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Wednesday, January 2, 2013 ��� Daily News Obituaries GAIL ANN HOGAN Gail A. Hogan, age 73 of of Red Bluff, CA passed away Friday, November 16, 2012 at her daughter���s home in Grass Valley, CA. Gail was born to Henry & Virginia Lundbald on October 10, 1939 in Worcestor, Mass. Gail lived alone in Red Bluff and was an artist, avid gardner, a seamstress, and was an accomplished tournament poker player. She loved kayaking, snowmobiling, and time with her family. She worked as an executive secretary, a full charge bookkeeper, manager of many corporations, and was the owner of several successful businesses. Gail was a member of the Berean Church in Redding, CA. She was a passionate seeker of God���s word. Gail is survived by 5 children; son Thomas Lyons of Princeton, MA., daughter Donna Raibley of Grass Valley, CA., son Michael Haffty of Worcestor, MA, daughter Nora Orebaugh of Sacramento, CA., and Leland Hogan of Red Bluff, CA., grandchildren Jenasis Fullmer, Terah Tribby, Amy Shandel, Ashleigh Johnson, Sierra Orebaugh, Christina Haffty, Nicholaus Haffty, great grandchildren Mariah Walton, Michael Walton, Quincy Walton, Hannah Tribby, and Andrew Shandel. In addition Gail is survived by her sister Virginia LaMonda of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and numerous nieces and nephews. Services will be held on January 5, 2013 at Calvary Chapel, 12375 Paskenta Road, Red Bluff at 11am, with a potluck after the services. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the American Cancer Society or your local Hospice Center. LaMalfa to take oath Thursday Rep.-elect Doug LaMalfa will take the oath of office and be sworn in to the 113th Congress on Thursday afternoon by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). Boehner will conduct a ceremonial swearing-in for LaMalfa following the oath of office on the floor of the House of Representatives. LaMalfa is a lifelong farmer representing California���s First Congressional District including Tehama County. POT Continued from page 1A litany of pollutants seeping into the watershed from pot farms: fertilizers, soil amendments, miticides, rodenticides, fungicides, plant hormones, diesel fuel, human waste. Scientists suspect that nutrient runoff from excess potting soil and fertilizers, combined with lower-than-normal river flow due to diversions, has caused a rash of toxic blue-green algae blooms in the North Coast rivers over the last decade. The cyanobacteria outbreaks threaten public health for swimmers and kill aquatic invertebrates that salmon and steelhead trout eat. Now, officials warn residents in late summer and fall to stay out of certain stretches of water and keep their dogs out. Eleven dogs have died from ingesting the floating algae since 2001. The effects are disheartening to many locals because healthier salmon runs were signaling that the rivers were gradually improving from the damage caused by more than a century of logging. "Now with these water diversions, we're potentially slamming the door on salmon recovery," said Scott Greacen, director of Friends of the Eel River. In June, Bauer and other agency scientists accompanied game wardens as they executed six search warrants on growers illegally sucking water from tributaries of the Trinity River. At one, he came upon a group of 20-somethings with Michigan license plates on their vehicles, camping next to 400 plants. He followed an irrigation line up to a creek, where the growers had dug a pond and lined it with plastic. "I started talking to this guy, and he says he used to be an Earth First! tree-sitter, saving the trees," Bauer said. "I told him everything he was doing here negates everything he did as an envi- ronmentalist." The man was a smalltimer in this new gold rush. As marijuana floods the market and prices drop, many farmers are cultivating ever bigger crops to make a profit. They now cut huge clearings for industrial-scale greenhouses. With no permits or provisions for runoff, the operations dump tons of silt into the streams during the rainy season. Scanning Google Earth in his office recently, Bauer came upon a "mega grow" that did not exist the year before ��� a 4-acre bald spot in the forest with 42 greenhouses, each 100 feet long. Figuring a single greenhouse that size would hold 80 plants, and each plant uses about 5 gallons of water a day, he estimated the operation would consume 2 million gallons of water in the dry season and unleash a torrent of sediment in the wet season. "There has been an explosion of this in the last two years," he said. "We can't keep up with it." Every grow has its own unique footprint. Some farmers on private land avoid pesticides and poisons, get their water legally, keep their crops small and try to minimize their runoff. Urban indoor growers might not pollute a river, but they guzzle energy. A study in the journal Energy Policy calculated that indoor marijuana cultivation could be responsible for 9 percent of California's household electricity use. Others producers, like the Mexican drug trafficking groups who set up giant grows on public lands right next to mountain streams, spread toxins far and wide and steal enough water to run oscillating sprinkler systems. But it's not just the big criminal groups skirting the rules. Tony LaBanca, senior environmental scientist at Fish and Game in Eureka, said less than 1 percent of marijuana growers get the permits required to take water from a creek, and those who do usually do it after an enforcement action. Responsible growers CORNING Continued from page 1A with their counselor to modify it, but this gives them a plan and a direction of where to go and what they are taking.��� One important step is making sure to talk with the students about their college or career plan to make sure they get the classes necessary for their future, he said. ���This fits in with the direction of Expect More Tehama,��� Burch said. ���It���s more communication and preparation so that they have a choice of what they can do. They���re not locked in and they have a choice of where they want to go whether that be university, community col- lege, vocational college or career.��� The main thing is to better prepare the students for the next step, he said. ���This adds a little more rigor and preparation for the student so that hopefully they���re better prepared when they leave Corning High School to go out into the world whether that's college or the work world,��� Burch said. The move has been one that has been under discussion since July when he took over as Superintendent, he said. ���It���s something I���ve been talking about with administration, the school board and staff to get feedback,��� Burch said. ���Everything I���ve gotten back was that they think this is a positive thing so we decided to ment, and brought many land conservation groups together. The deal protected the ranch forever and allowed continuation of agriculture on large portions. Part of the process included donations that provided funding for oversight and allowed the Land Trust to hire an executive director, a three-quarter-time position. Watts filled that role. Another key to the Land Trust's recent success was a matching grant project through Ken Grossman, owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. With that help, Watts was able to put together several other local projects. This meant the Land Trust was also busy enough to support Watts' position full-time. So he got busy writing more grant proposals. One of these involves promotion of local food. That program included the creation of a local buying guide and networking opportunities. Over the past several years this program has included a local food publication and work toward an online food network. The plan for the future is creation of a ���local food hub.��� Read all about the grant at http://goo.gl/0vFNh. That program, through the Land Trust, now has three staff members, Watts said, under the leadership of Noelle Ferdon. For his new post in Marin, Watts said he'll build upon the experience he gained in Northern California. Marin has strong zoning that protects farmland, and the Marin Agricultural Land Trust is a national model for land preservation. Sixty-nine conservation easements exist under the program, protecting 50,000 acres of farmland, Watts said. could easily get permits, with no questions asked about what type of plant they're watering, LaBanca said. They just need to be set up to take their water in the wet season and store it in tanks and bladders. Fish and Game wants to step up enforcement, but the staff is overwhelmed, he said. The agency has 12 scientists and 15 game wardens in the entire four counties on the North Coast, covering thousands of mountainous square miles. Until the last few years, dealing with marijuana cultivation was usually a minor issue. Now, LaBanca said, it is "triage." On a recent day, Higley, the Hoopa wildlife biologist, took a reporter and photographer to some of the damage he finds in the most remote mountains, where bear, fishers, martens, rare salamanders and spotted owls live in cloud-mist forests. With his colleague Aaron Pole at the wheel, Higley headed north up the Bigfoot Highway and then up a dirt logging road 13 miles into the snowpeaked Trinities. They were going to a grow that the sheriff had raided by helicopter in August. Deputies cut down 26,600 plants in eight interconnected clearings along Mill Creek, which flows into the Trinity River. They parked the truck and started threading down precipitous slopes, through thick wet brush and forest. They stepped over bear scat, slippery roots and coastal giant salamanders. Crossing a 2-footwide creek, they came across a black irrigation line. Vague footpaths emerged, empty Coors cans began glinting in the mud, more water pipes spidered out. After another 40 minutes, they reached a clearing in the bottom of the canyon ��� a field of stumps, holes of dark potting soil and hackeddown stalks of marijuana. Dead gray brush and logs ringed the site. A few heavily pruned trees were left standing, to help mask the marijuana grove from the air. Deputies had severed the irrigation lines during the August raid, but when Higley returned in September to study the environmental impact, some of the line had been reconnected to sprinklers and plants had re-sprouted. He saw a wet bar of soap on an upturned bucket and realized workers were hiding nearby. On this return visit, the site was empty, and he started picking through the rubbish. "That's d-CON rat poison right there, 16 trays." At a dump pile next to the creek, he found propane tanks, more rat poison, cans of El Pato tomato sauce, and empty bags of Grow More fertilizer, instant noodles and tortillas. A lot of the trash had been removed during the sheriff's eradication ��� dozens of empty bags accounting for 2,700 pounds of fertilizer and boxes for 10 pounds of dCON (enough to kill 21 spotted owls and up to 28 fishers), as well as two poached deer carcasses and the remains of a state-protected ringtailed cat. "It wouldn't matter if they were growing tomatoes, corn and squash," he said. "It's trespassing, it's illegal and it borders on terrorism to the environment." TRUST Continued from page 1A Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service You DO have a choice in the Red Bluff area. Caring & Compassionate Service Full traditional burial service or cremation 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 7A go ahead and make the change.��� About half of the students were already doing this so it really only affects those who weren���t, he said. ���Our goal is to do everything we can to help further prepare them for the 21st century education and we think that more Math, Science and English will be a positive thing,��� Burch said. ���Our thoughts were for students to function in a technological society this benefits everyone no matter what their career choices.��� All three departments will be adding courses to give students more choices, he said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. The goal under Watts' leadership will be to preserve more than twice that much. This year the county passed a quarter-cent sales tax to preserve farmland. What is the Northern California Regional Land Trust? The Northern California Regional Land Trust is supported through membership. Since 1990, the nonprofit group has helped protect thousands acres of land (including 21 farms and ranches) from future development. Staff from the office also work on the Buy Fresh Buy Local North Valley program, which helps link consumers to food grown locally. More recently, these efforts include online and face-toface networking and strategic planning for markets for local growers. Some of the land protection projects nearby include a 600-acre area along Deer Creek off Highway 32, through a partnership with the Western Rivers Conservancy. In 2011, a 146-acre conservation easement was placed on the orchard of George Nicolaus. Nicolaus received a payment, but will continue to own and farm the land, which is along Chico's green line. But the land cannot be sold for development now or in the future. The Land Trust helped arrange the funding through the Department of Conservation's California Farmland Conservancy Program and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Farm and Ranch Lands Protection program. Also in 2011, a 520-acre ranch in Red Bluff was placed under a conservation easement. Another large transaction took place on rangeland in Tehama County, protecting more than 7,000 acres from future development. Suspect arrested in fatal Sacramento bar shooting SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� A suspect is under arrest in connection with a New Year���s Eve shooting at a bar in the Old Sacramento area that killed two people, police said Tuesday. The 22-year-old was among three people wounded Monday evening after a shooting that occurred as people gathered to watch fireworks to celebrate the New Year, authorities said. The suspect���s injuries and those to a security guard and a 30-year-old woman are not life threatening. Police say it started as an argument inside the bar at about 9:38 p.m. Monday that escalated and became a physical confrontation. When an employee tried to break up the fight, he was shot, as were the woman and another man. That man, 35, and the employee, who was in his 20s, died at the scene after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Authorities say an armed guard near a side door at the bar heard the gunshots and got into a gunfight with the suspect and both were wounded. The armed suspect ran out of the bar toward a street crowded with holiday revelers but was caught quickly by officers chasing him, police said. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch���s I Say column of July 1958) This week���s Life magazine has an article which tells us ���within a few years, surgeons may be able to transplant vital organs from one person to another���hands, feet, bones and skin may also be grafted. This could open up quite a new field of commerce. Imagine a little girl* riding along with her rich doting father. She says, ���Father, look what a beautiful nose that girl over there has Buy it for me, will you Daddy?��� And of course there will be stores with signs reading ���second hand body parts guaranteed to match any build or complexion���. *If he had lived long enough to see his granddaughter Madalyn receive a kidney transplant from her sister Maralyn, he would have been pleased beyond measure for his mother had died in his arms on the train headed for San Francisco and a supply of insulin. *** The new dial telephone system will be fine in many ways, but personally I will miss the fine assistance of our local operators. We have had exceptional service for many years. Now, if I dial and get a wrong number, who will I blame? Many people have the erroneous idea that they will be able to pick up the phone and in 15 seconds dial their aunt in Beebe Run (New Jersey, his old home town). But not all towns are that easy to dial. We phone nearly every day to a meat boning plant in Mt. View, near San Jose. Here is what we do to get them: Palo Alto 8T415 plus 21 plus Yorkshire27755. Looks like a problem in advanced mathematics and would probably be as difficult to solve. *** Anyone fortunate to watch the Russian Ballet troupe on Ed Sullivan���s show Sunday night could hardly help liking the performers. What a shame that we are continually reminded by all kinds of propaganda that we should hate the Russian people. Probably except for a few of their leaders, the people themselves would like to be friendly with us *** The new bowling alley just south of the Crystal Tavern fills a definite need we have had for recreation. It is particularly valuable for those of us who eat too much and work too little With the new automatic pin setters, it is a fast pleasant way to exercise. One game played alone takes from 10 to 15 minutes and cost 45 cents. Dave Minch 1900-1964 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514