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Saturday, June 8, 2013 – Daily News 5A Agriculture farm & ranch Great Northwest livestock tour Our first day was a long one, 301 miles when we went north, nearly to Canada on the Western Livestock Journal "Great Northwest" tour of Washington and Idaho. We were on Hwy 395, the same highway that runs through Bishop, Reno, Susanville and Alturas. Parade magazine said it was one of the scenic highways in the nation, comparable to Highway 1 on the California coast. Wild flowers were in bloom, pink phlox, choke cherry, service berry, balsam root , lupine, wild roses and yarrow. Lilacs were in bloom in the city yards and old homesteads. Our first ranch stop Courtesy photo had lost 40 head of catSome of the registered Hereford cows and calves owned by Diamond M tle last year that were killed by wolves at a Ranch, Laurier, Wash. on the Western Livestock Journal tour. value of $ 100,000. Len the longhorn cross and graze some cattle border. The winters are McIrvin of Diamond M heifers as replacements. this summer. Then it long, taking much hay Ranch told us they are The ranch retains will be seeded with 1/3 for cows and calves so ten times trickier and ownership on the feeder timothy, 1/3 orchard they graze yearlings smarter than a coyote. cattle, and are fed out in grass, and 1/3 perennial from May to November. He has the most docu- Nebraska feedlots. The guests help move rye grass. mentations about wolf The government the cattle. The horns are cut half kills in the nation. They have noticed the off on the longhorn recently spent $1 milThe ranch doesn't yearling bulls, or are lion to make an old dairy gain on the stockers is apply for government dehorned, since the bulls with 500 acres, a wet- less due to the wolf payment on their loss, will fight and injure lands. activity in recent years. because if they do the each other. The cattle ranch dates As Nancy Thornton government will say Diamond M has a reg- wrote: "Our tour took back to 1903, and the "you are part of the pro- istered Hereford herd of two wrong turns so we Guest Ranch was started gram". 150 cows, that has been saw miles of scenery in 1995. Pete GuglielmiThey can kill a year- a closed herd for 20 that wasn't on the itiner- no was a Washington ling as easily as a calf. years. (They have not ary." We were on the Cattlemen's Assn. presiThe valleys are a little purchased Hereford east side of Roosevelt dent, and now on the safer than the moun- cows during that time, Lake, and needed to be Cattlemen's Beef Board. tains., but the wolves are but kept their heifers for on the west side. The The family is involved large animals. Usually replacements.) They lake was back water in the ranch, cattle and 12 animals in a wolf have used Line 1, Cana- from Grand Coulee Dam guests. pack with one breeding dian and Mark Donald which was downstream In 1995, Bull Hill pair. about 150 miles on the Guest Ranch opened as a breeding. It is a $ 50,000 fine supplemental income The horns are left on Columbia River. and ten year prison sen- the registered cattle, so We were 40 miles source. In the beginning, tence for killing a wolf, if a registered from the border, when it was a cookhouse, a even if you animal gets in we made a "u" turn and few canvas tents and a catch a wolf in the wrong pas- finally crossed the lake. small herd of horses. the act of ture with the Directions to Bull Hill Now they have seven killing a calf commercial cat- Guest Ranch included: ranch cabins, two tent or cow. tle they can tell "From Kettle Falls, cabins, two large execuDiamond M she doesn't remain on Hwy 395 to tive cabins and more started in 1943 Barney's Junction, take than 70 horses. The cabbelong there. as a traditional There is a a turnoff for Kamloops ins are insulated , have cow/calf ranch Campground. running water and heat. copper defi- Island making hay in ciency on the Take right hand turnoff Very nice. the summer In the winter they will old lake beds. and cross set of twin and feeding it 2% copper sul- bridges. Now on North- have four feet of snow, in the winter. fate is fed with port Flat Creek Road, and there is snowmobilJean There is snow iodized salt. for 18.5 miles. At old ing , cross country skifrom ThanksThey have white country school- ing. In the summer there giving to the found that house turn onto Bull Hill is fishing, boating and middle of keeping the road for 2 miles. Follow swimming in the private April here. nutrient level the road up the hill. At lake, skeet shooting, Now they summer up, there is less doctor- top of the hill turn hiking. They are noted along the Canadian bor- ing of the cattle. extreme right at the sign. for their unlimited der, on these grass They are spring calv- The guest ranch and old horseback riding. meadows and winter 300 ing in Pasco, and do the homestead is ahead." It was a beautiful miles south along the branding, vaccinating It was a steep hill that view from high on the WA-OR border. there. Bulls out May raised about 2,000 feet mountain, watching all The ranch has four 10th and removed in the in 2 miles. Norma Hap- the horses in their pastrucks for moving the middle of August. The good said to Jerry York ture watching us. 3,500 mother cows cows weigh between "How did you find this Our brakes were hot between ranches. Len 1200 and 1250 lbs, and place?" as we had trav- and smelled as we came had parked his cattle the calves weigh eled and traveled up the down the gravel two truck, so he could greet between 450 to 500 lbs hill. miles. us and show us the beau- at weaning. During the When we got back to Bus # 2 didn't make tiful Hereford cattle on winter they will gain the extreme right turn, the hotel the television the green pastures in the 150 to 200 lbs on the and got hung up on the was telling about the valley. bank. Took a 4 wheel tornado in Moore, OK; desert. They calve 400 We were fascinated pickup to pull it out. His the devastation and heifers a year using 20 by the corrals since they passengers had to walk deaths. to 25 longhorn bulls. were old center pivot in the final distance, as Tammi Didlot, our They gain and eat less, circles, and the pipe is did bus # 3 passengers. American National Catbut the calves are small welded to make sturdy We were on our apple tleWoman president last at birth. 94% of the fencing. They use a calf cobbler and ice cream year, had her home heifers have a live calf. table and not roping at after pulled beef sand- destroyed. She posted They have found that branding time. wiches, potato salad, on Facebook they were they can graze the light About 20 old dairies and pasta salad at 3 p.m. grateful for the volunweight calves cheaply in the valley have been as the others arrived. teers who helped during the winter on purchased for summer During the summer cleanup the debris foldesert grass. We noticed grazing. 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