Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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Real People/True Stories
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Sheep ranchers work hard just to
break even;
High
expenses, low returns … but it’s in
their blood, Capital Press,
posted 4/11/08 John O'Keeffe and his wife, Gail, raise Columbia sheep on the Oregon-California state line near Malin, Ore. They have 500 lambs from 300 ewes, with several yet to be born...I am a hobby farmer, he said, explaining that he doesn't make a profit from raising sheep, so it must be a hobby." |
The
heart of the homestead, John Terry,
H&N 3/17/08.
HERE for more on Tulelake
homesteaders and settlers.
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Retired vet teaches science in
state Capitol.
Years of experience help
legislator bring rural perspective
to issues, Capital Press 2/8/07.
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 Doug and Gail Whitsett return to their rural home in Southern Oregon between sessions. |
Martha
Anne Dow Oregon Center for Health
Professions, by Senator Doug
Whitsett, posted to KBC 2/20/08
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Breeder
loves border collies, politics Capital Press, posted 8/4/07. "So began the lives together of Geri and Dan Byrne on a cattle and sheep ranch near Tulelake, on the Oregon-California border." "...The American public is so far removed from farming and ranching these days, they want to legislate it, but they don't understand it..." PHOTO: Geri Byrne bred this litter of border collies for specific desirable traits to work cattle. |
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Honored by a president
December 28, 2006
Jim Ottoman cried when he heard former President Gerald Ford died. The 82-year-old, a long-time Malin farmer and now a Klamath Falls resident, met Ford in 1975 after being selected as National Farm Family of the year. |
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 Bryan Kelly Killed in action |
A
meeting with the president, by Pat
Kelly, guest columnist,
H&N.
The author, Pat Kelly, a retired sheriff's
detective and former police trainer, is the
father of Marine Lance Cpl. Bryan Kelly, who was
killed in action in Iraq in July.
"The only really important thing I said to President Bush was, 'Finish it.' He answered, 'We will, I promise.' " |
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A
bucket of love
Community sees what Ben DuVal couldn't |
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| NEWELL - Standing in the
fading light outside his family's homestead, Ben
DuVal pauses for a moment, leaning against the
crutches that have become a part of his life.
"You know, I have a silver bucket in there," he says, nodding towards the house. "It's from the town of Malin, and it's filled with cards, letters, checks, what ever the townsfolk thought I would need. 'Bucket of love' is painted on the outside." |
 Ben DuVal loads hay with his new squeeze, photo by Pat Ratliff |
| Mary Palmer
Nowland-born and raised on a farm in
Tulelake, California. 4-H Foundation Hanging by a Thread Sealing History Homesteading in a Promised Land film script AUDIO: Mary's grandparents were WW1 homesteaders, and her parents, WWII homesteaders. She shares how life on the farm molded her sense of community in the classroom AUDIO: Mary relates her appreciation of The Migration in the Tulelake basin
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 photo by Anders Tomlinson |
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