Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds

9 a.m. with a variety of activities

Please attend and honor our service men

Admission is free

From 11 a.m.-noon there will be an appreciation ceremony to honor the service of veterans. The ceremony will feature keynote speaker and Siskiyou County native Brigadier General Daniel Hokansen who grew up in Happy Camp.

Gen. Hokansen is the deputy director for strategy, policy and plans for North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.

His combat deployments include operations Just Cause, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and he commanded the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Iraq.

Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association
PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003

Hearing about: “Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs,
Forests and Species”

Alert – Alert – Monday, May 21st Congressional Hearing-Longview.

Come tell your story about how Spotted Owl management by the US
Forest Service has damaged and destroyed local communities all over
the Northwest.

Urgent Action Needed By All Private Property and Federal Land Use
Allies.

You may not realize how terrific this is that Rep. Jaime Herrera
Beutler (R-WA) was able to get the Natural Resources Committee to
hold a hearing in Longview. A terrific job by Congresswoman Beutler.

See the press release below. You must make plans to be in Longview on
Monday, May 21st at 9:00 AM. Come late if you can’t get there by
9:00 AM.

This is your chance to be heard in Washington, DC. No matter where
you live in Oregon or Washington State, this is a hearing you cannot
miss.

WHO:

Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04)
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03)

WHAT:

Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands oversight
field hearing on:

“Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs, Forests and
Species”

Witnesses will be by invitation only.

WHEN:

Monday, May 21, 2012
9:00 A.M. PDT

WHERE:

Cowlitz County Convention Center
1900 7th Avenue
Longview, Washington, 98632

You can bring written testimony for the record. Just address it in
the form of a letter to:

Honorable Don Hastings, Chairman, Natural Resources Committee
US House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515

Put the hearing date and time on your letter.

If you cannot hand your letter in at the hearing, then fax or e-mail
it.

Action Items:

—–1. Forward this message to at least 10 people. Your whole list
if possible.

—–2. Call your friends, neighbors and business associates to alert
them to the House Natural Resources Committee hearing.

—–3. Bring signs supporting the use of Federal lands for good
forestry. Bring signs supporting schools and local counties.

—–4. Call your Congressman to urge him or her to attend this
hearing. Call any Congressman at (202) 225-3121.

—–5. Bring handouts to tell about what has happened in your
community as a result of the failed Northwest Forest Plan and the
failed Forest Service forestry policies.

—–6. Bring a letter or press release to hand to the press at this
hearing. This is critically important.

—–7. Bring signs to hold at the hearing support families and
communities. You can make your signs up on your computer or go to
Fred Meyer to buy white signboard. Buy colored wide mouth felt time
pens. This hearing is a big deal. You must be heard and seen.

—–8. Bring pictures of your family, your home, your business to
help the press understand the negative impact on real people by the
failed forest management policies.

—–9. If you cannot attend in person, then send an e-mail with your
testimony to jill.strait@mail.house.gov
<mailto:jill.strait@mail.house.gov>
. Mark it Testimony for the record for the Longview Field Hearing.

—–10. Send a copy of your testimony to your own Congressman by
e-mail, fax or letter. If you don’t have their e-mail or fax
addresses, call your Congressman at (202) 225-3121 to ask for the
staff person who handles forestry, Endangered Species Act or Natural
Resources issues. Ask for his or her e-mail address.

The following is the address to submit letters of concern.

The Fish & Game Commission will be meeting in June and  August to review  information.

Letters of concern can be sent to the following address with regard to the recent ( Petition http://www.fgc.ca.gov/regulations/2012/gwpetition.pdf  )   filed with Calif. Fish & Game by Center of Biodiversity, Big Wilflife and others to have the gray wolf listed on California Endangered Species List.

The following address was taken from the California Regulatory Notice Register:   Dr. Eric Loft, Wildlife Branch, Dept. Fish & Game, 1812 Ninth Street, Sacramento, Calif.   95811 ,    wildlifemgt@dfg.ca.gov

Nancy Monchamp,  Modoc County Rancher

May 31
BLM Roseburg District Office
777 NW Garden Valley Blvd.
Roseburg, Oregon
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Pass this out, we must make a strong showing at this event.  This comes from Danile Robertson’s web site Oregon Wild.  This event is at the BLM again, and will have no way for anyone to ask questions as a group or come to a consensus.  You will be standing in groups with an individual facillitator answering your questions so there is no controversy and the BLM  can say the public had input.  Only problem is someone else is speaking for you which they have no authority to do in the first place.  Loma

–
Loma Wharton Co-Chair www.theliberators11.org

http://www.oregonwild.org/oregon_forests/old_growth_protection/westside-forests/western-oregon-s-patchwork-public-lands/BLM-planning/blm-public-involvement

By Damon Arthur
Published Thursday, February 16, 2012

Redding.com

Todd Nash has seen the video of OR-7 — the gray wolf living in eastern Shasta County — and gives it two thumbs-down.

Nash, a rancher from Wallowa County in northeast Oregon, said the video depicts OR-7 as nonthreatening to cattle.

But Nash said OR-7 killed two of his calves in May 2011, before the gray wolf left his pack and began his well-documented, solo journey southwest through Oregon and eventually into Shasta County.

“It’s far from what takes place here,” Nash said, referring to the video, which shows OR-7 trotting across a field. At one point OR-7 approaches some cattle, and an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife range rider climbs aboard an ATV to shoo the wolf away from the livestock.

“The range rider in that video looked like it was pretty effective. It was anything but,” Nash said.

The video was shot by Marc Bales of Bend, Ore. The video was recently posted on the Internet and can be seen on Redding.com.

OR-7 crossed from Southern Oregon into California on Dec. 28, making history as the first wolf in the state since 1924. He traveled south into Shasta County in early January but then headed east into Lassen County.

Last Saturday the wolf turned west and crossed back into Shasta County.

Read it:

http://m.redding.com/news/2012/feb/16/did-wolf-kill-calves/

Surprise surprise! The Tucker Hillman Tribe’s fake environmental group is filing suit against another economic engine in Siskiyou County. The Tucker Hillman tribe intends to join the suit as well.

What a joke.

Look up the Klamath River Keeper website. The felon Grant Leaf Hillman is the President of the Riverkeepers. The Greencorp Socialist S. Craig Tucker is on the Board of the Riverkeepers.

Peter Brucker of the Salmon River Pot Growers Association, trustee of the Black Bear Commune, is also on the Board. Erica Terrance of Black Bear Commune, is also a player in this environmental scam.

Wake up folks, or the joke will be on you. It is time to start turning up the heat on the Tucker Hillman tribe through the BIA.

Perhaps we should boycott all tribal businesses until the crooks are gone.

Time to start a protest of the Hillman tribe’s plan to build a casino off reservation! Think what trouble Hillman and Tucker could get into with casino profits?

A forensic audit of all of the Tribe’s grants since Hillman took over might be interesting. Jim Wadell statements should be investigated as well.

Tucker said in a Groundwater meeting, the reason the Tucker Hillman Tribe wants to get the Coho numbers up is so they can get a cannery and then they can start killing Coho. There were eye witnesses to this statement.

Quite the protector of the environment isn’t he?

When will the honest, hardworking members of the Karuk Tribe kick these crooks out?

When will the Shasta Nation challenge the fraud of Treaty R/ Treaty Q through which the Tucker Hillman tribe got its recognition. Who says crime does not pay?

Mark Baird

Vice President Scott Valley Protect Our Water

Saturday, May 19, 2012

in

Weaverville, California

at

 Mountain Chapel Assembly of God Church

Directions: It is off of Highway 299 and Martin Road.  Then right onto Oakridge Drive

There will be signs posted.

Seating available for 400.

Hosted by Trinity County Sheriff Bruce Haney

2 p.m.

Doors open at noon with vendors and info tables available

 Admission is free

(No food, but water will be available to purchase)

Five sheriffs will join Sheriff Haney on the

Sheriffs’ Panel

Siskiyou Co. Jon Lopey

Modoc Co. Mike Poindexter

Del Norte Co. Dean Wilson

Tehama Co. Dave Hencrat

Mendocino Co.  Tom Allman

Special Guest speaker:

Ronny Rardin, Chairman of Otero County Commissioners from New Mexico

Subject: Coordination process proceeding with USFS

Sponsored by

Support Rural America

Trinity County Patriots

24-Hour Patriots

Redding Tea Party Patriots

Constitutional Sheriffs.com

For more information, contact Herk Shriner at 530-623-6883

Erin Ryan 530-515-7135   or   Liz Bowen 530-467-3515

Websites for more information:

www.supportruralamerica.com

www.pienpolitics.com

www.constitutionalsheriffs.com

www.theliberators11.org

 Thursday,  May 24, 2012

7 p.m.

Fort Jones Community Center

Pie N Politics is first, so please bring a dessert to share

Agenda:

Siskiyou Co. Farm Bureau lawsuit vs Ca. DFG Trial

Fish Screen Maintenance Agreements

 Visit by Paul R. Houser Ph.D. on flawed science used to promote Klamath Dam removal

Report of Trinity Sheriffs’ Event

For more info, call President Tom Pease at 530-468-2414

May 14, 2012

Liz Writes Life

 Published Siskiyou Daily News

So much to write about: Where to start? Finally got everything irrigated. Some of the soaker hoses still work fine that are on the perennials and some do not, so will do some replacing. I used the grubbing hoe and cleared most of the garden from weeds. The peonies are about to bloom and I even found at least two dahlias that are growing. I didn’t dig them up last fall and so I didn’t know if they would make it through the cold temps. Boy did the little lettuces grow this week. Heat and water are the ticket. I believe my soil is warm enough to have planted by now, so that is my goal this week. But, of course, you need to always plan for morning frosts up through mid-June in Siskiyou. So have boxes and blankets ready to cover the night before and check the weather forecasts, constantly.

Everyone is invited to the Trinity County Support Rural America.com Sheriffs’ Event this Sat. May 19^th in Weaverville. It is hosted by Trinity Sheriff Bruce Haney and begins at 2 p.m. at the Mountain Chapel Church on Martin Road. A panel of county sheriffs will be featured, including Siskiyou Sheriff Jon Lopey.

Ronny Rardin, a Commissioner from Otero County New Mexico, will be a guest speaker discussing how the Coordination process is working against the U.S. Forest Service. Seating is available for 400. Admission is free. For info contact Herk Shriner at 530-623-6883.

Speaking of Forest Service, in Tombstone, AZ the federal agency is endangering the town’s supply of safe drinking water and its ability to fight fires by cutting off the famous city’s access to mountain springs. These springs have provided the desert town with water since the 1880s.

A lawsuit was filed by the Goldwater Institute against the USFS, which is using an arbitrary and capricious interpretation of the Wilderness Act to stop improvements in the water project.

For more on this, check out Pie N Politics.com and click on “water” category or the date May 13 on the calendar. We must raise our voices of frustration to these agency officials.

So now I will complain about the U.S. Postal Service, which said early last week that it will not close rural Post Offices, because we all made such a ruckus. Instead, last Friday, USPS officials began calling rural Post Masters telling them their positions were about to be terminated and the retail hours reduced. Yes, thousands of rural Post Offices will see their retail hours reduced by half or more.

The sad thing is the Post Masters will lose their jobs and the Post Office will not rehire them as employees for the reduced hours. These people already know the job and are not likely to want to relocate to another Post Office. And from my calculations, there will be a reduced number of Post Master positions.

My Callahan Post Office is one that will be reduced from 8 hours to 4 hours. I will truly miss Post Master Lisa. She is an important part of our community, watching out for kids getting off the school bus, befriending the wayward canine off the highway and alerts us when a mountain lion is spotted in town.

Some of the other Post Offices in Siskiyou that will find hours reduced are MacDoel, Greenview, Seiad Valley, Gazelle, Hornbrook and Grenada. Scott Bar will go from 8 hours to just 2. Luckily, Forks of Salmon was not affected and will remain with 6 retail hours on weekdays.

Dr. Paul R. Houser

More than 600 individuals attended a variety of meetings over three days last week to hear  allegations by Paul R. Houser, Ph.D. regarding flawed science proposed by the Dept. of Interior in favor of Klamath Dam removal. Dr. Houser is not a fish biologist. But, he is a distinguished  hydrometeorologist  (water scientist), which is what the fish-lovers claim greatly affects coho salmon. Also Dr. Houser stated that he is not for or against the removal of the Klamath dams. He is for “integrity” in the science. “There is a Public Trust,” said Dr. Houser, when it comes to science and how it is used.

The Cal-Ore Bi-State Alliance will support and work with Dr. Houser, because we can prove much of the science has been hijacked and is politically motivated towards dam destruction.

The trial for the lawsuit brought by Siskiyou Farm Bureau against the CA. Dept. of Fish and Game began last week and was continued to May 29. This is about the 1602 Permit that the DFG claims must be obtained in order to open your headgate to obtain your legal irrigation water. I posted an article on it on May 13 on Pie N Politics.com and you can also find it by clicking on Dept. of Fish and Game.

Liz Bowen writes biographies and freelances. She can be reached at 530-467-3515 or P.O. Box 1527, Callahan, CA. 96014

PNP comment: Sorry I got so far behind posting these.  — Editor Liz Bowen

May 8, 2012

Liz Writes Life

Published Siskiyou Daily News

Gorgeous morning it is this Monday, May 7. Finally, the Fowler lilac is blooming. This is the start my brother brought me from his visit (several years ago) to the ranch our great-grandparents Fowler owned at the turn of the last century. He found where the house sat and even initials “A.J.” that grandpa Andrew Jackson Fowler must have carved in a tree and had grown over a foot tall — as the tree grew. That ranch was down west of Red Bluff, so I hope the lilac likes the cooler temps up here in the mountains.

Speaking of great-grandparents, Peggy Whipple has started her Scott Valley Genealogy Group classes again and will help those of us wading through the Internet looking for ancestors. The next class will be May 21 at the Etna Library meeting room at 1 p.m. Bring your laptop computers if you would like. It is free.

If it gets hot this week, I will be scrambling to irrigate. The Oriental poppies are over two-feet tall and ready to pop. I did get a flower bed cleaned out and was ruthless removing extra Shasta daisies and diascia.  Well, I tried to be ruthless. The delphinium made it through the long cold spell, we had last winter, and the dianthus are eight-inches tall and will soon be blooming in pretty hot pink.

Need to irrigate the lettuces. The volunteer ones are about five inches tall and the newest batch are about a half inch. The recent peas I planted are not up yet.

Sheriff Jon Lopey and his wife, Maxine, were at the Dr. Paul R. Houser meeting last night in Klamath Falls. Afterwards, a bunch of us ate a great dinner at Black Bear diner. The Prime Rib was excellent. So, I was chatting with Maxine and she said she had already cut some rhubarb. I mentioned I was surprised how tall mine had grown already. So this morning I went up and cut some rhubarb. Last week, I purchased strawberries, grown down in Redding, and froze them. So I think I will make some strawberry-rhubarb jam and share it with the sheriffs that attend the next Support Rural America.com Sheriffs Event in Trinity Co. on May 19.

This Sheriffs Event is in Weaverville at 2 p.m. at the Mt. Chapel Church on Martin Rd. Doors open at noon and there is seating for 400. Check out Pie N Politics.com — Sheriffs & SRA page for more info. Admission is free. Sheriff Lopey will be attending.

I had a nice visit with Tehama Sheriff Dave Hencratt at the Team Roping Jack Pot before the Pleasure Park Rodeo in Etna last weekend. Sheriff Hencratt plans on attending on May 19 in Trinity and has at least 7 sheriffs set for his panel at the Tehama Co. Sheriffs Event on June 23 in Red Bluff.

Dr. Paul R. Houser

An enthusiastic group heard Paul R. Houser, Ph.D. share why he filed a legal “whistleblower” complaint against the federal government for terminating his employment. Dr. Houser was invited to Siskiyou County by the Cal-Ore Bi-State Alliance. His parents live in Portland, so he flew into Portland and they drove down with him. They are a very kind and gentle family. His father is a Ph.D. who is retired, I think, from teaching. He shared his fabulous photography with us.

Dr. Houser was hired in 2011 as the top-ranking science advisor over integrity by the Bureau of Reclamation. His job was to vet science used for projects. But after he cited significant flaws, Dr. Houser received reprisals within the agency. He was told not to document his concerns on the science and process being used to remove the Klamath dams. Because he would not change his report, he was asked to resign or be terminated. After soul-searching, Dr. Houser decided he had to do what is right.

“Scientific integrity is crucial,” said Dr. Houser, adding that science is a Public Trust issue. He is also concerned for the “next person” who will be hired as the integrity advisor over the federal government’s science. “I believe there many scientists totally scared” to come out and disagree with government officials.

“The government is trying to make an example out of me to keep everyone quite,” he added.

But, honesty rides long and hard with Dr. Houser, so he did not back down resulting in being fired. He is still not backing down. His whistleblower complaint is moving forward, because it has merit. And after his allegations, Dept. of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced he could not make a decision on removal of the Klamath dams.

I will share specifics from Dr. Houser meetings next week. Photos are up on Pie N Politics.com. Hopefully, next week I will also get to why I like Rick Bosetti for State Assembly District 1.

Liz Bowen writes biographies, freelances and blogs. Check out for garden photos: Liz Bowen.com