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Agricultureranch farm Zone V on the Lassen to open for woodcutting Lake Ranger District of the Lassen National Forest, specif- ically the area that corresponds to Zone V on the Fuelwood Cutting Map. Woodcutters will once again have access to the Eagle District Ranger Ann Carlson has set the re-opening of Zone V for Saturday, May 19. Carlson would like to caution that although the area is to re-open to woodcutting, some roads could remain wet. While driving on Forest roads and gathering firewood the potential remains to get stuck in soft, wet areas." Failure to follow this advice could lead to unnecessary resource damage to roads and Forest areas. Woodcutters are reminded to stay on roads and trails, as traveling cross- country with motor vehicles to scout for wood is prohibited. Even with a valid wood permit, woodcutters are only allowed to leave a Forest road to gather firewood, providing this activity does not result in resource damage. In some instances, drivers could be held liable for damage to resources. Please see the Motor Vehicle Use Map, available at your local Forest office, for more information. Woodcutters are urged to check their maps to ensure that they are on National Forest land and are cutting in permis- sible areas. Zone V woodcutters are required to call the 24- hour number, 257-4188, for current restrictions. No wood- cutting is allowed in Timber Sale Areas or other commer- cial operations marked with "No Woodcutting" signs. Note that no trees displaying paint may be cut, not even those blown over, with the exception of down lodgepole pine. The price of personal wood permits remains at $10 per cord, with a minimum purchase of two cords per permit. Multiple permits may be purchased, up to a 10 cord limit. Personal use tags purchased on the Lassen National Forest are valid on the Plumas National Forest and vice versa. Woodcutters should read carefully all materials included in each wood permit packet. trict office, located at 477-050 Eagle Lake Road, near the intersection of Highway 36 and County Road A-1, three miles west of Susanville. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.Call 257-4188 with questions. Permits may be purchased at the Eagle Lake Ranger Dis- & Early Day Tehama County Cow Outfits This interview with Darrell Conard by Lew Walthers is from "Early Day Tehama County Cow Outfits," compiled by Eleanor Simpson Briggs. Publication date is not listed. Darrell Conard started The Big Steer weight guessing contest for ladies at the Tehama County Cattlemens Annu- al Field Day. He was the father of Cheryl Conard Haase and Dean Conard. "Darrell Conard remembers those old cat- tle drives. Conard, a once husky cowman, gray haired now and slowed by time, operates a ranch adjoing the big Dye Creek spread. He is the stepson of Charles Stover and suc- ceeded McKenzie as Stover's partner. "A chuckwagon drawn Courtesy photo by two horses accompa- nied the early day drives," he recalls. "It was replaced in the '20s by a Dodge screenside truck and a cook. The cook went around and met us farther up the trail. Mostly we had pretty good cor- rals to stop in, but the first night we had to herd 'em. Had to keep going steady all night." He also recalls: Stam- pedes they had year after year at a place on the Hogsback Road called the Halfway House. "There was a cor- ral there, but it was never enough to hold the cattle when they want- ed to run. there," Conard said, "that spooked the cattle at night. It was close to the digger pine timber and the corral was built around some of those pine trees. We don't know whether it was the cones dropping at night or what, we used to have stampedes almost everytime we came through there, especially with dry cattle. I remem- ber Stover made the trip up there to show me the trail, oh, years and years ago. We were sleeping next to each other. I'd heard all those stories about stampedes, and dur- ing the evening I'd picked out my tree to hide behind, in case they did stampede. About 3 o‚clock in the morning, they stampeded. I ran through the rocks in my underwear to get behind the tree, and Stover was already there. He yelled, 'Look for your own tree.' Those cows were coming like hell, but they broke and went around us. Nobody got hurt. "The McKenzie and "There was something Stover outfit made six dri- ves into the mountains Shipping cattle to summer feed in 2012. Before they are loaded onto the trucks the identification number of each cow is recorded by Linda Borror of Tehama Angus Ranch. Jean Barton each spring, Conrad relates: "The first trip was with the bulls. We had a hundred head of bulls. Two of us would take them up with a pack horse. We had our beds, cook- ing utensils and everything on the pack. The bulls after the first day of fighting would settle down. They'd just fol- low each other up the road one at a time, in single file and make the trip in good order. We always used to take the bulls up along in the latter part of April. There was still generally snow on the ground when we got into the pine tim- ber. Mountain Meadows at Lake Almanor.) the heavy heifers and the cows that were going to calve. Sometimes we'd have three or four hun- dred of those. Some would calve along the road, we'd just have to leave them there. They'd follow and come in during the summer. "Then we used to take (They drove to the drove across the bridge at Red Bluff as late as fif- teen years ago. over that bridge, too. That was the old bridge. Kind of a rattletrap. The girders would shake and snap. The cattle would get to trotting and it would spook 'em. We used to have cattle all over town. "McKenzie and Stover usually had about five buckaroos on their drives. With a bunch of dry cows they would have about seven or eight. We'd shoe up about seventy head of horses every spring." He recalls, "Each rider had his string of horses." "Some of the old drives went clear across the Sier- ra Range to country around Susanville. It was- n't just a matter of getting the cattle into the high country. After they got all of them as far as the Lake Almanor area, they would drive different bands on to various ranges farther up. "We thought we‚d "He has helped drive "Then the dry cattle, sometimes we would have as many as twenty seven or twenty eight hundred head of dry cattle. The last band of cows and calves was along in June. Those were the calves that were born late, and they had difficulty traveling. Oh boy, it‚d be hot! "There were at least a dozen outfits driving cat- tle to summer pasture to the high mountains in the first quarter of the centu- ry. Conard recalls some of them came across the Sacramento Valley. "He remembers that the Stroings, who are still ranching in the valley and the nearby mountains, RENO, Nev. (AP) — Extended drought in some parts of Nevada and the West may force a delay in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's plans to ease up on wild horse roundups as more emphasis is placed on fertility control to keep herd populations in check. The BLM plans fewer mustang gathers in each of the next three years in the 10 western states that had an estimated 37,000 horses and burros as of February. The total population is 1,500 fewer than last year but 10,000 more than the agency maintains the range can sustain ecologically. BLM's deputy director for natural resources and plan- ning in Nevada, said the agency may have to resort to emergency roundups it has used in the past to res- cue parts of herds already hurting for water in the Jackson Mountains and at least two other places in Nevada, which is home to about half the wild horses nationally. A roundup already is planned in the Jackson Mountains about 150 miles northeast of Reno. But Morales said nearly a third of the 600 animals in that herd may have to be rescued sooner if Mother Nature doesn't cooperate in the weeks and months ahead. ''We are praying for moisture, but we are on top of it,'' he told the BLM's National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board dur- ing a meeting in Reno on Monday. and north-central Nevada as well as near Las Vegas. ''Everyone is on height- ened alert,'' she said. ''We're keeping pretty close tabs.'' never get any rest," Conard mused. "We were just moving cattle all the time. Days were awful long. We'd be up before daylight to start the cattle out, and sometimes we wouldn't get in until after dark." which know their way into the mountains these day. "A popular route to the mountain pastures was the Hogsback, some thirty miles north of the Lassen Trail. One of the biggest outfits in Northern Sacra- mento Valle drove over it, McKenzie and Stover. "Earl McKenzie was an uncle of Jack and Abner. The ranch, still one of the biggest in that part of California, is now owned by William Keeler and is a multiple use operation. Hunting, fish- ing and recreation privi- leges are sold in addition to cattle raising. The cat- tle end of the business, headed by lanky Bob deBraga, a widely known cattleman, is operated as the Dye Creek Cattle Company. Saturday, May 5, 2012 – Daily News 5A "Jobe Dye, a neighbor of Peter Lassen, was granted the land back in the 1840s by Mexican Governor Michletorena. *** "One thing made the job easier though, cattle learned the trails and given time would follow them themselves. One time after he had started trucking instead of dri- ving, Conard mispaired a cow and a calf --- put the wrong calf into the wrong truck with the cow. "When that cow was turned loose up in the mountain," Conard said, "she didn't waste any time. She just got out of the truck and went back eighty five miles for her calf. That old cow had walked the trail before and knew it. Roy Carmichael‚s cows are probably the only ones Ron Cerri of the Nevada BLM spokeswoman Heather Emmons said Tuesday that agency offi- cials already were making plans to haul in water for horses in the Jackson Mountains. She said they are closely monitoring as many as a dozen herd man- agement areas across the state, mostly in northwest Cattlemen's Association told the panel on Tuesday that he wanted to ''com- mend BLM for getting out ahead of the problem'' in the Jackson Mountains. But Laura Leigh, direc- Stover Ranch, now known as Dye Creek Preserve owned by The Nature Conservacy will host the 2nd annual Tehama Coun- ty CattleWomen Trail Ride on May 19, starting at 9 a.m. Reservations are required, and deadline is May 11. For more infor- mation and forms, visit www.TehamaCountyCat- tleWomen.org, or send an email to ride4ranch- ing@yahoo.com or call 727-8055. Tiffany Holbrook is The old McKenzie and chairwoman of the ride, and it is estimated trail completion is 2-3 hours depending on which loop taken and the speed of your horse. Cost is $40 including lunch, or lunch only is $15. Jean Barton can be reached at jbarton2013@gmail.com. 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