleg is severely infected where she was bitten by a cougar, that also raked his claws across her chest.

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A Real Christmas Tree

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When I was a little boy

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By Janice E. Kirk For an artist, a redwood forest is a feast of greenery. Velvet-green moss covers ev-ery open surface; shaggy grey-green li-chens hang from overarching branches; an expanse of summer-green fern spreads un-broken throughout the understory. I marvel at the many hues and countless textures. I step deeper into the forest. The canopy closes above me. Moisture laden air, fra-grant with the verdant scent of earth, draws me further into a pervading stillness. Fall-en logs are gardens overgrown with ferns, baby redwood trees, moss, wildflowers and miniature plants. My eyes adjust to the dim light, and slowly I make out the sentinels–light grey trunks, straight and true, reaching up to lift branches to sunlight, branches thick with needles and cones. About halfway up one tree, a burl, bursting with ferns, sits like a hanging garden. That’s when I notice the massive trunk and thick ancient bark of an old-growth redwood, a commanding presence that towers over all. Suddenly I feel small, humbled to be in such a place. In the half-light I sense this gigantic, solid life form is a monument to time. Wise in the ways of forest life, the tree stands as guardian, watching, and waiting. No wonder people call this a cathedral. Deeply impressed by what I have seen, I make my way back to our travel rig. We only stopped to have a picnic lunch with our grandchildren, our first time to Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, but this is a world apart. We must stay longer and have another look. We drive to the campground, past the prairie meadow where several Roosevelt Elk are grazing. Among the alders by the creek we find an open campsite, a small miracle dur-ing the summer season. As soon as camp is set up, we call the grandchildren, don our day packs and go exploring. The trail is wide and well kept, but it’s hard to keep a steady pace. Plants crowd the edge and offer all manner of branches, berries, vines, cones, leaves, flowers, mossy logs, lichen-cov-ered twigs, and shelf fungi. We stop to examine each and ev-ery new plant or interesting form. Foliage is lush; magnificent redwoods rise up around every corner. The forest feels primeval, like we have walked back in time. Surely this is what it was like before 1850 when the ancient redwood forest inhabited 2,100,100 acres. It’s so-bering to think that 95 percent of those trees are gone, cut down, turned into lumber and used in construction. With only four to five percent remaining, the redwoods need our protection and nurturing before their numbers fall below a critical mass. That could be devastating. I usually take a day or two in a new area to absorb the lines, contours, shapes and forms before I get the urge to draw. However, in this forest I begin sketching at every stop: a fern leaf, a cone, the perfect leaves of wood sorrel, a pristine

trillium, a mossy log. It’s endless. I could draw here forever. At length I wander off by myself to find a place to sit down and get serious. The grandchildren stick with Don, who is giving them a Nature Trail walk in search of a banana slug. I head the other way and stumble into the park amphithe-ater, a beautiful open space hewn from dense forest. I pause to catch my breath, and that’s when I spot my subject, an enormous redwood near the edge of the clearing. What fas-cinates me is the base of the giant: a growth of lumpy, gnarly wood that rises from sturdy roots and serves to buttress all sides of the giant trunk. I must get that gnarly base on paper. I unfold my art stool, reach for my sketchbook and begin. Using pencil, I lightly sketch the right hand side of the trunk and base. Since I draw with my left hand, it’s easier and better to work from right to left on a drawing. The op-posite is true with right-handers. The hand moves more rhythmically, and the drawing is safe from too much rub-bing. I gauge with my artist’s eye just how much of the trunk to include. If I try to do the whole width of the trunk, I’ll run the sketch off the paper. I choose to draw as much as will fit the center of the page. Then in the back-ground I will incorporate a few forest trees to give scale. As I sketch in the trunk contours, I mark lumps and de-pressions, holes in the bark and rhythmic downward curves. I plan how to shade the uneven surface so as to round projec-tions and delineate the dips and holes. I put a lot of detail into the pencil rendering. The base is particularly interesting where it has established toeholds in the surrounding soil, sim-ilar to water patterns, but with inlets and outlets of forest duff. When I take a break from drawing, I walk around the tree and examine the duff. To my surprise, I find cones, too many to count. They are small, about an inch in length; fresh cones are green and tightly closed, while last season’s cones are brown, open and dried. I shake out seeds into my hand. How

can such a massive tree grow from one of these tiny seeds! It’s mind boggling. Back to work, I start inking the drawing very carefully. One wayward ink line can ruin the whole piece. To shade, I render thin parallel lines following the curves and contours of the pencil sketch. The hush of the forest aids my con-centration, and gradually the trunk takes shape on the pa-per. I hope I have captured its strength and solid character. The background redwood trees with the typical straight-line trunks and an undergirding of ferns are completed quickly. It’s almost dark that evening when I take a short walk through the campground. I come upon nine elk grazing in the far loop. Nearly indistinct in the shadows, the bull turns my way. The females and two younger ones lift their heads. Monumental in their own right, statuesque, taller than me, they regard me with big dark watchful eyes, wait-ing to see what I will do. I freeze. I am way too close. The park sign, “Do not approach elk on foot,” flashes through my brain. Part of me wants to stay and watch these beau-tiful animals, observe their moves, but common sense pre-vails. I back right out of there and retreat to the campfire. In many ways, it was a magical moment, however brief. Call it what you will, those animals seemed, not only unafraid, but expectant. In fact, upon reflection I can say the same thing about this old growth redwood forest. It dates back to antiquity. Some redwood trees have lived for 2000 years or more. They are the real Christmas trees, the giants who witnessed a signif-icant change in history the night Christ was born. They have lived through the whole cycle of Christendom. Now they serve as forest guardians, nurturing abundant life in all its richness and diversity. Expectant, they stand, waiting and watching. I could write that as a parable of hope, but that’s another story. When I get back to camp the grandchildren are already bedded down in their sleeping bags, laughing about banana slugs. Don and I linger by the dying fire, recalling the day. Quiet spreads over the camp. In the stillness we become aware of a special sound, a faraway soughing, a soft, low murmur and rustle, much like the sound of an ocean tide. The wind is moving through the treetops. We listen in-tently for it to come again, and it does–a sound so elemen-tal it speaks directly to the heart. It’s the end of a perfect day. I’m glad we stopped at Prairie Creek to take a second look. The redwood forest is a wonder. The grandchildren have seen real Christmas trees. May these trees live forever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janice Kirk, retired teacher of art and voice (Junction School, Shasta Co. Schools, Simpson University) has a lifetime of fam-ily camping stories and drawings to share. Outdoor inspiration has resulted in books and articles. She is author/illustrator of “The Christmas Redwood, A Forest Parable,” and “Cherish The Earth: the Environment and Scripture.” She contributed 300 botanical drawings for “Wild Edible Plants of Western North America” by Donald R. Kirk. She hopes readers will step outdoors and take another look. http://kirksnaturebooks.net/

By Frank Galusha, EasyWriter© Fishing is lousy and hunting season is being curtailed by the Christmas season, so let’s do some recollecting! How old am I? My very first memory was of a Popsicle®, which was introduced in 1922. I was in the front seat of Dad’s car, a Chevy sedan. Chevrolets were built first in 1911. I had just had a tonsillectomy – a procedure used since 1890. There were no retractable seat belts in the Chevy; those weren’t invented until the 1960s. I wasn’t in child-safety car seat either, though they were around. Instead, pillows and a blanket were piled around me. About that same time I got into an ant hill and went screaming back to the front door of our small adobe house. I never did that again and the house is now under a freeway exchange. I was always an exceptionally small and skinny kid -– so small I could crawl under our “Davenport”-- a name which had been around since 1883. I would do it over and over to show off how I could squiggle through such a small space even while Mom and Dad were sitting on the sofa. Once I crawled under and lit a safety match, which had been invented nearly a century before. The sofa lining caught fire immediately. Only fast work by Dad saved me and who knows what else from disaster. Striking such matches with a thumbnail was a common practice then.

My next memory is of pushing my hand through a glass door pane. A small cut on my right wrist failed to heal and I was hospitalized when the infection reached the bone. At age five the scar stretched from wrist to elbow. Today it can hardly be seen. Next came that night in Orange, California after an 18-hour drive. Dad got a job with the Santa Fe and we were destined to live on the tracks for nearly two years. However, the next few nights were spent in a Soto Street campground within sight of the Sears & Roebuck Mail Order Building in Los Angeles, which was a youngster itself. The skies were clear and the building was lit up brightly. The campground, however, was in the slaughterhouse district -- $1 a night; $1.50 with a fire pit. The store

in the campground sold penny candy. I bought candy dots, which were sold on strips of paper. You can still buy them as “retro” candy, 10 strips for $3.49. Life on the tracks was terrific. Dad was a foreman, so we lived in boxcar, a two bedroom home on wheels. At the time, the Airstream was younger than I was. The boxcar was moved from place to place on the Santa Fe line with the work gang. At times we stopped in various parts of Los Angeles or in small towns such as Azusa, Colton, San Bernardino, Barstow or Needles. For recreation we snared gophers, caught gopher snakes and hunted with handmade sling shots. Wham-0® wouldn’t arrive for decade. How do you snare a gopher? Circle his hole with a string with a slip-knot. When the gopher pops his head out…well you know happens next. One time Dad jerked the string so hard he flung the gopher up into the boxcar and we had Mom standing on a chair. That happened in Colton and at the time, the Colton Cement Company, formed in 1894, had already cut through about half of Mount Slover, a 700-foot high hill of limestone. It’s gone now. By the time Mel Blanc uttered the words: “Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc----amonga!” I knew where each of those places was because I had lived there. And Bob Clampett’s Porky Pig had been saying “That’s all, Folks,” for a couple of years. By the time Clampett had created “Time for Beany” with Beanie and Cecil, the Seasick Sea Serpent, I was in my sophomore year of high school. How old am I? Those who go hunting and fishing will know or soon find out. Until next time I hope you have the wind in your face if you have a rifle in your hands and at your back if you’re trying to cast a fly. EasyWriter’s columns are copyright protected and published exclusively on the Internet at www.myoutdoorbuddy.com by the author. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted.

This is the Sears & Roebuck Mail Order building in Boyle Heights that the Galusha Family could see lit up at night from their campsite.

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In June of this year Rupert Murdoch wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Immigration Reform Can’t Wait.” Shortly after this the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill by a vote of 68 to 32 in a refreshing display of bipartisanship. The House refused to take up the bill. Comprehensive immigration reform died there. Rupert Murdoch is hardly a flaming liberal. He dominates conservative news outlets in Australia, Britain, and the U.S. His holding company, News Corp, owns 21st Century Fox and HarperCollins. He bought Dow Jones, giving him control of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine and other eco-nomic news outlets. He founded the Fox Broadcasting Com-pany. Liberals and conservatives seldom read the same news sources. Almost all the news read by conservatives comes from a Rupert Murdoch owned source. This makes the House inaction on immigration reform very curious. As a result of inaction by the House, President Obama chose to institute a limited immigration reform by executive action. This ignited the usual firestorm of criticism and ac-cusations characteristic of the past six years of gridlock. The President’s action applies to approximately five mil-lion of the 11 million undocumented workers in the US now. It grants a temporary (three year) reprieve from deportation, and temporary permission to work for this population of un-documented longtime residents with close family members in the US. Approximately four million of the total five mil-lion are children who are citizens, born here or here legally,

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and their parents. It would also defer deportation of older children raised here most of their lives meeting the require-ments of the DREAM act earlier emplaced by executive ac-tion. These groups will not be given green cards. They can get a Social Security card but will not be eligible for Social Security benefits unless and until they become citizens. Congressional Republicans, including some who voted for the earlier Senate bill, raised an immediate outcry. This largely amounted to assertions that this was an illegal action and that this caused divisiveness. Since, however, they will always oppose any Obama initiative, anything he does they can regard as divisive. The “illegal action” argument is even weaker. Prosecu-torial discretion is well recognized in cases where priorities must be established in the face of limited resources. Immigra-tion authorities are allocated enough funds by Congress to take legal action against approximately four percent of the 11 million undocumented each year. Obama has chosen to prosecute, as he said, “Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who’s working hard to provide for her kids.” President Obama went on to say, “To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.” Since the presidency of Eisenhower there have been many legal precedents for executive action to aid or protect immi-grants. Past Presidents have exerted presidential authority to aid or protect immigrants on 39 separate occasions. The list of Presidents using such executive action include Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan,

G. H. W. Bush, Clinton and G. W. Bush. President Clinton, who dealt with six years of Republican control of both hous-es of Congress during his eight years as President, signed three hundred and sixty-four executive actions. President Obama has signed a hundred and ninety-one. Rupert Murdoch, arbiter of all things conservative in the western world, was unable to sway the House to pass the Senate’s immigration bill. Tea party activists in the House were implacable, deaf even to Murdoch. But Republican Party leadership recognized the dangers, to the Party, of this obstinancy. They set out to support more main stream Re-publican candidates for office, to mute the more obstreper-ous tea partiers and limit their influence in the newly seated Congress. So, why has nothing changed? It was Speaker of the House, John Boehner himself, who refused to introduce the Senate-passed immigration reform bill in House this summer. In the past six years his politi-cal career and identity have been defined by opposition to “all things Obama.” This is true of many Republicans in Congress. This is why they have detailed no health plan of their own, no economic recovery plan (let the market handle it), and have proposed only tax policy – more tax cuts, espe-cially for the wealthy. Once individuals have been defined by a largely negative program there is little hope they will change. As GOP leaders look toward the 2016 Presidential elec-tions perhaps they must consider a more positive platform on which to run, and this may be as much as we can hope for.

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soon bring their final suggestion to the Board of Directors in January so that the Board can act upon it. The CalTrans committee has developed their solution for signs and signage on Highway 44 for Shingletown points of interest which will also be addressed by the Board of Directors at their January 5th meeting. The Council is very proud that the community

is working so hard to rectify problems in order to make Shingletown a focal point of Shasta County. Other problems residents have written to the Council about are: Illegal dumpsites, Shingletown Transfer Station dump fees, lack of law enforcement in Shingletown, and the need to eradicate transient camps, to name just a few. If you have a problem

or concern, the Board of Directors would like to hear from you. Please email your concern to Marilee Strom at mrstrom301@gmail.com or if you wish to discuss the problem, please call 474-3586. Membership on Shingletown Council is always open should you wish to join. They are presently setting up monthly meetings for

the members and will announce a location and date soon. Thank you all for your dedication and hard work.