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(503) 553-3238
Internet Address: http:www.or8t.edudeptwsext
The Oregon State University Extension Service staff Is devoted to extending research-based Information from OSU to the people of Warm Springs
In agriculture, home economics, 4-H youth, forestry, community development, energy and extension sea grant program with OSU, United States
Department of Agriculture, Jefferson County and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs cooperating. The Exenslon Service offers Iti programs
and materials equally to all people.
The Clover speaks-
by Sue Ryan
The former Crystal Springs 4-H
camp has a new name Hi-Desert
4-H Camp. This camp is already
looking for youth counselors for
this summer. Here are the details in
this news release from the
Deschutes County 4-H office. They
are coordinating the camp.
The Deschutes County 4-H
A drop or loss of income requires a
change in spending priorities. When
you're forced to think about it, you dis
cover that some goods and services are
more vital for survival than others. For
many families, following a few basis
survival principles can minimize the un
desirable effects of a cut in income. With
a positive attitude, learning and follow
ing good management practices can be
sources of satisfaction in themselves.
Many persons realize, after learning to
manage their resources better, that their
situation is not as bad as it seemed. Their
income may be less than before, but the
"slack" in their financial system has been
reduced and they are doing more with
what they have.
Economizing refers to allocating your
personal and family resources where they
do the most good, either by increasing
your family's well being or, in a time of
recession, by minimizing economic hard
ship. To economize does not necessarily
mean to buy less of an item-it might even
imply purchasing more. For example, if
you determine that home baking or sew
ing or another activity would pay for
itself by either saving resources or pro
ducing income, then increasing expendi
tures for needed supplies may be in or
der. Economizing can be achieved in a
number of ways: substituting less costly
for more costly resources; finding new
uses for resources you already have; con
serving resources through wiser use; co
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STOCKMAN'S ROUNDUP: Y2Kandag-
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by Bob Pawelek
OSU Livestock Agent
If you have not heard about it by now, you
will soon.
Y2K is just around the corner. It refers to
problems that are expected to occur when
computers and dated-embedded chips using
twcniigit dates-99 instead of 1999, for example-fail
to read 00 as 2000 rolls in. Some
say this date problem could trigger disrup
tions of systems, such as electricity and tele
communications. Whether Y2K creates only a slight hiccup
in this nation's food supply system or whether
it triggers widespread famine, it is sending
out an important message about agriculture.
BobPawelek Clint Jacks Deanie Johnson
Uvestock Staff Chair, Madras Secretary
BernadetteHandley ZackdelNero Sue Ryan
Home Economics Natural Resources 4-H Assistant
Youth Development program is
offering a unique camp leadership
experience for 4-H'ers, middle and
high school youth in the 8th
through 12th grade. Camp Coun
selors and Counselors-in-Training
(CIT) are being sought to staff the
High Desert 4-H Camp at Crystal
Springs. Counselors are respon
sible for working closely with
youth in 4th through 6th grade.
This year's camp will be from June
21st through June 26th.
Four-H Camp provides recre
ational and educational experi
ences enhancing citizenship devel
opment, environmental steward
ship, healthy living, and leader
ship development through outdoor
living. The High Desert 4-H Camp
provides a safe environment for
youth to meet new friends from
Jefferson, Crook, Deschutes, Kla
math, and Lake Counties. (This
includes youth from the Warm
Springs Reservation.
Camp Counselors and Counsel-
HOME SWEET HOME-
By Bernadette Handley, OSU Extension
Home Ec Agent
operating with others to stretch resources;
or taking advantage of community re
sources per Family and Consumer Sci
ences, North Carolina State University.
Resources can be multiplied when you
cooperate with others. Food co-ops, hous
ing co-ops, baby sitting co-ops, and car
pools are just some of the many forms of
co-ops, either formal or informal in an
organization, that can help you and oth
ers economize in your use of resources.
They operate from a common principle
to provide members of a buyers' co-op
with goods or services at lower cost and
to help members of a producers' co-op
market their products themselves. Orga
nizing a cooperative to provide neces
sary goods and services permits mem
bers to help each other. When consider
ing a co-op of any kind, be sure you
understand the operating rules and are
confident of the manner in which it is
run.
I had been approached by folks in the
community about establishing a commu
nity co-op or buying club for food and
non-food purchases. With rising prices
and our geographic location, shopping
can be quite expensive in terms of both
time and money. The goal of a food club
is to buy items in bulk for a lower price
with a greater variety of products to
choose from. I explored some different
options-none of which seemed to pro
vide the "right" mix of the items and
service desired. . .UNTIL RECENTLY! !
First, you have to understand the problem.
I have included a flow chart which illustrates
it.
First question: Is Y2K a problem?
Options: No (but why are firms spending
millions to correct a scam?)
Yes (but will it be fixed in time)
-If yes, then there's no problem to prepare
for.
-If not, then you can either do nothing or
take action.
This depends on your answer to this ques
tion: will the power go out?
-If yes, then, can you survive without
power?
-if yes, then there's no problem to prepare
for
-if no, then you'll need food, heat, water,
etc.
If the answer to will the power go out is
no, but there will be some problems, then you
need to answer
more questions regarding food, fuel, com
munications, farm vendors, packing plants
and processors etc.
We in Extension have done considerable
reading and investigation on Y2K issues. As
I see it, there is no way around some supply
interruptions for the Year 2000. Some will
start before 2000 and others could occur for
an extended time. So we want to be prepared
for at least three weeks.
For the farm business, however, you
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ors-in Training are at the heart of a
successful camping program. There
fore, Counselors are selected very
carefully. Each applicant participates
in a comprehensive training, inter
view, and selection program con
ducted at the Deschutes County Fair
grounds on May 7th and 8th.
Youth in grades 9-12 wishing to be
Camp Counselors and 8th graders
wishing to be CIT's for the High
Desert 4-H Camp must submit a com
pleted application to the Deschutes
County Extension Office by April 30,
1999. Applications can be obtained
through the Oregon State University
Extension office located at 1421 S.
Hwy. 97, Redmond, OR 97756, or
your local Extension office. (In Warm
Springs, this is at the Education Cen
ter located at 1 1 10 Wasco Street).
Additional information about this
exciting opportunity for middle and
high school aged youth is available
by calling David J. White, Deschutes
County 4-H Youth Development
Agent at 541-548-6088, ext. 2.
I stumbled upon a food buyer's club that
should include items on everyone's shop
ping list for a reasonable price.
' Here's how it works., you browse the
catalog of thousands of items and make
a "shopping list" on an order form. Or
ders need to be placed by 5 PM Thursday
in Madras. Payment is due upon receipt
of goods (except for orders totaling
greater than $50). Deliveries are made
every Monday and are ready for pick up
after 2 PM. You have the option of order
ing as often as every week!!! No more
driving to Bend to shop and spending
hours driving back and forth.
The buyer's club offers an incredible
selection of foods and nonfood items
ranging from bulk foods to personal care,
refrigerated to frozen, pet products to
personal care, supplements to non-foods.
Healthy food options include organically
grown fruitsvegetables as well as whole
wheat or wheat free products. Sounds
too good to be true, doesn't it? If you are
interested in more information, contact
OSU extension 553-3238.
should consider purchasing enough supplies
in 1999 to carry you through the year 2000.
The real Y2K issue comes down to energy
supplies. I think frequent and widespread
outages is a best case scenario. We probably
should stretch our power supplies as neces
sary and as far as possible. That means access
to a generator, and an alternate heat source
for the home.
Y2K, after all, will roll around in the dead
of winter.
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Natural Resource
by Zach del Nero,
Natural Resources Extension
Agent
There's no place for weeds in habi
tat restoration
The planting of desirable grasses
and other vegetation is a key strategy
in restoring habitat for salmon and
other threatened or endangered spe
cies in Oregon. But it will do no
good if what is planted is infested
with weed seeds. The Oregon De
partment of Agriculture (ODA) is
using education as a means to ensure
the right kind of seeds go into the
ground this spring.
From the 2-acre landowner who
plants from a 20-pound bag of seed
to a federal agnecy land manager
responsible for thousands of acres
that may buy seed by the ton, using
clean seed is critical to repairing the
land.
Yellow starthistle, knapweed, and
white too are examples of weeds that
have contaminated seed mixes and
fouled restoration projects. "Habitat
restoration projects are designed to
get a desirable species to establish in
a sensitive area," says Tim Butler of
ODA. "Grasses you are trying to es
tablish have a fibrous root system
that holds the soil together and pre
vents erosion. But if something un
desirable like knapweed gets a hold,
it can dominate the site with a tap
root system that doesn't hold the soil
and increases siltation in nearby
streams." The siltation from in
creased erosion destroys instream
habitat for species like salmon and
steelhead.
Oregon's history-both past and
present-offers examples of the unin
tended consequences of seed
plantings that inadvertently included
weeds.
In the late 1980's, to prevent ero
sion, the US Forest Service used air
craft to drop grass seed on thousands
of acres of fire-damaged lands in NE
Oregon. Unfortunately, that seed was
contaminated with yellow starthistle.
The weed spread like a biological
wildfire and has become a serious
threat to the ecological diversity and
economics of the area. This problem
is further complicated by limits on
the use of effective herbicides, as the
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Forest Service is unable to use the
newer, more effective and safer her
bicide chemicals to combat the prob
lem. In the past couple of years, con
taminated wheatgrass seed from Cali
fornia was sold by a Central Oregon
seed dealer and has introduced yel
low starthistle to several counties.
The spillway site at the Ochoco res
ervoir site will need to be monitored
for several years to control the yel
low starthistle which was introduced
by the contaminated seed mix.
An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of weed-free seeds-or more. It
is much more cost-effective to spend
money up front and ensure that seed
sources are weed-free than to spend
time and money controlling infesta
tions. ODA provides regulation of
seed dealers through sampling and
testing of product as well as auditing
of records. Companies selling seed
contaminated with noxious weeds are
subject to civil penalties, and even
the most reputable company can find
itself in trouble if seed sources are
not adequately sampled and tested.
One indicator of seed source pu
rity is on the label. Like any other
product sold commercially, the label
will tell the buyer what the package
contains-or at least it is supposed to.
ODA advises buyers not to accept
any seed that is not labeled. The ori
gin, purity, and germination for each
component of the seed mix must be
on the label.
Any questions about test reports,
blending reports, labels or other in
formation connected to seeds can be
referred to ODA and the OSU Exten
sion Service.
A teleconference
featuring
Robert Theobald,
Cynthia Beal and
Rachel Bagby
April 8, 1999
9:00 am - Noon, Pacific Time
The second Resilient Communi
ties program in this three part series
brings together people who are mak
ing waves in their local communities
and internationally by promoting pre
paredness and sustainability practices
in the face of Y2K.
Robert Theobald, futurist, author
and socioeconomist will be joined by
Cynthia Beal, an Oregon grocer and
international advocate for commu
nity preparedness and Rachel Bagby,
poet, vocal artist and ecological ac
tivist for an interactive dialogue with
over 100 communities around the U.S.
and Canada. In this program, we will
address the need for spiritual resil
iency during this turbulent time. It
will provide you with common-sense
advice that competent people are giv
ing about food and water storage,
electricity concerns, availability of
money, medicine, etc. It will also
look at how higher levels of
sustainability can emerge from the
immediate requirements posed by
Y2K challenges.
Our first program aired on January
22, 1999 and provided an opportu
nity for interactive dialogue on com
munity resiliency with Robert
Theobald and management consult
ant, author and noted Y2K commen
tator, Margaret Wheatley. They
looked at shifting global dynamics
and discussed new forms of leader
ship needed for the new millennium.
It received excellent reviews and is
now available on video at the Resil
ient Communities website.
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