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8A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL May 20, 2015 B EYOND THE G ROVE BRIEFS FROM BEYOND Fish Restoration and Enhancement Board to meet in Sutherlin Impactful news from Lane County and surrounding communities Dreams do come true…for horses and little girls, too BY LARAE ASH For the Sentinel N ot far away, there is a magical place, the stuff of dreams, really, for horse- loving little girls (and boys) everywhere — and certainly for the lucky animals that have somehow landed in this pastoral paradise to spend their remain- ing days in care, comfort and companionship. My granddaughter, Bella Wil- son, is one of those little girls captivated by the gentle giants. Baskets of plastic horses, trail- ers, fencing and stalls pile up in her closet, and horses gallop across her bedroom walls. One day, she swears, she will have a horse, and we have come to visit this special place as part of her eighth birthday gift. We are at the Duchess Sanctu- ary, a 1,120-acre ranch set amid the rolling hills east of Oakland. The non-profi t facility is oper- ated by The Fund for Animals in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States. It is one of four such sanctuaries in the country and is home to 198 horses that have been res- cued from abuse, exploitation, abandonment and slaughter. Many of them are refugees from the Premarin industry. At one time, they spent six months a year pregnant and tethered in a stall where their urine was collected to create estrogen re- placement therapy drugs for western women in menopause. Others are racehorses that just weren’t fast enough, show hors- es whose owners lost interest, wild mustangs that were headed for the slaughterhouse or those who were simply neglected or photo by LaRae Ash Herbie the pony cuddles up to Bella Wilson on her recent visit to The Duchess Sanctuary near Oakland. Herbie not only found refuge, but also a best friend in Nellie, a blind, elderly pony with which he is inseparable. abandoned. Today, Director of Opera- tions Jennifer Kunz is taking time from her busy schedule to introduce us to some of her residents. Kunz, too, was once a horse-crazy little girl whose parents thought the infatuation would fade away. It didn’t. She eventually got her own horse — although these days she rarely fi nds the time to ride — and she has built a life around the animals she loves so deeply. When the Duchess Sanctuary property was purchased six years ago, Kunz came from Canada with the original herd of 89 rescues to help create the refuge. As we move about the prop- erty, with its pristine barns and stalls, endless fencing, tidy corals and expansive pasture, we learn about some of its resi- dents. There is the elderly Nellie, blind now, and the boot-wearing Herbie, who arrived with one of the worst cases of splayed hooves that Kunz had ever seen. 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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Fish Resto- ration and Enhancement Board will meet on Friday and Satur- day, May 29 and 30 in Suther- lin. The committee will meet on May 29 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Best Western Plus Hartford Lodge, located at 150 Myrtle Street in Sutherlin to review 19 project proposals. The agenda also includes a district update, various staff updates, review of the new STEP/RE commu- nication plan, and discussions related to ODFW engineering and project management and the role of R&E in implement- ing the Coastal Multi Species Conservation Plan. eyes, and the two are insepa- rable. We meet Freckles and Chey- enne, the hot romance on the ranch, and Lucky, a racehorse from Idaho who won 18 races but ended up starving when his luck ran out. And we learn about the “spe- cial needs” ladies — eight old mares requiring medication and “mushy feed” — which live on the fl attest fi eld to ease their ar- thritic bones. “We’re looking after them to the end of their lives, so we want them to be happy and comfort- able,” says Kuntz, who knows every horse’s name and story. Tomorrow will be a big day, she says. It’s vaccination day, and many of the horses that have been corralled for the process watch us warily. A few saunter up to the fence for a nuzzle. After their shots, they’ll be re- leased to the open pastures to enjoy all that green grass they’ve been watching grow through the spring. “It’s pretty funny,” Kuntz says. “They run out into the pas- ture about 20 feet, then just stop to eat that grass.” Hers is a big job, one she does with two staff members and a Raptor Center Family Nature Discovery Day Cascades Raptor Center in- vites families to take part in its fi rst Family Nature Discovery Day of 2015 on Sunday, May 31 between noon and 4 p.m. Guests can learn about birds in spring- time — where birds nest, who builds nests and who doesn't. Kids and their families can build their own bird nest and decorate eggs to place in the nest. Partici- pants will learn that it is not as easy as it looks to build a nest! They will also learn that many birds don't build nests at all. While visiting the Raptor Cen- ter, families can view over 50 permanent resident birds. 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