April 2024
Vol #2 Issue #4
Yoncalla Rodeo - July 4-5 2024
Story by Ed Mussen
New Location at 8501 Rice Valley Rd
April Cherry blossums in front of the Drain Civic Center, Mildred Whipple Library - Photo by Miriam Sisson
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The Yoncalla Rodeo and Equestrian
Association (YREA) is gearing up for the
2024 annual Rodeo in Yoncalla, Oregon.
The Rodeo returned in 2023 after the
COVID outbreak and a re-structuring
of the Board. The Yoncalla Rodeo will
be held at its new location, located
at 8501 Rice Valley Road, Yoncalla,
Oregon. 97499. The Rodeo will also
be returning to its regular permanent
schedule this year on July 4-5, 2024.
Feel free to drive by the Rodeo grounds
located at the corner of Rice Valley Road
and Eagle Valley Road. YREA is proud
of the new rodeo grounds that were
developed last year and we would love
for you to take a look. Future plans will
include creating opportunities for Jackpot
shows, Roping events, Kids Rodeos, and
many other activities.
This year, it is anticipated that
the events returning to the Rodeo will
be Bareback Riding, Barrel Racing,
Breakaway Roping, Bull Riding, Wild
Cow Milking, Saddle Bronc Riding,
Steer Wrestling, Team Roping, and Tie-
Down Roping, along with the always
entertaining kids events such as Mutton
Bustin, Calf Riding, and Jr. Barrel
Racing.
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Wine Growers Must Adapt Due to Climate Change
There’s evidence that your favorite wines
could soon be gone. It’s true, experts say some of
the world’s historic wine regions, from Southern
California to Europe, may disappear in the next
few decades due to climate change.
Human use of fossil fuels warms the Earth
and the rising temperatures fuels more severe
weather, which affects the water cycle and safe
zones. Some of the world’s oldest wine growers
are in coastal and lowland Spain, Italy, Greece,
and Southern California. A recent Nature Reviews
Earth & Environment research review, earlier this
year, found these places especially vulnerable to
climate change.
Unless storing your favorite wine in a
permanent cellar, climate change will impact
it. Growing season temperature fluctuations
affect your favorite fermented grape juice’s taste,
alcohol content, and color, creating that spectacular
beverage. Temperatures and water shortages are
changing wines worldwide.
The study predicts that 70% of wine
producing areas may lose viability if the world
heats more than 2 degrees Celsius, the Paris
Agreement’s maximum warming above pre-
industrial levels. Desertification and heat waves
may wipe away 90% of Spain, Italy, Greece,
and southern California’s coastal and lowland
wine areas by the end of the century. growth
temperatures are opening new growth zones like
the southern UK and Oregon and Washington,
New Wine Regions May Flourish
Story by Rusty Savage
while wine production migrate to cooler higher
latitudes and altitudes.
The Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
review paper’s lead author, viticulturist Greg
Gambetta of Bordeaux Sciences Agro and the
Institute of Science of Vine and Wine, says, “It
doesn’t mean that the wine-growing disappears—
and that’s an important caveat—but it can get a
lot more challenging.” “If warming is limited,
wine growers can adapt well. This applies to most
regions.”
Many locations will struggle with winemaking
due to climate change. By 2100, only 76 years
from now, California’s net acceptable wine-
producing area might shrink by 50%, according
to the analysis. European wine-producing regions’
permitted area may decline 20–70% depending
on temperature. 65% of Australia’s traditional
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