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A free Agricultural tire collection event has been extended to March 15 to better serve Tehama County farmers and ranchers. Agricultural tires will be accepted at the Te- hama County and Red Bluff Landfill, 19995 Plym- ire Road, and Linnet's Tire Shop, 1090 99W in Corn- ing, during normal busi- ness hours. Tire vouchers are re- quired with a maximum of 6 agricultural tires accepted for disposal per address. Vouchers are limited and are available at the land- fill, Tehama County Farm Bureau office at 275 Sale Lane, Agriculture Commis- sioner's Office at 1834 Wal- nut St., Bull & Gelding Sale Office at 670 Antelope Blvd., Ste. 3 and Corning City Hall at 794 3rd St. Accepted tire sizes in- clude tractor, grader and backhoe tires with num- bers ranging from 9.5-24 up to 19.5-24. Other farm tires with numbers end- ing in 38, 40 and 42 also will be accepted, for exam- ple size 18.4-42. No scraper or loader tires will be ac- cepted for free during ag tire month. Agricultural plastics are accepted at the landfill free of charge year round dur- ing normal business hours. Triple-rinsed pesticide containers up to 55 gal- lons in size are accepted. All 35-55 gallon sized plas- tic drums must be quar- tered. There is no limit to the number of properly rinsed, quartered, lid and label free containers that are accepted. Save vehicle trips and bring your spent agricul- tural plastics and waste tires at the same time, if possible. For more information, call 528-1103. TEHAMACOUNTY From Facebook: This is a sad morning in the Texas Panhandle. Last night in the fires we lost two beautiful young people. We have lost Cody Crockett and Syd- ney Wallace. During the fires these two braved the flames to save cat- tle in McLean. I have tremendous respect for the ranching commu- nity and the traditions they pass to their fu- ture generations. With- out them we wouldn't be a rich culture. We lost a part of that last night. While these two are gone here on earth they are now ranching and herd- ing the cattle on a thou- sand hills for the greatest rancher and cattle baron of all. Stop for a moment and hug your kids. Say a prayer for the families of these two. The families will need it. ••• Oklahoma, Texas, Kan- sas and Colorado have had 50 mile per hour winds, low humidity and 80 degree days, that have caused devastating wild fires earlier this week. The homes burned are men- tioned, and in these fires people have been killed trying to rescue their ani- mals, but little mention of the thousands of deer, cat- tle, horses and other wild life that have been lost. As of 4 a.m. Wednes- day, March 8th, in Texas, some 325,000 acres have been consumed in the Panhandle. In Oklahoma, more than 400,000 acres burned. In eastern Colo- rado, some 30,000 acres have gone up in smoke and in Kansas, 400,000. CNN. From the Amarillo Globe News, March 7, by Jon Mark Beilue "Taken in their prime: 4 die in Texas Panhandle wildfires "Four of them, all in the prime of their lives. One married just more than a year, his wife expect- ing their first child. An- other the father of two, his wife expecting their third child. A young cow- boy and his girlfriend, a young nurse. They met when she treated him for a horseback injury. "Cade Koch. Sloan Ever- ett. Cody Crockett. Sydney Wallace. "One returning home from work, the other three trying to move cat- tle away from a consum- ing wildfire. For those four, their family and friends, Monday began like any other day and ended like no other. As with sudden deaths, the questions are many, and the understanding is dif- ficult." I had posted a photo on Facebook from Meteorol- ogist Lacey Swope, with her caption "Heartbreak- ing fire update: The wild- fires in NW OK took the life of an OKC truck driver, burned over 100,000 acres and counting, claimed the lives of over 200 head of cattle, and burned at least 4 homes. This picture was sent to us from Jason Den- ney of the devastating scene in SW Kansas." A woman had re- sponded to my posting the photo, "Why would some- one post a picture like that?" I responded to her: "When you raise livestock, and suffer a disaster like this, the media doesn't mention the loss to the farmers and ranchers. All you see, are houses that burned. We need to edu- cate the people that are no longer on the farm that this is a devastating loss, since each cow was worth $1,000 or more, since it is calving season in that area." From the Wichitaeagle. com, March 7 "Cattle lost in fires: 'It's horrible out there, the things I saw today' Larry Konrade of Ash- land likes hunting every- thing from doves to huge whitetail bucks. But when he left his house Tuesday morning with a favored rifle, he was dreading the day. He felt even worse when it was over. "All in all, I'd guess I seen between 300 and 400 dead cattle," he said. "It was just a matter of put- ting animals out of their misery, doing them a fa- vor. They were going to die anyway. "It's horrible out there, the things I saw today. The fire was so big, and so much of Clark County burned, I don't see how anything lived through it." "It's horrible, just hor- rible. I left the house with (60) shells and used them all," Konrade said. He said he probably killed 40 cows, "and in a lot of places there weren't even very many left alive to put down." Konrade, an accoun- tant by trade, had spent the day helping a local Clark County rancher de- stroy cattle maimed in the wildfire that he says burned almost the entire county. Very few cattle did, ac- cording to Randall Spare, co-owner of Ashland Vet- erinary Center. "Let me put it into per- spective: If someone had 500 cattle on their ranch, I'd guess at least 80 to 90 percent were killed in the last day," Spare said. "That's not includ- ing the calves; we're re- ally getting into calving season and there was a lot of baby calves on the ground." Thinking of some of his customers, Spare es- timated they lost at least 1,600 adult cattle and probably another 500 calves, or more. That could equate to losses well into the millions. One fire came up from Oklahoma, endanger- ing the tiny town of En- glewood. Another started north of Ashland and eventually endangered the county seat. Both towns were evacuated. Konrade talked of driving about 20 miles through Clark County and seeing nothing but burned areas for as far as he could see. "Even those big old cot- tonwoods, the ones with the alligatory bark, they were burned bare about 15 feet up," Konrade said. Spare, the veterinar- ian, said conditions could not have been worse for endangering livestock. "These cows were pretty comfortable, just starting to calve, and there was plenty of grass for them," Spare said. "These ranchers out here are good stewards; they know how to take care of their pastures. "But a lot of grass can be a double-edged sword. That's a lot of fuel that can burn in a hurry." Konrade said local ranchers, and most area residents, knew there could be bad fires this year. "Every time you come back in (from hunting or working in pastures) you knew how much fuel was there," he said. "We've gotten good moisture the last three years. "It's been dry lately, so you know if you get 60 miles-per-hour winds and anything ignites it, it's going to burn fast. Still, we never dreamed it could all burn up that fast, but it did." He spoke of a 22,000- acre ranch that was basi- cally untouched at Mon- day's sunset that was mostly ashes by Tuesday's dawn. About any area that hadn't burned Mon- day caught on fire Tues- day. As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, he said volunteer crews were fighting the fire along the Cimarron River near the Oklahoma bor- der south of Sitka. "It's burning hot, and it's gotten down in all that tamarack and thick brush along the river," he said. "God only knows when that might stop. It could burn all the way down to Stillwater, Okla- homa." Cattle weren't the only things Konrade saw dead as he euthanized cattle on Tuesday. Wildlife also took a serious hit over much of the area. "I saw a lot of dead deer, a lot," he said. "I think I saw maybe 20 deer alive, one coy- ote, one quail and four rooster pheasants. "We had so much, es- pecially quail, before the fire," said Konrade, who also runs a hunting guide service in the fall and winter. "I think the out- fitting deal may be over, at least for a few years. I don't see how any- thing could have survived through what just hap- pened. "I hope I'm wrong. It doesn't look good. It's horrible." JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@gmail.com. JEAN BARTON Wildfiresdevastateranchesinplainsstates Fr ee a gr ic ul tu ra l ti re c ol le ct io n ex te nd ed CONTRIBUTED FollowusonTwitterandFacebook. Patrick's Pumping SepticPumpingServices Red Bluff, CA Garet Patrick Owner/Operator 530-366-6899 4patricks@att.net Available 24/7 RUNNINGS ROOFING and CONSTRUCTION SheetMetalRoofing ResidentialCommercial • Composition • Shingle • Single Ply Membrane ServingTehamaCounty 530-527-5789 530-209-5367 NoMoney Down! 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