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FALL 2013 Applegate Valley Community Newspaper Postal Patron Volume 6, No. 3 Serving Jackson and Josephine Counties — Circulation: 9,400 Gordon Ramsay’s HOTEL HELL invades Applegate River Lodge After more than a decade of running stops was the Applegate River Lodge in important. The boys have not come restaurants in some of the world’s top Applegate, Oregon, where he worked with together with any common goal for hotels, Gordon Ramsay knows firsthand the Davis family. Gordon and team were the business. We hope that Gordon the crucial importance of surpassing in town from June 2 through June 6; the Ramsay with his expertise and passion guests’ highest expectations. Last year’s local community was able to join in on the for the hospitality business can show first season of HOTEL HELL was the filming for dinner and hotel stay. the boys how important it is to the biggest unscripted network hit of the Joanna Davis, proprietor of the lodge success of the business that they summer. Now Gordon Ramsay is back along with Richard Davis and their sons, find common ground and can work for a second season, hitting the road to fix Duke and Dusty, explains: “The Applegate together. We are all very grateful for some of America’s most horrendous hotels, River Lodge needs help because it’s time to this opportunity.” troubled inns and struggling resorts, many pass the torch to our children. They grew An airdate has not been of which are on the brink of closure. up in this business and saw their mother announced at this time, but stay Gordon Ramsay and his HOTEL HELL team paid Gordon traveled from coast to coast and father stressed, as we could never agree tuned to the Applegater Facebook a visit to our own Applegate Lodge. Stay tuned! of the USA this season, and one of his on how to run the business and what was page for updates. Photo: FOX. Special Report: Butterflies of unrivaled Applegate Fire District levy beauty flutter nearby up for renewal by linda kappen by sandy shaffer Great Purple Hairstreak In November we voters within a brief summary of what’s happened in and Mourning Cloak Applegate Valley Fire District #9’s the past. butterflies are some of the (AVFD#9) jurisdiction will be asked to AVFD#9 provides structural fire latest to fly in fall, with the make a decision that could change how protection to our homes and businesses, Mourning Cloak being one of our fire district operates. The question: do and they are our first responders for our earliest spring butterflies. we agree to pay seven cents more per $1000 medical emergencies, rescue efforts and Any artist, poet or nature- of assessed value per year to maintain our wildfires. AVFD#9 began as a volunteer loving person will appreciate current level of services? fire district, but to keep up with the the unrivaled beauty of these It’s important to understand the growth in the Applegate since 1980 the two butterflies. history of our 33-year-old fire district in fire district has grown to seven fire stations, Great Purple Hairstreak order to make an informed vote, so here’s See FIRE DISTRICT, page 12 The Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus) is a butterfly in the family of Lycaenidae. With a wingspan of up to one-and-a-half inches, it is unlike any other. Although this butterfly is most commonly known as the This tropical-looking Great Purple Hairstreak, it has no purple on it. Photo: Thea Linnaea Pyle. butterfly will captivate your interest as it nectars delicately on flowers. A flash of iridescent blue in flight, and you are hooked into seeing where it lands among the flowers. When it does land, you will see a brightly colored abdomen, soft deep gray with purple tones on closed wings, and bright red-orange spots on their wings near the base of the abdomen. Metallic-colored blue, green, and golden Firefighters patrol Powell Creek Road in Williams as part of their successful fight against the spots near the long tails make you wish Pacifica Fire in August. At this point in the evening, the fire was 75% contained and roadblocks to see the brilliant blue wings open again, were opened to residents after hours of waiting in close to 100-degree weather. but the butterfly nectars with closed wing. The Mourning Cloak butterfly is the State Hats off to these dedicated firefighters. Photo: Mikell Nielsen. See BUTTERFLIES, page 9 Insect of Montana. Photo: Linda Kappen. INSIDE THE GATER Green and Solar home tour returns...... page 8 Grasshoppers and the locust mystery...... page 14 Jesse Applegate descendant pens tome...... page 9 Grape Talk: Local winemaker conversations...... page 17 2 Fall 2013 Applegater Start winter dreaming A warm welcome to three new by marcus smith Applegater board members Mark your calendar for this Winter Dreams/Summer Gardens It’s official! Please welcome our new board members, who already have made year’s 15th Annual Master Gardening Symposium sponsored by the Jackson significant contributions to the Applegater and are dedicated to the paper’s ongoing symposium on November 2. County Master Gardeners Association. presence in the Applegate Valley. With their wisdom, creativity and energy, we look Curious about home winemaking? Now in its 15th season, this daylong event forward to publishing for at least another two decades. How about raising chickens in your brings the region’s leading authorities own back yard? Want to grow your own together for a lively exploration of topics mushrooms or make your own artisanal and issues that challenge gardeners cheeses? throughout southern Oregon. How does climate change affect For many area gardeners, Winter my home garden? What’s the best way Dreams is the most eagerly anticipated to collect the rainwater that falls on my educational experience of the year—a property? Can I catch and use the gray meeting of the minds with offerings water my household produces? for gardeners at any level of expertise. These are just a few of the many In addition to learning from scholars, questions under discussion at this year’s researchers and practitioners, the symposium is a great opportunity to rub shoulders and swap ideas with fellow Chris Bratt Debbie and Don Tollefson gardeners. Chris was born and raised in San The Tollefson met and married on You’ll be immersed in a unique Francisco, California. After earning a BA the Monterey Peninsula in the early 1970s learning environment where science-based in industrial arts from San Francisco State where both their daughters were born in practice and state-of-the-art thinking University, he started a family and began a the early 1980s. They owned restaurants are seasoned with priceless hands-on career as a union carpenter. For many years and a trucking company, Don did real experience and local garden lore. he was a partner in a building contracting estate and Debbie taught art at Monterey Enrollment includes your choice business in the San Francisco Bay Area as High School. After moving to the San of four 90-minute classroom sessions, well as a teacher of carpentry and industrial Diego area, Debbie taught art at Mt. plus a catered lunch where you can chat arts. Upon moving to Applegate, Oregon, Carmel High School and later ran galleries Choose from four 90-minute classroom informally with the experts and other local in 1976, Chris continued working as in Rancho Santa Fe and Las Vegas. In the sessions, plus a catered lunch to chat with the experts. gardeners. a building contractor and manager of 1990s Debbie managed the La Jolla store It’s as easy as it is rewarding: Choose his family’s small woodland farm on of Draper’s and Damon’s and organized the topics of interest to you, then reserve Thompson Creek in Applegate. He is a over 200 fashion shows in San Diego your spot by calling 541–776-7371 or founding board member of many local and Los Angeles. During that time, Don emailing [email protected]. environmental groups including the Geos was a building contractor, then opened a Summer Dreams takes place at the Institute, and was a founding member number of stores in San Diego County Rogue Community College-Southern of the Applegate Partnership/Applegate while in management at Home Depot. Oregon University Higher Education River Watershed Council. He is a lifetime In 2004, Don and Debbie found a new Center in downtown Medford and parking member of the United Brotherhood of home on Thompson Creek in Applegate, during the event is free. For detailed Carpenters and Joiners of America. His where Don joined Oregon-Land in 2006. class descriptions, visit http://extension. special interests include improving the Debbie joined him in 2007, and together oregonstate.edu/sorec/gardening. environmental integrity of the Applegate they opened Applegate Valley Realty Rogue Community College/Southern Oregon Marcus Smith watershed and seeking better utilization in 2010. Because Don and Debbie are University Higher Education Center, Medford. [email protected] of small-diameter trees for building grateful for the way Applegate residents and manufacturing purposes. Chris have welcomed them and supported their believes the Applegater newspaper is an business, they give back to the community What: The 15th Annual Winter Dreams/Summer Gardens Symposium invaluable means of getting local news whenever possible. Among other activities, and independent thought out to all Don joined the Board of Directors of the When: Saturday, November 2, 9 am – 4:30 pm residents. He calls on all of us to help Children’s Advocacy Center in 2011, and produce an even more creative, innovative now they are both excited to be part of the Where: RCC/SOU Higher Education Center and unique community newspaper. Applegater newspaper team. 101 South Bartlett Street, Medford, Oregon

Cost: $40 fee includes four 90-minute sessions plus lunch. Thanks to our Downtown Medford parking is FREE. retiring board members Undying appreciation is due our outgoing long-time board members Linda Fischer, Joe Lavine, Hal Macy and Paula Rissler for all their contributions over the years. We are grateful that Joe is staying on as our webmaster, and that Paula will continue with behind-the-scenes activities as well. The Applegater would not be here today without them.

Technical and financial assistance available for landowners

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Jackson County offers technical and financial assistance to landowners of private nonindustrial forestlands. They are now accepting applications for the 2013 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) for forest health and fuels-reduction projects in the Applegate Community Wildfire Protection Plan area. Cost-share is available for eligible practices including thinning, pruning, and slash treatments. Program incentives are also available for development of a Forest Management Plan. Priority will be given to applications within the Thompson Creek watershed. If you have questions regarding the program or the location of your property, or would like to apply, please contact Erin Kurtz, district conservationist, Medford, Oregon, at [email protected] or 541-776-4270 ext. 108, or Peter Winnick, soil conservationist, Medford, Oregon at [email protected] or 541-776- 4270 ext. 109. Additional Links to the Oregon NRCS website: EQIP Program: http://www.or.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/index.html All Programs: http://www.or.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/ Applegater Fall 2013 3

WHO WE ARE A huge THANKS to the The Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc. is a nonprofit All we need 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to generous donors the publication of the Applegater who contributed to newspaper, which, we feel, reflects is love the heart and soul of our community. the Applegater. Our Mission The nonprofit Applegate Valley SUSTAINERS Community Newspaper, Inc. (AVCN), Greeley Wells, Jacksonville, OR provides the many rural and diverse Now that we have our enthusiastic new board members in place (see page communities of the Applegate CONTRIBUTORS Watershed with a communications 2) and are revitalized going forward, all the Applegater needs is love…well, and Anonymous, Jacksonville, OR vehicle, the Applegater newspaper, money, too. Donna & Matt Epstein, Jacksonville, OR free of charge to all watershed As we do on an annual basis, we have enclosed a pre-addressed envelope In support of the residents. Our quarterly paper on this page to make it easy for our faithful readers and supporters to drop in local fire district’s activities presents constructive, relevant, a check, seal, affix a stamp, and mail off to your favorite local newspaper (that Ellen & Rick Levine, Grants Pass, OR educational and entertaining reports would be us). on a wide variety of subjects such as: SUPPORTERS n natural resources The board already has a lot of plans in store and we are excited about the Anonymous, Jacksonville, OR n ecology and other future. Please help us ensure that future by donating whatever you can so that Ken & Jan Chapman, Applegate, OR science information we can continue providing scintillating articles, educational reports, community FOTAS, Ashland, OR n historical and current events news and opinions, and more. Josephine Harrison, Williams, OR n community news and opinions We appreciate your ongoing support to make this newspaper possible— SPONSORS AVCN encourages and publishes thank you! Stuart Burgess, Grants Pass, OR differing viewpoints and, through Board of Directors Jim & Jan Cody, Applegate, OR the Applegater newspaper, acts Applegater Newspaper P & D Small Excavating, Murphy, OR as a clearinghouse for this diverse community. We are dedicated to working together with community Help us ensure that we have the ongoing members to maintain and enhance support needed to publish the Applegater. the quality of life that is unique All contributors receive recognition in the to the Applegate Watershed. Applegater each issue. Acknowledgements The Applegater Newspaper is Patron - over $1000 published quarterly by the Applegate Sustainer $501 - $1000 Valley Community Newspaper, Contributor $201 - $500 Inc., and is funded by donations Supporter $51 - $200 from our loyal readers and Sponsor $5 - $50 advertisements for local businesses. Special thanks to Barbara All donations are tax-deductible and are Holiday for layout; Sue Maesen, greatly appreciated. Please make your Haley May, Margaret della Santina checks payable to Applegater Newspaper and Paul Tipton for editing; Kaye and mail to: Clayton, P. R. Kellogg and Paul Applegater Tipton for proofing; Paula Rissler P.O. Box 14 and Rona Jones for bookkeeping; Jacksonville, OR 97530 and webmaster Joe Lavine. Donors: We strive to ensure our donor Board of Directors The Applegater booth at Applegate Valley Day held at Cantrall-Buckley park was staffed by list is accurate. Please contact us if Greeley Wells, Chairman Board of Directors chairman Greeley Wells (left) and new board member Chris Bratt (right). there are errors or omissions. Debbie Tollefson, Secretary Thank you to all of our supporters, old and new, who stopped by to chat, pick up a back issue Chris Bratt, Treasurer of the Gater, or purchase an engraved wine glass for a worthy cause. All of the Gater folks who Michael Riding held down the fort during the day enjoyed the wine, beer, pizza, the Applegate Valley J.D. Rogers, Editor Don Tollefson Lion’s Club tri-tip sandwiches, and all the varied vendor booths. Photo: Rauno Perttu. Job Opportunity Editorial Committee Chris Bratt Rauno Perttu “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that The Applegater J.D. Rogers Sandy Shaffer the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” newspaper needs a Greeley Wells —attributed to Thomas Reed 1886 self-motivated All articles, stories, opinions and advertising salesperson letters that appear in the Applegater Fall masthead DEADLINES are the opinion and property of the for Josephine County. author, and not necessarily that of photo credit the Applegater or the Applegate ISSUE DATE Barbara Holiday shot this smoke bush High commission. Valley Community Newspaper, Inc. at its peak color on her family’s property Winter November 1 Contact J.D. Rogers at Spring February 1 PROTECTION OF in Williams. 541-846-7736 or COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL Summer May 1 [email protected]. The Applegater requires that Photo Specs Fall August 1 any and all materials submitted for To be printable, all photos submitted publication be the intellectual property must be high resolution (300 dpi) or “large of the author unless otherwise credited. format” (e.g., 30” x 40”). All articles submitted to the Applegater are subject to edit at the What's Inside the Gater newspaper’s discretion. Advertisers! We can help you reach your Letters to the Editor cannot be market. The Applegater is the only Back in Time: The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition...... p. 6 more than 450 words. Opinion newspaper covering the entire Behind the Green Door: Stuck in the past...... p. 21 pieces and unsolicited articles cannot Applegate Valley. exceed 600 words. Community With a circulation of 9,200 and Birdman: Fall migration is under way...... p. 11 calendar submissions must be brief. All photos submitted must be high a readership of over 20,000, we cover Dave Foreman coming to Oregon and the Applegate...... p. 10 Jacksonville, Ruch, Applegate, Williams, resolution (300 dpi) or “large format” Opinion: River right...... p. 19 (e.g., 30” x 40”). Any questions, email Murphy, Wilderville, Wonder, Jerome [email protected]. Prairie and areas of Medford and Grants Opinion: Legislation seeks to remove federal safeguards for forests...... p. 19 All submissions for our next issue Pass. must be received either at the address For more information, contact: Sanctuary One and Ruch K-8 Community School partnership...... p. 6 or email below by the deadline. Jackson County—Sally Buttshaw Tall Tales from the Editor: Good-bye or Flick your Bic...... p. 18 541-646-8418 Applegater c/o Applegate Valley The Starry Side: Tilt gives us seasons...... p. 7 Community Newspaper, Inc. [email protected] P.O. Box 14, Jacksonville, OR 97530 Josephine County—Shawn Zimmerman Trends and Observations: Birth of a snowbird?...... p. 8 Email: [email protected] 541-414-7301 Thinking for ourselves: Taking back wildlife conservation...... p. 10 Website: www.applegater.org [email protected] Next deadline: November 1 4 Fall 2013 Applegater Community Calendar MOVIE & AA Meeting There is an open meeting of Friends of Ruch Library Board of Directors Alcoholics Anonymous every Wednesday at meets on the first Thursday of each month at BOOK REVIEWS 7 am at the Williams Community Church 6:30 pm at Ruch Library. All are welcome. Fellowship Hall on East Fork Road in 541-899-7438. — Movie — Williams. This meeting is open to those who Grants Pass Nordic Ski Club meets on the first have a drinking problem and have a desire to Thursday of the month, November through Title: The Lone Ranger stop drinking, and also to anyone interested April, at the Newman Methodist Church at in the Alcoholics Anonymous program of 7th and B Streets in Grants Pass at 7 pm. Ski Reviewer rating: 4 Apples recovery from drinking. outings are on Saturdays. Listings are on the (1 Apple—Don’t bother, 5 Apples—Don’t miss) snow phone at 541-592-4977. PG-13; Action/Adventure/Western; 2 hours, 29 minutes American Association of University Women Opened: June 2013 (AAUW) Grants Pass Branch meets Greater Applegate Community Development monthly from September through May. Corporation meets the second Wednesday Cast: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper Days, times, and locations vary. All those of January, April, July and October at 6 Director: Gore Verbinski who hold an associate of arts, baccalaureate pm at Applegate Fire District Station 1, This Wild West adventure is full of fun and excitement! This is one Disney movie or higher degree from an accredited college 18489 North Applegate Road. For more or university are welcome to join. Contact information, go to www.gacdc.org. that may not be as familiar to the young people of today as it would be perhaps to their Velma Woods at [email protected] grandparents. Moviegoers are able to see this story through the eyes of Tonto, a Native or 541-956-5287, or Marianne Dwyer at Josephine County Soil and Water Conservation American spirit warrior. Be forewarned that some scenes could potentially scare little [email protected] or 541-479-4041. District (SWCD) meets Thursdays at 6 pm. ones; this movie is action-packed and full of surprises. Contrary to some other reviewers, Visit our website at http://aauwgrantspass. For meeting information, call 541-474-6840. org and see us on Facebook. I gave The Lone Ranger four Apples! Ruch Library Hours Sharon Thompson Applegate Christian Fellowship. For service Sunday...... closed [email protected] times, call 541-899-8732 24 hours/day. Monday...... closed Ed. Note: The reviewer is an ardent moviegoer—often watching the same movie in the theater Tuesday...... 11 am - 5 pm Applegate Fire District Board of Directors meets Wednesday...... closed multiple times. on the third Wednesday of each month at Thursday...... 1 pm - 7 pm Station 1, 18489 N. Applegate Road at 7:30 Friday ...... closed pm, except for the months of March, April Saturday...... 12 pm - 4 pm and May, which are held at Headquarters, (Storytime will be held Tuesdays at 11 am.) — Books — 1095 Upper Applegate Road. For more information, call 541-899-1050. Sanctuary One is open to the public for farm Waiting for the Barbarians tours every Wednesday and Saturday, 10:30 J.M. Coetzee Applegate 4-H Swine Club meets on Tuesdays am - noon. Recommended donation is $5. How many have read the most decorated, most prize-winning living author in following the third Wednesday of every Reservations are required. Call 541-899- the English-speaking world? I had not, until I bought J. M. Coetzee’s little paperback, month at 7 pm. For more information, 8627 or email [email protected]. Waiting for the Barbarians contact Charles Elmore at 541-846-6528 or , at the Jacksonville Library book sale. A short one hundred Barbara Niedermeyer at 541-846-7635. Southern Oregon Beekeepers Association meets and fifty-six pages of what is surely the most brilliantly written, sobering, and chilling the first Monday of each month at 7:30 pm at picture of how we supposedly civilized primates mistrust, fear, hate, torture, and kill Applegate Friends of Fire District #9 meets on the OSU extension. For more information, others who look, speak, worship, and live differently from those close to us. We call the third Tuesday of each month at the Fire please contact [email protected]. Station at 1095 Upper Applegate Road at 6 them uncivilized. We call them barbarians. pm. New members are welcome. For more T.O.P.S. (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets every Coetzee has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, two of Britain’s prestigious Booker information, call Bob Fischer 541-846-6218. Monday morning at Applegate Church, Prizes, The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the French Prix Femina Étranger, the 18960 North Applegate Road (at the corner Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual Applegate Library Hours of Hwy. 238 and N. Applegate Road). Sunday...... closed Weigh-in starts at 8:30 am; the meeting starts in Society, and many others. Monday...... closed at 9:00 am. Come join us! The “Magistrate”—unnamed—lives contentedly in his remote community until the Tuesday...... 2 pm - 6 pm central government applies pressure upon him to do something about the barbarians that Wednesday...... closed Williams Creek Watershed Council Meetings: Thursday...... closed fourth Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at are surely lurking and making ready to invade. We never know the time or locale of the Friday ...... 2 pm - 6 pm the Williams Creek Fire Station. The Public happenings in all this Waiting (we do find that there is snow in winter and that people Saturday...... 10 am - 2 pm is welcome. For more information, call 541- get about on horseback). The powerful and impatient leader of the central government (Storytime will be held Tuesdays at 2:30 pm.) 846-9175. arrives with his minions to demonstrate to the Magistrate how things should be done. Applegate Neighborhood Network (ANN) Williams Grange Pancake Breakfast, second After a short absence, those authorities return with captives whom the Magistrate meets on the last Wednesday of every Sunday of each month, 8:30 to 11 am, recognizes as simple fisher folk from a short distance upriver. The Magistrate must cover month at the Ruch Library. All interested followed by the Bluegrass Jam, 11 am to his eyes and ears to avoid thinking about the nightly groans and screams and the bagged persons are welcome to attend. ANN is 1 pm. Closed July and August. 20100 a community organization dedicated to Williams Hwy. near Tetherow Rd. For more bodies emanating from the shed where the captives are tortured for information about protecting, preserving, and restoring the information, call 541-846-6844. the activities and plans of the purported barbarians. Applegate watershed. For more information The Magistrate and the people of his small community experience several changes about ANN, call Duane Bowman, 541-899- Williams Grange #399 Business Meeting, of heart and conscience, and we horrified readers empathize, condemn, consider 7264. second Tuesday of each month, 7 pm. 20100 Williams Hwy. near Tetherow Rd. For more options—and, it is hoped, learn. Applegate Partnership and Watershed Council information, call 541-846-6844. The only negative about this book, for me, was that I grew weary of reading about meets the 4th Thursday of the month at the what the Magistrate dreams nightly of doing, daydreams of doing, and is sometimes Applegate Library. For more information call Williams Library Hours 541-899-9982. Sunday...... closed depicted as possibly doing to the tortured person of the captive barbarian woman. But Monday...... closed I understand that that too exemplifies a dynamic that drives the forever-war machine Applegate Valley Community Grange meets the Tuesday...... 1:30 pm - 4 pm of this, our so lovely world. second Sunday of each month at 6 pm for a Wednesday...... 1:30 pm - 4 pm I think this little book should surely be required reading in secondary schools potluck and at 7 pm for a business meeting. Thursday...... closed Call 541-846-7501. Friday...... closed throughout the world. Saturday...... 12 pm - 4 pm Julia Helm Hoskins • 541-899-8470 Applegate Valley Garden Club meets at 1:30 [email protected] pm on the third Wednesday of the month Williams Rural Fire Protection District Ed. Note: The reviewer is the author of She Caves to Conquer, a book about a young from September through May. For meeting Meetings: fourth Wednesday of the month locations and programs, call Sandra King at at 7 pm at the Williams Fire Department. woman who escapes the Midwest, moves halfway around the globe and finds caves that have 541-899-9027 or Betty Lou Smith at 541- been occupied for nearly 4,000 years. 846-6817. Women Helping Other Women (WHOW) meets the second Tuesday of the month at Food & Friends Senior Nutrition Program 10036 Hwy 238 (Gyda Lane) at 6:30 pm invites local 60+ seniors to enjoy a nutritious, for a potluck meeting to plan work parties Voices of the Applegate hot meal served at 11:30 am Monday through at each other’s homes. New members are Friday at the Jacksonville IOOF Hall located welcome. For more information, call Thalia fall concerts at the corner of Main and Oregon Streets. Truesdell at 541-899-8741 or Sioux Rogers A donation is suggested and appreciated. at 541-846-7736. Voices of the Applegate, our community choir consisting of about 25 people, Volunteers help serve meals or deliver meals will be meeting every Wednesday evening in the meeting room of the Applegate to homebound seniors. For information Wonder Neighborhood Watch Meetings: second Library, 18485 North Applegate Road from 7 to 8:30 pm from September 4 until about volunteering (it takes 40 volunteers Tuesday of each month, 6:30 pm, Wonder November 20. We will be rehearsing for our fall concerts, which will be held in to keep the Jacksonville program going) Bible Chapel. or receiving meals, call Food & Friends at the Old Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville on November 22 at 7:30 pm, and at 541-664-6674, x246 or x208. Send your calendar information to gater@ the Applegate River Lodge in Applegate on November 24 at 3 pm. applegater.org. Be sure to keep the Gater updated with any changes to your listing. Our choir director, Blake Weller, has a selection of wonderful music for us to practice and learn this season, and we welcome new members to join us at any time. No audition is required. Just come and join us in September and be prepared for a lot of fun. The registration fee is $50, and covers the 12 rehearsals and two fall concerts. Registration fees pay for our director, our accompanist and the use BORED? of the buildings in which we perform. We also try to help with scholarships for Check out our online calendar choir members when needed. All are invited to attend our concerts and admission is free. jam-packed with events all over southwest Oregon. Joan Peterson www.applegater.org 541-846-6988 Applegater Fall 2013 5

DIRTY FINGERNAILS AND ALL A 96-year-old needs your help — again by robert van heuit

Fire blight: A potential death Yes, she is now 96 years old. You have Since a support system will not impact the helped her a number of times in the past river, work on the bridge can be conducted sentence for your fruit trees and she needs your help again. at all times of the year. If the support by sioux rogers “She” is the beautiful, historic McKee system had been founded in the river, the Bridge over the upper Applegate River. work would have been limited to a period This past summer The first phase of the restoration of from mid-June through October. OBEC there was a serious McKee Bridge has begun. A portion of began the work by conducting a site visit infestation of fire the matching funds (the funds needed to on July 30, 2013, to collect more detailed blight in the Rogue match the federal grant issued to Jackson data to be used in their design. Valley. I would not County for restoration of the bridge) To date, about $18,000 in matching have taken much notice has already been raised and placed in an funds has been raised for the restoration. except that our small, account with Jackson County. We are working on raising the remaining humble heirloom- In the first phase of restoration, $38,000 for a total of about $56,000, apple orchard also was the Oregon State Department of which is needed as matching funds for the affected. In searching Transportation has selected Oregon Bridge federal grant issued to Jackson County. We the Internet for more Engineering Company (OBEC) to design hope to raise a substantial portion of the information, I found the repair of the bridge. OBEC received remaining matching funds from charitable a concise, informative a contract and has commenced work on foundations and similar organizations. But Wikipedia site: http:// the design. They expect to complete their local assistance is still needed. You can en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ work by the end of the year. After review help by contributing to the McKee Bridge Fire_blight. Gala apple tree with severe fire blight. These apples will not ripen and approval of the proposed design, it is Historical Society (MBHS) at P.O. Box Serendipitously, I and, in all likelihood, the tree is beyond saving. expected that bids will be solicited in April 854, Jacksonville, Oregon 97530. came across an article or May of next year, provided that we are Help keep McKee Bridge alive and by the late Paul W. Steiner, professor //www.caf.wvu.edu/kearneysville/articles/ able to raise the remaining matching funds. functioning! Donate today! and extension fruit pathologist at the philosophy2000.html). The engineers plan to design a support Robert Van Heuit • 541-899-2927 University of Maryland. This article was So if you’re interested in fire blight— system between the existing abutments to President, MBHS first presented at the State Horticultural and Paul Steiner’s philosophy, a visit to support the bridge during construction. [email protected] Association of Pennsylvania Annual the two sites referenced here will be most Meeting in January 2000. While it will enlightening. definitely help you understand plant Dirty fingernails and all e cannot solve problems by using the same kind of disease management, its philosophy applies Sioux Rogers • 541-846-7736 “W equally well to all aspects of life (see http: [email protected] thinking we used when we created them.” —Albert Einstein Fall colors in the Applegate by luke ruediger Fall in the Applegate is a great time brilliance. To enjoy these final displays of to get out, enjoy the mountains and see color, consider taking a hike on the Middle vibrant fall colors. As the nights grow cold Fork or Butte Fork of the Applegate River, and crisp, the brilliant red of vine maple, the Mule Creek Trail, or the Enchanted acorn crop, building up fat and energy history, human history, and geology, check the soft pink of Pacific dogwood, and Forest Trail. for the long winter ahead. Some store out my newly published trail guide, The the spectacular yellow of big-leaf maple On the slopes, responding to the the acorns in body fat, building energy Siskiyou Crest: Hikes, History & Ecology. and Oregon ash brighten the canyons stress of drought and cold, deciduous oaks reserves for the lean times ahead, while The book covers the entire Siskiyou Crest with turning leaves. The display of create a brief yet spectacular display of some store the acorn mast in treasure from Mt. Ashland to the Smith River, color, although not as spectacular as the incredible golden-yellow across the lower troves scattered across the landscape: in including the Applegate Foothills, the hardwood forests of the East, creates a ridges and south-facing slopes. Understory “granary” trees, hollow logs, the forest duff Klamath River, the Red Buttes Wilderness, dramatic contrast with the Applegate’s shrubs of all sorts turn from lucid green and dry rock crevices. Local carnivores the Siskiyou Wilderness, 19 roadless areas, towering green conifers. Water levels drop to pink, to red, to yellow. Often the first wait for their prey to graze upon these and 76 hikes. The Siskiyou Crest: Hikes, in the streams as leaves pile up in slow- woody shrub to turn in the fall is poison acorns and build up winter fat reserves, History & Ecology is a comprehensive and moving waters, awaiting the heavy rains oak; arid conditions turn the leaves bright so that they in turn become nutritious informative field guide for the Siskiyou of winter to flush them downstream. Also red or soft pink late each summer as the meals for their predators. Hiking trails Crest. The book will become an essential waiting for the water levels to rise are fall plants sink into winter dormancy. White such as the Mule Mountain Trail, the backcountry companion for all those who Chinook, coho, and winter steelhead. and black oak brighten the hillsides and Sterling Ditch Trail, the Applegate Ridge love the Siskiyou Crest. Fall is a time of transition and straw-colored grasslands with a short-lived Trail, and the Little Grayback Trail offer Luke Ruediger renewal; fish swim back to their natal display of unbelievable yellow. The leaves exceptional opportunities to enjoy local [email protected] spawning grounds and rain replenishes fall en masse on windy days and after a oak woodlands, their display of fall color, Note: The book is available at local book and the drought-stricken soil. Calm, moist particularly hard frost. and the wildlife that depends upon them. outdoor stores. To order the book online, view air begins to settle, bringing frost that Deer, bear, squirrel, and innumerable For more fall hiking ideas, as well as the author’s blog at www.thesiskiyoucrest. paints the trees in their final display of fall species of birds feast upon the season’s a good dose of botany, fire ecology, natural blogspot.com.

Food Pantry needs volunteers Applegate Food Pantry, located behind Ruch School, is in need of some volunteer help. We need fill-in folks to work filling boxes for people in need in our community. No full-time commitment necessary. Our summer hours are 8:30 - 10:30 am on Thursdays. Starting September 12, our hours will be 3:15 - 4:30 pm on Thursdays. Please call Arlene or Claude Aron at 541-951-6707 or 541- 846-0380. 6 Fall 2013 Applegater

BACK IN TIME The 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and my grandmother ‘Katie’ Byrne by evelyn byrne williams with janeen sathre I was 13 years old when a trip was long journey being as there were six of us my memory, especially where our luggage head—the most hair I had ever seen. planned by my family to attend the 1939 going: my parents, brother Morris, his wife was put. That is a mystery. There was no Days at Pinole went by with much Golden Gate International Exposition, Florence, my sister Gladys, and I, plus our trunk for it and I know it was not on top visiting. Then we went to San Jose a World’s Fair in San Francisco that luggage. Mother had purchased the car in of our vehicle so it must have been secured where Dad’s sister Maud and husband celebrated, among other things, the city’s the summer of 1939 while Dad was still to the back with the spare tire. Harold Watson lived. On October 26, two newly built bridges. I had not been posted on Tallowbox Mountain, the forest We left October 19 in the wee hours they escorted us to the fair on Treasure that far away from home before so the trip service’s fire lookout. He trusted her in of the morning. Morris was the driver Island, which was built specifically for was very exciting to me, especially the visit doing such an important task and she came with our parents in the front seat and the exposition. I know we saw many to our relatives living near there. I would home with a used 1935 V8 Ford sedan, all Florence, Gladys and me in the back. For interesting things so new to us. Mother be seeing my paternal grandmother, Mary shiny, a dark-tan color with black fenders. some reason, I recall little of that long enjoyed the Singer Sewing Machine exhibit Catherine “Katie” Byrne, who I had not Gladys and I said it was the “cat’s meow,” ride. Why I don’t remember stopping for and was given an attachment for making seen in ten years. an expression commonly used then. lunch or points of interest along the way rugs on the sewing machine. The only Of course, we needed a bigger and Preparations for appropriate clothing is strange. The only part I remember well problem was she just had an old treadle better vehicle in which to make that kept mother busy at her sewing machine is seeing all those many distant city lights Minnesota machine and it would not making our when arriving late that night at Pinole, accept the rug maker. dresses. I got a California, where Dad’s sister, Stella, her I was more interested in the outdoor wonderful coat husband Emmett O’Brien, and Grandma artist doing quick pastel landscape with a real fur “Katie” lived. paintings and I begged Mother for one. I collar (see photo), The next day, I spent much time know the price must have been low because a hand-me-down getting reacquainted with my grandmother. she bought me one. Sad to say, after many from an older girl She had come to visit us for a time when I years it disappeared from our household, cousin. had my third birthday. She gave me a doll probably because it was never framed. By the first buggy and a small table with two chairs and Time has taken its toll on my memory part of October, teacups (I still have them). Because tea was so these are just bits and pieces of that mother had her favorite beverage, we had tea parties at delightful trip and time spent with those Left to right: Uncle Emmett O’Brien, Grandma “Katie” Byrne, everything ready that table. Mother said I became terribly dear relatives, back in time. John Byrne, Aunt Stella O’Brien, Aunt Maud Watson, Gladys Byrne, for the exciting spoiled by Grandmother during that visit. Evelyn Byrne Williams Florence Byrne, Pearl Byrne, Evelyn Byrne (and her coat with the trip. So much of I remember being so impressed with her with Janeen Sathre fur collar), and Uncle Harold Watson. this has escaped very thick white hair coiled on top of her 541-899-1443 science class, students Sanctuary One and learned the basics of how to create a balanced Ruch K-8 Community School hot compost pile, then examined samples under forge new partnership a microscope in class. by della merrill By all accounts our first year of partnering Sanctuary One’s new collaboration “I feel that Sanctuary One offers was a success. “Almost with Ruch K-8 Community School just students the opportunity to be connected universally, the reactions goes to show that things happen when the with the land and their community,” were enthusiastic. I don’t time is right. Sanctuary One contacted says Cindy McDonald. “As we carry think a student ever came Students help move hay to the animal barn at Sanctuary One. the school in 2010 in hopes of generating on, we want to strengthen students’ back complaining about Photo: Della Merrill. interest in working together. Nothing understandings of their potential to make the more hum-drum aspects of what they to need a few volunteers who are willing happened until the winter of 2012 when an intentional, meaningful contribution.” were doing,” said McDonald.“When they to stay with a group of enthusiastic Cindy McDonald, Ruch Elementary Last January, two groups of reported that they’d mucked the pasture middle-schoolers for an afternoon,” said School teacher, suggested a partnership. seventh- and eighth-grade students and I’d ask how that was, I often got a McDonald. We were ready and so were they. began volunteering every week. They shrug and comments like ‘It felt good to Another challenge for McDonald The partnership evolved because participated in all aspects of the farm: work today’ or ‘Hey...it’s a farm. It needs was finding the time to meet with the of the school’s commitment to provide walking and socializing dogs, hanging to get done.’” small volunteer groups to evaluate their students with opportunities in out with farm animals, mucking the Success showed up in different assignments and schedule time to go off- place-based education. This approach pastures, bucking hay and helping tend ways as well. McDonald noticed that a site without missing key content in other forges strong ties between local, social the gardens. few students who volunteered seemed classes, like math. and environmental organizations During the first few months of the more willing to participate at school in So what does next year hold in incorporating several goals, among program, the kids were accompanied ways they hadn’t before. “Some began store? “I see this partnership working them: helping to improve quality of by Ryan King, a student teacher from volunteering more in work parties at at its finest when we have people who life and economic vitality, emphasizing Southern Oregon University. King not school centering on our community can help students evaluate their progress learning through participation while only provided reliable transportation and garden. Some took an elective course in toward learning goals,” says McDonald. integrating core curriculum areas such supervision, but he also helped create a compost science.” Likewise, we at Sanctuary One, would as math, science and language arts. And bridge between what they experienced at Of course, not only did students gain like to see this program grow and deepen. the bonus: This approach has proven to the farm and the lessons he taught in the lots of cool experience, but the people, Our mission of providing an opportunity re-energize teachers! classroom. For example, in his compost animals and the earth at Sanctuary One where people, animals and the earth come also gained. For staff and interns it was together for mutual healing offers the particularly useful and fun to see the perfect combination for young people to same familiar faces showing up every come together and put their education to week to help. The animals also gained work in real and meaningful ways. confidence as they grew to recognize and On the last week of school we sat trust the young humans who visited and down with the kids and asked them how helped care for them. And, of course, we we can improve the program. Many made great gains in the garden as once voiced a desire to learn about cooking again we learned that many hands make food grown in the garden, others looked big jobs very manageable. forward to serving as mentors to next Once King’s student teaching stint year’s participants and, unanimously, was over, one of the biggest challenges they all wanted to come back. was finding folks who were willing to not If you would like to volunteer for only provide transportation for the kids, this school year, please contact me. but also stay for the time they were at the Della Merrill Students examine microorganisms Students plant lettuce starts. farm to help supervise.“In order for the Program Manager, Sanctuary One in a sample of compost. Photo: Ryan King. Photo: Ryan King. program to be successful, we’re going 541-899-8627 Applegater Fall 2013 7

THE STARRY SIDE Tilt gives us seasons BY Greeley Wells The earth does not always rotate with the Gemini close together around the sun at a 90-degree angle. If it twins rising above on October 15 did, as you went north and south from the his head. December in the morning steamy jungles and deserts of the equator finds all these big, sky (Regulus Greeley Wells the weather would get evenly cooler at each bright constellations will appear latitude (imaginary lines parallel to the overhead and large slightly brighter). equator), but it would be the same weather Pegasus setting in the Saturn mates with Venus below and all around the world at that latitude, all west. Quite a show: a crescent moon at dusk on September year long—no real variations. Luckily, on the doorstep of 9. Saturn, Mercury and the moon form the earth’s axis is tilted at 23.5 degrees. So winter, seasons are a small “triangle” after sunset on October when the North Pole tilts towards the sun brought to you by 7. In November, Saturn rises low in the we get summer, and when we are halfway the tilt of earth! dawn sky, along with a dimmer and lower around the sun six months later the pole THE PLANETS Mercury. tilts away from the sun, giving us winter. Jupiter is OF NOTE The tilt of the earth also explains moving easterly in Major meteors this season (Orionids why we have relatively minimal seasonal the westerly-moving on October 21 and Leonids on November differences at the equator and extreme sky. Jupiter rises 17) will be very unfavorable primarily seasonal differences at the poles. The around midnight because of the moon. However, Taurids poles can be completely frozen and dark by the end of on October 10, though minor, are likely to for a chunk of time, and six months later September. By the be favorable. And for early risers, after the completely sunny and hot for another end of October, he moon sets shortly before dawn December chunk of time. is rising after 10 4 - 17, the Geminids could be spectacular. Between the extremes of the equator pm. (On October The radiant is the Gemini twins over and the poles, seasons vary widely. Different 25, Jupiter makes Orion’s head. December 13 is the best people, plants and animals live at different an almost perfect night (that’s Friday the 13th, by the way). latitudes that meet their particular needs equilateral triangle On Sunday, November 3, set your for warmth, food and propagation. Thus, with Mars and clocks back one hour to get back to the tilt of our planet gives us an incredibly Turn the page so the Big Dipper is below, and imagine Polaris as Regulus in the dawn standard time. Isn’t it comforting to be wide diversity of life. the center of a clock; then read the fifth paragraph of this article. sky.) November back? Because the time between 1 and THE NIGHT SKY Illustration: Guy Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar 2012. has Jupiter rising 2 am is technically repeated, I guess that At our 42 degrees latitude, here comes shortly after sunset means we get an extra hour that night. At fall again. Just when we’ve had enough of time each night, each quarter turn of this and increasing in brightness. As Jupiter least now noon is noon again. the hot weather, so longed-for at the end North Star “clock” can be used to measure moves east, he rises earlier and grows Hallowe’en, or the eve of All Saints winter, we now long for coolness! a full season. brighter all fall. Day, is October 31. Astronomy Day is In September the Big Dipper is to The large square of Pegasus begins in Venus rises higher and higher during Saturday, October 12. Celebrate! the lower left of Polaris, the North Star. the east in September, then moves overhead fall. Beginning low in the sunset, by The full moon on September 19 is During fall, the Dipper swings around in October. In November Pegasus starts its September 7 she rises after Spica, and then called the Fruit Moon. The full moon towards the lower right of Polaris. If you fall into the west (fall, get it?), heralding the after the brighter Saturn on September on October 18 is the Harvest moon; the face north and think of Polaris as the rise of the winter constellations in the east. 19. By October 31, Venus shows up 150 Sioux call it the Dying Grass Moon. The center of a gigantic clock, the Dipper will September sees little Pleiades rising in the minutes after sunset. A crescent moon November 17 full moon is known as move counterclockwise from about a 7 east-southeast (meaning a little farther east floats near Venus on September 8 - 9 and Hunter’s, Frosty or Beaver Moon. Imagine o’clock position in September to about a 5 of southeast). In October comes Taurus October 6 - 8. the interesting stories behind these moons! o’clock position in November. Cassiopeia the bull, that small “V” with the bright Mars crosses the beehive star cluster May deep, dark, and clear skies be moves similarly in relation to Polaris from Aldebaran on one corner. Next, Orion in Cancer (M44) on September 24 - 25. with you. about 2 o’clock in September to about 12 appears in November, leaping up from Mars then catches up with Regulus on Greeley Wells o’clock in November. Viewed at the same a prone position on the eastern horizon October 14; Mars and Regulus come really [email protected] 8 Fall 2013 Applegater

TRENDS AND OBSERVATIONS Birth of a snowbird? BY Rauno Perttu At the time of this publication, I’m arrived, tools and similar items disappeared 1. Over the years, I have accumulated getting the house struggling to stay on track in order to quickly, but almost no big items sold, even a large collection of geological publications ready for sale. I start spending winters in La Paz, Mexico at very discounted prices. and business documents, some of which had neglected the with my fiancée, Ana, who is already a La After recovering from our I still need to save. I don’t look forward property during Rauno Perttu Paz resident. When the cooler autumn disappointment, we to sifting through the years my wife weather arrives, she plans to be in La Paz. then started placing mountains of paperwork Jan was declining, and my money and Hopefully, my Applegate house will be in items outside the fence ...we then started to sort the keepers from attention went to more important things. a condition that allows me to accompany below a “free” sign. the throwaways. As a result, we are just finishing two her. This act will lump me into that That was apparently the placing items 2. The other months of contractors repairing and diverse group of people referred to as right price. We quickly outside the fence exception is my painting—ouch! Even with all that expense “snowbirds.” I would like to be able to learned, at least in the paintings. I have and effort, I look at the things still undone; continue writing for the Gater as a foreign Applegate, not to expect below a “free” dabbled in oil painting the obvious lesson is that repairs deferred correspondent, perhaps to inform other eBay prices or anything sign. That was since I was young, and become much bigger problems later. potential snowbirds of my travails and even remotely similar. apparently the by now have a collection Although it’s a work in progress, in rewards. We’re in a tough local to dispose of or store. I order to catch the tail end of the summer Getting ready for the move has been market with its own right price. think I see a storage unit sales period, I listed the house at a relatively much more work than I anticipated. I had rules. We learned this in my future. modest price with a good local realtor who no clue as to how much I had accumulated is how it works: 1. As my first bit of specializes in Applegate River properties. over the years and how hard it is to get rid Discover that the item in question sells advice to new snowbirds or anyone not Now, I just cross my fingers that the sale of all those items. First, I offered most on eBay for $100, 2. List it for $10 locally, wanting to punish their children when comes earlier rather than later. I don’t of them to my son and daughter. They 3. When it doesn’t sell, place it under the they become incapacitated: start shedding relish the thought of distant absentee selectively took several large loads each, “free” sign on the fence. Presto! The item possessions early. I had no idea of the sheer ownership, and I don’t want to let Ana which helped. Ana diligently worked eBay is gone. volume of “stuff” I had accumulated. Ana, return to La Paz while I sit in an unsold and Craig’s List, with some success. With At this point, the house and to her credit, is a minimalist. She acquired house. However, I would catch more high hopes, we then scheduled a moving outbuildings are significantly depleted that mind-set during the years she and her Ducks football games. I don’t know if I sale. We were repeatedly told that many except for the furniture and items we need late husband sailed the South Pacific on a can follow them in La Paz. items were priced too low, but we wanted until we leave for La Paz. With two notable 40-foot sailboat. Rauno Perttu • 541-899-8036 to downsize. When the morning of the sale exceptions: A serious moment of horror was in [email protected]

lime plasters blends gracefully into a forested hilltop with spectacular views. Green and Solar home tour The homeowners have integrated landscaping—including native plants, orchard and organic gardens—and a returns to the Applegate this fall rainwater catchment system into their by juliet grable site plan. The tour will culminate in a Green October is National Energy light on the homes’ construction and Wild Wines property was upgraded to Vendors Fair back at Wild Wines where Awareness Month and with it comes a energy performance. Builders, architects, improve energy efficiency by adding tour-goers will have the chance to talk one- great opportunity to participate locally. solar installers and homeowners will be on- insulation and replacing windows. An on-one with professionals at the leading Join the seventh annual Rogue Valley hand to share their triumphs and trials on a ultra-efficient Tulikivi stove keeps the edge of the local sustainable building Green and Solar Tour (RVGST) on wide range of topics and features, including home cozy during winter. movement and learn about systems and Saturday, October 5, to learn more about photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal A super-insulated Earth Advantage products that can improve a home’s energy green building practices and solar energy systems, passive solar design, building with Platinum residence on Griffin Lane efficiency. Representatives from state and through inspiring examples right in our natural materials, rainwater catchment may look conventional, but its energy local nonprofits, green rating services and own Applegate Valley. systems, masonry stoves, and creating performance is anything but. To ensure banks will also be on-hand to provide Many “regulars” join the tour year super-insulated building envelopes. the home produces as much energy as it information about rebates, tax credits and after year, says RVGST organizer Fred Each year the tour focuses on a consumes, the homeowners have installed loans on systems that save energy. To keep Gant, so why not make this year’s event different part of the region; the 2013 event solar PV and solar thermal systems, a the mood festive, Wild Wines will open up your first? The tour attracts a diverse includes four unique residences in the ductless mini-split for heating and cooling, its straw bale tasting room during the fair. crowd from homeowners considering Sterling Creek Road area and will launch and LED lights throughout. Thirsty tour-goers can sample and purchase a remodel to citizens concerned about at Wild Wines, an organic winery 20 An unusual earth-bermed, ferro- organic wines made from berries, fruits and carbon emissions to building professionals miles south of Jacksonville. Here’s a sneak cement dome takes advantage of passive flowers, while snacking on cheese and fruit looking to network. preview of the four sites: solar orientation and utilizes a Trombe provided by RVGST. Presentations at each site will shed A geodesic dome residence on the wall to control solar gain. This off-the- “It’s more than a tour,” says Gant. “It’s grid home harvests more like a celebration. That’s why people solar and wind keep coming.” energy on-site and An all-day affair, the RVGST will integrates gardens, begin at 9 am at Wild Wines, about 40 an orchard and minutes from Jacksonville at 4550 Little livestock quarters. Applegate Road. Tickets cost $17 and As beautiful as it include transportation to all sites, a catered is green, this one- lunch and cheese and fruit at the end of of-a-kind residence the day. features unique Space is limited, so register soon! artistic touches For more information or to register visit everywhere. www.GreenSolarTours.com or contact A recently Fred Gant at 541-840-8302 or fredgant1@ The 2012 tour focused on homes in the Talent/Phoenix completed straw gmail.com. areas and included this home built by Talent-based This custom straw bale home nestled in the hills bale home finished Juliet Grable Suncrest Homes. Photos: Denise Ross. above Talent was part of last year’s tour. with earth and [email protected] Applegater Fall 2013 9 THEY LIVE AMONG US Books would like more copies, and I would love Jesse Applegate descendant to read it after hearing about this resilient woman who was an pens authoritative tome example of strength by Mary martin and inspiration. I Leta Neiderheiser is the great-great- In the attic of the Knight Library at the where Jesse Applegate’s encouraged Leta to have great-granddaughter of Jesse Applegate and University of Oregon, there were drawers leadership and respected more copies printed for the researcher and author of Jesse Applegate, and boxes of “stuff” that nobody had ever reputation were all of us to read. A Dialogue with Destiny. A now retired looked at or catalogued. People in the employed in Oregon Leta Neiderheiser fifth-grade schoolteacher for 20 years, Leta 1800s were more prolific letter writers than politics. not only researches was taking a class about the Applegate Trail our generation, so much of the material When Leta’s book and writes, but also is and her passion was awakened. She then was discovered in this form. But not all the was finished, she sought mother, grandmother spent ten years researching this famous and material was identified with her ancestor. out publishers—a and wife to Joe prominent figure in Oregon history and Leta not only read through papers having difficult task if you are Leta Neiderheiser, Jesse Applegate Neiderheiser. She also two years writing her book. to do with Jesse Applegate, but also about an unproven author. descendant and author. volunteers with the Mrs. Neiderheiser’s journey followed the innumerable people and events related One publisher wanted to alter the truth, Gospel Rescue Mission in Grants Pass, the Applegate Trail from Berkeley and Yale to him. but Leta would not compromise. This also has pioneered a local Christian after-school libraries all the way to Portland through One of the events Leta researched was a quality of Jesse Applegate’s, one that program called Good News Club, and libraries, museums, university archives was the Modoc War in the 1880s between not only would build him a reputation as attends a women’s Bible study. and historical societies’ dusty storage. Her the Klamath and Modoc Indians. This it did for Abe Lincoln, but also be tested I find it interesting how qualities inquiring mind led libraries to open aged led to research of Ranger Johnson’s files to the point of losing his wealth and of our ancestors can be perpetuated far boxes that had long been hidden away near the Lava Caves. Jesse Applegate becoming destitute (at one time he was beyond a particular generation. Leta and forgotten. At first Leta was not given had a ranch near Lakeview around the among the richest men in Oregon). and her husband both have appetites for access to original documents because she time the US government rounded up This book is a story of the exceptional adventure. In her youth, Leta worked at was neither a professor nor a published the Klamath and Modoc Indians, who commitment and character that built a lighthouse where she was once struck author. She told them, “I will be back.” If had always been enemies, and foolishly our state. Jesse wrote the first Oregon by lightning and survived. Her husband you know Leta, you know this was not a put them on the same reservation that Constitution as well as carved the first is active in search and rescue, hiking deterrent. It was after she returned three was originally Klamath land. Jesse made trail from Oregon City down through into wilderness areas to save the lost and four times that professionals began efforts with the support of Indian agent California. He even lost one of his sons to and injured. Anyone who knows this taking Leta seriously and decided to be Alfred B. Meacham to negotiate with drowning on the way. Our valley, as well couple knows they have the integrity and more helpful. She relentlessly persisted the US government to give the Modocs as this publication, is named after this determination of their line. with the fortitude and determination of a small reservation on Lost River where tenacious and well-respected man. If you haven’t read Jesse Applegate, A her ancestor. they originally lived, but his efforts were Jesse Applegate is the second book Leta Dialogue with Destiny, you can obtain a This research was laborious; back then fruitless with politicians in Washington. In Neiderheiser has penned. The first was copy from Oregon Books or contact the these materials were not readily available the end, this war was the most expensive about her mother, another noteworthy author at [email protected]. on computer. Leta had to physically search Indian war and the only one where a US personality. The first printing of this Mary Martin through materials to find what she needed. general was killed. This is just one situation book sold out at 1,500 copies. Oregon [email protected] butterflies from page 1 The Great Purple Hairstreak can be antiopa), of the butterfly family With a wingspan of up to three Mourning Cloaks on wing. They do seem found in southern Oregon and throughout Nymphalidae, is found throughout the U.S. inches, Mourning Cloaks will command to be in summer hibernation as of this the U.S. The parasitized insect uses and other countries. The adult butterfly your attention as they glide through the writing, and we can look forward to seeing American mistletoe (Phoradendron winters over in bark crevices or woody woods, waterways and roads just out of them again in the fall gliding through the flavescens) found on oaks as its larval food leafy piles, mating in spring. They have a reach. The male guards mating areas by sun-dappled forests. plant, and as a butterfly feeds on nectar of variety of host plants, including willows, aggressively chasing other butterflies away. Linda Kappen the flower family composites. Some males alders, birch, maple, and many other trees They begin to fly in late winter to [email protected] may live up to 24 days. and shrubs. As adults, Mourning Cloaks early spring while snow is still melting, Ed. Note: Linda Kappen is a schoolwide Great Purple Hairstreaks can be seen nectar on sap from trees, fruits, and asters, coming out on slightly warm sunny days. education assistant at Applegate School, as adults in flight from early April to early and sometimes puddle in damp areas. This butterfly also goes into aestivation where she started the school’s butterfly garden October. We have seen them from spring In early spring they look faded and (hibernating during hot mid summer), 12 years ago. Linda earned a naturalist to fall at Applegate School, where we worn from overwintering, but with a new and returns to feed and fly through mid- certification from Siskiyou Field Institute have many oak trees. Some years we have brood comes the velvety maroon-brown October before finding a safe place to (SFI) and hosted a two-day butterfly/moth observed three or four flying in the same color on the open upper wings with a spend the winter months. course at SFI. area, which creates great excitement. A unique creamy yellow border and rows of The Mourning Cloak is the longest- spectacular sight is this butterfly! blue spots. On closed wing, the Mourning lived of North American butterflies, some Mourning Cloak Cloak blends with its habitat while still living up to 10 months. Starting very The Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis showing its yellowish border. early this past spring, there were many Let our advertisers know that you saw their ad in the Applegater. 10 Fall 2013 Applegater Dave Foreman coming to Oregon and the Applegate by diana coogle Bring wolves to the Siskiyous? Increase Rewilding, a term coined by Foreman, The southern the population of mountain beaver? Why? means to return missing parts—the “highly Oregon - northern “Because,” says Dave Foreman, one effective members of the ecosystem,” California area has of the country’s foremost environmental whether wolves or large woody debris in a great potential for activists, “without rewilding we can expect streams—to relatively wild lands. It also rewilding, Foreman to see a steady collapse of many species. means to undo land fragmentation by says, because it is a Ecosystems will become more and more making connections between wild areas. large landscape with unhealthy.” His example is the decimation “We need to connect the Kalmiopsis lots of wilderness of wolves in Yellowstone and the resulting Wilderness with the Siskiyou Wilderness and relatively few out-of-control elk population. with the Russian Wilderness with the barriers. Environmental activist and Earth First! cofounder Dave Foreman will speak on Wednesday, October 23, at Pacifica in Williams, Oregon. On Wednesday, October 23, Foreman Marble Mountains with the Trinity Foreman’s goal will be speaking at Pacifica in Williams. Alps…,” Foreman says, and if nobody as a speaker is not so much to educate recognize wild things as our neighbors. Activities begin at 7 pm with music by the stops him he will make a connective audiences (though he is both educative and “Get to know them,” he urges. “Flower Swing State band, and dinner and wine will corridor for wildlife all the way down the entertaining) as to be a catalyst for people identification, bird-watching, mushroom be available for purchase. The atmosphere coast to the end of California and beyond. to work together for a specific project. He hunting—those things make us less likely sounds festive, and rightly so. The speaker It’s a big vision. But Dave Foreman also wants to assure any antagonistic people to be bad neighbors.” is a man who celebrates the Earth. is a big visionary. that rewilding is not a United Nations plot. The talk in Williams is a neighborly Dave Foreman is an Earth First! When Foreman talks about barriers, It has been given scientific and academic affair—music, food, wine, a gathering of cofounder, intrepid protester of the 1988 he doesn’t mean political barriers but those footing by conservation biologists Michael good folks, an inspiring speaker. Admission extension of the Bald Mountain Road parts of the landscape that prevent the Soulé and Reed Noss as well as forest is a friendly $20 - $10 sliding scale and free in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness (only a movement of wildlife: highways, dense service researchers. for students with ID. backward run kept him from being hit by a human populations, dams. “For instance,” Foreman considers the greatest Foreman will also speak at the charging truck), author of Rewilding North Foreman says, charging unstoppably challenge facing us as human beings is Stevenson Union at Southern Oregon America and Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, ahead, “we need to figure out how to go “to learn how to live as good neighbors University in Ashland on October 22 (7:30 cofounder of the Wildlands Project, and under, over, or around highways. A bear with all the other earthlings.” All religions, pm) and will sign books at the Ashland founder of the Rewilding Institute (etc., will go through a culvert, but a deer won’t he points out, talk about treating your Library on October 24 (1 - 3 pm). Contact etc.). His topic will be “Rewilding North enter a dark space because a cougar might neighbor as you would like to be treated. Paul Torrence at 541-708-0153 for more America” with particular attention to our be there. So maybe we put skylights in the We need to see our neighborhood as larger information. part of the world. culvert.” and more complex than houses, and to Diana Coogle • [email protected] Thinking for ourselves: Taking back wildlife conservation by jakob shockey Conservationist Aldo Leopold once brochures. My goal is to cut past these wrote, “All the regulations in the world will PR sound bites and get to the real fish not save our game unless the farmer sees fit muscling their way up our valley’s streams, to leave his land in a habitable condition and what they need in order to be here for for game.” He was writing in 1930, but our children. Over the next few issues of today this statement still stands. Replace the Applegater, I intend to lay out a tool the words game with wildlife, and farmer kit for how you can strengthen the natural with landowner, and this could have been resources of your property and our valley. written about the Applegate. For we, as private landowners, can have far In the State of the Birds 2013 report, more impact on the future of this landscape produced by the North American Bird and its wildlife than anyone else out there. Conservation Initiative, conservation Let me offer the first tool: your efforts on private lands were highlighted as neighbors with the Applegate Partnership some of the most significant reasons behind and Watershed Council (APWC). Since species recoveries. Of the approximately the early 1990s, the APWC has worked 1.9 billion acres in the lower 48 states, for ecosystem health in our valley “from some 1.4 billion acres (over 70 percent) ridge to ridge.” Right now, the riparian is controlled by private landowners, program is working with landowners to organizations and corporations. As the restore habitat along nearly two contiguous Juvenile Western Pond Turtles in the Shockey pond. report pointed out, some bird habitat miles of Thompson Creek. We are cutting can be disproportionately located on tributaries of the Applegate River. For the wet muscles, white and ripped open by out invasive blackberries, replanting private land. Between 70 to 95 percent of beaver and salmon, this means that we their trip upstream from the ocean. Once native trees and shrubs, and placing large the population of Yellow-billed Magpie, own their only habitat. Birds that rely on I found where a black bear had pulled a wood habitat structures. If you live along Nuttall’s Woodpecker and Oak Titmouse riparian areas are also highly dependent on salmon carcass into the forest to eat it. Thompson Creek—or any other creek in is on private land due these species’ private land, as are black-tailed deer that Later, one of our dogs tried the same trick our valley—and are interested in learning dependence on our Pacific Coast oak come to water, and wild turkeys that take and almost died from salmon poisoning. more about how to improve your riparian woodland ecosystem. cover with their spring chicks. According to a 2007 assessment, Chinook area for wildlife, let me know. We live surrounded by public Bureau I grew up six and a half miles up don’t make it up to our part of Thompson Jakob Shockey of Land Management and U.S. National Thompson Creek, on a 40-acre parcel of Creek. But I saw them there ten years ago. 541-761-3312 Forest lands; however, private landowners land cut from the forest at the turn of the “Wildlife conservation” has become a Riparian Program Manager control the vast majority of low-gradient century. As a kid, I saw Chinook, coho and flashy, overused term that makes me think Applegate Partnership and waterways and fertile land needed by steelhead spawn and die along our little of the same five animals, environmental Watershed Council our wildlife. Our private parcels line the stretch of the stream. I poked at their dead fundraising and land management agency [email protected]

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BIRDMAN Fall migration is under way BY Ted A. Glover With the fall migration now fully White- and Red-breasted Nuthatches, plus kestrel hovering, similar to the kingfisher, Nova Scotia, south under way, we can say good-bye to our chickadees and Pine Siskins. and usually pumping its tail when it lands. to Mexico and the summer visitors and welcome back many One bird species we can expect to The plumage of the male American Caribbean, and more of our winter residents. see in growing numbers in the days ahead Kestrel is quite colorful. He has blue-gray throughout most Good-bye to the Black-headed is the American Kestrel. Once called wing coverts, a red back and a red-brown of South America. Ted A. Glover Grosbeaks, the Rufous Hummingbirds, the Sparrow Hawk, this bird is actually tail with a black tip. Both the male and So as the days Ospreys, Western Tanagers, Western a member of the falcon family and is, in female have two very noticeable black grow shorter and the cool weather returns, Kingbirds, many of the swallows and the fact, the smallest of all the falcons and the sideburns on each side of their faces. many of our feathered friends find the beautiful Bullock’s Orioles. Though here most common in all of North America. They hunt both by perching and Applegate Valley a great place to spend all year long, we welcome back species that It’s not much larger than a robin and can hovering, then dive straight down to catch some time. begin returning in larger numbers to our be seen perched on wires, poles and fence such prey as grasshoppers, lizards, voles and Ted Glover area to spend the winter months. These posts all around open fields, meadows even small birds. The American Kestrel 541-846-0681 species include the Dark-eyed Juncos, and brushy locales. You will often see the ranges from Alaska, across Canada to [email protected]

The Bullock’s Oriole, a small New World White-breasted Nuthatches move The Pine Siskin is a North American bird in The American Kestrel nests in cavities in blackbird, was named after William Bullock, head-first down tree trunks to find insects the finch family with an extremely trees, cliffs, buildings and other structures; an English amateur naturalist. wedged into the top edges of bark. sporadic winter range. the female lays three to seven eggs.

PHOTO CREDIT Sadler oak: A relict in the Applegate All bird photos courtesy of Peter J. Thiemann, Flickr photo stream. by suzie savoie

Sadler oak is a survivor. It is an ancient species from the pre-Pleistocene that grew on this earth long before humans ever walked it. Sadler oak—often referred to as deer oak—grows wild only in the Klamath and Siskiyou Mountains of northern California and southern Oregon. It has this restricted range because the Klamath and Siskiyou Mountains experienced less glaciation during the Pleistocene ice ages. Sadler oak took refuge here during that time and survived the ice ages while many catkins that pollinate the female flowers other plant species died out. Because of to produce acorns in the fall. As is the case this, Sadler oak is considered a “relict” with most oaks, Sadler oak acorns are an species [Ed. note: “Relict” is defined as important food source for local wildlife. a species living in an environment that If you’d like a piece of pre-Pleistocene Properties are Selling ! has changed from that which is typical for flora in your own yard, Sadler oak makes a it; a remnant or survivor, per dictionary. great landscaping plant. Arthur Kruckeberg Sold by Applegate Valley Realty since August 1, 2013! com.] According to John Roth, ecologist recommends in his book, Gardening with and chief of resource management at the Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest, that 1630 Powell Creek Rd. Williams Oregon Caves National Monument, Sadler “partial sun at the edge of a conifer canopy oak is “part of the 40-million-year-old or in a moderately sunny shrub border 1020 St. Francis East Medford Arcto-Tertiary flora that once spread from [will] suit Sadler oak best.” 250 Holmstead Rd. Williams Japan to the southeastern United States.” You can see Sadler oak growing Indeed, the closest relative is still found in the Applegate watershed in the Red 1690 Southside Rd. Murphy in Japan. Buttes Wilderness and the Grayback The oak family is included in the Mountain area, or more specifically along And more in escrow! genus Quercus, which is the Latin word the following trails: Frog Pond Trail, Miller for oak. The botanical name for Sadler oak Lake Trail, Fir Glade Trail, Boundary Trail, Don-541-973-9185 is Quercus sadleriana. Sadler oak is a shrub Sturgis Fork Trail, and the Hinkle Lake oak, growing low to the ground with dense Trail. Despite its restricted range, Sadler Debbie 541-973-9184 branching from the base. The height varies oak is not uncommon in the Klamath depending on soil and growing conditions, and Siskiyou Mountains; in fact, in some but it typically grows anywhere from three locations Sadler oak is the dominant Specialists in to nine feet tall. In the wild, Sadler oak can understory species. Rural Ranches, be found on open, rocky slopes and ridges, Endemic plants, like Sadler oak, are Homes and or as an understory species in coniferous what make the Applegate and the Klamath Vineyards! forest, generally between 1,800 to 6,600 and Siskiyou Mountains so unique. Fall is feet in elevation. Sadler oak is an evergreen a great time to get out for a hike and see oak, keeping its large, toothed, chestnut- these ancient, relict plants growing in our Hard working and Professional like leaves year-round; it has unusually watershed. large leaves for an oak. Suzie Savoie Office in the Town of Applegate In spring, Sadler oak has lovely [email protected] 12 Fall 2013 Applegater

FIRE DISTRICT from page 1 28 emergency vehicles, 53 volunteers, and Parking lots at Stations 1 and 4 were paved. seven staff (based at Headquarters/HQ in That levy option expires at the end Ruch). of next June. The fire chief and the board In addition to donations, grants and of directors have been studying what will reimbursable fees, AVFD#9 is funded by be needed to meet our current levels of constituents in two ways. First, by a “tax service for the next five years, and they district rate” that was initiated in 1980 for are proposing an increase of seven cents basic services. In 1997 state measures 47 per thousand. We’ll vote on this levy in and 50 reduced that tax rate by 21 percent November, and it will read: “Shall District and then froze it. Because that tax rate impose $0.92 per $1000 of assessed value couldn’t be raised, we voters approved a for five years for operations and minor five-year “local levy option” in 1998 to improvements beginning in FY 2014/15?” allow for 24/7 coverage at HQ as well as the The purposes cited by AVFD#9 growth needed to maintain the emergency will be to continue to recruit/retain services that AVFD#9 provides. active volunteer firefighters and medical The first AVFD#9 local levy (1999- personnel, continue staffing HQ 24/7, 2004) was approved at $1 per $1000, with replace vehicles and equipment consistent the district pledging to reduce that rate in with the five-year planning goals, and, Ruch School Cougars enjoyed a visit from Applegate Fire District personnel and future years by developing and following to enhance the delivery of their training engine 8515, a “midi” fire engine that was designed and built by district staff. a five-year plan of work. So what was for firefighters and emergency medical accomplished in those five years? Three personnel. engines were replaced, another refurbished We have two choices of how to vote: What is a ‘midi’? and two “midis” were designed/built to we can vote yes to paying seven cents more Most fire engines are designed for one main task: a structure fire, a medical serve our local Applegate needs (see photo). per $1000 of assessed value each year problem, a car accident, a rescue, wildfire, or to just carry water. A “jaws of life,” 16 breathing apparatus, ($0.92/$1000), so that we would continue Because AVFD#9 responds to all of these types of emergencies, the eight radios and 40 full sets of protective to receive the same level of services from staff decided to design a single engine that could also respond to all of uniforms were all purchased; two small AVFD#9 for the next five years. Or, we can construction projects were completed; and vote no on the levy, and the fire district will those situations. They purchased a chassis short enough to be able to turn three shift officers were hired to provide the lose about 33 percent of its annual revenue. around on our narrow Applegate driveways, and then they constructed the 24/7 coverage. We do not have the option of staying with the compartments to hold the various plumbing and equipment. They worked on In 2003 the district made good on old rate of $0.85. this “midi” in their spare time at HQ. It’s equipped to be the first responder its pledge, proposing that the second If we do not approve the levy, to any emergency out here in the Applegate. five-year levy be at the reduced rate of significant operational changes would The district’s maintenance officer figures about half of the cost of each $0.85 per $1000. We passed this, and the need to be made to our fire district. The “midi” was saved by doing the design and labor in-house, not to mention the following was accomplished (2004-2009): Board would evaluate expense categories savings of insuring just one vehicle instead of three or four! a third midi was constructed; a new water such as maintaining safe/sound vehicles tender purchased, six portable and eight and up-to-date equipment, staffing HQ AVFD#9 now has three “midis” and engine 8515, above, is one of them. mobile radios and a second set of rescue 24/7, and capital projects. Way to go, team!!! tools (for Station 1) all purchased. Also, a To me, staffing HQ 24/7 is essential. breathing air compressor was installed at Originally when there was an emergency, HQ, allowing air tanks to be filled there our volunteers were paged, responded to (saving time/money). An operations chief their assigned station, geared up and drove was hired, a well/septic system installed at to the incident. We now have three “shift” Station 6, the parking lot of HQ paved, officers, each working 24-hour shifts along and Station 7 built on Griffin Lane. with interns and/or volunteers, which In 2009 the same $0.85 per $1000 allows HQ to be staffed with a minimum was again passed, with the following of two personnel at all times. Their average accomplishments since then: all cardiac response is to be in the vehicle, moving monitors were upgraded, a water tender out within two minutes! The volunteers at Station 5 was added, and a utility van, still respond from all seven stations and a pumper at HQ and the tender at Station sometimes they can beat the HQ folks 4 were all replaced.There’s noA vehicle better exhaust- time to totour a call the depending upon the location of removal systemTrail was in installed the picturesque at HQ (where Applegatethe incident. But in general, having shift the on-duty Valley.crew sleeps), Meander and a vehicle through lift officersscenic greatly reduces response time to the also installedmountain at HQ’s maintenance roads, meet shop. the majority of AVFD#9’s constituents. Water tanks winemakers,were installed at Station sample 4 and a range But how do you ignore past April 2013 “Burn to Learn” training: Staff and volunteer firefighters take a break during a on Forest Creek, as well as a water-supply investments in vehicles and equipment, of new releases and varietals. weekend of live fire training. Volunteer firefighters helped construct this temporary 750-square- pump to create a draft site in Applegate. See FIRE DISTRICT, page 13 foot training structure, comprised of panels that can be reassembled and reused many times.

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FIRE DISTRICT from page 12 Applegate Valley Rural Fire District Jurisdiction Map courtesy of Karim Naguib of RogueMappers and Ed Reilly.

“Burn to Learn” exercise: Battalion Chief Cody Goodnough setting a “room and contents” fire; getting the room full of fuel and fire so that trainees can experience the extreme heat and low visibility of a real structure fire. so that our fire, emergency and medical needs are the best they can be for both victims and responders? AVFD#9 is unique in that they cover medical, vehicular and other emergencies, plus both structural and wildland fires. Hence the need for a variety of vehicles that can carry hose, medical supplies, water, etc., while still getting up our long, narrow driveways. Over the years a strong fleet of vehicles has been built to cover the district’s seven stations across 181 square miles (see map). Do we let them slowly deteriorate? AVFD#9’s other staff are the fire chief, an operations chief, a maintenance/logistics chief and the office manager. Aside from their specific assigned duties and responsibilities, they also respond to calls. And, they write successful grants, maintain/service the vehicles, build new engines, coordinate with other local, state and federal partners, provide home assessments and fuels reduction grants for us constituents, help educate our kids about fire prevention issues, and inspect/install smoke alarms for elderly residents. Without shift officers, many of these other functions performed by staff would be reduced or eliminated. Response times would lengthen. Without good equipment and reliable vehicles, quality of service and response would decline over time. Capital improvements across the district have allowed the needed growth to keep up with our increased and aging populations here in the Applegate. Are we willing to forfeit all of this over a seven cent increase? From my wildfire education work over the years, I know that our fire district is more community-engaged than any in the Rogue budget, plan for the future, leverage grant funds, all of these valuable services that our fire district Basin. We have a solid base of dedicated volunteer firefighters. Our and provide for our valley’s growing needs. I’ll provides! Will you? fire district leadership has shown they can keep promises, stick to a gladly pay $15 to $20 more per year to maintain Sandy Shaffer • [email protected]

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14 Fall 2013 Applegater Notes from a Rogue entomologist Grasshoppers and the mystery of the Rocky Mountain locust BY richard j. hilton What do the American bison, pest that is known to have gone extinct. square yard is considered to be an passenger pigeon and Rocky Mountain The Rocky Mountain locust was economic infestation. In 2012, locust have in common? Two hundred technically a grasshopper. The term locust 3.5 million acres were surveyed years ago, they roamed the central part refers to a type of grasshopper that swarms, and over a third of the acres had of North America in huge herds, flocks and it is this swarming form, which is an economic infestation level. In and swarms, but by the end of the 19th physically different from the normal the Klamath marsh, the ODA century they were all on the verge of morph, that is called a locust. These dense participated in one program last extinction. While hunting played a role in aggregations or swarms can be incredibly year where over 8,000 acres were the extinction of the passenger pigeon and destructive to crops and are one of the treated to control grasshoppers. the near extinction of the American bison, classic biblical plagues. Many stories from Jeffrey Lockwood is a the disappearance of the Rocky Mountain pioneers, including a famous one written grasshopper guru (his book Locust locust seems to have been the result of by Laura Ingalls Wilder, recount the tale is a comprehensive look at the A band-winged grasshopper. Photo: Kathy Keatley massive habitat change that occurred in of a farm being blanketed by a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust) and he Garvey, http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail. North America during the 19th century locusts that devoured every green thing in relates the story of when he first cfm?postnum=5887. when the continent was populated by sight, leaving only devastation (and a lot began to study grasshoppers and new settlers who significantly altered the of insect frass) in its wake. decided to videotape them to environment. The morphing of grasshopper to locust quantify how grasshoppers spend The forests of the east were cleared has been extensively studied and seems to their time, e.g., eating, molting, and the open prairie was fenced and be a response to crowding. When the mating, laying eggs. However, plowed. Lewis and Clark made their population increases and becomes dense, after watching them for many, journey across the Rocky Mountains to the locust morph starts to predominate. many hours, he did not have the Pacific in 1804-06. By 1869 the first These insects are programmed to aggregate to analyze the tape, he already transcontinental railroad was completed and move, which results in the swarming knew what grasshoppers did most and the Lincoln Highway, the first road behavior. The locusts also eat and breed at a of the time…nothing. Instead to span the continent, is celebrating its greater rate than their normal grasshopper of maximizing their fitness by 100th anniversary this year. The change form. Interestingly, the physiological eating and reproducing as much was so rapid and overwhelming that it is basis of this change is due to an increase as possible, they spent most of Rocky Mountain locust laying eggs. Illustration by C.V. no surprise that many species were not able in serotonin level, which makes the their time just sitting and doing Riley, 1877, http://bugguide.net/node/view/380281. to adapt to the new reality. grasshoppers aggregate even more, thereby nothing, hence the title of his first However, the example of the Rocky creating a positive feedback loop. book, Grasshopper Dreaming. when they take flight their brightly colored Mountain locust is truly remarkable. This It should be noted that only a few There are many local grasshoppers to hind wings unfold and they can let out a species of grasshopper has two “claims to grasshopper species have an associated keep an eye, and ear, out for. The band- raucous and telltale staccato, which will not fame” that seem hard to juxtapose. First, a locust form. Although most grasshopper winged grasshoppers are very distinctive only get your attention, but also serves to swarm of these insects in 1875 was listed species are benign, if the population is and noisy. This sub-family of grasshoppers attract the attention of the opposite sex. by the Guinness Book of World Records as high enough they can be serious pests, can make a loud snapping noise when they Richard J. Hilton • 541-772-5165 the largest concentration of animals ever particularly in rangeland. According to fly—I heard a very loud one up at Crater Senior Research Assistant/Entomologist observed; it is estimated that the swarm was the Oregon Department of Agriculture Lake last year at the top of Watchman Peak Oregon State University comprised of 3.5 trillion grasshoppers. Yet, (ODA), which regularly does a grasshopper and encountered another on Pilot Rock Southern Oregon Research and in 1902, the last live specimen of this insect population survey in eastern Oregon, a this summer. These insects blend into the Extension Center was collected, making it the only insect grasshopper density greater than eight per rocks and ground when they are at rest, but [email protected]

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520 Medical Center Drive, Suite 200, Medford, OR 97504 PHONE 541.282.6606 FAX 541.282.6601 520 SW Ramsey Avenue, Suite 204, Grants Pass, OR 97527 PHONE 541.472.7800 FAX 541.472.7801 Applegater Fall 2013 15 FEATURED ADVERTISER Each issue, the Applegater features one of our valued advertisers. Here is the story of Crater Chain Saw in Medford, Oregon, one of our long-time advertisers. Applegate Library Crater Chain Saw The Friends of the Applegate Library jacksoncounty.org, and Doug Breidenthal Many things on Riverside met on July 9 to discuss the future of the at [email protected]. Avenue in Medford have 15 branch libraries of Jackson County On a more positive note, John changed over the years, but and what ideas we might have to keep the Jackson presented his interesting program Crater Chain Saw has been libraries open. Kim Wolfe, the Jackson on worms and composting on July 16 as there for 48 years. Started County Library director, explained that part of our Summer Reading program, in 1965, Crater Chain Saw unless some other funding sources could “Dig Into Reading,” and Carol Hoon has been owned and operated be found, 14 of the branch libraries would announced her project for raising funds by the same family. They are close by June of 2014. Only the Main for our library. Called “Hats Off to the proud to be a local family- Library in downtown Medford would Libraries,” Carol is gathering the knitters owned business whose number be allowed to remain open. One of the of our community to knit hats to sell at one priority is to provide their county commissioners, Don Skundrick, the Applegate Library. The sale will take professional and homeowner proposed an annual $84 surcharge ($7 place on October 18 from 2 – 6 pm, and customers with the highest per month) to support the libraries, the on October 19 from 10 am - 2 pm. If you quality products and service. Crater Chain Saw carries the complete Stihl line of power Jackson County Jail and other operations, are interested in knitting a hat for this The store carries the equipment and original factory manufactured parts. but it was turned down in a survey and project, call Carol at 541-787-7261. She complete Stihl line of power thus lost the vote of the commissioners. has obtained some beautiful yarn from The equipment, which includes chain saws, Chain Saw is proud that, over the 45 years There will be a series of public hearings Websters in Ashland, who donated their blowers, trimmers, brush cutters, pole they have carried the Stihl line, they have by the county commissioners to gather yarn for this project. She also has patterns saws, cultivators and cut-off machines, as been designated an Elite dealer every year. ideas from local citizens as to how we to share. well as their new line of lithium battery- Being a local family-owned business, might raise enough funding to keep the We have set a date for the celebration powered equipment. All equipment they are involved in community projects, libraries open. The first one was held on of our restored storage shed. We will have when purchased includes free set-up especially those that involve the youth of July 16 at the courthouse and was well an Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 5, and instructions. They also register all our community. attended. Also, anyone who might want from 2 - 5 pm. This will include making warranty, perform any needed warranty The store carries a full line of Carhartt to add his or her ideas can pick up a apple cider with a cider press, pumpkin work and carry a complete line of original clothing in men’s (small through 4x-large, survey paper at the desk of the Applegate decorating and many treats to eat and factory manufactured parts. Their factory- some 5x-large, and talls up to 3x-large), Branch Library. Please write to your admire. Please join us for the fun! This is trained mechanics include one with women’s x-small through 2x-large), infants commissioners at the following addresses: a good time to bring your books to donate the highest certification Stihl has for a and toddlers (3 months through size 4). John Rachor at rachorjv@jacksoncounty. to our November book sale. mechanic. The store carries pants in denim and org, Don Skundrick at skundrickdw@ Joan Peterson • 541-846-6988 Stihl saws range from homeowner Carhartt duck material; some are double saws starting with 12” bars to professional front with an extra layer of fabric over saws with up to 42” bars. They also carry the knee. Some styles go to size 58. Also Ruch Library chain saws made specifically for the tree available are flannel-lined jeans and pants. We have had a busy and successful Basics II, begins and runs through October service customer. The Stihl trimmers start In stock are over 20 colors of men’s Summer Reading Program with 77 31, also from 2 - 4 pm. Please sign up in with battery powered or electric for home pocket, sleeveless and long -sleeved t-shirts; children and 15 teenagers signed up. advance for any classes that interest you. use. For landowners and professionals, shorts; woven shirts in both short and long More than a dozen adults participated in Our Annual Friends of Ruch Library heavy duty and commercial use brush sleeves; shirt jackets; sweaters; coats; jackets; the Adult Summer Reads program as well. Book Sale is scheduled for October 11 and cutters are available. The brush cutters also waterproof and breathable rainwear; vests; The presentations were enthusiastically 12 under the tent on the corner of 238 and have a variety of attachments that can be sweatshirts; socks; gloves; long underwear; attended. Children and adults learned about Upper Applegate Road. Sign up to become used on specific models. Many are ideal for hats; and wallets. fossils and worms, creating fairy houses, a member of the Friends of Ruch Library clearing property for fire safety. In Carhartt women’s pants, unlined making jewelry with repurposed t-shirts, so you can buy books on Friday. Saturday As landowners themselves, the folks and flannel-lined are available. Shirts, painting with natural earth pigments made the sale is open to everyone. at Crater Chain Saw use many of these sweatshirts, vests, tank tops, coats and from rocks, and transforming river rocks The A-Frame Bookstore adjacent products to keep their own properties ready jackets, long underwear, socks, caps, into clever houses, monsters or cars with a to the library is open on Tuesdays from for fire season. This enables them to help wallets and bags are in stock. little paint and lots of imagination. 12 - 4 pm, Thursdays from 1 - 5 pm and advise what tools work best for each job. In infant-toddler sizes are bibs, pants, During September, we will have a Saturdays 12 - 4 pm. There is a wonderful For the homeowner or professional, onesies, shirts, sweatshirts and sets. basket collection on display belonging to and constantly changing collection of great they carry a wide range of pole saws that Crater Chain Saw offers discounts for Diane Wickstrom, a retired anthropologist. books for sale. Come check it out! are both manual and gas powered. Some larger orders, and can also handle custom- For October, we have scheduled Girl Toys, Your preschoolers are welcome to join are fixed lengths and some extendable. embroidered items for your company. a display of collectible and interesting toys. us for Storytime every Tuesday at 11:30 The store carries bar oil, mix oil, safety They invite you to come in and see Free computer classes will be offered am. Ruch Library is a cool place to beat glasses, safety chaps, gas cans, bars and all they have to offer both in product again in case you missed the last sessions or the heat—see you there! miscellaneous items for your equipment, and service. The address is 1321 North need some review. Basics I runs September Thalia Truesdell and replacement chain up to 100-foot rolls. Riverside, Medford, Oregon. Phone: 541- 12 through October 3 on Thursdays from Ruch Branch Manager Stihl classifies their dealers—an Elite 772-7538. Hours are Monday - Friday 8 2 - 4 pm. On October 10, the next level, 541-899-7438 dealer being the highest level. Crater am - 5:30 pm, and Saturday 8 am - 12 pm.

instills the value of helping others. If Williams Library: you would like to join us for even one A thriving community resource for all ages! hour a week, please contact branch manager Danielle Schreck at dschreck@ The Williams branch of Josephine Resources. Our small library branch Adopt-an-Hour program allows the josephinelibrary.org or call 541-846-7020, Community Libraries is an important part is part of a four-branch system, and community to find the funds to extend or stop by the library at 20695 Williams of our community and here to serve you patrons can reserve materials from any of library services. Each additional hour at Highway during our new extended hours in valuable ways. Although our building the branches, which will then be brought the Williams Library costs $37.14, which of Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays is small, there is something for everyone. out to Williams by a volunteer courier. is $1,931.28 for an entire year. Annually from 1 - 5 pm. Community. This summer 50 This allows Williams residents to have sustainable donations to this fund are Danielle Schreck • 541-846-7020 children enrolled in the Summer Reading convenient access to thousands of books, always welcome. [email protected] Program, enjoyed books, and earned DVDs and audio books. Nonprofit. Josephine Community prizes each week. The library’s children’s Access. There are exciting changes Libraries reopened in 2009 after Josephine book collection is now more conveniently at the Williams Library. Our hours have County cut all funding in 2007. We are arranged. Hundreds of books were moved, expanded thanks to a generous donation a donor-supported, volunteer-operated and outdoor cleanup projects were by Herb Pharm, and matched by an library system. We need your help here completed by volunteers in partnership outpouring of community support. In at the Williams branch. Donating is easy, with AmeriCorps and College Dreams. July, library enthusiasts came together to and becoming a $5-a-month contributor The Williams Elementary School Garden host a yard sale, complete with activities takes just one simple form. Without you, is behind our library and we invite you to for kids, refreshments, and local musicians we cannot continue to thrive. enjoy our new outdoor reading and WiFi (see photo). The funds we raised were then Volunteers keep the books flowing area under its shade trees in the butterfly topped off by Southern Oregon Sanitation, and help us offer exciting programs. and vegetable gardens. allowing us to extend service hours. The Volunteering is also great for teens and 16 Fall 2013 Applegater

Sometimes he works With design in mind with groups to design settlements, always with by haley may both theory and practice in Perhaps you too are a designer at we have only just arrived in southern mind. In other words, while heart. Entrepreneur? Farmer? Do you Oregon. Maybe we have been here for pure science has great value, appreciate efficiency, purposefulness a couple hundred years, but this area applied science is necessary and productivity? Do you care about coevolved with humans for thousands for the real world. He has minimizing waste and using resources of years prior to modern settlement. The also had a hand in most wisely? Are you an environmentalist? native Dakubetede people foraged, hunted organic farm operations Craftsperson? Maybe you have a passion and practiced horticulture along the Little in the area, especially for animals or enjoy connecting with Applegate River at least 12,000 years prior herb farms. He believes nature in your own way. What about an to our arrival. They depended on reliable in supporting farmers observer who walks/watches? Hiker? Bird salmon populations and versatile basketry and encouraging ethical watcher? Do the fragility of the landscape skills, maintaining their livelihood and the practices and education. and the delicacy of ecological balance ever landscape using fire. A worthwhile cross your mind? Who knows? Maybe As I write, visibility is dim due to project requires care and you share some commonalities with local smoke from forest fires in the area. Fire persistence, with positive permaculture expert Tom Ward. is a catastrophe when uncontained, but results expected in as early Tom has an extensive science careful, small-scale burns replenish soil and as five years. The Wolf background in forestry, botany and reduce fire hazard. The breaking down of Gulch Project, which Tom herbology and comes from a traditional dead wood makes nutrients bio-available is supporting, provides a Quaker upbringing in a farming and the resulting char can be used as good example: 13 years in atmosphere. While teaching at Laney fertilizer. The burning practices of the the making, it is showing Permaculture teacher and counselor Tom Ward. College (and visiting southern Oregon Dakubetede were done with purpose and clear signs of progress such Photo: Haley May. during summers) he was invited by understanding long before miners arrived as the increase of pollinator populations, you will receive advice and insight about your Michael Polarsky of Oregon Tilth to in the 1850s, devastating the indigenous higher soil fertility and improved quality property and its attributes for $125. However, attend the first permaculture course on culture (and beaver populations, by the of produce. You can watch a detailed and there is “homework for homesteaders,” so be the west coast in 1982. Later he found way). Both were careless tragedies. well-produced video of the project on prepared to spend some time analyzing and himself co-teaching with well-known Tom urges us to remember this fact youtube.com. evaluating elements of your property, such permaculture developer Bill Mollison. and to approach life here with a sense of Here is a tidbit of advice straight as soil quality, elevation, water, weather, After observing the destructive effects humility. It would be foolish to assume from the “horticulturalist’s” mouth: be and patterns in plants and wildlife—before of industrial agriculture in Australia, that we are using the best farming practices on a piece of land for a year before you a visit. Mollison realized the need for permanent/ when we have not been here for very do anything serious. Find your “designer sustainable ways of producing food. The long. He cautions that our high values recliner.” Sit down. Observe. Be careful, Upcoming Course Opportunity: term “permaculture” was coined, which of convenience, legality (licensure) and and be there. And again, Tom emphasizes, Advanced Permaculture Design Mollison describes this way: A philosophy of privilege may lead to mistakes in land and be careful. For more information, visit From Friday through Sunday, working with rather than against nature; of water use. siskiyoupermaculture.com. September 20 – 22, at Full Bloom Farm protracted and thoughtful observation rather Tom is a permaculture counselor. He Haley May in the Applegate Valley, permaculture than protracted and thoughtless labor; and facilitates in the design of various projects [email protected] designers will lead groups in modeling of looking at plants and animals in all their while remaining in the background. Author’s Note: Tom is one of the founders the farm three or four ways. Course functions, rather than treating any area as a What qualifies him? The aforementioned of local business Siskiyou Permaculture price is $300, and includes campsite and single project system. degrees and teaching experience, a love along with partners Melanie Mindlin and organic lunch. Limited space available. The concept of living harmoniously for the land and the desire to understand Karen Taylor. Services offered include walk- Previous experience preferred. For with nature is not new; all humans his surroundings, not to mention the throughs, permaculture counseling, courses more information or to register, contact once lived this way and indigenous thousands of miles he has walked in and workshops. They also sell biochar, which Siskiyou Permaculture at sassetta@ cultures around the world still do. As northern California and southern Oregon, is charcoal used as a soil amendment. mind.net. Tom reminded me during our interview, all the while practicing careful observation. 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Spanish wines from the Rioja area made We sell 85 percent of our wines at our Grape Talk: with tempranillo grapes. The wines that tasting room and to local restaurants blew me away were made from 100 percent in Jacksonville. We want to keep our tempranillo grapes and they ripped your operation small and manageable. Conversations with head off because they were so big and I had a fun visit with these winemakers, complex. Our Red Lily flagship wine is who have a passion for wine and have from our tempranillo grape and the 2012, made winemaking a family vocation. local winemakers which is in barrels right now, I think will Rachael and Les Martin’s family of three be amazing. We just released our 2009, generations lives on the winery property; by debbie tollefson which was aged in French oak for 24 Jim Devitt’s son has made his life about When I was a young girl I developed on Thompson Creek and while they months, then bottle-aged, and I think very wine and grapes in the Napa Valley; and his a love affair with the muscat grape. My matured I immersed myself in learning good. Besides tempranillo we are growing grandson Brandon Butler is a winemaker mother would create wonderful jelly from as much as possible about winemaking. verdejo, a white grape, even though I at Devitt Winery. her own crop and I couldn’t wait for the I worked with Michael Donovan and his never thought I would be making a white Both winemakers agree that making grapes to ripen. Flash forward and the winemaking team at Roxy Ann Winery wine. We also grow some graciano grapes, wine is expensive, time-consuming and grape in the form of wine has marked most and did a lot of work on learning the which are great for blending because of definitely not easy, but they love doing it special events in the lives of my husband chemistry of winemaking. I also learned their high acidity and great robust flavors, in the Applegate Valley. Both Rachel and and I by the bottle of wine that we drank a lot from Sarah Powell, who taught me and grenache grapes that we use in our Jim believe that the Applegate Valley is and the friends with whom we shared it. to be a critical taster. When I am out in blend for Lily Girl Rosé. Right now our becoming a major growth area for many We have tasted many amazing and some the vineyards tasting the grapes, all this production is at 3,000 cases and our max varietals of US wines. not-so-amazing wines over the years. I information comes into play when I am will be 5,000 cases. We want to keep our If you would like me to tackle a wine/ am not a sommelier or an enologist, but I deciding when to harvest and the direction operation small so we can control the grape topic, let me know by emailing have a great appreciation of wine and love our wines will take. process from the grape to the bottle. I will [email protected]. to learn about it. Jim Devitt, Devitt Winery: I hold some batches back and experiment Debbie Tollefson Upon settling in the Applegate Valley owned and operated Pope Valley Winery with the blends to try and create the best, [email protected] in 2004 we were thrilled to learn that this in Napa Valley from the early 1970s until most complex and enjoyable wine I can. Note: Red Lily Vineyards is located at 11777 beautiful valley was also one of the new the late 1990s. I couldn’t stay away from Jim Devitt: I have been concentrating Highway 238 and is open daily from 11 am up-and-coming appellations. winemaking so in 2003, we started Devitt on reds—mostly cabernet and syrah, but I to 5 pm. The tasting room at Devitt Winery Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting here in the Applegate Valley and opened have also been experimenting with viognier is at 11412 Highway 238 and is open daily down with Rachel Martin of Red Lily the tasting room in 2004. My son, who and blends of zinfandel, merlot and from 12 to 5 pm. Both wineries are located Vineyards and Jim Devitt of Devitt grew up working at Pope Valley Winery cabernet. I also experimented with a dessert between the towns of Ruch and Applegate in Winery to discuss how they ended up and went to the University of California, wine, the 2007 Le Petite Oink When the Applegate Valley. in the Applegate Valley and how they Davis, for viticulture and enology, is Pigs Fly. We age approach their harvest and the creation of the winemaker and vineyard manager all our wines in their wines. at Darioush Winery in Napa. We are French oak for How did you end up making wine currently collaborating on a wine system 24 months at in the Applegate Valley? for filling wine barrels without overflowing least, and some Rachel Martin, Red Lily Vineyards: and spilling. I have an engineering vintages for My husband Les and I were both working background that is being put to good use much longer. in Las Vegas; he was a CPA and I was in finding new systems for the wine industry. This year we criminal justice. We loved Spanish wines What kind of varietals are you are producing and dreamed of one day having a place to growing? Any new directions or only 700 cases; make our own. I am from Medford and experimentations with blends? in the past my family is here, so we decided to take a Rachel Martin: My dream was to we have done leap of faith and move our family back here create a great Spanish-style wine. I spent between 2,500 and go for it. Our first grapes were planted time in Spain learning and loving the and 3,000 cases. Photo, right: Rachel Martin, owner and winemaker of Red Lily Vineyards. Photo, far right: Left to right, Brandon Butler, winemaker, Sue Devitt, and Jim Devitt, owner- winemaker of Devitt Winery. Photos by Applegater staff. 18 Fall 2013 Applegater

to thank her enough. TALL TALES FROM THE EDITOR I also thank all our readers and supporters for helping to make the Applegater the wonderful community Good-bye newspaper it is today. This paper would never magically appear in your mailbox or if it were not for the army of dedicated Gater volunteers (many have been here since the beginning) who write articles, Flick your Bic edit and proof, and prepare the Applegater for mailing. The mailing process is an I cannot tell you how much I have dons her 1960s nurses cap. Oh, yeah! incredible feat in itself. It takes dozens loved being part of the Applegater family It is frightening how fast these past 19 of hands just for this endeavor, bundling, these past 19 years. years have rocketed by—the speed of light bagging and labeling 9,400 papers. Bob When this community paper first has nothing on the speed of time. I am also Fischer (my awesome mailing assistant) has started, very little of our material came very aware how over that same time period suffered through hours with me, waiting on into the Applegater corporate the loading docks at the post office headquarters via email. Today, to mail the truckload of Applegaters. there is virtually nothing that We have traded some wild tales of doesn’t magically appear via email. his days as a motorcycle cop and In those early days, most everyone mine as the unknown rock star. wrote with quill and ink. I am Then there are the volunteers proud to say that I still write with who do the Gater’s banking, billing, quill and ink—well, maybe with bookkeeping, state and federal my trusty Bic pen. nonprofit paperwork, taxes, not It has been a blast scribbling to mention our loyal webmaster, this column with my Rambling editorial committee and board of Rants and Doggy Tales. Remember directors, which has been headed the story about when our then six- up by Greeley Wells for the last month-old border collie, Barney several years. Paula Rissler has McGee, aka Monster Boy, used performed enormous tasks behind my hearing aids as his chew toy? the pages of the Applegater. I give a One of my favorite stories was big salute and thank you to all the how our Australian shepherd, Gater volunteers past and present. Boogie, figured out how to open Of course, none of this would the refrigerator door and proceeded have happened without my biggest to scarf down all the edible contents supporter, my bride Sioux. she could devour. She even left I’m so grateful to my buddy teeth marks on the lid of my Jim Beam, who helped me write treasured Miracle Whip jar. Boogie my Gater stories a fifth of the time. did have great taste. Left to right: PUD members J. Michael Pearce, TheApplegater’s new, energetic My stories/rants have covered formerly of the J. Michael Pearce band; Rickey Lee Costanza, and dedicated board members see everything from my time spent from the Plutonium’s; yours truly, J.D. Rogers, the unknown rock this paper as an ongoing, viable link star; Chris “Mad Man” Allen with Fractured Pelvis. down in the uranium mines, to my of communication with and for this Not pictured: the “commissioner,” Al “El Supremo” McLeod. rock-’n-roll band days, to running community. with those naughty boys known as the the chores here on the farm seem to have Rest assured, I am not going to “Utah Outlaws.” Not to mention the tales grown bigger, heavier and ever-expanding. become one with the old rocking chair from our little farm here in the Applegate Funny thing, those chores are the same as on our front porch. I am hoping to do a with my bride Sioux, my very own ER they have always been. Now it’s just harder couple of rockin’ road trips with “PUD” nurse, who turns me to putty when she to perform them. (see photo), that notorious group of outlaws Over the last few years I have dealt who hailed from Utah. There was once a with several bouts of cancer. No, this saying when they rocked and rolled their Check this out — was not the result of the rock-’n-roll star way into town: “Mothers, lock your only on our website lifestyle that exists in my hollow head. daughters away!” I think today that saying www.applegater.org Most likely it is a result of those years I might be, “Hey, grandma, your prehistoric spent probing around in those dark holes boy toys are back.” called uranium mines. So...sweet dreams, rock on and flick It’s most disturbing to me how much your Bic. strength and energy cancer sucks out of a person, and the negative health residuals caused from surgery and radiation. Because of all of this, it is time for me to step aside as your Applegater newspaper editor. This has not been an easy decision. In fact, I spent more than a year pondering it. “The Outhouse and Barbara Holiday, the Applegater’s Scrounge the cat long-time managing editor, will be taking Note: J.D. Rogers may be departing his post over most of my editorial duties. Barbara as editor but, because we can’t do without or Monsanto is well-versed in Gater lore and extremely him, he will remain on the Board of Directors computer-savvy. She has covered numerous and the editorial committee, thus assuring his and lapdogs” Applegater duties for me over the last several continued presence and colorful influence, by J.D. Rogers years, especially when I was dealing with and perhaps, on occasion, he will gift us with ongoing medical issues. I will never be able more Rambling Rants and Doggy Tales. Advertisers ~ Contact: Jackson County— Sally Buttshaw 541-646-8418 [email protected] Josephine County— Shawn Zimmerman 541-414-7301 [email protected] Applegater Fall 2013 19

OPINIONS River right Legislation seeks to remove by tom carstens federal safeguards for forests While paddling down the Klamath revenues are flat, while pension costs are by danielle schreck River with several kayaking buddies the rising. Josephine County is a basket case: other day, I finally felt at home again. proposed tax hikes get nowhere. Jackson The forests managed by the Bureau of be replaced by young mono-crops of I’ve just returned from a long trip Down County’s current tale of woe is a two- Land Management (BLM) in southwestern trees. Clean drinking water, biodiversity Under—it felt good not to have to million dollar increase in pension expenses Oregon have been a point of contention of plant and animal species, erosion remember to “look left and drive right” for next year. (How much is two million, by for years. Now, once again proposed control, temperature regulation, and a change. On the drive down to the river, I the way?) So the commissioners are once legislation seeks to remove federal salmon habitat are resources on which kept trying to shift gears with my left hand. again raising the specter of closing our local safeguards. These forests were designated we all depend. Today’s changing climate So I really enjoyed the freedom to paddle libraries. The Oregon State University as resources to be managed for the greater cannot support logging at levels that were wherever I wanted, with no worries about Extension Service is also on the chopping good in perpetuity. Please do not be swayed previously the norm. where the controls were located and which block. Grassroots organizations have by timber interests who want to loosen Although the laws governing logging side the traffic was on. Only the river rocks sprung up to try and save these beloved regulations. Our rural community has vary greatly between private and publicly and rapids dictated my path. programs. been greatly affected by surrounding clear- owned forests, the natural world does not I wish this were so with our country. I think we have a fighting chance cuts by private logging interests—most obey these boundaries. To loosen federal We seem to be paddling hard upstream and as long as we don’t hang our hats on logs never going to our local mills but are regulations would be the beginning of the getting nowhere. It’s like we’re letting the increasing our taxes. We’ve been there shipped raw to Asia. Our federal forests end of some of the last remaining protected current take us backwards through some before. In 1984, voters approved a Jackson remain the only buffer providing us with forests in the world. pretty rough rapids without a recovery County library levy only to see it disappear clean water, biodiversity and recreation. Do we really want to create jobs plan. I sure hope we don’t tip over. I read into the general fund 13 years later with Think about other economic values we that sacrifice our children’s futures? Do the other day that our average government the passage of Measure 50. Historically, have. Our organic farming industry has we the people of Oregon believe that this debt (federal, state and local) is now over tax increases have a tough time getting grown exponentially in recent years and is is our only hope? As Oregonians, we are $50,000 per person and climbing. Say voter approval, because that’s usually not our economic and environmental future. much more resourceful than to depend what? I tried to check this on my hand the end of the story. Even if the new taxes Since the passage of the Northwest only on these outdated practices. We calculator, but I couldn’t fit in all the zeros. manage to fix what’s wrong, more money Forest Plan in 1994, federal forests have have a growing organic farming industry, (How much is $17 trillion, anyway?) One will eventually be needed, especially as been protected from unsustainable logging, recreation and tourism, and a landscape prominent economist, Laurence Kotlikoff, salaries and pensions go up. Would user such as clear-cutting and cutting of old- that drives people here from all over tells us that we would have to permanently fees help? That’s how all county parks, growth forests. However, these protected the nation. The fact is these industries, raise taxes by 64 percent to close the gap including Cantrall-Buckley and Fish public forests are interconnected with which are truly sustainable and promote between federal income and spending. Hatchery, are paid for. privately owned forests. Private forests may land stewardship, are not even possible Does anyone think that’s got a snowball’s Recently, a friend said to me that be clear-cut, dowsed with herbicides that without healthy forests. We ask you to see chance in hell? Does anybody out there we ought to ask ourselves: What is it poison our waters, our farmlands, and our past the rhetoric and propaganda and join want to pay more taxes? that we want government to do? Here’s fish and wildlife. The cumulative effects with those who can think outside the box So, like it or not, we’re going to have maybe a better question: What do we of this unsustainable logging are buffered in creating a future that is economically to get a handle on spending. We’re already want government to do that we can afford? and offset by our protected federal forests. sound without sacrificing the land we all seeing the downside of this locally. Both Maybe we need to make a big priority list One logging company from Grants depend on. the Bureau of Land Management and the and tick off items from the top until we run Pass has informed the Oregon Department If you truly want to help move Oregon U.S. Forest Service are grappling with out of projected revenue. Regardless, more of Forestry of their plans to clear-cut 157 forward, don’t look backward to outdated budget cuts. Many of their programs cutting is coming. I hope we can avoid the total acres in two sections near Grayback models of economic prosperity that rely are being reduced, delayed or canceled squabbling that we’ve seen elsewhere. I’m Mountain in southwest Williams. Because solely on resource extraction. Contrary to outright. We’ve already heard about the confident that everyone is trying to make these lands are under private ownership, the beliefs of the few who stand to profit cuts to the federal firefighting budget. But the best of a bad situation. logging is regulated only by the Oregon from the rape of our federal lands, we are when big fires hit, they’re going to have to Oh, and one more thing . . . next time Forest Practice Act. This means they educated citizens who understand that the spend the money. Where will they get it? you see one of our volunteer firefighters, can cross over and cut right up to the ecological values provided by our forests From other federal programs, that’s where. tell ‘em “Thanks.” Salary: Zero. Pension: non-fish-bearing streams that meander are truly priceless. We also understand Who knows what sacred cows are going Zero. Return on tax dollar: 100%. Top through causing massive erosion and that contrary to the rhetoric, Americans to be gored! of the list stuff. sedimentation. have the ingenuity to create new venues Speaking of sacred cows, the county See you on the river. Contrary to this invasive riparian for sustained economic prosperity. budgets are loaded with them. Tax Tom Carstens • 541-846-1025 treatment, federal management does not Our public lands are not for sale! We allow logging within 170 feet of non-fish- will not support any legislation that seeks bearing streams. The subsequent herbicide to betray the public trust in the name of applications that always follow this type of profit for a select few. We have heard these private logging have been proven toxic to promises all over the nation, from the Let our advertisers know that you the aquatic systems that we all depend on. Appalachian coal mines to the natural-gas They will accumulate in the bodies of fish drilling in Wyoming; promises of jobs and saw their ad and wildlife and leach into the streams and schools available only at the expense of in the Applegater. groundwater. There is no buffer along these our natural resources. We have seen what streams for aerial spraying of herbicides. happens; a few profit and then move on Our watershed consists of 55,602 to the next extraction site, leaving rural Support our local businesses! acres with 28,161 acres managed by BLM, citizens stripped of their productive land 6,772 acres managed by the US Forest and clean water. Service, and 6,116 acres owned by private Without federal safeguards, we fear timber companies. This means a potential that these effects will become too massive of 74 percent of our lands could potentially in scale and a threshold will be crossed, be harvested. BLM has a plan to treat 8,000 beyond which our forests will not be able LETTERS TO THE EDITOR acres over the next ten years, and so the to recover. combined negative impact of BLM and For more information about Williams Opinion Pieces and Letters to the Editor represent the opinion of private timber companies could be huge. Community Forest Project , visit our website the author, not that of the Applegater or the Applegate Valley Community The struggle we see in rural southern at www.williamscommunityforestproject. Newspaper. We are a community-based newspaper that receives diverse Oregon communities is not due to a loss org or send an email to the address below. opinions on different topics. Letters should be no longer than 450 of timber, but rather a loss of value. The Danielle Schreck words, and may be edited for grammar and length. Opinion Pieces beautiful forests that surround us are Williams Community Forest Project should be no longer than 600 words. All Letters and Opinion Pieces a valuable resource that simply cannot [email protected] must be signed, with a full street address or P.O. Box and phone number. Individual Letters may or may not be published in consecutive issues. Be sure to visit www.applegater.org for a complete list of advertisers. 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OBITUARIES Elvis Offenbacher was on his mind. Dad was really good at Beth Bliss op and we grew up on Knudsen juices and being straightforward. And so many times carob chips. We were true hippie children; 1928 - 2010 his quick response would bring about a 1951 - 2013 we just didn’t know it.” one-liner or a comment that would ignite Riding with Bliss Beth received her associate degree in a belly laugh from the crowd. He loved Applegate Valley resident Beth Bliss nursing from Iowa Western Community the Applegate; he knew that he was a part died Saturday, July 13, as a result of injuries College in 1994 and worked as an of something bigger, and he was proud of sustained when her horse fell during an emergency-room nurse for over ten years. the roots that reached deep into the soil. endurance ride east of Prineville. Beth After moving to Oregon she worked Dad had some very good friends was 61 and is survived by her husband in the emergency room at Three Rivers in the Applegate. Quite a few of his Barry, daughters Sarah and Autumn, and Community Hospital. Last year she took relationships were tied to his backhoe granddaughter Madelyn. a year off to pursue her passion, riding her work, but some of those folks were more Beth was one of my best riding endurance horse. Recently she returned than just work buddies. He was involved in buddies. She was a passionate equestrian to work at Three Rivers part time as an the local historical society (he called it the and endurance rider and was active in on-call nurse. “Hysterical Society”) and other Applegate numerous local equestrian and trail Beth was always willing to help a new community meetings, where I am sure he organizations, serving on the board of endurance rider learn about the sport and shared what was on his mind. He loved directors for several of them. was as competent and sensible a rider as to dismantle and reconstruct an idea and Her energy and joy of life were I have ever known. Beth was competitive Elvis Offenbacher then offer a better way. Hearing stories contagious. She always had a smile and and tried to be the best she could be at My dad, Elvis Leon Offenbacher, from people who knew my dad has led me positive words for everyone. I was honored whatever she did, but would never hesitate was born on February 13, 1928, in an old to wonder what people really thought of to stop and help someone in need. farmhouse on the Applegate River. He died him…and I am still not sure. But I think She and her little part-Arabian in the Applegate on May 13, 2010. Upon nearly everyone had respect for my dad. mare, Ivy, were always a welcome his passing our immediate family didn’t And I bet everyone who called the house addition to any riding group or have the opportunity to get together with and heard the big and somewhat loud campout. other family and friends to celebrate his “hello” on the other end would surely have Her first horse was a wild life. So even though it has been a few years, to start that conversation with a smile. mustang adopted from the Bureau I don’t think it’s ever too late to remember I must have been eight years old when of Land Management (BLM) in a life, especially my dad’s. my dad showed me what a good handshake 1983. Beth gentled and trained her My dad was raised on a cattle ranch should feel like. It’s firm and strong, but Wild Dream Lady herself. In Beth’s in the Applegate Valley. The ranch had not so strong as to crush a knuckle. He Annette Parsons and Beth Bliss (right) near Moab, own words in 2011: Utah, during a three-day endurance ride in 2010. been in our family since about 1850. His went on to explain why you don’t want a I have owned and worked with childhood memories included stories of a mushy handshake, and I still use that as to call her my friend. We shared many joys horses for 27 years. My first was a wild lot of hard work, cattle drives, hypnotizing a telltale sign to judge people’s character. on the trail and around the campfire. She nine-year old mustang mare adopted from chickens, and torturing his younger Once in a while, he would aim his index lived up to her name, and to the bumper the BLM. brother, Dutch. Although it was a little finger between my shoulder blades and sticker on her horse trailer that read I have completed over 1,750 miles hard to see at times, my dad took pride in poke me pretty hard and say, “Get them “Follow Your Bliss.” of competitive trail ride miles in NATRC, his role as the older brother. I think that the shoulders back.” He wanted me to know Beth and Barry moved to the including the Championship Challenge ride bond they shared was the kind you couldn’t how important it was to stand up straight. Applegate Valley from the Midwest in in 2000. I won the Region 6 top novice horse always see with your eyes, but you could My dad was built just like any good 2001. Beth discovered endurance riding of 1991 on Lady’s son, Corduroy Knickers feel in your heart. German. He was stout and about five feet and competed successfully in many rides when he was four years old. After moving My granddad was a cowboy, but nine inches tall. What he lacked in height locally and throughout the region. In 2004 from Iowa to Oregon, I started endurance my dad was not. He was destined for a he made up for with his sense of humor, she completed the difficult and rugged riding with “Roy.” In 2004, I accomplished different life and it was not on the farm. which was quick and sharp. His analogies 100-mile, one-day Tevis Cup ride from the goal I had dreamed of when I picked I don’t know why for sure, but maybe it and descriptions of how he saw the world Squaw Valley to Auburn, California on a his sire. Together we completed the Tevis was his allergy to hay or knowing that he were just damn funny at times (some of gelding she had bred and trained. 100-mile, one-day race placing 84th of 129 could not have made the type of living he which I cannot repeat). He and I loved Beth had told me about her “Earth finishers. We earned a buckle in that 50th wanted if he stayed on the ranch. So, just to yak it up about politics (thank god we Mother” days, when she and Barry were anniversary ride. Roy was 17 years old. I after my mom and dad graduated from agreed—others were not so lucky). I miss raising their daughters on rural property was 52. Jacksonville High School, they married our phone chats very much. I couldn’t get in Iowa in the 1970s and 80s. Beth grew My little mare Ivy and I began competing and began their life’s journey away from away with very much because he could see and preserved most of their food. Her in endurance in 2010. She is also trained to the Applegate. They were married over 30 right through me. It really didn’t bother daughter Sarah told me, “As children, we be my packhorse and all-around trail horse. years and raised three kids, which included me too much because even though he were required to do an hour a day in the I hope to complete the Tevis ride one more paying for two college degrees, a start-up was direct at times, I knew that I needed garden. Our least favorite part was the time with Ivy as my partner when I am 62. business, cars for each of us, and braces for only to be myself with him; that’s who he weeding. We made homemade applesauce I can’t imagine a world without horses. all three. We never looked like we had a lot wanted me to be. and mom canned a lot of food for us. They complete my universe.” of money but, because my dad worked so Writing down a few things about Dad We also raised goats, chickens, rabbits, Beth lived her life helping and hard, I always had that sense of security. He has helped rekindle some of my memories. and an occasional runt pig and cow. My inspiring others, and doing what she loved. started his career changing tires, worked It has felt good to remember his life. And mom and dad butchered the rabbits and She went out doing what she loved most hard his whole life, and ended his career by for those of you who knew him, I hope that chickens themselves. I still have a pillow of all, riding fast. digging holes all over the Applegate with a thought was sparked, making you smile at Mom made me from rabbit hide that she Ride on forever, girlfriend, I’ll miss his backhoe. He never did retire. your own memories of Elvis Offenbacher. tanned herself. We collected our own eggs you. I’ll see you down the trail, if I can You would never ask him what he Lori Stone and pasteurized our own milk and made catch you! thought unless you wanted to hear what [email protected] our own yogurt. 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MY OPINION FROM BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR Stuck in the past by chris bratt Last month I took a family member coziness and highways and byways), health or the job to the Rogue Valley Medical Center for a collaboration with the Seneca Jones folks market. checkup at the outpatient section on the forestry schools ...I realize we and their fellow travelers Since timber main floor of the hospital. During the wait like Oregon State are still saddled now want to expand interests and time while she was seeing the doctor, I had University and its with a long- their management supporters are Chris Bratt a chance to examine an extended display of over - representation scheme throughout pushing hard to acquire more access to early-day (late 1800s-1938) photographs on Oregon’s Board of term legacy our public forest lands. cutting public trees, we have come to of logging operations in southern Oregon. Forestry raise questions of rapacious Using political pressure the crossroads of a potential big change Hanging high on the long waiting of undue corporate and highly misleading in public forest management policy and room wall were impressive pictures of sway over both public logging by arguments, the timber practice. Do we want to go down the old rugged looking loggers chopping, sawing and private forest- private forest and industry is desperately destructive “boom-and-bust” road on our and falling giant trees by hand, long-gone management regulations trying to get Federal land public lands, too? Or, will we be taking the private sawmills once so prolific in the and laws. mill owners for management agencies new road leading to more ecologically and area and huge sections of old-growth logs Industrial forest financial gain and to offer more trees for sustainably based actions for all our public larger in diameter than the height of the advocates also continue sale from our public lands in the state? I’m definitely on the road loggers themselves. I could find no written to run a well-financed political power. forests. They want our to new ecologically based forest practices, explanation about this display, although negative - propaganda government to subsidize and I am suggesting to people in our towns the wall did contain the names of many agenda that lobbies an extensive tree-cutting and communities that they do the same. people I thought might have been dead against any additional protections for the program that supposedly will bolster Stay tuned for more details and but connected to these depictions of local environment. Touting a lofty connection Oregon’s jobs and economy and fund some actions as decisions are being considered antiquated sawmills and logging practices. to the land (an “abiding love of the forest”) counties’ budgets. Do we really believe by Congress. (Senator Wyden and others For me, these old images described a while providing jobs and products people the private timber corporations are that in Congress are considering some not-too- time in Oregon’s history when logging was need, Oregon’s Seneca Sawmill owners interested in the long-term welfare of our friendly environmental changes to public the principal piece of our local economy recently had the brazenness to blame forests and people? The boards of directors forest land ownership and laws). and was virtually uncontrolled. It was a “radical activists” and “fringe elitists” (that’s and owners of the timber corporations Maybe you think I’m stuck at the time when our Oregon forests were so vast me they’re talking about) for all of Oregon’s admit that first and foremost they are crossroads or just stuck in the past. Let they seemed unending. I doubt if anyone financial and forest problems. Instead of committed to enhancing the stock value of me know. in that era believed these forests could any willingness by the timber industry folks their shareholders. Making money is their Chris Bratt ever be harmed or eliminated given the to discuss the causes of fewer trees being top priority, not improving their forest’s 541-846-6988 tools and techniques that were available to cut (because of past destructive logging forest-industry workers at that time. practices), they just continually attempt Looking back at those earlier days, I to vilify and berate all environmental Applegate Valley realize we are still saddled with a long-term people and groups. While the Seneca Jones legacy of rapacious logging by private forest Timber Company claims it “is dedicated Community Grange news and mill owners for financial gain and to sustainable practices in every aspect of by janis mohr-tipton political power. Like the western life of the forest management,” their monocultured Many thank-yous to the local macroclimates of the county do not early cowboys, gold miners and ranchers, second-growth tree farm grows trees only community for attending our June 2 allow the propagation of GMOs without there is also an ongoing nostalgic appeal 40 to 60 years before they’re cut—hardly “Almost Summer Faire” and fund-raiser potential large and lasting damage to of the loggers’ connection to the land a sustainable forest from the standpoint of for a new roof for the Grange. With your small, heritage, organic and other non- and trees while working to conquer the most forest creatures and scientists. support, we added $1,035 to the fund. We GMO farms and gardens. The combined wilderness. Wealthy forest landowners and Despite the destructive record of the are seeking more donations and applying dangers of cross-pollination, increased corporations have continued to maintain timber industry’s free-for-all logging model for a grant to get the new roof on before the use of herbicides and pesticides, and the a controlling influence over forest policies (an unsustainable monoculture based fall rains. Then we will be able to offer more threat to natural pollinators such as bees and practices in the Northwest to this day. on extensive clear-cutting and pesticide community events and have a rainproof and butterflies may affect the health and In addition, the timber industry’s use easily seen from many of Oregon’s building available for rent. livelihoods of many county residents. In August, the members were busy We invite you to consider joining us planning future events, programs and at our next Grange meeting on Sunday, activities for the coming year. Last fall, September 8, 2013, at 6 pm for a potluck our Harvest Breakfast was a smashing and lively conversation, followed by a success thanks to community support, so business meeting at 7 pm. Then, from we are hoping to repeat it. Watch for the October 2013 to February 2014, come announcement in the coming months. join us at the potluck at 5 pm, and the (Ed. Note: Check out the Applegater business meeting starting at 6 pm on the Facebook page and website calendar for the second Sunday of the month. dates.) For more information, contact Paul Earlier this summer the Grange Tipton or Janis Mohr-Tipton at 541-846- members voted in support of banning 7501. genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Janis Mohr-Tipton • 541-846-7501 in Jackson County. They felt that the Applegate Valley Community Grange unique topography and the micro- and [email protected] Classified Advertising Caregiving. 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Applegate Valley Day 2013 enjoyed by many by david laananen The second Applegate Valley Day, provided information about what they do. held on Saturday, June 22, was a success. Hourly dog-agility demonstrations In contrast with the chilly, wet weekend by Cooperative Canines (www. of last year’s inaugural event, this time cooperativecanines.net) were a big hit. the weather was perfect. More than 600 The Oregon Department of Forestry people came out to enjoy the day. One of brought a display of historic fire-fighting the goals of the weekend was to introduce equipment, and the Applegate Fire people to Cantrall-Buckley Park, a Jackson District hosted an educational fire-safety County park that is operated by the exhibit for children. Jacksonville CERT nonprofit Greater Applegate Community (Community Emergency Response Team) Development Corporation. Visitors were had their emergency vehicle equipment delighted to see and tour this beautiful there with staff to explain what they do. facility on the Applegate River. The park Local musicians played by the river is funded by user fees, and in order to throughout the afternoon. Special thanks keep it going, we need people to come to the Sons of the Oregon Trail and out and enjoy it throughout the year. to Christina Duane for arranging the Folks enjoyed a tasty meal under the Applegate Valley Lion’s Club tent People who attended were able to music as well as entertaining the visitors. at Applegate Valley Day on June 22 at Cantrall-Buckley Park. spend time outdoors in a beautiful setting Applegate Valley Day could not have Cantrall-Buckley Park, we arranged Information will be available beginning by the river and enjoy locally produced food been successful without the assistance of for free parking on Hamilton Road. this fall at www.applegatevalleydays. and beverages. The Applegate Valley Lions our sponsors. A donation from Fields Jacksonville’s premier senior community, org. In fact, if you haven’t done so Club barbecued tri-tip and chicken for Home Improvement in Murphy paid Pioneer Village, provided their bus before, check out the website (created lunch and throughout the afternoon. Rise for directional signs in and near the and driver for regular shuttle service and maintained by Shelley-Ann Hincks Up! Artisan Bakery sold wood-fired pizza, park. Applegate wineries provided between the parking lot and the park. of SA Web Engineering) and enjoy the and the Ruch Country Store provided bottles of their products for raffle prizes, Applegate Valley Day 2014 beautiful pictures courtesy of Hincks roasted corn. Plaisance Ranch, Quady and the Applegate Quilters donated Because we received lots of positive Photography (www.hincksphoto.com). North, and Wooldridge Creek wineries beautiful quilts as prizes. Ray’s Food Place feedback about the event, we’ve already Meanwhile, if you haven’t yet purchased poured their wines, and Café Ruch sold contributed bottles of water for sale to started planning for next year. If you have one of the beautiful Applegate Valley glasses of Oregon-produced craft beers. thirsty visitors, with proceeds supporting an interest in participating in any part of Days T-shirts, they’re available for sale at Vendors showed off their local the park. US Bank also provided some the weekend or have ideas for new activities, the Ruch Country Store, the Outpost, the products, including arts and crafts and much-appreciated financial support. please let us know. We need volunteers. Applegate Store, and Pennington Farms. a variety of outstanding locally produced Due to safety concerns and We also need sponsors and will be happy David Laananen • 541-846-0500 food items. Nonprofit organizations limited parking available within to visibly acknowledge sponsorships. [email protected]

comfortable and convenient setting located website, www.applegatetrails.org, for ATA to host benefit dinner, ten miles past Ruch on Upper Applegate further information. All proceeds benefit fireside entertainment and campout Road on the way to Applegate Lake. This the mission of ATA. accessible campground provides a perfect ATA wants to thank these folks at Jackson Campground spot for a friendly gathering. for their food donations: Boulton & Overnight campers will appreciate Son Butchers, Rise Up! Bakery, Happy by michelle lafave the idyllic riverside accommodations, but Campers Gluten Free, Wandering Fields, On September 21-22, Applegate vegan and gluten-free options will be those of you who choose to return home SunSpirit, White Oak Farms, and Ken Trails Association (ATA) invites you to join available. may join us again on Sunday for a hike. Chapman. us at Jackson Campground for a terrific Local musical duo Emily Turner and After breakfast on Sunday, choose Applegate Trails Association family-friendly event. Our second annual Danny Moore of The Turner and Moore between an easy walk on the historic Gin works to protect, preserve and promote benefit will feature a fresh, whole foods Band (www.turnermooreband.com) will Lin trail or a more strenuous trek to Mule nonmotorized trails. The Applegate Ridge dinner, engaging entertainment and, if entertain us for the evening. Creek. Trail is our main project and will result in a you’d like, stay the night and continue the Last year’s ATA dinner and campout Cost 40-plus mile ridge trail with amazing views fun the following morning with a campfire succeeded in drawing a pleasant crowd • Dinner only: $30/person, $50/couple, of the Applegate Valley and beyond. We breakfast and the choice of two hikes. Relax who thoroughly enjoyed the event, but $10/kids ages 3 - 12. offer regular group hikes. We appreciate and let us do the cooking! Enjoy our local especially the campfire lecture. Legendary • Dinner, camping, breakfast, and hike: volunteers and would love for you to join treasure, the Applegate River, and visit local author Dr. Diana Coogle kept the $45/person, $70/couple, $15/kids ages us in any way you can. We also accept with folks who love to walk, bike, and ride fireside audience spellbound with her 3 - 12. and need tax-deductible donations. Step horses in the woods. tales of Siskiyou regional history. We are Space is limited, so please make your forward with a gift to all generations. Both meals will feature a barbecue fortunate to feature Dr. Coogle again at reservations early! To purchase reservations, Michelle LaFave showcasing local and organic foods from this year’s benefit. please email [email protected] ATA Board Member our region’s finest farms. Meat, vegetarian, Jackson Campground offers a lovely, or call Josh at 541-846-0738. Visit our [email protected] Applegater Fall 2013 23 NEXT GENERATION APPLEGATE “Next Generation” features the talents of our local students and school news and updates. SCHOOL All schools in the Applegate Valley are encouraged to submit art, writing, photography and any other creative pieces to [email protected]. Applegate School writing assignment The children at Applegate School RUCH SCHOOL are fun to work with and have great imaginations. Every day this past spring they asked me if we were going butterfly hunting. Sometimes they play tricks on me or tease me by saying they have a butterfly in their net when they really don’t. When they do net a butterfly, it is exciting. We put the butterfly in a small cage that they take Photo by Dakota Kappen, student at back to class to show the other students Hidden Valley High School. and then we release them back to the snuggled in Mrs. Kappen came and she outdoors. I have to say I was quite honored said little butterfly little butterfly let me to have a story written about me by one of open the door not by the dust on my wingy Happy Birthday, Ruch School! the best butterfly-netters for a third-grade wing wing! Mrs. Kappen said then I’ll huff Celebrating 100 years of excellence. imaginative writing assignment. and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in z Schedule of centennial celebrations so she did and the caught the 2nd little The Three Little Butterflies and butterfly. to be announced. the Big Bad Mrs. Kappen In awhile the 3rd little butterfly built Written & illustrated by Johanna DeVos his house out of sticks and when Mrs. One day 3 little butterflies went to Kappen came she said little butterfly little seek their fortunes. Their mom called after butterfly let me open the door! Not by the them and she said “watch out for the Mrs. dust on my wingy wing wing Mrs. Kappen Kappen.” They all called back o.k. mom! said then I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow Fifth annual benefit for Applegate School After awhile they came to 3 different rivers your house in so she tried but the house Enjoy an evening in the Applegate Valley wine country at the Harvest and each one went a different way. did not budge, so she hit the house with Dinner and Wine Auction benefit for Friends of the Applegate School. The The first little butterfly was small and her net and it broke her net and she was fifth annual event will be held on Saturday, September 7, 2013, at 6 pm at blue and weak. He built his house out of so mad that she ran away crying. Wooldridge Creek Winery. Proceeds will fund music, art and farm programs leaves. Then the big bad Mrs. Kappen came A few hours later the 3rd butterfly at Applegate School. and she said little butterfly little butterfly went to Mrs. Kappen’s house and let all Tickets include a sparkling wine reception, a shrimp boil by let me open the door not by the dust on the butterflies Mrs. Kappen caught go. He Fulcrum Dining featuring Applegate Valley produce, an Applegate Valley my wingy wing wing and then she said I’ll let go his brothers and when Mrs. Kappen wine auction and music from Andy Casad and the Fret Drifters. huff and I’ll blow your house down so she woke up she was so upset that she moved Tickets are $75 per person ($50 of each ticket goes directly to did. All of a sudden the house fell down away and the butterflies never saw Mrs. Applegate School). For reservations please contact Kara Olmo at 541-951- and the little blue butterfly tried to fly away Kappen again. 5273 or [email protected]. Wooldridge Creek Winery is located at 818 but Mrs. Kappen netted it first. Submitted by Big Bad Mrs. Kappen Slagle Creek Road, Grants Pass, Oregon. A while after that the next little 541-846-6280 butterfly who was lazy and bossy built Schoolwide Education Assistant his house out of moss. When he got all Applegate School

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