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Obituaries wife of 61 years, Barbara and daughter Sue Wallace at his side. He was the 1st son of Eugene and Sally Munselle, born on June 5th, 1933 in Post Texas. He is survived by his loving wife, Barbara of Red Bluff, Billy Gene Munselle passed away April 28, 2012, with BILLY GENE MUNSELLE vate pilots license in 1981. Billy was a long time member and Deacon of the First Southern Baptist Church. A memorial service will be held at the First Southern Baptist Church in Red Bluff, Saturday, May 5th at 2 pm. The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations be Death Notices are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the news- paper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, Elizabeth Coates Elizabeth Coates of Red Bluff died Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at her home. She was 91. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, May 3, 2012, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. RENO, Nev. (AP) — Smokey Bear has done such a good job stamping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of going extinct in parts of the West, according to conservationists seeking U.S. protection for the bird. Four conservation groups filed a petition with the U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday to list the black-backed woodpecker under the Endangered Species Act in the Sier- ra Nevada, Oregon's Eastern Cascades and the Black Hills of eastern Wyoming and western South Dakota. It is the first federal petition to recognize the ecological Protection sought for rare woodpecker significance and seek protection of post-fire habitat, an expert said. fire salvage logging combined with commercial thinning of green forests is eliminating what little remains of the bird's habitat, mostly in national forests where it has no legal pro- tection. ''Intensely burned forest habitat not only has no legal protection, but standard practice on private and public lands is to actively eliminate it,'' the petition said. ''When fire and insect outbreaks create excellent woodpecker habitat, sal- vage logging promptly destroys it.'' Chad Hanson, executive director the Earth Island's John Muir Project based in Cedar Ridge, Calif., filed the petition Wednesday with the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Sacramento. Co-petitioners are the Cen- ter for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Ariz., the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project in Fossil, Ore., and the Bio- diversity Conservation Alliance in Laramie, Wyo. Hanson, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Califor- In addition to fire suppression, the groups contend post- nia, Davis, said the black-backed woodpecker has been eat- ing beetles in fire-killed stands of conifer forests for millions of years and specifically in North American forests for ''many thousand years — since the last Ice Age.'' ''Now, it's very rare,'' he said. The best science suggests there are fewer than 1,000 pairs in Oregon and California, and fewer than 500 pairs in the Black Hills, the petition said. ''Such small populations are at significant risk of extinc- tion, especially when their habitat is mostly unprotected and is currently under threat of destruction and degradation,'' the document said. The three-toed, black-backed woodpecker is a specialist at digging out wood-boring insect larvae. The bird's sooty black dorsal plumage serves to camouflage it against the deeply black, charred bark of burned trees. Richard Hutto, a biology professor and director of the CA, and his brother James Munselle of Huston, TX. He is also survived by his son, Bill Munselle of Geyserville, CA, his daughter, Sue Wallace of Red Bluff. He also had five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. A life long member of the Carpenters Union, Billy was involved with many heavy construction projects through out the Western U.S. An avid fisherman and hunter, Billy also earned his pri- MADNESS Continued from page 1A day and 7-10 a.m. Saturday at the transportation center and those who BILLS Continued from page 1A dog not under the reason- able control of its owner that is in violation of the law or threatening to vio- late the law. The new law would make the restriction applicable at any time. Bringing forward let- ters of opposition already acquired from the Siskiy- ou County Board of Supervisors and a group from the Klamath area, Corbin said the new bill is just another step toward stopping hunters altogeth- er. made to Homes of Hope, care of First Southern Baptist Church, 585 Kimball Rd. Red Bluff, CA., 96080 or to the American Cancer Society. Thursday, May 3, 2012 – Daily News 7A register for the car show can get a free meal at the mixer. The mixer is immediately after the cruise from 6- 9 p.m. in the parking lot next to the chamber office. The cost for all oth- ers is $6.50. For more information, call the Williams voiced his agree- ment with Corbin and added that the bill allows for fish and game officers to shoot dogs they see that are acting in violation of the law. Williams had met pre- viously with a local houndsmen group, he said. Leah Hambright stood to speak as well. "The Humane Society and other groups like it only want to ban hunting until it's gone," she said. They went after the boat drags and will proba- bly soon go after the rodeos again, Hambright said. The restriction would cost counties thousands of dollars in lost revenue if dogs were no longer allowed for hunting, he said. "It's just a bad bill," Corbin said. orange buttons for people to wear in opposition to the proposed bill. He handed out bright Supervisor Bob PAIR Continued from page 1A anything like this for NAMI before," Cook said. The biggest thing is to help break down stigma, she said. ed as Mental Health Month in 1949 by Con- gress, Gonzales said. It is important to stress the importance of supporting the county services, such as the youth empower- ment programs, the Vista Way center for adults and the crisis center. The upcoming events are to increase awareness of mental illness and to encourage people to join in the cause to help those in need, he said. NAMI, will host a Mind, Body, Spirit event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 12 at River Park. The healing day at the park will feature booths, information, food, live music, a slow Zumba class, prayer and opportu- nity for people to sign up for future NAMI classes. "We have never done taken two bears in her life, Hambright faithfully buys tags to hunt every year, she said. Although she has only Tehama County is the center of hunting and fish- ing opportunities in North- ern California, she said. She hopes the bill will be stopped. Williams suggested that Hambright and the other hound hunting groups chamber at 824-5550 or visit www.corning.org. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. invite the bill's author, Sen. Ted Lieu, up for a hunt. "Let him chase a pack of hounds across the canyon," Williams said. Later at Tuesday's board meeting, the super- visors approved sending a letter of opposition to a different proposed bill, SB 1146. The bill would make public all reports taken on private wells and specific information about each location, said Public Works Director Gary Antone. This is information that has remained confidential within the department that would suddenly be avail- able to anyone, he said. With the well monitor- ing programs already available on the flood con- trol website, there is no need to open up the infor- mation further, he said. "We don't need to sup- ply more specific informa- tion than that," Antone said. The letter, addressed to the chairman of the Senate Committee of Natural Resources and Water, states that confidentiality protects the water resource and the individual proper- ty owners' privacy. "Privacy remains a sig- nificant concern for prop- erty owners, and mandato- ry publication of site spe- cific groundwater infor- mation may deter many property owners from vol- untarily allowing public agencies to install moni- toring wells on their prop- erty to the severe detri- ment of public groundwa- ter monitoring efforts," the letter states. at www.co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. It goes on to state that the disclosure of informa- tion isn't necessary to achieve the goals outlined by the bill's author. To view the letter and for more information, see the supervisors' agendas Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Tehama County Supervisors honored Gerry Olsen, left, and Nancy Stratton Tuesday for nearly 40 years of service with county mental health services. "Until that changes, nothing happens," Cook said. Recovery is possible and helping people with mental illness impacts their entire lives, she said. The event, open to any- one, will include people sharing their experiences. STRIKE Continued from page 1A is an administration demand for a salary freeze. Employees want a 1 percent raise and a guarantee of aca- demic freedom. The 400,000-student system is Avian Science Center at the University of Montana, has been doing post-fire research since the early 1990s. He said it would be difficult to find a forest-bird species more restricted to a single vegetation cover type than the black- backed woodpecker is to early post-fire conditions. Hanson believes the federal petition is the first to seek protection of post-fire habitat and recognize it as ''distinct and ecologically significant.'' ''While it may come as a surprise to some, burned forests, and the dead trees associated with them, are essen- tial to the survival of many wildlife species,'' said Justin Augustine, a San Francisco-based staff attorney for the Cen- ter for Biological Diversity. Over the past five years, the two have been pressing for protection of the bird through legal challenges to U.S. For- est Service logging projects, primarily in burned forests in the Sierra north and south of Lake Tahoe. A May 14 hearing is set before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an ongoing legal battle between the Forest Service and the John Muir Project over salvage logging in woodpecker habitat where 250 homes burned in the 2007 Angora fire at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. "I encourage the com- munity to come and hear their stories," Cook said. For Cook, who has two adult children with men- tal illness, the issues relating to mental illness are a big part of her life, she said. NAMI is a non-profit The Red Bluff group meets at 6 p.m. the first Thursday of each month at the Department of Educa- tion, Cook said. organization with chapters in both Red Bluff and Redding that serve the upper Northern California area. "Families to Families" programs, which strive to educate families scientifi- cally and emotionally who are dealing with family members who have mental illness. The local groups offer There are also "Peer to Peer" programs that grappling with a $970 million loss in state funding since 2008 with fur- ther cuts expected. Administrators have raised tuition and slashed staff, and are freezing enrollment for next spring and discussing cutting pro- grams. versity hired expensive consultants to conduct negotiations and is But employees note that the uni- The California State Fish and Game Commission agreed in December to add the woodpecker to the list of species that are candidates for protection under the California Endangered Species Act. State Commissioner Michael Sut- ton said a two-year review of the bird's status is warranted because some Forest Service plans allow ''100 percent sal- vage logging of burned areas, which is the preferred habitat of this species.'' Since there is no live test for the disease also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, it was euthanized and brain sam- ples were sent to the nation- al laboratory. The test was negative, officials said Wednesday. The USDA announced April 24 that the nation's fourth case of mad cow dis- ease was discovered in the 10-year-old cow. It had been euthanized at a Tulare County dairy a week earlier and sent to the Baker Com- modities rendering plant near the Central California town of Hanford, where random testing happened to be taking place that day. That dairy and another Investigators looking into California's first case of mad cow disease say they have tracked down at least one of her offspring in another state. associated with it are under quarantine, which is stan- dard procedure. The USDA has declined to name the dairies or the state where the offspring was found. USDA officials also said enable stable mentally ill clients to help one another cope with life struggles. The group also hosts monthly Family Fun Nights. For more information, call Jackie Hernandez at 690-2384. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. awarding 10 percent pay increases to campus presidents. showed the average tenured profes- sor earns $85,083 a year, plus $29,491 in health and welfare bene- fits and $25,805 in retirement bene- fits. Faculty receive 24 vacation days a year. A study completed last year USDA: Offspring of mad cow did not have disease FRESNO (AP) — on Wednesday that within the last two years, the dis- eased cow gave birth to a stillborn calf. They did not say how that carcass was disposed. Officials also are investi- gating the calf ranch where the diseased cow was raised before she was sold into dairy productions. Investi- gators said they have been unable to locate for testing the cattle that were raised with the one who devel- oped mad cow disease. Mad cow disease is a deadly affliction of the cen- tral nervous system that can be transmitted to humans who eat meat from infected cows. The incubation peri- od is two to eight years. Cows can contract the disease by eating rendered remains from other sick cat- tle, which are processed into protein supplements. It's no longer legal to feed cattle to cattle, but rendered cattle are fed to chickens, and chicken droppings and spilled feed are rendered back into cattle feed. Located in Chico, CA Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net