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Photo by Teya Jacobi applegater.org SUMMER 2018 Applegate Valley Community Newsmagazine Volume 11, No. 2 Serving Jackson and Josephine Counties — Circulation: 11,000

Wildfire preparedness— Saturday ■ 7.14.18 ■ 11 - 7 all year long? Or not? Cantrall Buckley Park

BY SANDY SHAFFER

Some things just don’t seem to go seasonal firefighters and training crews for away. Birthdays, arthritis, taxes, an itchy the summer. Pretty soon I’ll be helping the mosquito bite, smoke in the summer. And Oregon Department of Forestry put up all those wild turkeys parading around our those fire-season signs! property, making it impossible to walk the Over the years I’ve realized that keeping dog (that would be Maggie) while keeping our homesite and property fire-safe is Presented by A Greater Applegate shoes and paws clean! an all-year task. There is so much to do! Fire season, though? Given the cold but Thanks to pine needles, something like Join the Applegate Valley community in fairly dry winter we’ve had, who knows cleaning the gutters needs to happen in celebrating the 50th anniversary of what to expect this year? late fall as preparation for the rainy season, As I wrote this in mid-April the 2018 but then again in late spring to prepare for Antonucci Collective Family Carr Cantrall Buckley Park, fire season was already moving forward in fire season. officially opened on July 14, 1968. the midwest and southwest regions of our What about pruning branches close country. Our Applegate Valley Fire District to buildings, mowing fields and trails Free Admission Operations Chief Chris Wolfard was called to provide fuel breaks, burning slash Cantrall Buckley Park, 154 Cantrall Road, off Hamilton Road in Ruch.

Rogue Trio Romancing the West Sequoia out on a Type 1 team as the “situational piles, working with the neighbor to Parking: $5 per car at 1470 Hamilton Road. Free shuttle buses. unit leader” for a major fire in Arizona. My get the driveway clearances cleaned up, only question is—who’s next? Southern maintaining a safe bridge on the driveway, Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. California or southern Oregon? and practicing the neighborhood telephone Take inventory trees? These are all things that should be Since we all have a role in wildfire happening in your neighborhood now to preparedness, now is the time to “inventory” prepare as many homes and families as our own properties: What do we need to possible. accomplish to make our homes more fire (Note on that driveway cleanup: Make safe before fire season begins? I know sure your driveway has been thinned that our Fire Chief Mike McLaughlin is or cleared of fuels so that you aren’t taking stock of fire district equipment, jeopardizing the safety of your family staffing, and volunteers to make sure that when you evacuate or the responding we can handle whatever Mother Nature firefighters!) throws at us this summer—whether it’s A single family’s personal preparation in Applegate, Murphy, or Ruch. And the list can easily cover several pages— For more information, email [email protected] or visit facebook.com/agreaterapplegate. federal and state fire agencies are hiring See WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS, page 17.

Lavender Festival blooms in June Trails of the Applegate Watershed BY DEREK OWEN BY JIM REILAND

This summer, don’t miss the two Lavender When you look up from the Applegate plant communities, offering an excellent Festival weekends: June 22 - 24 and July 13 Valley towards the surrounding mountains, workout and a lesson about the plant - 15. Participating lavender farms include there’s a pretty good chance you’re looking and animal species that thrive at different Goodwin Creek Gardens in Williams, at a landscape that has one or more trails elevations. Or they may follow a stream, an The English Lavender Farm in Applegate, passing through it. We’re blessed with a abandoned water ditch, or a mountainside Lavender Fields Forever in Jacksonville, great variety of places to stroll, hike, run, contour that similarly instructs us about and Oregon State University Demonstration ride, and relax in the great outdoors! how nature arranges herself. Garden in Central Point. Some high-elevation trails wind along These local trails are not only close to The English Lavender Farm is owned mountain ridges through alpine forests home, but they also make it possible to see by Derek and Sue Owen, who provided the and meadows. The Pacific Crest Trail the places where you live, work, and play following information about the seemingly skirts the southern edge of the Applegate from a different perspective—as part of a endless uses of lavender as a natural remedy. Watershed, while others rim the Red Buttes larger whole. You might draw connections Wilderness or pass by Grayback Mountain. that reorient what you know of this place Miracle healer or They afford jaw-dropping views of distant and how you think about it. sweet-smelling snake oil? ranges and valleys at nearly every turn. Well-designed and maintained trails If you are already a lavender lover, Closer in, other trails offer views that further our enjoyment of and appreciation chances are you have an anecdote or two My wife and I are lavender farmers who encompass not only mountains and forests, for the diverse and beautiful landscape about its healing powers. If you’re a skeptic, distil lavender essential oil. We use it in but also farms and ranches nestled in valley around us. Recreation is also a vital element you may take anecdotal evidence with a many of our products, and sell bottles of bottoms. These trails may start nearer the of our local economy—trails are more pinch of salt and look for empirical data. See LAVENDER, page 22. valley floor and climb up through distinct See APPLEGATE TRAILS, page 21.

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OBITUARIES Alice Gelston Migliore Rosalind Helene Macy October 7, 1938 - April 3, 2018 May 22, 1930 - April 16, 2018

Alice Migliore was at local libraries and Rosalind (Roz) Macy born in Torrance, children’s museums lived in the Applegate Pennsylvania, the teaching children to for many years where she youngest of five siblings. be independent and enjoyed raising goats, As a child, Alice was troublemakers. She making cheese, baking bright and an instigator loved hosting her bread, and gardening at her multi-grade one- grandchildren’s parties organically. She and her room schoolhouse. She and sleepovers and husband, Hal, were early graduated from Derry was involved in all and long-time supporters Area High School, aspects of their lives. of the Applegater. where she was a drum Both grandchildren Roz is survived by Hal; majorette. considered her their daughters Lynn, Margie, Alice started college best friend and closest and Mary; stepchildren at Indiana State confidante. Marty, Richard, Ray, Teacher’s College in Recently Alice and Sue, and many Pennsylvania but had to completed and grandchildren and great- leave after publishing, as published a novel, The grandchildren. editor of the school newspaper, a critical Legacy of Kathleen Angel. A Celebration of Life article concerning teacher training. She She was a joy to everyone she met. will be held on Sunday, pursued further education at Temple Her generosity was unmatched. She never June 10, at 2 pm at University and subsequently received a judged but welcomed people with open Cantrall Buckley Park, degree from University of Pittsburgh in arms into her ever-growing circle of friends Pavilion A, in Ruch. creative writing. She then served in the and family. She made everyone she loved Parking is $4 per vehicle. Peace Corps in Ethiopia. She married her feel extremely special. Please bring a food dish to husband, Joseph, in 1966 in St. Louis Alice died unexpectedly on April 3, share. And if you have any and moved to Boston to start her family. 2018, while recovering from a surgery. stories to share, the family They had two children. While in Boston, She is survived by her husband, Joseph would love to hear them. she got an MA in geography from Boston Migliore; two children, Alissa Weaver University. and Joseph Migliore; grandchildren Ruby During her life, Alice and her family and Grayson Weaver; and her siblings, Roz and Hal Macy were involved with good!” I asked Hal what kind of cheese it lived in Houston, Texas; Hershey, Karl Gelston and Rita Mines, as well as the Applegater from the very beginning, was. “Goat cheese,” he said. I told him “no Pennsylvania; Williamsport, Pennsylvania; countless nieces, nephews, and extended back when the post office directed us to way,” that I disliked goat cheese intensely! Laguna Beach, California; and Rochester, family with whom she remained in fold thousands of papers in thirds and But, after eating Roz’s cheese, I always New Hampshire. She and her husband frequent contact. staple each one. hoped that Roz or Hal would bring her moved to Ruch, Oregon, in 2010 following Friends and family are invited to a Hal brought some of Roz’s homemade immensely delicious cheese—the only goat the birth of her two grandchildren. The celebration of life to be held on June 16. cheese to one of the first folding sessions. cheese that I have ever loved—to more Migliores lived across the road from her For more information, please contact While working the stapler and developing Applegater mailings. And they did. daughter. Alice’s granddaughter, Ruby Weaver, at carpal tunnel, I sampled some of this J.D. Rogers Alice loved to travel and encouraged 541-890-0681. cheese and thought, “My god, is this 541-846-7736 that love in all her friends and family. Alice’s ashes are buried in Logtown During her life, she made trips to six of Cemetery in Ruch. Those wishing to make the seven continents and climbed Mt. a donation in her memory can donate Kilimanjaro. She loved cooking, reading, to the Friends of the Ruch Library in ~ In Memoriam ~ weaving, writing (particularly long letters Jacksonville, Oregon. to friends and family), and taking care of Ed. note: I worked with Alice Migliore Porscha Schiller others. She looked forward to trips to the when she submitted her poems for possible October 2, 1950 - March 9, 2018 local casinos with her sister, Rita. inclusion in our book, From the Heart of “Grandma Alice” loved spending time the Applegate. She was a joy to work with. with children and served as a surrogate Three of her poems,A Stylish Folk, Gourmet Franklyn Wise grandmother to countless local kids. Until Coffee, and Remembering Bobby were she passed, she was working with children selected and published and worth the read, July 21, 1931 - January 21, 2018 as a nanny and crafts-room instructor if you haven’t already enjoyed them. Thalia Truesdell wins Welcome to the Applegater, Oregon library award Lisa Baldwin! Thalia odds, Thalia was The Applegater Board of Directors is Truesdell, branch one of those who pleased to announce a new member of manager of the helped to facilitate our board, Lisa Baldwin, who is serving as Ruch Branch conversation. secretary, among other duties she readily of the Jackson Thalia was also took on. County Library instrumental Lisa is a fifth-generation native Oregonian District, was in gaining and has lived in the Lower Applegate honored on April community community of Jerome Prairie since 1966. 18, 2018, at the support to build She was educated in Josephine County Oregon Library the Ruch Library. schools (Jerome Prairie Elementary, Lincoln Association Known for her Savage Junior High, Hidden Valley High) (OLA) Annual openness to and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s Conference with new ideas and degrees from Southern Oregon University. the coveted Pearl opportunities, Lisa taught English in Grants Pass for 30 Award. The Pearl is she has been one annually given to of the strongest years, serving 14 years at North Middle Thalia Truesdell with her Pearl Award. an Oregon Library community School and 16 years at Grants Pass High School, retiring in 2015. Currently, she Photo: Liz Hampton. works as a poet and freelance writer and is an active member of several writing employee who has partners for the groups—Applegate Poets, Pagan Warrior Poets, Rogue Valley unit of Oregon worked tirelessly from the inside and Stories of Southern Oregon project, Poetry Association—and serves as president of the Oregon Poetry Association. demonstrated excellence, like a pearl honed convening conversations and bringing into a gem over time. people together to tell stories and Thalia, through great energy and strengthen the town. kindness, brings consensus and cooperation Thalia said, “I am so honored to receive Our thanks to outgoing board members, Don and Debbie Tollefson, who made to the Applegate Valley community the Pearl award. It used to be called the Ole substantial contributions over their five years of volunteer service, and Shelley served by the Ruch Library. During award because it reflected the recipients’ Manning, who served two years. times of dissent and disagreement, when efforts to ‘take the bull by the horns’ and loggers and environmentalists were at get the job done. That’s me!” Applegater Summer 2018 3 Smokejumpers fought fires in Farewell Rat Race, the Applegate: 1972 was a bad year hello Applegate Open! BY MAUREEN FLANAGAN BATTISTELLA BY DAN WELLS AND KATE VANGELOFF The summer of place to land—a field or 1972 was a long, hot, on brush.” For the last 15 dry summer with Lightning strikes years, pilots from temperatures reaching continued that season, around the world 108 degrees in the and on September have poured into “Applegate District” of 3, 4, and 5, Siskiyou the Applegate Valley the Rogue River National jumpers were dispatched to compete in the Forest. There was no rain to Klamath, Gasquet, prestigious Rat for weeks on end, and dry Pelican Mountain, Race Paragliding lightning sparked fires in Prospect, and the Competition on the Siskiyou, Klamath, Applegate. The log Woodrat Mountain. Six Rivers, Rogue River, reports, “September 5 This June, pilots will Winema, Umpqua, and was another busy day be returning to the Shasta-Trinity national with jumpers dropped on valley to compete, forests. All summer 9 fires on the Applegate but this time they long the Siskiyou District. The DC-3 was won’t be attending Smokejumper Base sent Smokejumper. dispatched with Sthor the Rat Race—this crews throughout the Fire and Gummer piloting time, they will be District 8 region chasing fires. and Swift spotting.” That long day was far competing in the Smokejumpers parachute into remote from over with four more fires starting up new Applegate areas as an early and fast response to contain in the Applegate before dark. Open. Practice forest fires. The Siskiyou Smokejumper Between March 16 and October 27, day is June 9, with Base, at the Illinois Valley Airport west of 1972, District 8 smokejumpers made a races from June 10 Cave Junction, Oregon, was one of the record 384 jumps on 97 fires and five through June 16. first bases in the country to be established jumps on three rescues. A small fire could After a fantastic because it was a central location for Pacific be contained quickly with a fast response 14-year run, event Northwest wildfires. with two to four men jumping in teams. organizers Mike “We launched and just followed the That summer, DC-3, Twin Beech, and and Gail Haley lightning strikes around, looking for Twin Otter aircraft dropped smokejumpers announced early smoke,” recalls Gary Thornhill, who into as many as 15 fires a day. last year that the jumped that year into the Applegate The US Forest Service decommissioned 2017 Rat Race District. That summer there were 22 the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base in 1981 would be the final Top photo: Pilots on launch on Woodrat Mountain. lightning fires in the Applegate District and reassigned the crew. In 2006, the base competition that Bottom photo: Glider landing at LongSword Vineyard. alone, in timbered areas like China Gulch, was named to the National Register of they would produce. Billy Mountain, Dutchman Peak, and Historic Buildings. Volunteers restored its Immediately after Sheep Camp. historic buildings and reopened the base the announcement, a small group of pilots of details and logistics, this year’s event By late summer, Siskiyou Smokejumper as a museum in 2007. from the Rogue Valley Hang Gliding and organizer, Dan Wells, is proud to announce Base crews were exhausted. Some The Oregon Department of Forestry Paragliding Association (RVHPA) started that 130 pilots are currently signed up smokejumpers had returned to college (ODF) Division of Fire Protection reports meeting to see if it would be possible for the competition with more sign- or winter jobs. When lightning strikes that in 1972, southwest Oregon (the area to continue the tradition of hosting a ups expected in the near future. With began on August 30, Siskiyou requested served by the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base) paragliding competition in the valley. Not such a wonderfully large turnout for the reinforcements from the North Cascades saw 215 fires that burned a total of 2,318 only is Woodrat known internationally as first year of the new competition, the Smokejumper Base (NCSB) in Winthrop, acres, an average burn of 10.78 acres. The one of the premier flying sites in the US, Applegate Open is looking for all the Washington. ODF reports that in 2017, District 8 saw but the annual competition is also a great volunteers they can find. For instance, The jump log for August 30, 1972, is 350 fires that burned 40,365 acres, of boon for the local economy. After several local Applegate residents with their telling: “We requested reinforcements and which 1,003 acres were designated by ODF planning sessions, the club voted to carry knowledge of the area make great retrieve received 16 NCSB Smokejumpers; they as protected acreage. on the tradition and sponsor a new event. drivers. They are also looking for help were needed for the new lightning storm Thanks to funding from the National The Applegate Open was born! with event registration, photography, on the Rogue River Forest. The Applegate Endowment for the Humanities and the The next task was to find a venue that headquarters drink and snack monitoring, had been hit hard. A DC-3 was launched Library Services and Technology Act, could host such a large, ambitious event. water and ice delivery to the launch site, to drop on small fires. Ewing and Kwarta Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Luckily, local winery LongSword Vineyard, and updating social media and event status. in N344 made the flight with McMinimy Library is digitizing many of the Siskiyou a longtime supporter of RVHPA, was also Anyone interested in volunteering should and Buck as spotters.” Spotters would Smokejumper Base Museum’s historic interested in seeing the tradition continue visit wingsoverapplegate.org/volunteers for stay in the plane, scanning for smoke and photographs and documents. These and offered to serve as headquarters. The more details. figuring out the movement of the wind materials, including a series of images that property at LongSword is a favorite landing Community members interested in and fire, and identify the best approach for constitute “The Anatomy of a Jump,” are zone for pilots and is often used as a goal seeing the competition are invited to smokejumpers to go into a fire. Spotters found in the Stories of Southern Oregon during the competitions. visit LongSword Vineyard any day of the were critical to safety and operations. Collection at soda.sou.edu. With the club’s approval and the venue competition during business hours to enjoy “Most of them [fires] didn’t get very big The Siskiyou Smokejumper Base secured, the Applegate Open is beginning some wine and watch the paragliders. because we were just on them. We were Museum is located at 30902 Redwood to take shape, but putting on a paragliding LongSword will be hosting viewing parties jumping in to get the fire lines set and then Highway, just west of Cave Junction on competition is no small task. It takes a lot on Saturday, June 9, and Saturday, June the ground crews would take over. We’d Highway 199. The Museum is open from of intricate planning and hours of hard 16, to celebrate the competition. Guests pack out, get back to the base, and get on May to November. work to make a paragliding competition will enjoy live music, good food from food another airplane,” Thornhill says. For more information, visit facebook. a success. Fortunately, a number of the trucks, and the excitement of watching the Smokejumper Gary Buck remembers com/siskiyousmokejumpers. local club members have been competing pilots land at LongSword. that summer, saying “The Applegate has Maureen Flanagan Battistella or volunteering in the Rat Race for years For more information about the big trees, but it always seemed there was a [email protected] and were ready for the challenge. competition, please visit facebook. After months of hard work, including com/WingsoverApplegate. For more Smokejumpers from the Siskiyou Smokejumpers Base in Cave Junction. launching a website, creating a local information about public events, visit rule book, obtaining a Bureau of Land facebook.com/LongSwordVineyard. Management special use permit, securing Dan Wells event insurance and approval from local Kate Vangeloff landowners, and untangling millions [email protected]

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Restaurant & Saloon 19 88 2018 541 899 -1770 www.bellau.com 170 West California St. Jacksonville, OR 4 Summer 2018 Applegater BOOK REVIEWS One Nation According to Ledbetter, The Bounty boy, Henry, who has what is Under Gold silver coins were issued, Huntress probably autism. Iris helps the but they were worth more family by bringing in money James Ledbetter (2017) melted down than as John Riha (2017) and by being Henry’s fierce currency at the start of the defender. When they are Back around 1980, Civil War. Between 1837 A spunky girl brings children, she rescues him from an acquaintance of mine and 1863, hundreds of outlaws to justice in this drowning when an older boy received a fortune from a banks were launched that historical novel of Wild throws him in the river (and wrongful-death settlement printed their own paper West Applegate. then she practically kills the involving the deaths of money. That didn’t fare well The Bounty Huntress older boy with an axe handle his parents. That person because if the bank went doesn’t exactly open with at recess). In their adulthood, decided that the best place bust, paper money from a murder. That doesn’t she rescues Henry from the in which to invest the that bank was worthless. happen till the third page mental hospital where he settlement funds was gold. But I do love some of its and, it turns out, is not has been inappropriately The price of gold at names: “red dogs,” “stump the point of the novel incarcerated. that time had risen to more than $800 an tails,” and my favorite, “smooth monkeys.” but its background. The Iris has to convince her ounce, which would be somewhere around The first gold rush in America happened person we’re interested in is Iris Greenlee, mother that being a bounty hunter $2,400 an ounce at today’s value. in 1799 when a 17-pound gold nugget the daughter of the man who died. She (huntress), in spite of its dangers, is what After his investment, the nightmare was found in Cabarrus County, North was only five when her father was killed she, Iris, should be doing. She has to began. Gold prices rose like a sizzling Carolina. Gold then fueled great expansion but immediately becomes the center of the convince the county citizens to vote for her Sahara Desert heat wave, then dropped like in America with the 1848 California Gold action and psychology of this wonderful as game warden. She has to convince the an arctic blizzard, from which they have Rush, 1859 Comstock Lode in Nevada, novel of life in the Applegate in the early sheriff that a girl (she is only 19) can do never recovered. I don’t know whatever and the 1898 Alaska Klondike Gold Rush. twentieth century. the job she is seeking. She has to convince happened to this person—like an old In 1890, European investors started a If the Applegate wasn’t exactly lawless the men she is hunting that they should prospector, he vanished from town. run on gold in the US Treasury by cashing at the time, it also wasn’t exactly lawful. be taken to jail rather than resist her. The I do know that the value of gold in dollar investments for gold. This was There were those (men) who thought they first man wasn’t convinced, so the first plummeted to around $250 an ounce. followed by a crash in the international could do as they pleased, whatever the law. lesson Iris learns is to be more cunning in Now, 38 years after my friend’s investment, commodity prices, leading to the panic Dexter Greenlee had only been fulfilling her approach. It was a hard lesson to learn, an ounce of gold is worth around $1,350. of 1893, which would become the worst his responsibilities as game warden when paid for with the loss of her arm. On talk radio, one hears a never-ending and longest depression the US had seen. he was shot for doing so. As Iris grows up in She also has to convince the young man onslaught of ads to “Buy gold now. The By 1895, the country’s gold reserves were the shadow of that murder, she nourishes a who seems to like her that she wants him world is ending soon. Maybe the day after well below the $100 million required by passion for shooting on behalf of the law. to take her virginity. It doesn’t take much tomorrow.” Or something like that. So One law. Things had gotten so bad that it took Schooled in hunting by her stepfather, persuading. Nation Under Gold, by James Ledbetter, the most powerful man on Wall Street, J.P. she eventually becomes a bounty hunter, The idea of writing this novel occurred whetted my curiosity because of the above- Morgan, to come up with a plan to save bringing in wanted criminals for the to John Riha when, in December 2014, he mentioned B-movie story line. the government from complete meltdown. reward, sorely needed in her family. She read an article in the Medford Mail Tribune Ledbetter lays out a great narrative Morgan couldn’t help when the next becomes, in the language of the day, a about the shooting of a game warden in about the history of gold in America. With depression came in 1929. bounty huntress. Jackson County in 1914. The murder and the exception of slavery, no other issue Ledbetter covers the pros and cons of One of the fine things about this novel the widow with two children are historical tormented the country in the nineteenth (1) being on a gold standard (whereby the is its depiction of attitudes toward women facts. Riha created the rest of the story century more than the question of what US government backs paper money with in the West at the time. Iris doesn’t want from his imagination underpinned by form our money should be. Paper money gold), (2) President Franklin Roosevelt’s to work a “woman’s job.” She wants to detailed research about the weapons, cars was hated by most people, but gold is a move to outlaw Americans’ right to own use her skills as a hunter. She wants to and trucks, county jails, criminal justice, bulky metal and, as Ledbetter says, must gold, (3) President Nixon’s act of taking ride (or drive) and shoot and pit herself and language of the era. Riha seems to be mined, refined, measured, stamped for the dollar off the gold standard, and (4) against dangerous men. She faces ridicule have gotten everything right, or at least purity, and heavily guarded against theft. the current debate of going back to the and worse for being an unconventional right enough that we fall into the spell of An especially limiting factor is that there gold standard. woman, as in the job she chooses to do, the West at that time. is only so much gold. Whether you’re a “gold bug” (pro gold) the language she uses, and her unmarried One of the best parts of the spell, for Even George Washington wished or not, this book is worth picking up to status. We admire her for her spunk, her Applegaters, is reading about places we that “states would adopt some vigorous learn about the historical watershed events determination, her smarts, and her love know—Mule Mountain, the Applegate measures for the purpose of giving credit related to America’s fascination with gold. for and responsibility toward her family. River, Medford, Grants Pass. Riha, who to the paper currency and punishment of If history books were written even half Iris’s mother, Emily, remarries after lives in Ashland, puts us square in our own speculators, forestallers, and others who as interestingly as One Nation Under Gold, Dexter Greenlee is murdered, but her neighborhood as it was a hundred years ago are preying upon the vitals of this great a lot more people would be fans of history. second husband dies in a mill accident. A and peoples our familiar landscape with country and putting everything to the A superb read. flood destroys the pear orchard on which remarkable characters. Reading The Bounty utmost hazard.” J.D. Rogers • 541-846-7736 the family had pinned their fortunes, Huntress we are in familiar country in an and Emily struggles to raise her two unfamiliar time. children, the irascible Iris and the younger Diana Coogle • [email protected] — NOT TO MISS: ONLINE ARTICLES — • Cantrall Buckley Park by Tom Carstens. Complete history, more photos and memories. Poetry Corner • Stories on the Land, excerpt 4, by Diana Coogle. • And the Community Calendar. Summer Solstice www.applegater.org by David C. Shiah Sun rides high, commands the day Warmth holds the land Nature in full bloom Quiet forest streams birth new life Monarch butterfly floats on the soft zephyr The timid fawn gazes in wonder While the red-tailed hawk soars on the warm thermals Sluggish turtles napping in secluded ponds as Merry forest gnomes gleefully gather mushrooms Twilight lingers, the lunar smile fading Night sky soft, Venus and Neptune dance Sitting in the forest, I marvel at nature’s splendor Welcome season of joy, hope Ahh, the living is easy.

Visit the A-Frame Bookstore @ Ruch Library Upper Applegate Road A-Frame Ruch Used books from $1 to $1.50 Library Tuesdays 12 - 4 Thursdays 1 - 5 Saturdays 12 - 4 Managed by Friends of Highway 238 Ruch Library. Join us! 8 miles from Jacksonville Applegater Summer 2018 5 ~ FINE PRINT ~ A huge THANKS to The benefits of singing with others WHO WE ARE BY HARMONY HAYNIE The Applegate Valley Community these generous donors Newspaper, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) It has been scientifically proven that increased focus, lowered heart rate, and corporation dedicated to the publication to the Applegater. singing together in a group reduces stress reduction of cortisol (the stress hormone). of the Applegater newsmagazine, which, and anxiety while elevating beneficial It requires focus and concentration on the we feel, reflects the heart and soul of our CONTRIBUTOR hormones in your blood, such as endorphins breath and deep, full-bodied breathing, community. Chris Bratt, Applegate, OR and oxytocin, which positively affect your both of which inspire relaxation. In Our Mission SUPPORTER mood. It is also really fun! addition, the sounds made while singing The Applegate Valley Community Elaine Thomas, Grants Pass, OR How does this work? First of all, singing vibrate your entire body. When people Newspaper, Inc. (AVCN), provides the SPONSOR many rural and diverse communities together creates a climate of friendship. join up with others involved in the same of the Applegate Watershed with a Jan Buur, Santa Barbara, CA Many of us can be quite shy about our “frequency” (i.e., song), a collective field communications vehicle, the Applegater Douglas Clarke, Spring Creek, NV voices, but when we show up to sing in is created, which can even cause members’ newsmagazine, free of charge to all Diana Cooper, Jacksonville, OR a community choir, we muster up the hearts to start beating in sync! watershed residents. Our quarterly George Rice & Virginia Heenan, courage to share a deeper part of ourselves Aside from these amazing benefits to paper presents constructive, relevant, Talent, OR with others. This open sharing often creates our mental and physical health, singing in educational, and entertaining reports on Joan Peterson, Applegate, OR a lasting bond of friendship with other groups is trending! According to Chorus a wide variety of subjects such as: Julie Rex, Williams, OR choir members, maybe due, in part, to America, 42.6 million adults sing in choirs, n natural resources Alan & Cindy Voetsch, Ruch, OR n ecology and other the release of oxytocin, which stimulates up by almost 10 million over the previous feelings of trust and bonding. The outcome six years. 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Why miss out on a fun, energizing, and We are dedicated to working together Second, singing in a group involves stress-reducing opportunity? This summer, with community members to maintain Sustainer $500 - $999 our minds in a collective goal. This you can discover these benefits for yourself and enhance the quality of life that is Contributor $200 - $499 unique to the Applegate Watershed. Supporter $50 - $199 involves deep focus and concentration, by coming to sing in the Williams World firing up parts of our brain that may not Music Summer Singing Series that I am Sponsor $5 - $49 Acknowledgements be used for other, less creative parts of hosting. This series will take place every The Applegater newsmagazine is Please make your checks payable to our lives. 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— Applegate Library — — Josephine Community Libraries —

Libraries rock—especially a pre-made henna cone and a piece of Dolly Parton’s sessions and play reading bingo for the Applegate Library! paper for practice exercises before they are Imagination Library special prizes. A Summer Event Guide, with a schedule paired up to complete a basic design on The four Rotary clubs in Josephine • Teens can earn a weekly raffle ticket for of events at all 15 Jackson County branch each other. (Ages 9 and up, please.) County have teamed up with Josephine each book read and the chance to win a libraries, will soon be available at the Amber Bishop: Face Painting. Friday, Community Library District and Josephine $50 gift certificate to Oregon Books and libraries for your summer planning. Until July 20, 2 - 4 pm. Draw your own design County Library Foundation to bring Dolly Games each week. that is published, the following are the to be painted on your face or choose a Parton’s Imagination Library to families in • Parents who attend with their children happenings at the Applegate Library this “Libraries Rock” themed design. our community. every week have a chance to win a $100 summer (most of June, July, and most of John Jackson: Operation STEM. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a gift card to Fred Meyer at the end of the August)! Tuesday, July 31, 4 - 5 pm. Hands-on book-gifting program that mails free books program. Veterans’ Service Office (VSO),irst f introduction to Science, Technology, to children every month from birth to age Funding for the children’s Summer Wednesday of every month from 1 - 2 Engineering, and Math (STEM). But five in participating communities, paid Reading Program is made possible by pm. Veteran Service Officers counsel beware! There’s a loud rocket noise if you for by local sponsors, including AllCare the Oregon State Library Ready-to-Read and assist veterans and their dependents fail! Ages 11+. Health. Through this program, every child Grant. in obtaining benefits provided for them Lisa Nichols: Learn to Play the under the age of five in Josephine County For more information, please visit by county, state, and federal laws. VSOs Recorder. Wednesday, August 8, 12:45 - is qualified to receive a book by mail, at josephinelibrary.org, email info@ are accredited representatives for the 2:30 pm. An introduction to reading music no cost to families, every month until the josephinelibrary.org, or call 541-476-0571. preparation, presentation, and prosecution and playing the recorder. Participants will child’s fifth birthday. Bugs R Us at the Williams branch of claims before the Department of be able to take home a recorder. Limited You can register your child for free by: Save the date for Bugs R Us at the Veterans’ Affairs under the laws relating to 20 participants. 1. Stopping by your nearest library library this summer! Bugs R Us will to veterans’ benefits. There is a VSO here Applegate Storytime. Saturdays, 10:30 branch in Grants Pass, Illinois Valley, visit the Williams branch of Josephine for both Jackson County and Josephine - 11 am. Williams, or Wolf Creek and filling out a Community Library District from 1:30 - County. Bret Fearrien, Digital Services. paper registration form, or 2:30 pm on Tuesday, July 3, to offer a free Mark Prchal: Geology of Southern Tuesdays, 2 - 4:30 pm. Bret is assigned to 2. Visiting josephinelibrary.org. program highlighting local backyard birds. Oregon. Wednesday, June 13, 11 our library every week at this time. Drop in The first book every child receives is The No registration required. am - 12:30 pm. An informal and fun for computer help or make an appointment Little Engine That Could, Dolly Parton’s For more information, contact Williams presentation about this fascinating topic. through the JCL website (jcls.org), clicking favorite book. The message of the book branch manager Ellie Avis at 541-846- John Jackson: Rocks, Minerals & on “services” and then “requested help.” is timeless, encouraging children to never 7020 or [email protected]. Fossils program. Wednesday, June 20, For these and other reasons, our give up, do their best, and stay positive no New weekly storytime at the 11 am - 12 pm. John Jackson will show library rocks! Amber Bishop believes matter what. Williams branch examples of rocks, minerals, and fossils as that the “Library Rocks” because we This program is free thanks to the Visit the Williams branch of Josephine he talks about them. Those in attendance can access information on so many Rotary Clubs of Josephine County—your Community Library District every Friday will get a free rock sample to begin or add topics and therefore gain understanding only obligation is to notify the library in afternoon from 1:30 - 2:30 pm for a weekly to their own rock collections. and appreciation for so many different case of an address change. storytime and craft session. Lori Wilson: Rockin’ Bath Bombs. perspectives and cultures. Sponsors for this program include Every week, children have the Saturday, June 23, 10 am - 12 pm. Jackson Applegate Library is located at 18485 AllCare Health, Hart Insurance, Josephine opportunity to listen to stories and socialize County Library Services’ very own Lori North Applegate Road in Applegate and County Library Foundation, Oregon while doing an accompanying craft in a safe Wilson instructs on the making of bath is open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2 - 6 Pacific Financial Advisors, Inc., the four and fun environment! bombs made with essential oils, which you pm and Wednesdays and Saturdays from Rotary Clubs in Josephine County, and Registration is not required. For more can take home in your own decorated box. 10 am - 2 pm. For more information, Welch Investment Group, LLC. information about regularly scheduled Amber Bishop: Henna Art. Friday, contact manager Christine Grubb at 541- For more information or to make a programs, contact Williams branch June 29, 2 -5 pm. Participants will receive 846-7346 or [email protected]. donation in support of this program, manager Ellie Avis at 541-856-7020 or contact partnership manager Rebecca [email protected]. Stoltz at the library at 541-476-0571 x 108 Chess club at the library — Ruch Library — or [email protected]. The Williams branch of Josephine Summer Reading Program: Community Libraries is hosting chess club Celebrate summer with Ruch Library! Rhythm Band. Saturday, June 23, 1 Libraries Rock! every Tuesday from 3 to 5 pm. All ages and Within the theme of “Libraries Rock!” we - 3 pm. Create instruments with recycled Families are invited to join the free skill levels are welcome. Chess boards and will offer programs, incentives, and prizes materials and create a band! All ages. Summer Reading Program at any of the pieces are provided. for Summer Reading. Lisa Nichols: Recorder Lessons. four branches of Josephine Community Williams branch of Josephine Crater Rock Museum will have an Tuesday, June 26, 2 - 3:30 pm. Lisa Library District in Grants Pass, Illinois Community Library District is located awesome display through June 7 that you Nichols, musician and teacher, will instruct Valley, Williams, and Wolf Creek between at 20695 Williams Highway in Williams won’t want to miss. Summer Reading children how to play the recorder. All June 23 and August 4. and is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and begins June 9. Come weekly to enjoy the children will get to take home a recorder. • Children age birth through 12 years old Saturdays from 1 - 6 pm and Fridays from I Spy Window and Guessing Jars. Preregistration required. Ages 7+. can enjoy creative crafts and storytelling 11 am - 4 pm. For Babies and Wobblers: The special John Jackson: Fish. Tuesday, July 17, 1 literary experience for our youngest - 2 pm. Learn about our underwater friends patrons (0-3) will be Tuesdays at 10:15 am. as we dive into the lives of fish! John will Preschool Storytime is Tuesdays at 11:30 discuss 12 different species of local fish. What do you know? am, followed by a craft. Coloring pages. All ages. LEGOS, books, DVDs, audiobooks, African Shekere. Saturday, July 21, 1 - Do you have a special skill to share? magazines, computers, and more are always 3 pm. Make an African rattle from a gourd Do you knit? available during open hours. and beads or buttons. Materials provided. Charlene Brussat: Introduction to Ages 10+, though six- to nine-year-olds Sell crafts online? Watercolors. Saturday, June 2, 2 - 4 pm. can attend if accompanied by an adult. Sharpen tools? Adults only. Award-winning local artist Preregistration required. Know how to make a LEGO sphere? offers this introduction class. Follow-up John Jackson: Electromagnetics. Tuesday, July 31, 1 - 2 pm. Build your own classes will be offered for those who want Applegate and Ruch Libraries are planning a How-To Festival for to continue. electromagnet using copper wire, electrical Amber Bishop: Face Painting. tape, a nail, and a battery. All materials September 22, 2018. We are seeking local presenters to share their Thursday, June 14, 2 - 4 pm. All ages, included. Preregistration required. knowledge in an exciting day at both libraries, where participants all creative designs. Rock painting while Laura Rich: African Drumming and can learn a variety of skills from volunteers in 30-, 60-, or 90-minute you wait. Folktales. Thursday, August 9, 2 - 3 pm. presentations. Some of these would be hands-on, especially the kid- Malcolm Terence: Author Talk. Learn to play an African drum. Presented friendly sessions. Saturday, June 16, 2 - 4 pm. Meet by Laura Rich, musician and storyteller. There will be up to six sessions running concurrently in both libraries, Malcolm Terence, renowned storyteller Ruch Library is located at 7919 so we are hoping that many of you will want to be part of this valley-wide from the Salmon River in Northern Highway 238 in Jacksonville (Ruch) and extravaganza. The list of potential topics is endless. Maybe you could tell California, who will introduce his new is open Tuesdays from 10 am - 5 pm, us about bees, vermiculture, using binoculars, or how to access Oregon book, Beginner’s Luck: Dispatches from the Thursdays from 1 - 7 pm, and Saturdays Health coverage. Let your imagination run wild! Klamath Mountains. Hear his stories about from 11 am - 4 pm. If you are interested in presenting, please call Applegate Library life on the Black Bear Ranch commune, For more information, contact branch at 541-846-7346 or Ruch Library at 541-899-7438 before July 1. located in a remote corner of the Klamath manager Thalia Truesdell at 541-899-7438 Mountains. Refreshments will be served. or [email protected]. Applegater Summer 2018 7 NONPROFIT NEWS AND UPDATES — A Greater Applegate — — McKee Bridge Historical Society — Successful launch of • Addressing other issues, including The pie is history, but and volunteers. If you weren’t there, ask A Greater Applegate! cannabis policy, Bureau of Land more fun to come anyone who attended, and you’ll find out It has been four months since our Management policy, traffic, a community On Saturday evening, April 14, four that you missed a good time, pie, friends, transition from Cantrall Buckley Park garden, a local recycling program, and a score and more folks met on McKee and a history lesson too. We plan to have operators to A Greater Applegate, and a commercial kitchen. Bridge for a Pie Social and History Talk, more history events in the future, so watch lot has happened in that time. We learned that the Applegate Valley with Janeen Sathre narrating a showing of for updates by checking the calendar or First, we were thrilled with the response Connect website (applegateconnect.org) old photos of the Upper Applegate area events on applegateconnect.org. to our community chili dinner at the is a very popular new addition to the from the collection of her mother, Evelyn Raffle Applegate Valley Fire District Training community. We already had a good sense Williams. Prior to the picture show, old- But here’s the deal: You can get in on Building on March 15. More than 100 of that based on the close to 10,000 views timers born and raised here mingled with the fun and have a chance to win $300. people showed up on a cold, rainy evening; it has received since its launch in February, those who have arrived more recently, all Two generous benefactors have put up the energy level made it sound like a but we also learned that people like it eagerly consuming the astounding layout of the money for a raffle for anyone who hundred more. It was great to visit with equally for its calendar of events, projects, pies, cakes, cookies, and brownies provided becomes a new member or renews an friends—old and new—and share what stories, and directory of organizations. If by the McKee Bridge Historical Society existing membership in the McKee Bridge we are doing and thinking about. you are a local organization, be sure to board members with the help of family Historical Society by McKee Bridge Day, We want to thank Ruch Country Store register and add your information on the our annual celebration that occurs on for hosting the event and providing the directory. It’s free and easy! Saturday, June 9, this year. The drawing home-cooked chili, and to thank our other Cantrall Buckley Park remains as will be held after a day of family-friendly sponsors—Applegate Valley Fire District, valued as ever, with the Park Enhancement activities: Applegate Lions tri-tip BBQ, By George Farm, Charlie’s Produce, Committee creating an Art Walk, working root beer floats, music by the Old Time D&B Land & Livestock, Oshala Farms, with the county to install solar panels and Fiddlers once again, old cars and old Pennington Farms, Rise Up! Artisan Bread, an educational exhibit, installing new engines, lots of exhibits and vendors. Come and Whistling Duck Farm and Store—for benches, and completing work on the out and celebrate the 101st birthday of the making it all warm and inviting. playground installations, among other bridge with us from 11 am – 3 pm. We’re While we love feeding people, this projects (see related story on page 10). In very proud of our bridge, and we hope gathering was intended to engage more the survey, people have asked for more you’ll come enjoy it with us. of us in what we can do to ensure A trash and recycling bins, among a range To become a member of the McKee Greater Applegate’s success. We are happy of other amenities. Bridge Historical Society or to renew your that three dozen people volunteered Most recently we were excited to hear membership, call Paul Tipton at 541-846- to participate in building networks for we received a Community Builders grant 7501 or email mckeebridge1917@gmail. local artists, businesses, nonprofits, and from The Ford Family Foundation, which com. The cost is only $20 for an individual neighborhoods and to help with the park will enable us to build the infrastructure or family membership. We’ll get a form or and plan its 50th anniversary (see Cantrall for the work ahead. The grant will fund information to you, as needed, or you can Buckley Park Golden Jubilee information more hours for our consultant and interns sign up on June 9 during our celebration. on page 1). If you are interested in any of to support our community-building Paul Tipton these opportunities, please email me and work and will help us with rebuilding our 541-846-7501 I will connect you to the right person. organizational website, planning for the [email protected] We can definitely use more help for this future, and more. important work! So let’s keep the momentum going! We also want to make sure we are Help us know what you care about by putting our energy toward what matters completing the survey (gacdc.org). Get on — Pacifica — to the people of the Applegate Valley, and the mailing list for one of the upcoming We miss you, Kay! we are inviting everyone who lives here to network gatherings for artists, businesses, Kay Johnson, who created respond to our community survey, which neighborhoods, or nonprofits. Join us at a good deal of Pacifica’s seven you can find at gacdc.org. So far, we have the Cantrall Buckley 50th Anniversary miles of hiking and riding learned that people are interested in: Jubilee on July 14. trails, died on April 16. She • Building a rural caucus to amplify the And, yes, tax-deductible donations used to say that she knew every voice of the Applegate Valley community are always welcome. Mail your check inch of Pacifica’s 420 acres, and with local and state governments and to A Greater Applegate, PO Box 335, we all believed her. other regional decision makers. Jacksonville, OR 97530 or visit our soon- One of the trails she • Creating an Applegate Farmers’ Market to-be-updated website at gacdc.org. developed will be named for local produce and products. Seth Kaplan after her. We will miss her for • Supporting neighborhood emergency Board Chair her thoughtful, no-nonsense plans and promoting emergency A Greater Applegate suggestions and comments preparedness. [email protected] at board meetings, for all her hard work on horse events and Educational game at Pacifica summer camp. establishing the trail system and map, and for her friendly wave from subject of the camp could be anything atop her horse. you choose! Pacifica offers summer day Sky-Lodge erected for camps from 9 am - 2 pm, Mondays outdoor school through Thursdays. You can change that Pacifica now has a lovely 50-foot-wide format, though, if you would prefer to Sky-Lodge thanks to Brenda Patton and offer a one-night overnight or all nights Jay Cromer. It is an amazing structure and overnight for your camp. absolutely perfect for evening campfires Camps already scheduled for this with songs and skits and for essential eating summer are music, theater, sewing, and space for our Outdoor School sessions. yoga, with a creativity camp in the works. We have had a busy spring creating the Open weeks to lead a camp are June 25, curriculum, activities, and facilities needed July 9, July 16, August 13, and August 27. for Pacifica Outdoor School (P.O.D.S.). Let us know of your interest Groups of up to 60 sixth graders from the If you are interested in doing a camp, Three Rivers School District and other please talk with Vanessa as soon as possible Around 100 members of the Applegate community attended the chili dinner held by schools will be spending three days and about your ideas! A Greater Applegate in March at the Applegate Valley Fire District Training Building. two nights each session at Pacifica. Their All camps must have two adults on programs will include nature-science staff, so perhaps some of you would like (animals, birds, rocks, soil, water, etc.), to partner up to offer a camp. Camps are Volunteers needed! hiking games and activities, and fishing, super fun and a chance to work with a as well as a close-to-the-ground challenge small group of kids, when you really can Cantrall Buckley Park’s Golden Jubilee course, lessons on how to stay found when connect with them and do fun projects! Saturday, July 14, 11 am - 7 pm hiking, and classes in music, art, or theater. Thanks for considering the idea! We’re really looking forward to this Please contact Vanessa at 541-621- • Kids’ Zone new adventure at Pacifica. 6278 or [email protected] if • Green crew An array of summer day camps you’d like to lead or take part in a camp. • Parking crew Are any of you interested in leading a Peg Prag • 541-846-1100 • Information tent four-day summer camp at Pacifica? The [email protected] To sign up, email [email protected]. Nonprofit organizations in the Applegate Valley are welcome to submit news and event information to the Applegater. Email [email protected]. 8 Summer 2018 Applegater

THE STARRY SIDE The North Star, the still star

BY GREELEY WELLS

If stargazing is new to you and you three quarters of the way up the tree. I V than the other. Imagine two evenly you, guess what, Greeley Wells want to learn one interesting thing, find recommend you find a landmark like my spaced lines within that wider V, dividing you’re walking Polaris, the North Star. It’s the only star in tree and orient the star in relation to it to the space into three pieces of pie. Follow south, etc. the whole sky that stays in the exact same create your own personal mark. the outside line (away from the center) of These are important first steps in location. There are several ways to find it: 2. The most common technique is to those two lines you just imagined, and it understanding the movement of the night 1. Look in the direction the sun rises use the Big Dipper (officially called Ursa will point right to Polaris. sky. All other stars and constellations are (that’s east) and turn to your left—that’s Major, the Big Bear), which is always in 4. The Little Dipper (Ursa Minor, the only in the same place once a year. The north. Facing north, look up approximately the north going around and around that Little Bear) is a third constellation in this North Star (near your personal mark) and 45 degrees—about halfway between the North Star. The two stars at the bottom of story. The end star of its handle is the North these circumpolar constellations rotating horizon and straight overhead—and the dipper, away from the handle, point Star. The handles of the two dippers (or the counterclockwise around and close to it are you’ll see a modest star, measured as directly at the North Star. tails of the two bears) are pointing opposite almost always completely visible because only the fiftieth brightest star, but first in 3. You can also use Cassiopeia. She’s a to each other. With this information you they stay high in the sky all year long. If importance because every other star moves queen but looks like a W or M depending can stay on track walking or navigating at you find this group in the north, they will around it while it stays still! on her orientation, and she lives on the night using the position of the North Star. always be there for you in any season. At my house, the North Star is always opposite side of the North Star from the If it’s on your right, you’re walking west; if Greeley Wells just to the right of a tall cedar tree, about Big Dipper. One side of the W is a wider on your left, you are walking east; if behind [email protected]

Illustration from stellarium.org. Greeley’s Sky Calendar Venus is the brightest thing in the evening all this summer. She’s at her highest and stays up longest in August. Jupiter works his way down and west into the evening throughout June, July, and August and is almost as bright as Venus. Mars and the earth are at their closest on July 27, when Mars will be at its brightest since 2003. It had been 6,000 years since Mars was that close to us, and this year it will almost match that record-breaking brightness. Mercury, in the sun in June, in the dusk in July, and in the dawn in August, is hard to find, as always. Saturn is up all night in June and moves into dusk in July and August. It’s at its apex in June. The Perseid meteor shower,the best of the year, peaks on August 12-13. A small crescent moon will set early in the evening. It’s always best after midnight, when the earth has turned its dark side into its direction of motion—that’s the leading side, facing into the wind, as it were, creating a more vivid show, the way snow is more impressive coming at you through the front window of a car than the back window! Applegater Summer 2018 9 DIRTY FINGERNAILS AND ALL Walipini, a place of warmth BY SIOUX ROGERS

Using the earth’s natural underground can also has a backhoe. hill slope. Others Sioux Rogers warmth is not a new concept, but a timeless thrive in an Consider go straight down one. Hmm, do you think plants, such as underground incorporating with stairs or a ramp. Style and methods potatoes, asparagus, and peonies, figured greenhouse as recycled will vary with site, exposure, experience, out that going underground in the winter they can be material or size, and material and labor available. would keep them alive and warm for their kept cool in whatever other The entire walipini can be completely spring debut? the summer. materials are passive or you can do a few easy but Walipini, meaning “place of warmth,” is While the available. enhancing additions to ensure success. an interchangeable word for underground underground Keep in mind Don’t forget the greenhouse needs to greenhouse or pit greenhouse. Four to eight gardening that materials “breathe.” According to greenhousecatalog. feet underground, the earth’s temperature concept is used must be com/greenhouse-ventilation, “Ventilation is a stable 50 to 70 degrees. The thermal fascinating, long-lasting is perhaps the most important component Cover your walipini with plastic or mass of the surrounding earth plus the it also underground. in a successful greenhouse. This is because glass panels (i.ytimg.com). passive solar energy account for the makes good Materials ventilation serves four major purposes stability of the soil. economic and to consider within the greenhouse. First of all, it helps There is documentation of underground ecological sense. I have only read about, are native stone and/or cinder blocks. to regulate temperature. It also ensures that structures, called walipinis, being used in but never constructed, a walipini. Thus, Combine them if necessary. If you’re not your plants get plenty of fresh air that they South America for a few decades in the this article is exploratory for me and using stone, cinder blocks, or concrete, can use to photosynthesize. Additionally, early part of the twentieth century. And hopefully interesting and wanna-do-too check with a local hardware store or online good ventilation prevents pest infestations the use of earth-sheltered greenhouses in for you. about what else might work for below- and will encourage important pollination the United States was very popular in the Building a pit greenhouse sounds grade construction. within the greenhouse.” late 1800s. daunting, but apparently it is not if one Placing a French drain is tantamount to In the winter, you can supplement with The concept, as I understand it, is incorporates a few rules and essentials. a structurally successful Walipini. A good grow lights or have several black barrels multifold. Basically, the pit or underground Ideally, greenhouses are built four to site to educate yourself about French drains filled with water. The water in the black greenhouse is used to extend the growing eight feet underground but need to be at is easydigging.com/Drainage/installation_ barrels will warm up and insulate the area season for plants needing warmer weather. least five feet above the water table or a french_drain.html. Be creative and do not while also providing readily available water This means you can extend the growing muddy, sloppy-gloppy mess may ensue. ever think you can’t ask questions. for the plants. season for tomatoes, basil, dill, eggplants, This project need not be overwhelming Clearly, as with chicken soup, every The next decision is what material to some flowers, cucumbers, melons, squashes, nor expensive. Aside from gathering many builder of a walipini will have a different use to frame the greenhouse. Well, consider etc. Perhaps even grow dwarf citrus trees friends for free labor, nab one friend who recipe. Some designs incorporate a natural esthetics versus function, available material year-round. It does not freeze that far versus labor, and time versus money. underground. Ideally one would use metal hoops, Plants that do fine in cooler weather, such as those used in large commercial such as cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, greenhouses, or wood if it is readily spinach, carrots, and even potatoes, available. Cover with plastic of at least .6 ml and/or glass panels. Photo, left: Consider native stone, cinder Be creative; it may not always blocks or concrete for be necessary to use the commercial walipini walls (permies.com). material promoted on some websites. Photo, right: Framing of a Different “recipes” for different folks. walipini in progress Sioux Rogers • 541-890-9876 (1.bp.blogspot.com). [email protected]

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Guesthouse Stayovers B&B Bring the kids! Pet friendly! 13291 Hwy 238, Applegate, OR Stay at a real country farm on the Applegate River! Call for information and reservations: 541-941-0000 www.horsefeather-farms-ranchette.com 10 Summer 2018 Applegater Jewel of the Applegate: 50 years of Cantrall Buckley Park BY TOM CARSTENS We will be honoring Cantrall Buckley takes a year, but the park finally reopens— Park on its 50th anniversary this July. Here this time better than ever. is a brief history of how it survived with Ledward continues to use the Jackson pride throughout those years. County Youth Work Corps. These kids, Art is happening in the park 1961: In the beginning along with county work crews, turn the The year is 1961. The Bureau of Land park into a showcase for the state. State BY JANIS MOHR-TIPTON Management (BLM) has built a single-lane bridge over the Applegate River to replace Educational Art Walk an old ford on the Cantrall family cattle Jacksonville artist Cheryl D. Garcia ranch. Neil Ledward, the first Jackson will create 11 metal sculptures over the County Parks Director, begins to see the next two and a half years to grace the possibility of a county park on the other natural beauty of Cantrall Buckley Park side. In 1965, Harlan Cantrall agrees to with southern Oregon’s first sculpture sell the county 25 acres on both sides of park. Visitors will experience sculptures the river. Neighbor Lewis Buckley joins the of local flora and fauna, including a fun and sells another eight acres—Cantrall variety of larger-than-life birds and Buckley Park is born. Soon after, the a gigantic mock orange, shooting Ossenbrugges and the Dunlaps sell more star, and wild Oregon iris installed acreage. With a BLM lease, the park now along the Art Walk. Each sculpture encompasses 54 acres. will be accompanied by educational information. Bud Childers, second Park Ranger. In April, many generous community members gathered at Valley View conventions take place at Cantrall Buckley Winery for a fundraiser, which raised so that other counties can learn how to over $23,000 to implement the new build similar parks. Early work crews Art Walk. The event was sponsored by remember the park as “immaculate” and A Greater Applegate (AGA) and the “pristine.” Five hundred cars might show Cantrall Buckley Park Enhancement up on any given weekend. Image of the Shooting Star sculpture Committee (PEC) and was organized But county timber payments supporting by artist Cheryl Garcia. by Tom Carstens. the park are drying up. The good times The sculptures will add to the work delicious wine. Thanks also to Janet and stop rolling. So, around 1976, Ledward of Jacksonville mosaic artist Jeremy Platon Mantheakis from Jacksonville Inn begins the “Parks Enterprise Program”—an Criswell’s playful, larger-than-life mosaic for creating the delectable treats. attempt to make the county park system turtle, “Tuffy,” which already resides in A shout-out to all the park committee Neil Ledward, first Parks Director. function more like a business—more self- the playground for children to play on. members who helped put this event sufficient and less dependent on those There are additional plans for Jeremy to together and the AGA board members who 1965: Construction begins disappearing timber payments. Gate finish and install the community mural assisted at the event. Ledward spends the next three years receipts stay with the parks. on the exterior of the newly renovated You, too, can help by putting your transforming the heavily forested land The 80s: Park budget gets the ax restroom. In the future there will also be thumbprint on this groundbreaking into a park. There’s a lot of work—the The park flourishes, but with a reduced a solar educational display with a large project. Join the many other community 1964 flood has devastated the flood plain. budget and reduced patronage. With the community-built sundial next to a new members to reach the goal of raising The area designated for the park is a big completion of the Applegate Dam, the solar array and outdoor classroom. $12,000 for the “Shooting Star” sculpture, mess. All the earlier preparation work by floods stop, but the water released from the Generous donors which will be installed near the entrance the county has been obliterated. Downed bottom of the dam is really cold. People cut Many thanks to all who donated to the of the park. No donation is too big or too trees and debris are everywhere. back on swimming. Fishermen are happy, Art Walk (as of May 1, 2018): small. You can send a check to AGA, PO To help clean it up, Ledward hires a though. The trout love that cold water, Legacy Donors will be permanently Box 335, Jacksonville, OR 97530 (please bunch of Jackson County high-school and the salmon enjoy good water flows. recognized with an engraved boulder: note on your check “Art in the Park- boys, beginning a 30-year association More sites are added to the campground. Antonio Aquilar and Matt Katzenson, Shooting Star”) or call Janis Mohr-Tipton with local kids. He believes that both Money continues to tighten in all county Boaz and Matia Brizman, Mike and Carol at 541-846-7501. the teenagers and the county would departments. County parks are placed Burrill, Tom and Kathy Carstens, Matt and Better yet, come meet the artist in benefit from this concept of community under the Division of Public Works. Donna Epstein, Barbara D. Formanek, person at the Cantrall Buckley Park service. He is right: these boys learn road Political infighting ensues. John and Bonnie Rinaldi, Sean and Sonya Golden Jubilee on Saturday, July 14, from construction, forestry, fire prevention, map The 90s: Transition Roden, Greg and Debbie Shultz, Greeley 12 - 7 pm. reading, electrical, plumbing, irrigation, Neil Ledward retires in 1991 after 30 Wells, and Applegate Valley Garden Club. At the Jubilee, be sure to visit the Park and riparian planting. They remove years as Jackson County Parks Director. Other generous donors will collectively Enhancement Committee’s exhibit to massive amounts of blackberries. Ledward Soon after, the county initiates wholesale be recognized on plaques: Larry and Gaye see pictures and stories from the park’s teaches the boys to work around the big changes to its park system. In a controversial Anderson, Bill and Lyn Boening, Larry beginnings in 1968. Find out what’s beautiful trees. (That’s why we have such decision, the parks department is placed and Shannon Buscho, Judy Crowe, Don happening now and what plans we have a cool, shady park today!) under the county roads division. Timber and Linda DeWald, Pat Gehres, Nancy for the future. Get to know us and see 1968: The park opens . . . sales continue to slacken. The county Goodwin, Ken Gregg, Jerry and Yolanda if you’d like to join us to do great things Slowly, but steadily, the park takes decides to preserve only a core of parks. Haynes, Gail Kuzma, Alice LaMoree, Whit for the betterment of the park and the shape and opens on July 14, 1968, with a Each county park undergoes a review. and Jo Parker, Annette Parsons, Ed and enjoyment of park visitors. We welcome grand ceremony. Two years later, Cantrall Cantrall Buckley doesn’t make the cut. Ginny Polish, Michael Riding and Michele new suggestions too! sells the county another 34 acres. A The park is popular but earns little income Brown-Riding, Paul Tipton and Janis Artistic benches in the park campground is planned. outside of gate receipts. The park needs Mohr-Tipton, Magda Vahey, Chris and This art comes as beautifully designed According to Ledward, Jackson County a lot of work, but there is no money in Maria Wilkey, Ron and Sharon Williams, and fabricated steel benches made by Parks “had more money than we knew what the coffers. In 1996, the county decides and Janice Wilt. students in the metal fabrication program to do with.” Ledward takes advantage and to shutter the gates. Embittered park Valley View Winery and Jacksonville at Grants Pass High School. After visiting begins even more construction in the park: employees describe the closure as heart- Inn Event Services. Many thanks to the the facility and seeing the students in trails, an education gazebo, two ponds, a wrenching. Some of them lose their jobs. Wisnovsky family at Valley View Winery action, we were so impressed with the water feature, paved roads, a shelter, an Bud Childers retires. for hosting the Art Walk event and for the quality of work being done in their three- irrigation system, a new restroom, and The community has no warning about year program that we gave them the a playground. Through it all, Ledward losing their access to the Applegate River. freedom to design and create three constantly admonishes construction crews, Residents feel that the county has no idea benches under the guidance of their “Keep the trees!” how popular the park is. Ledward fights instructor, Jake Leair. The 70s: A tumultuous time the closure from retirement—to no avail. Students chose different designs Bud Childers becomes the second park Jack Shipley, who has just founded the for each bench that would fit into ranger in 1974. Right after, the Applegate Applegate Partnership, decides to organize the natural themes in our park. After River floods again, this time worse than a contingent of Applegaters to water and being powder coated locally, they will in ’64. Much of the previous work is mow the grass, pick up trash, clear downed be installed in the park. destroyed. The approaches to the bridge wood, and basically keep the park in shape Thank you to all the volunteers are washed out. The park entrance is under until they can figure out what to do. and donors. Come have some fun in water. Most of the new asphalt is ripped The 1997 flood doesn’t help. The park is your favorite park! I look forward to out. Park employees have to be rescued hit hard once again, so neighbors come out seeing you there. by boat. in droves to help clean up. The Applegate Grants Pass High School students are making steel Janis Mohr-Tipton On top of all that, the river has shifted! Lions Club repairs all the picnic tables benches for installation at Cantrall Buckley Park. [email protected] Childers has his work cut out for him. It See JEWEL OF THE APPLEGATE, page 11. Applegater Summer 2018 11 ■ JEWEL OF THE APPLEGATE In June 2016, the community celebrates Continued from page 10 the twentieth anniversary of its salvation Moving upstream: APWC and helps move dirt. Other people buck of the park. The well-attended event downed trees and clean up the wood. includes the dedication of memorial assists fish and farmers on Shipley and others convince Paul benches to Shipley and Laananen and Korbulic, the parks program director, to the official opening of a new playground enter into a mutual agreement that would and playscape designed by the “Applegate the Little Applegate River permit the community to run the park. Moms” and their kids, led by Michelle BY BARBARA SUMMERHAWK Initially skeptical, Korbulic takes a leap LaFave. The playscape includes the park’s of faith and helps draft a memorandum first piece of art—Tuffy the Turtle— As an that the county commissioners sign in crafted by local artist Jeremy Criswell and extremely a park ceremony in the summer of ’97. named after Tuffy Decker, who donated important his construction labor. Almost $60,000 tributary of has been raised from throughout the the Applegate community. River, the Little The following year, Jackson County Applegate offers to take back responsibility for River provides managing the park. A Greater Applegate cold-water (AGA), the renamed umbrella nonprofit refuge for originally called GACDC, accepts the rearing habitat offer in a unanimous board decision. for juvenile The new Park Enhancement Committee salmon and (PEC) continues the mission of putting other aquatic Upper Phillips Dam during summer flow. the community stamp on the park. In species, as well 2014 photo: Joey Howard, Cascade Stream Solutions. the works are an art walk designed by as irrigation renowned metal artist Cheryl Garcia, a tile for privately mural on the new playground restroom, owned Jack Shipley, Applegate Partnership founder. a children’s interactive sundial display, agricultural fresh landscaping by the restrooms, more farms. In The Cantrall Buckley Park Committee is pollinator gardens designed by local cooperation formed under the aegis of the Applegate school kids, new park benches designed with private Partnership. Korbulic remembers a feeling and built by the Grants Pass High School landowners of “deep relief” that this beautiful park had metal shop students, and a large array of connected been saved. solar panels—all funded and lined up. The with the Cantrall Buckley becomes the only PEC is planning a host of future projects, Upper Phillips rural park in Oregon (and probably including a science learning center, a Ditch water the nation) entirely managed by an water-play area, and more native plant users, the unincorporated community without a restorations. Applegate supporting tax district. The members of the For its part, Jackson County Parks just Partnership Park Committee have their work cut out finished renovating the day-use restrooms and Watershed for them. They hold several community and repairing the irrigation system. They Council Location of Upper Phillips Dam. meetings to figure things out and recruit will soon begin seeking funds for an (APWC) is Map: APWC. volunteers. A $10,000 grant from the expensive RV upgrade to the campground. working on Carpenter Foundation helps them get The partnership is in good shape. improving irrigation systems and fish APWC has developed the bypass and started. They hold fundraising events, and Golden Jubilee celebration in July passage at the Upper Phillips Dam, which ditch piping plans through a partnership donations from the Applegate community To celebrate the park’s history, the AGA blocks fish and other aquatic species from with the landowners and water users, pour in. The Park Committee hires a is planning a Cantrall Buckley Park Golden high-quality cold water crucial to their OWEB, ODFW, Jackson County Soil resident park ranger. Jubilee. This big event, on Saturday, July survival over hot summers. and Water Conservation District, the The following year, the Park Committee 14, exactly 50 years after the park opened, According to Rogue Basin Watershed Jackson County watermaster, Bureau finds a more suitable home under a will celebrate the history of the Applegate Management Plans, impeded access to of Land Management, Middle Rogue new nonprofit with a tongue-twister Valley and the community spirit that has habitat due to barriers has contributed Steelheaders, and Trout Unlimited. It has name—the Greater Applegate Community kept Cantrall Buckley Park alive. (See more to a decline in fish populations. This been working together almost 10 years Development Corporation (GACDC). By information on page 1.) project would improve access to habitat on various projects, including installation this time, Jackson County has pretty much Tom Carstens • 541-846-1025 and fish screening for endangered species, of measuring devices as required by the washed its hands of Cantrall Buckley. The author thanks the following park old- including coho, Pacific lamprey, steelhead Oregon Water Resource Department’s Being on the Park Committee starts to feel timers for their help in compiling this article: and cutthroat trout, and will provide the Significant Point of Diversion Program, pretty lonely. Rick Barclay, Bud Childers, Jack Duggan, water users of the Upper Phillips Ditch according to Janelle Dunlevy, executive 2000 - present: Survival and rebirth Bob Komody, Paul Korbulic, Neil Ledward, with an efficient, improved water-delivery director of APWC. In 2001 Rick Barclay, a local logger, Ellen Levine, and Joe Strahl. All photos system. A combination of a new head gate The project began with research on replaces Terry Mitchell as park ranger. provided by Tom Carstens. and ditch piping will allow water users to what issues irrigators were having and Rick starts things off with a bang when increase agricultural production, improve what would improve the irrigation system. he innocently applies for a septic permit. • • • water quality by reducing ditch runoff, The current ditch loses a large quantity of That’s when he discovers the morass of Memories of and leave conserved water in streams. Peter water through evaporation and seepage. county and state agencies he’ll have to Salant, local landowner and water user, It was determined that a new head gate deal with. Rick gets a lot of help from the Cantrall Buckley Park said, “We are hoping that the work can be and piping would allow water users near Oregon Department of Environmental From long-time patrons started by 2019.” the end of the ditch to receive their water Quality (DEQ) and Laird Funk, a retired “I surely cannot recall the number of Improved fish passage at Upper Phillips rights. “With improvements to the head wastewater manager in Josephine County. times I took my children to that beautiful Dam, through work on a secondary gate and with the piping, we can increase In 2004, the Park Committee, under place to dip in the river, climb the barrels, channel bypass around the dam, will efficiency for water delivery. This water the leadership of Dave Laananen, develops and explore the magical little walkways allow access upstream for cutthroat supports small family farms in the area,” a Park Master Plan, funded by BLM and near the playground.” trout, lamprey, steelhead, and coho. “It’s Julie explained. Marion Hadden, an fulfilled during the next ten years with “The best part of volunteering in the especially important for juvenile fish to instrumental landowner and water user grants totaling over $600,000. Jackson park was the association with such great be able to escape the heat by going up for the development of this project, said, County lends a hand. people. I’ve never felt more alive than when tributaries to colder water,” said Julie “This project will improve the habitat for By the end of 2007, the park has a I was working to make our park better. Cymore, fish passage program manager fish and improve the water supply for us. new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment What a gem!” for APWC. The bypass was designed with It has been a joy working with APWC’s system. A highlight is the “Vegetative From Bonnie Rinaldi, former support from a technical assistance grant Janelle Dunlevy.” Submerged Bed,” or VSB, suggested by GACDC chairperson. “What made the from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Designs for fish passage began with DEQ. This cattail “swamp” naturally cleans experience a privilege was the opportunity Board (OWEB). discussions with the irrigators and fish the park’s wastewater before it is pumped to work with and get to know Dave The Upper Phillips concrete dam is biologists from different agencies and back to the campground for irrigation. The Laananen, Laird Funk, Tom Carstens, approximately five miles upstream from were drawn up by a local engineering next year sees the redesign of the park’s and Rick Barclay. Each of these men gave the confluence with the Applegate River. firm. APWC is currently applying for freshwater system and new campground generously and tirelessly of their time and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife grant funding that will cover the entire restrooms. talents to improve the park and make it a (ODFW) fish presence surveys have cost of the project. The result is a mutually New educational trail signs are installed place that the Applegate community could recorded Chinook to river mile 2, steelhead beneficial project, one in which the water throughout the park. Kids from Applegate enjoy and be proud of.” to river mile 19, and coho to river mile users will have an upgraded irrigation and Ruch schools clear blackberries, 6. Summer low-flow conditions reduce system and fish will be able to reach seed pollinator gardens, and bed native • • • habitat connections, resulting in mortality. upstream habitat. riparian habitat, and more. A consortium Note: There is more to this history article, This project is listed on the ODFW 2013 Barbara Summerhawk of neighbors on North Applegate and which was shortened due to space constraints. Statewide Fish Passage Priority list as [email protected] Kubli roads purchases new barbecue grills. Visit applegater.org to read the complete one of the top priorities for the overall Board Member Applegate Trails Association restores all the article and many more memories and view Applegate basin and indicates that barriers Applegate Partnership & park trails. more photos. are limiting for the Little Applegate River. Watershed Council 12 Summer 2018 Applegater Notes from a Rogue entomologist southern Oregon region. So with some are “restricted-use pesticides” due to their of the funding being provided by our potential effects on aquatic systems. Introductions and an update relatively new Extension tax district, this Two neonicotinoid insecticides were gap has now been filled. Dr. Jones is an also detected in 2017. These insecticides BY RICHARD J. HILTON agronomist with a PhD from Virginia had been detected previously, but the Tech. While Gordon Jones’s doctoral benchmark level for one of the materials, The last couple agronomy from Ohio research focused on pastures and hayfields, imidacloprid (a widely used insecticide of years have seen State University, the his varied background even includes some in both agriculture and backyards), was tremendous change “other OSU,” as experience with orchards and vineyards, so significantly lowered last December. All in the faculty at the we call it (we’ll just he is well-equipped to tackle the diversity detections of imidacloprid now exceed Southern Oregon ignore Oklahoma of agriculture found in our area. this new benchmark, whereas none had Research and State University for In his current position, Dr. Jones exceeded the previous benchmark. Extension Center the moment). will be involved in the ongoing Pesticide Finally, an herbicide, oxyfluorfen, was (SOREC). The most recent Stewardship Partnership (PSP) effort. found at a level exceeding the aquatic In the fall of additions to the Gordon will be leading OSU’s contribution benchmark in one sample. Oxyfluorfen has 2016, new scientists SOREC faculty in collaboration with the Rogue Valley the lowest benchmark level of all herbicides working in viticulture are Lena Hoskins, Watershed Council and the Jackson that have been found in the course of the (Dr. Alexander Levin) our new 4-H agent, Soil and Water Conservation District. Middle Rogue PSP sampling effort to date, and plant pathology who started at the Last year, I reported on our local PSP so perhaps it is not too surprising that it is (Dr. Achala KC) beginning of 2017, project, and, at the time, there had been the first herbicide to be detected at a level came on board. and Dr. Gordon no detections of any pesticides above that certainly raises concern. Earlier, in the spring Jones, who started in established benchmarks for aquatic health In light of all these new findings, it is of 2016, Dr. Rich June 2017. or other risks. However, times change and apparent that an expanded effort to educate Roseburg took over Gordon is our so has the news. local pesticide users is needed. As the PSP the helm as SOREC new professor of The results of stream sampling in continues to engage with the community director, moving Dr. Gordon Jones, new professor of practice practice in charge of 2017 were similar to those of previous in a variety of ways to increase awareness in commercial agriculture at from the Klamath extension programs years in that herbicides were detected and directly address the ongoing issue of OSU’s Southern Oregon Research Basin Research and and activities aimed much more frequently than insecticides pesticides in our streams, the addition of and Extension Center. Extension Center. at commercial and still no fungicides have been found. Dr. Jones to the PSP team is a welcome Rich had worked agriculture in Jackson However, two insecticides not previously and positive development. at SOREC from 1990 to 2003, so he’s an and Josephine Counties. This is a position detected were found in the spring of 2017. Richard J. Hilton Oregon State University (OSU) veteran, that has gone unfilled for some time. We Diazinon was found twice in March at 541-772-5165 x227 though not as much of an old-timer as I am. have had a program that targets small levels above the benchmark for aquatic Senior Faculty Research Assistant / In fact, it is a bit shocking to be reminded farms since 2006, and that is an important health, and chlorpyrifos was detected once Entomologist that it was over a quarter of a century and growing agricultural sector, but large in April at a concerning level (80 percent Oregon State University-Southern ago when I first met Rich, seemingly commercial operations still make up the of benchmark). Both of these insecticides Oregon Research and Extension Center a kid, with his freshly minted PhD in bulk of agricultural production in the are older organophosphate materials that [email protected] Changes on the river at Provolt Seed Orchard BY JAKOB SHOCKEY

When I was a kid growing up in this the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) valley, I first noticed Provolt because its Provolt Seed Orchard, which has provided red-painted store seemed to have more fir and pine seeds all over Oregon for a Christmas lights than any other structure in variety of projects ranging from wildfire the valley. Right at the terminus of Williams restoration to environmental studies. Highway at Highway 238, the little “town” Now the BLM is working with partners of Provolt occupies that space between the and the public to determine the future of Williams Valley and the greater Applegate the site and hopes to provide a space that Valley. While Provolt is comprised of will capture the true community value of Ruch Outdoor Community School students and BLM and APWC representatives planted trees spread-out buildings—the community the area. at Provolt Seed Orchard to help restore the Applegate River Watershed. church, the humpback bridge wayside, the On April 20, kids from Ruch store, the old community grange, and the Outdoor Community School met with Watershed. Close to 50 students learned to participating parents of Ruch Outdoor scattered private residences—most of the the Applegate Partnership & Watershed tell an incense cedar from a ponderosa pine Community School who came out to plant property between and surrounding these Council (APWC) and members of the seedling and where and how to plant both trees that they and their communities can spots is actually public land. Medford District BLM at Provolt Seed species. The APWC has been collaborating revisit for years. We would especially like Historically this area was a working ranch Orchard to plant trees and take an active with the BLM on a large-scale riparian to thank Ryan King for all that he does for cattle and hay before being converted to role in restoring the Applegate River restoration project at this site for several in getting kids outside and involved, and years, and these young tree planters helped Christina Beslin and Sarah Mathews from replace some of the plantings that didn’t the BLM for helping with this event. A survive last summer’s hot blast. big shout-out to the Oregon Watershed As we transition the Provolt Seed Enhancement Board for funding this work Responsive, A staff that is Orchard’s riparian area from a thick mat and to Allen Bollschweiler for his robust accurate, and locally knowledgable, professional, minded. and personable. of blackberries into a more functioning support of this and other restoration work Grown Rogue Million Elephants riparian forest, this active seed orchard in our watershed. Finally, this project is is also transitioning into something new. only a success because of the talent and If you are interested giving input to this hard work that Applegaters like Tommy process, please contact Sarah Mathews, Maddox, Tim Sexauer, Cody Jones, and outdoor recreation planner for the BLM Russell Jenkins contribute. Grants Pass Resource area, at samathews@ Jakob Shockey blm.gov. Restoration Program Manager “THE PINNACLE OF Improving the wildlife habitat at this Applegate Partnership & Watershed site in Provolt and managing its public land Council access is a long process that’s just begun. 541-890-9989 CANNABIS TESTING SERVICES.” We would like to thank the students and [email protected] -Edibology

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BIRD EXPLORER Migrating Neotropical birds

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As of May, Bird Month, most winter moving north. With all the new greenery, birds: the Wilson’s and Nashville warblers, But the rewards Peter J. Thiemann guests left for breeding grounds up north colorful birds are easier to see and enjoy. the yellow warblers, and the secretive are many—it will or inland and the Neotropicals arrived with Black-headed grosbeaks, with males yellow-breasted chat. Yellow-rumped lift your spirits to see these exotic creatures a splash of exotic colors. in stunning colors, are establishing their warblers are mostly moving on to places that have come such a long way to enrich As vegetation greens and trees flower, breeding territories in big-leaf maple and farther north, using our area for refueling. your day. Enjoy! myriads of insects are available for food— Pacific madrone trees. They came all the Don’t expect these birds to sit still for Peter J. Thiemann bird life is good. Some Neotropicals, such way from Central America, where they long, except when singing from a treetop. [email protected] as the Wilson’s and Nashville warblers, spend the winter. Then, in willows near To capture a photographic image of these Photos courtesy of Peter J. Thiemann will nest in our area. Others will continue water, there are flashes of bright yellow small birds, patience and skill is needed. flickr photo stream.

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chokecherry shrub. We took the eggs inside our butterflies and other pollinators is a Multiple tails and reared them in the butterfly lab (aka great thing to consider when planning the art room). Being rewarded this way your garden. BY LINDA KAPPEN from our butterfly habitat at the school was Linda Kappen a pretty good feeling. It shows that planting [email protected] The Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail The hind wing has two tails rather than native shrubs and other native plants for Photos by Linda Kappen. (Papilio multicaudata) is in the butterfly one and a very faint third. On the open family Papilionidae and is Arizona’s wing, the butterfly displays metallic blue Tiger Swallowtail dorsal view official state butterfly. This butterfly patches around posterior orange spots on ranges throughout the Pacific Northwest the hind wing. and to the south throughout the west. The Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail The scientific name, multicaudata, means lives and flies in canyons, shrub lands, multiple tails. watercourses, parks, and natural areas. The Two-tailed Tiger Swallowtail is the They can be seen on the wing from March second largest butterfly in North America to mid-September. Host plants for this and the largest throughout the Pacific swallowtail are mainly western chokecherry Northwest. It can reach wingspreads of (Prunus virginiana var. demissa). The larvae up to five inches. This swallowtail is a overwinter. Adults will nectar on larkspurs, brighter, warmer yellow than the similar thistles, teasel, knapweed, scarlet gilia, to species, Western Tiger Swallowtail. The name just a few. wing borders of the two-tailed are black ThePapilio multicaudata is an amazing with the tiger stripes noticeably narrower. butterfly to see flying above dirt roads next to creeks. Its shadow Tiger Swallowtail ventral view passes over your head quickly, but you may be lucky to get a glimpse of it before it disappears around a corner. We created a Swallowtail Butterfly Garden at Applegate School. Years went by, and our chokecherry grew larger. One day after school we found eggs of the two-tailed on the 14 Summer 2018 Applegater incrementally as a result of public engagement in various stages of the NEPA Update: Upper Applegate process. By implementing iterative NEPA (or iNEPA, as it is termed), we hope to increase public interaction, as well as create Demonstration Unit efficiencies that reduce costs and timelines. BY DON BOUCHER The iNEPA process for the UAWRP has three phases. The first phase, already The Upper Applegate Demonstration roadless and unmanaged areas, sustainable under way, describes the current condition Units were designed to evaluate fuel flow of goods and services, and human life and examines the consequences of not and restoration treatments on Bureau of and property. implementing the Proposed Action. Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Last fall both agencies received This phase will culminate with a public Service (USFS) land. These units provide comments on the Proposed Action for workshop scheduled for Thursday, May 31, opportunities for public engagement, the UAWRP and reviewed all the letters when the resource specialists will share their dialogue, and understanding of alternative and identified important issues, which will findings. The second phase, the analysis of fuels and restoration treatments with form the basis of the analytical work for the the Proposed Action, will include a public carefully designed, side-by-side examples. environmental analysis. Some of the more meeting on Wednesday, July 25. Both of Four treatment alternatives were important issues included the protection these meetings will be held at the Applegate replicated eight times on 10-acre units in a of late-successional habitat, attention Valley Fire District Training Building blocked experimental design. Merchantable to limiting erosion and sediment from in Ruch. The time for these workshops tree removal was completed by helicopter ground-disturbing activities, protection will be announced. The third phase is this past winter. of old and large trees, treatments in areas the preparation of the environmental Look for announcements of field trips currently without roads, impacts from assessment, which will be published for A Huey helicopter brings logs from the fuels demonstration units to the landing off to visit the units over the summer and fall. recreation, and protection of botanical public review. The two workshops listed Palmer Creek Road in February 2017. Upper Applegate Watershed species and habitats. above will provide an opportunity for the Restoration Project Currently, USFS and BLM specialists community to interact with The purpose of the Upper Applegate are continuing surveys and developing resource specialists to modify Watershed Restoration Project (UAWRP) a description of the baseline conditions or improve the Proposed is to restore structure and processes to which the Proposed Action will be Action. This process will allow in the Upper Applegate watershed, compared. An environmental assessment resource specialists, with their providing landscape conditions resilient is planned to be available for public limited time, to focus on to disturbances and climate change, in review in September. At a public meeting analyzing alternatives that are order to protect the following important on March 29, the agencies explained the important to the community. community-identified values: recreation analysis process, which will be iterative and The goal is a more transparent (motorized and nonmotorized), late- a slightly modified version of the National and inclusive analysis process. successional forests (northern spotted Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. If you have questions or owl habitat), biodiversity (both plant and By iterative, we mean that the Proposed comments, please feel free to animal), important connectivity corridors, Action may be modified or improved contact me. Don Boucher 541-899-3840 Upper Applegate Team Leader Rogue River-Siskiyou The Upper Applegate watershed in February 2017. National Forest Note on the right side of the photo, the scorched trees [email protected] from last summer’s Burnt Peak Fire.

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Applegate Valley Office Jacksonville Office 7380 Highway 238 / Ruch, OR 935 North Fifth Street / Jacksonville, OR Next to Ruch Country Store By the Gas Station 541-261-0949 541-218-0947 Applegater Summer 2018 15 Featured Advertiser Applegate Excavate & Fence •••BIZbits••• Double Taps, veteran-owned and operated, is the newest tap room in Grants Pass and offers Here is the story of Applegate Excavate & Fence, a valued, long-time advertiser. 24 taps of craft beer, select wines, and spirits. Double Taps started as a partnership between See ad on page 8. Heroes Cafe and Crescendo Spirits (an Oregon distillery). Heroes Cafe provides their excellent I am fortunate to love what I do. One food for Double Taps customers, and Crescendo Spirits is able to sell and taste their craft spirits. A daily discount is offered to veterans, first responders, and teachers. Bring your families and reason I love it is the diversity of the enjoy a comfortable atmosphere with friendly service, big-screen TVs, plus live music, Tuesday kinds of jobs we do, whether it’s fixing Trivia Nights, sip and art, distillery and winery tastings, and Sunday brunches. Check their your washed-out driveway, burying your events calendar at facebook.com/doubletapsgpor. 945 NE D Street, Grants Pass • 541-603-0985. horse that died, or helping you with the • • • construction of a new house or barn. Or Jefferson Farm Kitchen. Owner-chef Kristen Lyon offers locally sourced foods, including maybe you called on us because, like most of Rise Up Bread, By George Cheese, Salant Family Grass-fed Beef, Bee Girl Honey, Port Orford us, you’re concerned about fire prevention. Sustainable Fish, Uber Herbal Tea, and Sherry’s Pasta. Grab made-from-scratch healthy salads, Irrigation, utilities, demolition, and soups, quiche, and treats or full take-out meals. Pick up a Britt Basket (including wine, if you clearing—the list is endless. It is through choose) for a delicious, healthy picnic on the hill. Check the website for menus and meal options, as well as information about cooking classes. The Farm Kitchen also sells good-for-the-planet these tasks that Applegate Excavate & Sebastian Klinefelter and family. cleaning products and body scrubs. Open Tuesday 11 am - 4 pm and Wednesday - Saturday 11 Fence supports our community. We enjoy am - 5 pm. 135 S Oregon Street, Jacksonville • chefkristin.com • 541-531-6740. hard work and not only have the tools but Without its help we would not have homes • • • also the vision to see your project through or be able to come and go with ease. Any Rebel Heart Books. More than a bookstore, Rebel Heart also hosts many readings and book- to its fullest potential. fire, flood, earthquake, or natural disaster signing events with local writers; there are numerous book clubs to suit every reader. The store’s Applegate Excavate & Fence brings is combated with machines, which, website, rebelheartbooks.com, announces special events, shares inspirational quotes, and features change. In short order we can transform when used for a common good, have a newsletter full of interesting tidbits. Rebel Heart Bookstore is not traditionally organized in categories and genre; instead, owners Eileen and Marcella invite customers to browse outside one’s almost any space to improve daily life. We irreplaceable value. They are even used in usual section and perhaps discover something new and unexpected. Open Monday - Sunday, 10 are passionate about using our strengths nature rehabilitation projects. am - 6 pm. 157 W California Street, Jacksonville • Instagram @rebelheartbooks • 541-702-2665. to improve the lay of the land—coming In this day and age, it’s often overlooked • • • up with creative solutions to nature’s that we have more in common than we Silver Lining Jewelers, in business in Jacksonville since 1978, has been reconfigured to suit challenges, working with nature and realize, such as living in this special place. semiretirement for owners Chauncey and Ladena Romero. The brick and mortar storefront, respecting what cannot be replaced. We I have come to understand there’s formerly located at 115 California Street in Jacksonville, is closed, but Chauncey continues to appreciate that, much like people, no two nothing I’m better suited for than working design and create custom jewelry, now available by appointment only. Silver Lining’s online jewelry jobs are ever the same. I am inspired by with other people to bring tangible change. outlet, Ruby Lane, is found at rubylane.com/shop/silverliningjewelers. Make an appointment working with clients and their land to I take joy in being part of my community. for a custom design by contacting [email protected] and browse the gallery of beautiful past designs at silverliningjewelers.com. For an appointment, text or call 541-899-8201. maximize its function. It’s a pleasure to meet new faces. A large • • • Many of us don’t realize the major role part of what I do involves trust and respect Sterling Creek Chalet Bed and Breakfast. Enjoy relaxed luxury in a beautiful country that heavy equipment plays in all of our lives. as I work within people’s spaces. setting. Two large comfortable private suites include personal heat/AC controls, refrigerator, Being a native, I will continue to honor microwave, robes, custom bathrooms, Wi-Fi, TV, quiet, and great views of the Applegate. Every and preserve the Applegate Valley’s many morning, a two-course gourmet breakfast is made especially for guests. They now have chickens gifts. Thank you all for the opportunity and soon will have fresh eggs. Also offered is a fully equipped Tiny House with custom pecan to build these relationships over the years. and redwood finishes. A hot tub, swimming pool, and huge deck with BBQ make Sterling Even as this valley changes, I am glad to Creek Chalet a wonderful lodging choice. Centrally located between Jacksonville and the Wine Country, the chalet is directly across from the Sterling Mine Ditch Trail. 9070 Sterling Creek say: “There’s no place I’d rather call home.” Road, Jacksonville • sterlingcreekchalet.com • 541-899-6909. Sebastian Klinefelter Applegate Excavate & Fence BizBits highlights businesses new to the area, holding special events, or offering new products. If you are a 541-890-5553 business owner, let us know when you move into the area or to a different location, hold a special event, expand your business, or mark a milestone. Email [email protected]. [email protected] 16 Summer 2018 Applegater

sites, and restoration activities. For each guidance for what can and cannot be Q&A with BLM’s project proposed, the BLM identifies a done on a particular piece of land. Land- strategy for public outreach. Personnel use activities, including for timber- Allen Bollschweiler, Part 1 from the BLM work through Resource harvest practices and goals, would vary Advisory Councils, local governments, according to the LUA’s management Thanks to the Applegater for this they uniform throughout our watershed tribal governments, local watershed objectives. For example, any activity in the opportunity to address the changes for all public lands? councils, and other entities to understand Riparian Reserves must contribute to the in management that may result from Throughout the planning process the issues that affect our areas. We protection of listed fish and water under the Bureau of Land Management’s for the Western Oregon RMP, the BLM encourage public involvement in public the Endangered Species Act. Any harvest (BLM) adoption of the 2016 Resource engaged the public as well as a host of sister outreach activities. You can stay informed in those areas needs to contribute to the Management Plan. I asked the editors for agencies, tribes, and local governments in of our ongoing efforts at our E-Planning relevant management objectives, such some questions to guide a short article. In a series of meetings throughout western website at blm.gov/programs/planning- as increasing fire resiliency, developing an effort to be thorough, I’m answering Oregon. These resulted in more than 7,000 and-nepa/eplanning. habitat for the northern spotted owl, or in this article the important question of comments, 4,500 of which were submitted The Southern ROD guides planning protecting listed fish and water. In the the future of public involvement and will during the formal comment period in throughout the Applegate for the Western Reserves, the BLM would protect stands of address more questions in future editions. 2015. This public process informed the Oregon RMP. In the RMP, the landscape is older, structurally complex forests, which What do the planning and public land-use allocations in the Record of divided into different Land Use Allocations have the highest value to the northern involvement processes look like in the Decision (ROD), the foundation for (LUAs), including, but not limited to, the spotted owl. Applegate watershed now that the 2016 implementation of the RMP. Harvest Land Base, Riparian Reserves, One question we have received is Resource Management Plan (RMP) The BLM is now at the implementation Late Successional Reserves, and Eastside how we, the BLM, will collaborate with has replaced the Applegate Adaptive stage, where public participation is critical Management Areas. Each LUA contains the US Forest Service (USFS). The short Management Area (AMA) Guide? Are for projects such as timber sales, recreation management objectives that provide answer is yes, we work with our sister agency, the USFS, in numerous ways. Federal Lands Within The Applegate Watershed Within a planning framework, USFS, the BLM, and 11 other federal agencies are 2016 RMP Land Use Allocations (Harvest Land Base) signatories to the Regional Interagency Slate 234 140 Executive Framework, which outlines Creek 199 Rogue River 260 general concepts to help frame revisions 199 99 5 62 and amendments of plans. Within this framework, the BLM, USFS, and other Slate Creek signatories incorporate lessons learned ate Sl ek I re A from implementing and monitoring the ll C ppl ino i egat s R 1994 Northwest Forest Plan. e iv R e r iv er Furthermore, we pay attention to new recovery plans, critical habitat determinations, and new scientific 238 information about threats. Other 99

199 examples of collaboration between agencies Federal Management Applegate WS include developing a joint Rogue River BLM 148,397 ac. 66 46 management program and collaborating COE 409 ac. on watershed projects such as the Upper USFS 194,150 ac. 5 Applegate Watershed Restoration Project.

r e v The public may recognize differences i RMP Land Use Allocations acres R Applegate e in each agency’s approach. This difference gat 273 Grants Pass Ashland e ppl is because the USFS and the BLM are HLB 2547 22,714 Watershed A C ow C governed by different laws and policies, Reserves 31,072 29,846 reek Non-HLB 21,067 41,151 manage different land bases, and operate at different scales. Even though the USFS and Medford District the BLM may pursue different approaches to meet legal mandates, they share many common goals for land management. We Butte Falls Grants Resource Area look forward to your involvement. Pass Resource Area Resource Area Boundary Allen Bollschweiler Interstate Highway BLM-Non-HLB State Applegate Watershed US Highway U.S. Forest Service Corps of Engineers Ashland Grants Pass Field Manager Resource Area BLM-Harvest Land Base State Highway Local Government Undetermined Grants Bureau of Land Management OREGON No warranty is made by the Bureau of Land Management as to the accuracy, Pass Resource reliability, or completeness of these data for individual or aggregate use Miles Medford District Office Area CALIFORNIA with other data. Original data were compiled from various sources and may 0 2.25 4.5 9 13.5 18 be updated without notification. [email protected]

generally corn is ripe, which we can’t predict exactly, Sweet corn improvement— have but a guesstimate is August 10. only two Corn tasters need a good sense of taste be a corn taster! ears.) and the ability to come to Lupine Knoll in BY JONATHAN SPERO If it’s Provolt and work with a tasting crew for a sweeter shift of about two and a half or three hours Lupine Knoll Farm in the Applegate developed from an Anasazi-Tuxedo cross. than the at a planned time, usually in the morning. Valley is developing open pollinated sweet Because this corn is variable for sweetness, average Corn tasters will get all the corn they corn from a cross of an Anasazi parent with we want to pick the sweetest ones. ear in the patch, we’ll mark the uneaten can eat, more to take home, and the a more modern sweet corn. Each year the The best way to select for sweetness, it ear on that stalk, the primary ear, as a experience of being a corn taster. Let us sweetest (or best in some other quality) is turns out, is good old-fashioned tasting. keeper for seed harvest. know if you are interested. chosen to carry forward. Since we want those sweeter ears to mature For three or four days, we need a crew to Jonathan Spero This year we will be growing the f8 for seed, we first taste just the lesser ear on taste literally hundreds of ears of raw corn Lupine Knoll Farm (8th generation) of Tuxana, a white corn the stalk, called the secondary ear. (Stalks right in the field. This has to be just as the [email protected]

Before burning outdoors any time of year, check with your county to Burn make sure that day is an official burn dayand not a NO burn day. ••••• reminder Jackson County • 541-776-7007 / Josephine County • 541-476-9663 (Press 3) Applegater Summer 2018 17 Single in the Applegate? The Applegater needs your help! BY SANDY BROOKE As you may have noticed on page 5, our donor list has shrunk! But our The Applegate Valley is a fabulous place about an Applegate Valley Singles network. expenses haven’t. So, in order to reduce our expenses, we are providing the to live for nature lovers. We are surrounded What if we created an email network of coupon below to eliminate the significant cost of printing donation envelopes by extremely beautiful terrain—mountains, interested singles in the valley and had and inserting them into the paper. rivers, creeks, meadows, and farmlands. occasional events like a hike or a lunch or Please cut out the coupon and mail it with your donation check to: The roads are still relatively small and dinner, somewhere where the setup was Applegater Newsmagazine “friendly.” Population is relatively low. such that mingling and meeting was made PO Box 14 No doubt it is busier than it used to be, easy? I figure since I have room in my life Jacksonville, OR 97530 but we can mostly still avoid crowds and for a few new local friends, perhaps other traffic. When the time rolls around for single folks might also. Within a quorum Thank you in advance for your understanding—and your donation! an excursion into nature (as frequently as of interested folks, it might be possible to possible), we’re already there—or the short find others with some compatibilities, eh? drive is as beautiful as the destination. Nothing ventured, nothing lost. However, since nothing on this material I proposed the idea both to Applegate plane is perfect, living the country lifestyle Valley Connect and to the Applegater folks, does have a few downsides. Managing a and both were supportive. So this is a feeler. rural property is time-consuming and often I will simply collect the addresses of those a rather private endeavor. A lot of time and who respond by email with “Applegate energy is needed to maintain this lifestyle Singles” in the subject line. Then, in a bit we love, and that’s the rub, especially for of time, I will send out an announcement some of us single country folk. By the time of an event, probably a hike or a meal in evening or a weekend comes, we’re tired some place where it is easy and acceptable from handling so much on our own. Yet to mingle and say hello to new folks. if we want a bit of day’s end conversation (Be assured that email addresses will not (or cuddle), a weekend hiking partner, be used for any other purpose!) You are a dinner companion, or to potentially invited to respond if you are interested change our solo status, livin’ alone in the in this idea and are single and live in the country ain’t the best! There’s another Applegate Valley—perhaps from Murphy side to that wonderful independence and to Jacksonville off Route 238? privacy. This seems like a good enough way So suddenly the Applegate Valley to launch this experimental “Applegate Connect website has come onto the scene, Singles Network” and see if it wants to a communications and networking tool for claim a life of its own. (I would not be those of us who have in common choosing surprised if this has even been tried before!) to live a bit hidden away in this gorgeous Meanwhile I’d rather be single in the valley. That’s a lot in common, right there. Applegate Valley than anywhere else! I’m still not 100 percent clear how to use Sandy Brooke this new system, but it inspired me to think [email protected]

■ WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS necessary. Finally, practice quick loading Continued from page 1 for emergency situations. everyone has some special needs! Example: So, back to this summer. Do you need do you need a larger travel kennel this year to update your contact information with for your dog who’s not a puppy anymore? out-of-the-area family members? Don’t (Yes, I was thinking about Maggie just a forget to update your family members’ few years ago. Nowadays she kennels on medical needs and your evacuation plans, command and sleeps in an enclosed soft- such as where to meet, who calls who, etc. sided kennel. Is it huge? Yes. Foldable? Yes. How about having the chimney cleaned Expensive? Yes. But, also priceless knowing annually? Or filling up a storage tank or that if something happens, she obeys swimming pool as a water supply? We’ve commands and is comfortable in kennels gone so far as to have fire hose, helmets, away from home!) and protective clothing in the garage, So make sure pets, livestock, and, of ready to use! course, children are a part of your family’s And finally, a vital tool forevery season emergency planning. Keep a list of “must of the year here in the Applegate: if you takes” for everyone in the family. Get have not been contacted by a neighborhood buy-in from the kids by letting them help telephone-tree representative, call around to define their lists! friends or to our fire district’s office (541- And, what about keeping a family 899-1050) to learn about, get connected emergency pack that can provide necessities into, and practice this invaluable local for a week or two, including for pets? process! Being prepared and working with If you have an emergency pack already neighbors is part of living in a rural setting. put together, keep track of the age of It’s also rewarding and fulfilling. items, replacing older components as Sandy Shaffer • [email protected] ( 5 4 1 ) 7 0 2 - 2 6 6 5 157 West California St. Jacksonville,Oregon 97530

r e b e l h e a r t b o o k s . c o m r e b e l h e a r t b o o k s 1 5 7 @ g m a i l . c o m 18 Summer 2018 Applegater OPINIONS Thompson Creek neighbors More fake climate mobilize to deny permit change information BY JOAN PETERSON BY ALAN VOETSCH

A recent public hearing went like One after another, for over 90 minutes, I see that the previous issue of the Much of the temperature record has a textbook example of what a public residents spoke of the dangers of holding Applegater carried an article that mentioned been corrupted. Check out this online hearing should be: the people spoke, the an event at the edge of Jackson and global warming and climate change several article on how and why past temperatures commissioners heard them, and a permit Josephine counties on a narrow, winding times but offered zero proof that can are “adjusted” by the National Oceanic and was denied. Here is the story. road where there is little or no cell-phone separate human-caused climate change Atmospheric Association: investors.com/ When Christopher and Kirsten Shockey service, extreme fire danger, and difficulty from naturally occurring climate change. politics/editorials/the-stunning-statistical- received notice in the mail that the Apple getting emergency vehicles in and out in And that, folks, is exactly why my last fraud-behind-the-global-warming-scare. Jam Music Festival had applied for a permit a timely manner. Applegater article was titled “Real climate And a link so you have insight into the with Jackson County to hold their May After the testimony from residents of change versus fake climate change.” Thank 97 percent “consensus”: youtube.com/ 18 - 20 concert on a property adjacent Thompson Creek, Blake Norris, one of you, contributor, for proving my point that watch?v=SSrjAXK5pGw. to the Shockeys’ home, they were stirred the event organizers, took the podium. almost all climate information provided Now, I’m adding some quotes from into action. He listed the conditions that he and his to the general public is useless and meant some powers that be in the climate industry Kirsten alerted neighbors by email, and partner had met in preparation for the to accomplish a political agenda. I like to show what their real agenda is. the word began to spread. Eighteen people event and explained how this event would what Carl Sagan said: “Extraordinary Quote by Christiana Figueres, executive showed up for a meeting at a neighbor’s benefit the community economically. claims require extraordinary evidence.” secretary of the United Nations Framework home, petitions were passed around, and He told the audience that the event I believe in the scientific method; I just Convention on Climate Change: “This the work began. managers had passed all of the county’s don’t believe in unproven alarmism from is probably the most difficult task we The Apple Jam Music Festival has been requirements to hold the Apple Jam Music environmentalists with political agendas. have ever given ourselves, which is to held for the past nine years, most recently Festival on Thompson Creek. And then, And it appears that that same intentionally transform the economic near the Provolt Store, and the attendance to everyone’s surprise, he asked the Board contributor has also read some of my past development model, for the first time in has grown every year. When Apple Jam of Commissioners a remarkable question: articles here and has found out that the human history.” began, it was a small gathering with a few If the Apple Jam Music Festival withdrew planet has been warming since the last Quote by Chris Folland of the United bands and a local audience. By last year, its application, would his $2,500 deposit ice age ended. I’ve already covered this, Kingdom Meteorological Office: “The the attendance had grown to 2,300 people, be refunded? but nice to see we’re all caught up. I’m data don’t matter. We’re not basing our camping out in tents, RVs, pickups, The audience gasped. The county going to include a temperature graph of recommendations [for reductions in campers, and cars. Along with the numbers administrator explained that if the county the last 10,000 years since that ice age carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. came alcohol and substance abuse that commissioners voted against the event, ended for all to see. Look at the patterns We’re basing them upon the climate disrupted and alarmed the community. the deposit would be refunded minus the that happen every 1,000-plus years. We’re models.” The Thompson Creek neighbors banded county’s costs for work already done on currently at the far right—see how warm Quote by Christine Stewart, former together with the idea that this shouldn’t be the permit. Mr. Norris then stated that he the last 10,000 years have been? See how Canadian environment minister: “No allowed to happen in their neighborhood of didn’t want conflicts and that an alternative the pattern would seem to indicate that matter if the science is all phony, there are farmers, ranchers, livestock, children, and site was already being considered. The another warm period should be happening collateral environmental benefits...climate retirees, all connected by a narrow country deliberation continued until a vote was about now? Strange, isn’t it? It’s called change [provides] the greatest chance to road. With less than a week before the taken by the commissioners, who denied natural variability, and it is not caused by bring about justice and equality in the hearing at the Jackson County Courthouse, the permit by a vote of two to one. (Roberts humans—unless our ancestors had gigantic world.” over 200 signatures were collected by the and Strosser in favor of denial; Dyer organized bonfires every 1,000 years since Quote by Ottmar Edenhofer, high- Thompson Creek neighbors and dozens of opposed.) the ice age. These warmings are most likely level official of the United Nations- letters were written to the Jackson County The audience cheered and applauded the result of two different solar cycles—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Development Department giving reasons the commissioners’ vote, and the meeting 87-year Gleissberg cycle and the 210-year Change: “We redistribute de facto the why the neighborhood along Thompson was adjourned. Outside the courthouse a DeVries-Suess cycle—that combine every world’s wealth by climate policy...Basically Creek Road wasn’t an appropriate venue few Thompson Creek residents thanked 1,470 years. My guess is that we have more it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy for the Apple Jam Music Festival. Blake Norris for his generous offer and warming coming our way based on past separately from the major themes of On April 5, the day of the hearing, declared themselves ready to pass the hat history. (See graph below.) globalization...One has to free oneself Thompson Creek neighbors lined up at among their neighbors to help defray the So the truth is that those of us here in from the illusion that international climate the door of the courthouse auditorium. costs that he and his partners might have the Applegate Valley are not in any more policy is environmental policy. This has The room filled to capacity, and many lost for having made this application. It danger from forest fires simply because almost nothing to do with environmental people signed up to speak. The county seems that the Apple Jam Music Festival we choose to live in a civilized society and policy anymore.” administrator read from the application will go on, but at another venue—not, to enjoy some of the comforts available to us. New books to read: The Deliberate and explained that the Apple Jam promoters the residents’ relief, on Thompson Creek. Most warming occurs naturally, and some Corruption of Climate Science by Tim Ball, had met all of the legal requirements and Joan Peterson and Larry Francis people want to take political advantage of PhD, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every conditions for the permit to be approved. 541-846-6988 Mother Nature. A large increase in CO2 1500 Years by S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. may raise temperatures slightly, but CO2 is Avery, Eco-Tyranny by Brian Sussman, and only a weak greenhouse gas and an essential The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken trace gas for plant life. Methane is 20 to for the World’s Top Climate Expert by Donna 30 times more potent, and water vapor Laframboise. is far more plentiful and by far the most Alan Voetsch influential greenhouse gas. [email protected]

Temperatures over the past 10,000 years recorded in the GISP2 Greenland ice core.

Church yard sale Free community website Friday and Saturday, July 27 - 28, 9 am - 3 pm • Calendar of Events • Community Projects Applegate Community Church • Directory of Organizations • News and Stories 18960 N. Applegate Road, Grants Pass Applegate Valley Connect applegateconnect.org Applegater Summer 2018 19 OPINIONS Behind the Green Door Need for accountability BY CHRIS BRATT Chris Bratt

For the past 42 years, my family has like Oregon State University, county ability to help inform the community the section of NEPA called “categorical participated in an ongoing debate over commissioners, and a multitude of private about potential health and environmental exclusions” for many of their actions in the management of the public forests in timber corporations and their supporters impacts of proposed agency actions is order to avoid environmental assessment, the Applegate and throughout southern telling us to mind our own business and provided by the National Environmental end formal Endangered Species Act Oregon. Existing laws require that our leave public forest-management decisions Policy Act (NEPA). This federal law consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife public forests be managed on a “sustained to the professionals. requires each federal agency to make Service, and limit disclosures under the yield” basis and use should be limited Despite all of the above negative “diligent efforts” to involve the public Freedom of Information Act. I could go to the level that can be maintained in constraints (and more), local citizens throughout their decision-making process. on outlining 72 additional bad policy perpetuity. have continued to make a big impact in With the passage of NEPA in changes that the BLM has made or plans Accumulated data over these past four protecting forest sustainability and other 1969, Congress recognized the major to make soon. decades indicate that federal forest land- resource values. We have made more environmental problems our nation was The reality is that NEPA is being gutted management agencies have not fulfilled people in the community aware of the experiencing. NEPA set policies that were and public participation stripped to a bare this mandate. Overoptimistic projections cumulative decline of our forests. Because intended to stop resource deterioration minimum. The Washington, DC, crowd of of tree growth, overcutting of large trees, of this citizen oversight, we also have and restore environments already damaged newly appointed bureaucrats is reaching failures of reforestation, and improper helped make agency plans better on the by the federal government. The goal of new heights of anti-environmentalism or no monitoring of projects have led ground, and we have won many cases in the NEPA process is to reduce adverse through regulatory and administrative to many problems in our forests: an federal courts. environmental effects (or maximize the net changes. So the question becomes “How do increased number of endangered species, Often derided for their work, local beneficial effect), and public involvement we overcome this outrageous detrimental a fragmented patchwork of forest stands, environmentalists have had to become is one of NEPA’s fundamental principles attack on our public lands and citizens?” and others. the environmental watchdogs, the for accomplishing that. Despite having My answer is to organize friends and It has not been an easy task for some citizen foresters and scientists trying good environmental laws like NEPA and neighbors within our community. The vast Applegaters and others in our small to build a healthier community. They environmental groups coordinating to majority of Americans want to preserve communities to influence the large have recognized the importance of local hold federal agencies to account for their our public lands and forests, and our bureaucratic government agencies like the public involvement in guaranteeing management decisions, our efforts to community feels the same. Let’s take a tip Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the better environmental decision-making by participate are being thwarted. from the recent Thompson Creek Road US Forest Service (USFS). These agencies federal officials. Because we live here, we Presently, there is good cause for residents’ organizing efforts regarding the always come into our communities with are the ones directly affected, who bear concern in our community about the Apple Jam Music Festival (see page 18 for tree-cutting plans already conceived and the environmental, social, and economic BLM’s rollback of protections for public details) and fight back against these dangers directed from afar. Also, we have had to impacts of poor agency decisions. This lands and the deregulation agenda they facing our community. endure considerable pressure from bodies guarantee of public participation and our have adopted. The BLM plans to use Chris Bratt • 541-846-6988

and plantation-like stands burn at elevated Rather than restoring forest ecosystems Post-fire logging: Beyond the levels of fire severity. In some cases, and reducing the potential for stand- plantations supported over twice as much replacing fire, the post-fire logging smokescreen and rhetoric are stand-replacing fire as adjacent unmanaged proposed across our region will degrade natural stands. It has been proven that important watersheds and hinder forest the reburn severity in future fires is more regeneration. According to preeminent significant scientific facts closely associated with the structure forest ecologist Professor Jerry Franklin, BY LUKE RUEDIGER of post-fire regeneration than residual “Conflicts often exist between economic downed wood from fire-killed snags. In and ecological objectives as timber salvage After the active fire season of 2017, Across the region, proposals on our fact, the largest swath of stand-replacing is generally about recovering economic residents, scientists, and land managers public lands are calling for clear-cut, fire in the 2017 Abney Fire burned in values rather than enhancing ecological throughout southern Oregon and post-fire logging in recent wildfire areas. plantation stands on the southern slopes recovery.” northern California have been debating Although much of the public debate has of the Siskiyou Crest. Forest managers are Don’t be fooled by the smokescreen— the purported benefits and environmental surrounded the Chetco Bar Fire Salvage now proposing to create the very same post-fire logging is simply an excuse to impacts of post-fire logging. Many in the Project outside Brookings, Oregon, conditions, setting the stage for future clear-cut public forests. It provides no timber industry and land-management similar projects have been proposed by high-severity fire effects. Renowned forest benefit to our environment and will agencies claim that post-fire or “salvage” the Klamath National Forest (KNF) in our ecologist David Perry has stated that increase the severity of future fires. logging and artificial reforestation (i.e., tree own backyard. KNF has proposed a large, once a patchwork of plantation stands is Luke Ruediger planting) will reduce future fire severity post-fire logging project in last summer’s embedded within mature and old-growth Program Coordinator and accelerate the regeneration of conifer Abney Fire, part of the Miller Complex forest stands, “the potential exists for a Applegate Neighborhood Network forests on burned sites. Fire that burned in the mountains above self-reinforcing cycle of catastrophic fires.” [email protected] In reality, our forests are adapted to Applegate Reservoir. KNF has proposed to mixed-severity fire, including some high- clear-cut over 1,200 acres of fire-affected severity fire effects. These forests have forest on the Siskiyou Crest near our evolved to regenerate with abundance beloved Cook and Green Pass. The logging OPINION PIECES AND LETTERS TO THE EDITOR following high-severity fires, and the post- would include the removal of fire-killed fire landscape provides particularly high snags and living green trees that timber levels of biodiversity. The dead standing, managers suspect will die within three to Opinion pieces and letters to the editor represent the opinion of the fire-killed trees provide important wildlife five years. author, not that of the Applegater or the Applegate Valley Community habitat and structural complexity. After The area surrounding Cook and Green Newspaper, Inc. As a community-based newsmagazine, we receive falling to the forest floor, they build soil, Pass is one of the wildest and most diverse opinions on different topics. We honor these opinions, but provide microclimates for regenerating diverse portions of the Siskiyou Crest object to personal attacks and reserve the right to edit accordingly. forests, and retain significant amounts and Applegate River Watershed. It is also Opinion pieces and letters to the editor must focus on the Applegate of water through our dry Mediterranean well-loved by many Applegate Valley Valley. summers. Research conducted after the residents for backcountry recreation, 1987 Galice Fire on the Rogue River hiking, botanizing, bird watching, and Opinion pieces are limited to 700 words; letters are limited to 450 showed that downed logs stored 25 times other outdoor activities. Cook and Green words. Submissions will be edited for grammar and length. Opinion more moisture than forest soils, even Pass is located along the Pacific Crest Trail pieces must include publishable contact information (phone number following high-severity fire and extended and in between the Red Buttes Wilderness, and/or email address). All letters must be signed, with a full street droughts. The same research identifies the Kangaroo Inventoried Roadless Area, and address or PO Box and phone number. Anonymous letters and downed wood created by fire-killed trees Condrey Mountain Inventoried Roadless opinion pieces will not be published. Individual letters and opinion as a “requisite for maintaining long-term Area. The area is extremely important pieces may or may not be published. forest growth.” for habitat connectivity and contains a Research conducted in the 2002 Biscuit spectacularly rugged beauty important to • • • Fire, which burned west of Cave Junction, many in our region. demonstrates that post-fire logging actually Research following the 1987 Silver Email opinion pieces and letters to the editor to gater@applegater. hinders post-fire regeneration and forest Fire on the Illinois River, the 1987 fires org or mail to Applegater, Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, development by degrading soils, destroying on the Klamath River, the 2002 Biscuit natural regeneration, and removing Fire, and the 2013 Douglas Fire outside Inc., PO Box 14, Jacksonville, OR 97530. standing snags that aid forest establishment. Merlin demonstrate that tree plantations 20 Summer 2018 Applegater GRAPE TALK Summer fun at local wineries!

BY DEBBIE TOLLEFSON Debbie Tollefson We are so lucky to live in southern June 1: Kentucky Blend; June 8: Oregon where the scenery is beautiful Doug Brons; June 15: David Pinsky and wineries are popping up everywhere. and Phil Newton; June 22: Lady SUN, During the summer months many and the Tramp (Crossing Bridges of the Applegate Valley wineries have Fundraiser); June 29: Bryan Teal; July WATER, wonderful outdoor events that are a fun 6: Lee Stewart; July 13: Ellipse; July part of the recreation in our valley. My 20: Doug Brons; July 27: Lady and husband, Don, and I have joined our the Tramp; August 3: David Pinsky LIFE. friends at the Wine Downs at Plaisance and Phil Newton; August 10: Not Too Jeff & Tami Quinn Hollenbeck Ranch or the Thursday night music by the Shabby; August 17: Bryan Teal; August Solar powered pump sys - river at Red Lily. We have listened to music Concerts on the Beach at Red Lily Vineyards. 24: Lee Stewart; August 31: Lady and tems are becoming a thing of at Schmidt and attended special events the Tramp. at Troon, Cowhorn, and LongSword. On Sunday, June 17, Schmidt is the future. “LORENTZ” Special events are often connected with holding a Father’s Day barbecue with Solar Pumps can offer inno- wine club memberships, which I would live music. For more details, call the vative, cost saving and envi- encourage all wine lovers to join if the winery at 541-846-9985. ronmentally responsible winery has a membership available. Troon Vineyard, 1475 Kubli Road, Most of the Applegate Valley wineries Grants Pass (troonvineyard.com). Their solutions to your water have tasting rooms, often with expanded Sips and Songs are held every Sunday pumping needs. This solar summer hours. Besides the normal tasting from 1:30 - 4:30 pm. pump is an effective way to activities, some of our wineries serve June 3: Rick Millward; June 10: help reduce your carbon delicious food. Others have different David Modica; June 17: Greg Fredrick musical guests. Monthly Wine Down at Plaisance Ranch. & Carla Bauer; June 24: Val Blaha; July footprint, and give you more I queried all the local Applegate Valley 1: Jesse Meade; July 8: Phil King; July water independence. wineries and received the following June 28: 221 Fly; July 5: Eight Dollar 15: Dayton Mason; July 22: Acousta Noir; Many people think that scheduled events for this summer: Mountain; July 12: Buckle Rash; July July 29: The Rogue Rage Duo; August 5: solar pump systems are ade- Plaisance Ranch, 16955 Water Gap, 19: Danielle Kelly Soul Project; July 26: Rick Millward; August 12: Charles Guy quate for small systems Williams (plaisanceranch.com). Monthly The Brothers Reed; August 2: Jeff K and & Linda Powers; August 19: Tim Togstad; Wine Down events, featuring live music, Overtones; August 9: Robbie Dacosta August 26: Jeff Kloetzel; September 2: only; however, “LORENTZ” are on Fridays from 5:30 - 8:30 pm. and Holly Gleason; August 16: Fogline; Jesse Meade. Solar Systems can meet the June 29: The Blues with Terry Robb August 23: Blowin’ Smoke; August 20: The Many other wineries in the Applegate needs of the biggest house - (Oregon Music Hall of Famer); July 28: Evening Shades; September 6: Pete Herzog Valley have summer events for wine holds and gardens. Country rock with the Hurrman Burrman and Snake Fat. club members only. Check today for Band; August 17: Rick Millward and Schmidt Family Vineyards, 330 Kubli membership availability and join the With “LORENTZ” you Friends; September 28: The Blues with Road, Grants Pass (sfvineyards.com). winery fun this summer. can connect via Bluetooth David Pinsky, Phil Newton, and the Over Their Friday Night Music series is from And remember to always drink and see realtime and historic the Moon Band 5 - 8 pm. They serve wine, burgers, pizzas, responsibly! data from your system. Red Lily Vineyards, 11777 Highway sandwiches, and salads, as well as fruit and Debbie Tollefson 238, Jacksonville (redlilyvineyards.com). cheese platters. [email protected] Please call Quinn’s Pump Their Concerts on the Beach are on Service for your free solar Thursdays at 6 pm and feature live music. estimate. We would be more June 7: Blue Lightning; June 14: Fret than happy to go over your Drifters; June 21: TC and the Reactions; Voices of the Applegate needs and taylor a system that best suits your demand. Fall Rehearsals On April 6 and 7, Jenifer Joy directed the Voices of the Applegate in performances of their spring concerts Water is a geological cocktail so at the Old Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville and the Applegate River Lodge in Applegate. DRINK MORE WATER! Audiences enjoyed an international tour of Japan, Korea, Georgia, Estonia, and South Africa, and several whimsical pieces, a lovely Appalachian ballad, and an English Renaissance madrigal from the sixteenth century. The choir is looking forward to their fall rehearsals with another new director. Jenifer Joy has accepted a job Call us Mon. - Fri. 8 - 5, you’ll in Korea for the year and will not be working with us in have a live person answer the 2018 and 2019. The Voices of the Applegate Board of Directors is still in the process of finding a new director for phone that is ready to help you! the fall, but we are determined to keep the choir singing Quinn’s Well, Pump and Water Filtration is together this coming year. located at 6811 Williams Hwy. We install, maintain and repair complete water pumping All community members are eligible to join the Voices systems, and we offer a complete line of water of the Applegate, and there is no audition. Registration is filtration equipment. Contact our professional $60 to cover the payment of the director, the music, and staff by phone, e-mail, or visit our office. www.quinnswell.com CCB #192047 the venues. We meet once a week on Wednesdays at Ruch Library from 7 to 8:30 pm. We plan to begin another season of singing around the first week of September. 541-862-9355Local musicians jam in restaurant Sundays 541-772-7867 For more information, call Joan Peterson at 541-846-6988.

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Applegate River Lodge & Restaurant Applegater Summer 2018 21 You can help keep ATA takes Ruch School trails open elementary students ■ APPLEGATE TRAILS on the East ART Continued from page 1 BY DIANA COOGLE inviting when not crowded by encroaching brush or blocked by fallen trees. With trail- On Earth Day 2018, as though she No matter. The trail itself was doing the maintenance funding cuts, federal agencies knew she was being celebrated, Earth teaching. As we traversed a steep hillside, are prioritizing the trails they maintain or put on her brightest spring demeanor— with views of the snowy Siskiyou Crest close. You can help keep trails open by her face all shining with blue sky, her beyond and of the Ruch valley below, one using them and registering at trailheads hillside coats of grass embroidered with little girl marveled at the height: “Look where that opportunity is provided. wildflowers. So appareled, she was a ready how high we are,” she said, and her friend You can also join any of several welcome to students from Ruch Outdoor answered, authoritatively, “That drops organizations that maintain trails in Community School (ROCS), assembled 300 feet.” (She was close. It actually drops Students from ROCS hiking on the the Applegate. Even as new trails are for a hike on the East ART (East Applegate 1,800 feet from the trail to the valley floor.) East ART on Earth Day. Photo: Mike Kohn. being proposed and planned—some Ridge Trail). Applegate Trails Association “How do they make it so beautiful?” just beginning a lengthy environmental (ATA) chair, David Calahan, and I, along one girl asked. The boy behind her said, it?” (What a cosmopolitan kid, I thought.) assessment process—nature is reclaiming with board member Mike Kohn, were off-handedly, “It’s nature, you know.” Children were given the opportunity to others because of decreased use and there to tell the children something about The boy in front of me kept saying, “I’m turn back, but no one wanted to. The funding cuts. the landscape they were hiking through, afraid of heights” in a thin voice. I told trail held a kind of fascination for them, Applegate Valley Connect website how the trail was built, and other tidbits him to look at the trail, not at the valley. whether they knew it or not, the best kind Visit the Projects section of the of ecological interest. His friend stuck close by and occasionally of lesson for Earth Day. Applegate Valley Connect website at I was there, in particular, to identify steadied him with a hand on his shoulder. Diana Coogle applegateconnect.org/projects to learn more wildflowers for the kids and give them fun In spite of his acrophobia, he wouldn’t turn ATA Board Member about trails in the Applegate Watershed ways to recognize trees (e.g., to distinguish back and hiked through to the end. [email protected] and the volunteer organizations that help between Jeffrey pines and Ponderosa pines, I pointed out a patch of popcorn to maintain them. The accompanying — Upcoming ATA hikes — squeeze the cone. If it pricks you, it’s flowers as we passed them, naming them overview map (see below) shows many trail July 15: Enchanted Forest. Moderate. Prickly Ponderosa. If it doesn’t, it’s Gentle for whoever was interested. A boy turned Three hours, not including an after-hike locations in our watershed—you might Jeffrey)—or to remember names of flowers around to say, “I don’t know flowers, but stop at Wooldridge Winery for wine and plan your next adventure on a trail you (e.g., a mnemonic for Ceanothus is “See I I do know rocks,” and he proceeded to charcuterie. Bring lunch or eat at the winery. didn’t know was there! know this”). However, I was with a group give me a pretty good geology lesson, Meet at Applegate Store at 9 am. Led by While you’re on the Projects page, of about 25 second- and third-graders, who naming rocks on the trail. Overhearing Mike Kohn ([email protected]). check out the other projects described there were too young to be interested in flower our conversation, the girl in front of him August 4: Mt. Elijah. Difficult but and consider posting a community project identification. (David, with a similar group said she had a rock shop and was selling beautiful, with great views of the Siskiyous that you’re passionate about. rocks. She wanted to raise $1,000, with and one of the best wildflower displays in of older students, was more successful in the Applegate. Five hours. Meet at Applegate Jim Reiland actually transmitting knowledge.) A child which to buy dolls. Store at 9 am. Led by Diana Coogle Siskiyou Upland Trails Association would point to a flower, ask its name, The children walked about a mile on ([email protected]). [email protected] then keep on walking without noting the the East ART. To some it seemed a long For all hikes: Be prepared for the weather, answer. My lessons evaporated into the hike. “Can we go back?” “What if we miss wear appropriate shoes, and bring water and The Applegate Valley Trails map below was spring air. the bus?” “How many more kilometers is lunch. created by Annette Parsons.

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California has the mustard weed was wrapped, 19 native species of thistle in the that came to Yreka from Scotland genus Cirsium, while Oregon in the 1800s. has 14. Some of these species Dyer’s woad is a native of have multiple subspecies as well, Europe and Central Asia but has making for a lot of diversity been found in the lower reaches in color, leaf shape, size, and of Williams Creek and down the spininess. Thistles are in the Applegate River. It’s also found on sunflower family (Asteraceae), the Rogue River from Shady Cove with many individual flowers downstream to west of Grants Pass. packed within each flower head, It spreads along rivers and roads protected by a spiny whorl of modified and can cover dry fields and rocky leaves called bracts. bars along the river. Dyer’s woad in bloom. Nutritious thistle seeds are highly Dyer’s woad is in the mustard prized by birds such as the lesser or family but differs from our common list B noxious weed—weed of economic American goldfinch. According to the mustards by having arrow-shaped leaves importance that is regionally abundant Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, (with more of a blue-green color) that but may have limited distribution in some “Their diet is composed almost entirely of clasp around the stem. The inflorescence counties (which includes Jackson and seeds, with those of the sunflower family, reminds me of a bouquet in shape, and the Josephine counties). particularly thistles, strongly preferred.” flowers are a little lighter yellow than the Some of us have been working on Native thistles in the dakubetede roadless Birds also use the fluffy thistle chaff to common mustard. Another identification controlling this noxious weed, and, to me, area in the Little Applegate foothills. line their nests. feature is the dark brown to black capsules it appears to respond well to digging. We’re The list of butterfly species that use that hang on the plant when it’s in fruit. seeing a good decrease in plants following The Applegate Valley is home to native thistles for nectar is too numerous This plant has been used as a dye (blue, treatments. It will take a few years to get several species of native thistles. Despite to list here. It is common to see butterflies from leaves), thus the name Dyer’s woad. rid of it, but with persistence I think we their beauty and value for pollinators and nectaring on native thistles in the wild. Although it does have a use, the invasive can get it done. If you have this plant, birds, native thistle species have long been Several butterfly species use native thistles nature of this plant makes it undesirable. let me know. We’d like to remove it from undervalued. I often hear people make as a larval host plant, including painted It has low palatability for grazing, is southwest Oregon. Thanks. disparaging comments about thistles when lady (Vanessa cardui), Mylitta crescent allelopathic (suppresses other plants), Barbara Mumblo I talk about growing native thistles for the (Phyciodes mylitta), and the California and is highly competitive. The Oregon 541-890-2091 benefit of wildlife. They say, “Thistles are crescent (Phyciodes orseis). Department of Agriculture rates it as a [email protected] horrible. Why would you want those?” Hummingbirds are especially fond of What they don’t realize, however, is that thistle nectar, often spending a considerable native thistles play a critical role in native amount of time around a thistle patch ■ LAVENDER ecosystems. Native thistles get a bad rap while sipping nectar in between aerial Continued from page 1 simply because of the association with acrobatics. Additionally, native bees and English lavender essential oil. We their weedy, invasive relatives like bull pollinating flies and beetles also forage on have come across several medicinal thistle (Cirsium vulgare) and Canada thistle and pollinate native thistles. uses for lavender and recommend (Cirsium arvense). Native thistles inhabit a variety of it for those applications that we Bull thistle was introduced into Oregon habitat types. The showy and beautiful have personally experienced. in the late 1800s, and it now occurs in red-flowered Western or cobweb thistle Bee’s stings every county in the state. Canada thistle (Cirsium occidentale) is found on poor soil Having kept bees for years, has been around for about the same with good drainage with harsh sun, in open we have been stung by honeybees time, and once established, it is a fierce grassland, and in chaparral or rocky areas and bumblebees. There is only competitor, exuding allelopathic chemicals with very little surrounding competition one remedy we would ever Lavender essential oil. that inhibit the growth and survival of from other plants. It is a biennial plant recommend: lavender essential neighboring native plants. Just the mere that forms a rosette the first year, flowering oil. A drop of oil applied to a bee’s sting and the studies simply back up this very mention of yellow star thistle (Centaurea the second year before producing seed and is like an instant off switch for pain. It reasonable claim. solstitialis)—a knapweed, not a true dying out. The elegant white-flowered doesn’t lessen the pain, it doesn’t make it Manage stress thistle—makes the blood boil of those who Ashland thistle (Cirsium ciliolatum) can be more comfortable—it turns the pain off Given the number of clinical studies live in an area with a heavy infestation. found in full sun to part shade on the edge instantly! that show changes in brain chemistry These are highly invasive plants that are a of oak woodlands or mixed conifer forests. Insect bites when lavender is introduced into the real threat to native ecosystems as well as Ashland thistle is a rare and endemic thistle Some of us are barely affected by environment, I would have to say that to economic interests in agricultural areas. that grows only in southwest Oregon and mosquitoes and the like. I get a tiny red this claim holds water. Aromatherapists So why does the justified distaste for extreme northwest California. dot that itches for a minute or two and use lavender as their go-to scent for stress nonnative invasive thistles seep into some When hiking around this summer, if then disappears. My wife, though, gets a relief. Of all the claims I have heard about people’s psyche, affecting their perception you see a thistle in the wild, think twice solid red lump that itches for days. I am lavender, this one seems to be the most of native thistles? Is it simply because before assuming it’s an invasive, nonnative reliably informed that a drop of lavender readily accepted. thistles are spiny? Is it because people only thistle. And if you see a native thistle, essential oil applied to the bite eases the Keep bugs at bay associate thistles with weeds? It’s hard to say consider yourself lucky and enjoy the itch considerably. A gentleman came to the farm some for certain why this is, but what we can say, pollinator show! Minor burns years ago and asked for two bunches of with certainty, is that native thistles deserve Suzie Savoie A minor burn is that red line on the lavender. As I was wrapping them, he a spot in your pollinator garden or a site on Conservation Chair, Siskiyou Chapter back of your hand that appears when mentioned that they were to hang in your land with good drainage, good sun, Native Plant Society of Oregon you reach into a hot oven and touch the his home because he had an issue with and little competition. Native thistles are [email protected] wire shelf above. A few drops of lavender flies. He said that he had read that flies essential oil rubbed gently onto a minor were deterred by hanging lavender. I burn will not only diminish the pain, but was compelled to explain that there were of the nose. Before you reach for your use it and enjoy that moment of calm and also reduce scarring. If your skin is broken around two thousand bunches of lavender lavender essential oil and a handkerchief, I tranquility that lavender seems to bring. or blistered, I would strongly recommend hanging in the barn at the time and that should point out that all of the test subjects We hope to see you during the a medical professional instead. I, too, suffered with an abundance of flies. in the trials held the lavender under their Lavender Festival weekends in June Sleep aid Flies, spiders, and all other manner of bugs nose for two 20-minute sessions each day. and July. For more information, visit If you are someone who finds sleep may indeed dislike the smell of lavender, It may well be worth it, but it’s a serious southernoregonlavendertrail.com and elusive on occasion, then lavender might but in my experience, they don’t dislike it commitment! englishlavenderfarm.com. be for you. Studies by the universities in enough to stay away from it. Most people, myself included, find the Derek Owen Southampton (UK) and Miami, Florida, Fix for menopausal hot flashes scent of lavender to be calming, perhaps [email protected] and many others have proven that the To the best of my knowledge there have even comforting. It is the scent of summer The English Lavender Farm is located at smell of lavender does indeed promote been two clinical trials where lavender and, for many of us, transports us back to 8040 Thompson Creek Road in Applegate. In alpha waves in the brain, which can lead essential oil was used to mitigate hot the parlor of an aunt or grandmother and addition to the lavender festival days, their to easier and more restful sleep. While I flashes. Both reported benefits for the test recollections of our youth. farm and gift shop are open to visitors on don’t use this personally, I have heard a subjects and both recommended inhaling Whatever your own applications for Fridays through Mondays in June and July huge amount of anecdotal evidence of this, lavender oil placed on a tissue held in front this delightful herb, I hope you continue to from 10 am - 4 pm. Applegater Summer 2018 23 NEXT GENERATION Applegate and Williams schools Next Generation features school news and updates and the talents of our local students. All schools in the Applegate Valley are encouraged to submit news, art, writing, photography, Applegate School news and any other creative pieces to [email protected]. May was a busy month for students—they participated in field trips, assemblies, track events, Ruch School PTO announces and a canned food drive. Fourth and fifth graders visited lively annual fundraising event Table Rock during a field trip sponsored by the Bureau of Land Ruch Outdoor Community School in the Applegate Valley, while making Management and the US Forest (ROCS) PTO is excited to announce the a tremendous difference in the lives of Service. Night in the Valley fundraising dinner students at this unique school. The auction When Hidden Valley High to be held on Saturday, June 23, 2018, features beautiful art made by Ruch School School (HVHS) Future Farmers at Valley View Winery, 1000 Upper students, certificates for unique experiences of America students brought Applegate School Applegate Road, in Ruch. like paragliding rides, and wonderful local animals to school, Applegate This signature event brings together wine. After dinner, guests will vie in a students got to ride horses, pet a hundreds of community members to dessert auction where the highest bidder, rabbit and a miniature pony, and enjoy the In June, several events will take the support our one-of-a-kind school nestled quite literally, takes the cake! antics of goat kids. spotlight. On June 5, the middle school in the beautiful Applegate Valley. The ROCS is a K-8 public school that All students were treated to a “Japan on drama class will present Lucky Dollar evening includes a no-host cocktail hour, offers outdoor education connecting the Road” presentation through the Japan- Private Eye. Dress rehearsal will start at 1 catered dinner, and spirited live and students with the environment and their America Society of Oregon. Students are pm, and the main production is scheduled silent auctions, plus an enticing dessert community. It’s a small-school alternative taught about Japan’s geography, weather, for 6 pm. A field trip to Pacifica for K-3 auction—all to benefit the school. to the traditional school, featuring smaller food, etc. students is planned for June 7. Craig and Amber Hamm, owners of class sizes, a four-day school week, There was a presentation by Southern Eighth graders are looking forward to Ruch Country Store, have been central personalized learning, and opportunities Oregon University’s drum group for the their two-day trip to Great Wolf Lodge in supporters of the event for over 10 years. in the arts, music, and athletics. Attendees student body. Washington on June 7 and 8, with stops “My wife and I feel it is very important and donors of ROCS Night in the Valley HVHS sponsored a track meet for at the Portland Zoo, the University of to invest in the community and our auction make this possible. fourth and fifth graders, and Applegate Oregon, and the state capitol. On June 11, young people,” says Craig. “It’s a great Night in the Valley events provide School’s annual Track and Field Day took Applegate School will hold the Moving On feeling to know we are part of that and funding for music programs, fine arts place on May 31. ceremony for graduating eighth graders. giving to the programs inside the school instruction, athletic equipment, the latest A canned food drive for the school’s The event will begin at 6 pm. through this event. Plus, it’s fun!” Craig technology in the classroom, and countless Family Advocate Closet that was held in On the last day of school, June 13, has a special place in his heart for the field experiences that allow students to May will culminate in a Water Balloon several events will take place. The day will school—in his 20 years as a local business learn through doing. Challenge for the food drive winners. begin with ceremonies for student awards owner he has watched students come into Be a part of making things happen Sixth graders and their teachers and volunteer recognition. Beginning the school, grow up through the school, at ROCS, and don’t miss this amazing participated in the outstanding Outdoor at 11:30 am, the rest of the day will be and then come back to our community as evening. School program at Pacifica. While attending devoted to fun. successful adults with careers. “If I had an For more information or to purchase school in a beautiful outdoor setting over Williams School news opportunity to go back to grade school, I’d tickets, call the school at 541-842-3850. three days, students experienced hands-on Forty-five community volunteers choose Ruch!” said Craig. To donate, email [email protected]. learning with experienced Outdoor School from Serve Grants Pass came to Williams Night in the Valley attendees will be Stacie Grier • [email protected] staff. Students were housed in Pacifica’s School on May 19 to paint and clean up treated to an unforgettable evening under PTO President Cedar Center Great Hall. the campus. The Williams community is the stars at one of the premier wineries Ruch Outdoor Community School Eighth graders had several events at sincerely grateful for this generous help! HVHS in May: a Freshman Preview on HVHS held an all-district track meet May 15, an Open House on May 22, for fourth and fifth graders on May 25. The and a day for each of the eighth graders participants had a fun experience meeting to shadow a high school student on May and competing with students from other 30. Working on graduation speeches district schools. They are grateful to the and preparing posters for display at their high school for sponsoring the event. Moving On Ceremony kept the eighth On May 23, Williams School held a tea graders busy at the end of May. at 12:45 pm to celebrate all the volunteers Kindergarten Kickoff on May 3 held who help make the school run smoothly. the promise of a wonderful new group of Williams School Strings concert is Applegate students in September. scheduled for June 6 from 6 - 8 pm. Tickets The school’s library will be moving to can be purchased at the door. a new room in June. On May 19, Serve The Moving On and Awards ceremonies Grants Pass, which has helped Applegate for Williams School students will be held School in the past with painting and on June 13. general cleanup, painted the room that will A new custodian is on duty at Williams serve as the library’s new home and helped School. Ron Murphy, from Fort Vannoy, with other tasks, such as cleaning out has taken on the duties, and the staff is blackberries and clearing the cross-country super excited to have him as part of the path. A big thanks to these generous folks Pioneer Family. from Serve Grants Pass! Jean Hall • [email protected]

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Photos, clockwise from top left: —Diana Potts studies the Greek language via the Gater’s audio class at the site of the original Olympics in Olympia, Greece. — While visiting the tiny Greek island of Milos in the Aegean Sea, Karen Giese brushes up on Greek mythology with the help of the Applegater’s international history section. —Sandy Bostwick and Steve Frost check the Gater to see what time the next ballistic missile scare will occur in Old Koloa Town on the island of Kauai. —Teri Auker Becker, armed with the Applegater newsmagazine, participated in the student-organized Washington, DC, March for Our Lives, which demanded action against gun violence. —DeAnna Ertel turns to the professorial Gater to find out why tide pools turn red at the volcanic-sand beach of Wai‘anapanapa State Park in Maui. —At Isabela Island in the Galápagos, Louise Nicholson tempts the giant tortoise with recipes from the vegetarian section of the Applegater. —Lisa Baldwin and the Gater traveled all the way to Redding, California, to see Stephen Stills and Judy Collins in person.

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