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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  March 20, 2013

6/6/2013

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The dog that wouldn’t die and the dog story that won’t quit, that’s what is currently bedeviling the Fort Bragg Police Department. The good news: a long time flophouse/drug house has been cleaned up by the Orsi family of the Fort Bragg Fire Department. The good news/bad news at the same time news: Fort Bragg, California is, in general, such a quiet town that in all of 2012, officers employed by its police department discharged their weapons just once in the line of duty. The one time turned out to be the shooting of a thirty-five pound terrier-mix dog at or near 501 Walnut Street on the night of December 21st. The most salient fact is not in dispute: Fort Bragg police officer Craig Guydan shot a thirty-five pound dog. On the first day of March, Fort Bragg Police Chief Scott Mayberry read to me from a portion of Officer’s Guydan’s official report concerning the incident. By the following Monday the Fort Bragg Police Department denied a request to release Guydan’s full report or the reports of two other officers who arrived on the scene minutes later.

     Last bit of good news: The dog, somewhat miraculously, survived the .40 caliber round fired at nearly point blank range from Officer Guydan’s Glock 22 department issued handgun.

    Guydan is the same Fort Bragg police officer who drew his handgun on a group of youths playing street football seventeen days after the dog shooting. At which time Chief Mayberry told concerned parents of the football players that Guydan was a “good officer.”

     Officer Guydan’s reason for shooting the thirty-five pound terrier-mix dog, which he misidentified as a pit bull numerous times in his report: the dog latched its teeth onto Guydan’s boot. Guydan claims he was bitten, though his own report notes that he did not bleed from the alleged bite. An EMT, called to the scene by Guydan, not for the dog, but himself, left muttering, “No merit found.”

    And why did this small to medium-sized dog allegedly bite Guydan: According to Guydan’s own report, because the dog growled at him, he kicked the dog in the head, soccer style, with the inside of his boot. All of this took place, from the first appearance of the dog to the shooting, in just a few seconds.

    This is not acceptable behavior for a police officer. What is also unacceptable is the police department’s continued employment of such an officer and the feeble attempts to pass off the incident as a justified shooting. Chief Mayberry used those very two words when he talked to me on March 1st.

     The dog shooting would be unacceptable if it was the only incident marring Officer Guydan’s career (this is his first year on the force), but there is also the drawn gun on the football playing teens, there is the refusal to wait for backup in both situations, and now numerous other reports of misconduct by Officer Guydan are filtering into the open; reports that are coming from every strata of Fort Bragg citizenry, long time business owners to workaday everymen and women. In a small town, people are often reluctant to speak out about police misconduct, but in this case it is apparent that some local citizens are more than ready to tell their tales of how Guydan falsely accused them, lied under oath, and on and on.

     The only question left now is whether or not the Chief of Police of Fort Bragg will listen to reason and remove the offending officer from the force.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  March 13, 2013

6/6/2013

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Last week’s column recounted how Fort Bragg police officer Craig Guydan shot a dog on December 21st, the only officer involved shooting in the coastal town last year. Guydan also drew his gun on a group of Fort Bragg teens playing football by streetlight on January 7th of this year. Despite the two gun incidents, Fort Bragg Police Chief Scott Mayberry still believes Guydan to be a “good officer.”

     An internal investigative report, conducted by Fort Bragg Police Lt. John Naulty and two other officers, on the dog shooting was still pending as of this writing. However, in a March 1st interview Mayberry may have preempted the investigative board when he stated that the December 21st incident was a “justified shooting.”

     The dog shooting took place during a seven-eight second period when the front door at 501 Walnut Street in Fort Bragg was opened and the allegedly retreating Officer Guydan fired on the thirty-five pound animal. Guydan had responded to an “excessive noise” complaint at the residence. The door opening and shooting prompted two other dogs to run loose for quite some time that night. The larger of the two dogs belongs to Jacqueline Audet, aka “Pixie” or “Goldilocks,” for her thick dreadlocked blonde hair.

     Personages who might make Ms. Audet’s usual street life pale by comparison had been frequent guests or sometime residents of 501 Walnut for the better part of two years prior to the shooting. The house has recently been cleaned out by members of the Orsi family. On February 27th, Fort Bragg Fire Chief Steve Orsi told me he had taken four pickup loads to the dump just that day in an effort to clean up the residence’s interior. His son, Jeromy Orsi, plans to rent the premises as both a place of business and residence. Neighbors were gladdened at this result. Several spoke of living in trepidation at what might happen next at 501 Walnut. One of the closest neighbors described seeing brief transactions that appeared to be drug deals. The property’s owner apparently lives out of state. Approximately two years ago he rented to an individual who seems to have turned the locale into a combination flophouse and one-stop illegal drugstore. Jeremy Orsi has been spending recent nights inside 501 Walnut Street in an effort to safeguard the premises from drug users who still come calling and pounding on the doors, walls, and windows at all hours.

     The terrier-mix dog that was shot has seemingly recovered. Ms. Audet’s larger dog was found and last seen sitting calmly beside her outside Rite-Aid, while strangers of every ilk walked by within arm’s reach. The 501 Walnut neighbors, some with small children, are happy that the house is being cleaned up, but there are other citizens of Fort Bragg who are not happy that the only officer involved shooting in town last year was that of a medium sized dog.  They are displeased that Officer Guydan failed to choose his taser over his gun. They are unhappy that he failed to wait for backup when approaching a house with at least a handful of people in it, just as he subsequently failed to wait for backup in the football incident. There are some who claim that Guydan shot the dog on the front doorstep of 501 Walnut, not on the street, facing away from the home, as Guydan reports.

     Chief Mayberry says that “Transitional Threat” training will be a renewed priority for his police force. The undermanned FBPD continues to run officers on twelve hour shifts, including the chief and lieutenant. 

    

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  March 6, 2013

6/4/2013

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On January 7th Fort Bragg police officer Craig Guydan pulled his gun on a group of teens, who turned out to be playing football on the street. Reportedly, Guydan kept the weapon pointed earthward while he ordered the youths face down on the ground, but in Fort Bragg it is news anytime law enforcement draws a gun within city limits. In 2012, Fort Bragg Police Department officers drew a gun and discharged it just once. Want to guess who that lone officer was?  That’s right, Craig Guydan.

     It is not widely known, but Officer Guydan pulled his gun and fired it on the night of December 21, 2012 at 501 Walnut Street while responding to an excessive noise complaint. At approximately 8:15 that evening Officer Guydan shot and wounded a thirty-five pound terrier-mix dog.

     In the incident that ended up being nothing more than a football game, Guydan was the first officer responding to a call that indicated a large number of juveniles pushing and shoving each other, if not fighting, on Cedar Street near Harold Street.  According to FBPD Chief Scott Mayberry, known gang members had recently been seen in nearby Otis Johnson Park. A senior Fort Bragg PD officer was on his to backup Guydan, as well as sheriff’s deputies, but Guydan did not wait for backup. He waded into the scene alone, un-holstering his gun for protection. Seventeen days earlier, Guydan performed in a similar manner. He did not wait for backup while approaching a residence that contained several people.

     Since the Walnut St. shooting is the one and only officer involved event of 2012, it bears closer examination.  That December night, with music blaring from inside, Officer Guydan approached the Walnut Street house warily, according to one witness. The witness later said Guydan appeared “scared,” or at least tentative. He stepped from the street to knock on the door, a distance of no more than four to five feet. Officer Guydan claims to have heard multiple muffled voices inside and dogs growling. At some point, the front door was opened.  Who opened it is not exactly clear. Now we are down to a period of seven to eight seconds. In his report Guydan claims that his audio recording device verifies the amount of time.  In those seven to eight seconds, three dogs pushed their way through the open door at 501 Walnut. Officer Guydan says he retreated onto the street and that the medium-sized of the three dogs bit him on the ankle twice, though the bites apparently did not puncture his flesh. Guydan’s report says he tried booting the dog away. Not fully succeeding, Guydan claims he deliberately turned so he would not be facing the residence, pulled his sidearm, and shot the dog. The bullet entered near the dog’s neck and shoulder then exited from its belly.  Everything, from the dogs pushing through the open door to the shooting, supposedly transpired in those seven to eight seconds. Guydan’s report takes nearly a full written page to intricately document his every move and thought during the brief time.

     In both the football game incident and the dog shooting, senior officers arriving on the scene ushered Guydan away as quickly as possible.  At the 501 Walnut shooting, FBPD Sergeant Brandon Lee, after securing the immediate scene, spent considerable time searching for the two other dogs that got loose at the time of the shooting. The terrier-mix dog has recovered, due in part to Sergeant Lee’s approval of department funds for emergency veterinary work.

     Next River Views: How “Goldilocks” fits into the story.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  February 27, 2013

6/4/2013

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  Last week’s AVA contained a letter to the editor from a spokesperson for a group that calls itself “Friends of Enchanted Meadow (FOEM).” FOEM presently seeks $15,000 in donations for a matching grant to preserve the Albert Cattalini Conservancy, ten acres of land on and near Deadman’s Gulch close to the Albion River. The Cattalini Conservancy would link two previously protected land trust conservancies, Raven’s Call and the Enchanted Meadow Wetlands Sanctuary.

     The letter goes on, attempting “to clarify some details in the ‘River Views’ column of 2-6-13.”  According to the letter writer our county supervisors, in 2008, approved the name “enchanted meadow” for the wetlands sanctuary. The letter claims this occurred in response to community efforts to preserve river and forest habitat. The truth is that a few dozen protestors a couple of decades ago did not come close to fully stopping Louisiana-Pacific’s logging in the lower Albion, but a handful of individuals did succeed in persevering in lawsuits against L-P. Chief amongst those litigants were Beth Bosk and Zia Cattalini. As a result, Beth Bosk essentially made a gift of fifty-two acres of tidewater flats running east and northeast from the Albion Boom toward the mouth of Duck Pond Gulch to the Coastal Land Trust (not to be confused with a similarly named conservancy in North Carolina).

     Zia Cattalini is the prime mover behind the already protected Raven’s Call Conservancy and the proposed conservancy (named for her father) that is currently seeking funding. The truth is that the county planning commission and the Board of Supervisors acceded to the wishes of a handful of people (and possibly to those of Zia Cattalini alone) in approving the name “enchanted meadow,” and not to the wishes of an entire community. The approved map also calls the man-made island at the Albion Boom, “Lone Pine Island.” That man-made island has been called “the fill” for over a century by anyone who actually knew what purpose it was built for. The 2008 map approved by a Board of Supervisors, who almost always could care less what happens on the lower Albion, contains other whimsically inspired names that bear no resemblance to the place names used by Anglos in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or Pomo names that came before.

     What irritates me most about the FOEM letter writer and the group as a whole is their insistence that the fundraising poster they have tacked up in public, and which they display prominently on their website, purports to be part of the Albert Cattalini Conservancy.  IT IS NOT! The poster shows the dilapidated remains of the Deadman’s Curve railroad trestle above marshland; marshland which is part of the “Enchanted Meadows Wetlands Sanctuary,” a separate conservancy administered by different folks. The timber shown in the poster stands west and south of the Cattalini Conservancy and belongs to Mendocino Redwood Company!

     All three of these established and proposed conservancies are better stewards of the land and waterways than Mendocino Redwood Company.  Mendocino Redwood Company’s haul road adjacent to Deadman’s Gulch repeatedly fails, sending mudslides down to the river. That haul road was constructed, with state agency approval, by MRC’s immediate predecessor, Louisiana-Pacific, despite the advice of my father, Lorne Macdonald (born along the Albion in 1907), to build a gentler-sloped road up the ridgeback north of the boom.

     However, I will not support these conservancies in any public manner as long as their historically inaccurate place names remain on public maps and as long as their fundraising posters prove as deceitful as their big lumber company neighbor’s application for eighty year permits.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  February 20, 2013

6/4/2013

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A couple of weeks ago this column took the Sierra Club to task for stating that wolves kill no more than the small amount of cattle that vultures, or buzzards, do.  Let me make this clear again for any reader, even one who might use “Vulture” as part of their nom de plume: Vultures do not kill cattle.  Anyone doubting this should consult with the Turkey Vulture Society, which can be found online at vulturesociety.homestead.com.

     I did want to remind readers about what the Sierra Club does best: getting people into the great outdoors.  This February I will have ventured out on my second snowshoe trip of the season in the Sierra, both trips being sponsored by the Sierra Club, with Sierra Club trained leaders. Earlier this winter I was among fifteen skiers and snowshoers who ventured about five miles into the mountains to Bradley Hut (owned and maintained by the Sierra Club). The cost to each person for the three day trek: $38 plus a communal commissary charge of $14. If you are lucky enough to get Jim Gannon or Don Anderson as trip leaders or co-leaders, you will not come home complaining about the food.

     Of course, on that trip you had to get yourself to the Truckee area, paying for your own fuel and food on the way. The February trip to Ludlow Hut near the northeastern edge of Desolation Wilderness will be similarly priced. A basic yearly membership in the Sierra Club costs only $25. The Sierra Club also provides healthy day hikes closer to home.  One that’s caught my eye is a ten mile jaunt on the Glen Eden Trail, east of Blue Lakes, on Saturday, March 23rd.

     If you have money to burn, the Sierra Club offers trips all over the country and all over the world. If you are interested in the Sierra Club hut trips, simply join the Sierra Club and look for the notices in the “Redwood Needles” newsletter that goes out to members in our area. Generally, trips to Peter Grubb Hut set out in early to mid-December; Bradley Hut in January; Ludlow Hut in February; and Benson Hut, the most physically demanding, goes in early to mid-March.  Our January trek to Bradley, the largest of the Sierra Club huts, occurred during pristine winter weather. Right now the forecast for the Ludlow trip looks nearly as good.

    We had rain in abundance in December, but January and February have proved to be about as dry as mid-winter can get in Mendocino County.  The contrast, though noticeable is nothing compared to the weather of 1931. That September, soaring temperatures and high winds ignited the Great Comptche Fire, which burned from Big River down to the area around Dimmick State Park on the Navarro River. A mere two and a half months after that calamitous conflagration, temperatures throughout California dropped to astounding lows. Snow line in the Sierra descended to unprecedented levels. The Tuolumne canal froze solid.

     Locally, the Mendocino boy’s basketball team had to get out of their vehicles to shovel snow to reach Covelo. After licking the home team by a score of 83 to 25, they undoubtedly shoveled in a hurry to bid a hasty retreat.

     Here on the Albion, freezing temperatures sustained for days and nights on end. My great uncle, John Robertson’s, milk cow walked directly over the frozen river as a shortcut home from her grazing meadow.  A teenaged Emory Escola witnessed the cow walking on frozen water, improvised home made skates, and spent hours on the ice.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  February 13, 2013

6/4/2013

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In late summer, if you walk west along Madsen Lane in Fort Bragg and follow the dirt road to Madsen’s Hole you can splash across the Noyo River without getting your feet wet. From there it’s a short bushwhack to the railroad tracks then a couple of miles up the rail line to the six mile marker. From there, ascend the hill to the north beneath redwood and fir. You might find tiny relics where someone camped. Higher on the steep hill you’ll encounter remnants of PVC pipe.  Look closely, you might notice where the pipe’s been cut. Next, you can’t help but stumble upon the terraces dug out of the hillside.  You’re getting very close to where Jere Melo was gunned down by Aaron Bassler.

     If you want a detailed account of the Aaron Bassler case turn to Out There in the Woods by Steve Sparks and Sheriff Tom Allman. If you do nothing more than pick the book up, take a good look at the photos on the back cover. They show Aaron Bassler at age eighteen and then at thirty-four.

     The difference between the photos boils down to one thing: mental illness. Some public officials claim otherwise for a variety of reasons, but they are deluding themselves and the public they speak to and for. Whether Aaron Bassler’s behavior stemmed from a bad combination of drugs, whether or not he displayed these abnormal behaviors while under some sort of scrutiny in the county jail, are somewhat irrelevant arguments.  Aaron Bassler’s repeated behaviors as an adult were outside the accepted norms of behavior in our society.  That alone should have gotten him placed within the mental health system.

    That is, if we had a fully developed mental health system.  When I was a child in the 1950s and ‘60s, Ukiah not only housed a jail it had an even larger state hospital. My mother worked as a psychiatric social worker there.  After the state hospital closed, the number of psychiatrists and highly trained social workers decreased. Mom’s caseload expanded to cover both Mendocino and Lake Counties.

     Today, the entirety of Mendocino County’s mental health services is governed by a MSW, someone with a master’s degree in social work, not a doctor, not a psychiatric doctor. That MSW effectively serves at the whim of the county’s chief executive officer, who happens to be a nurse, but is not a trained psychiatrist.  A few years back the county CEO, under the guise of budget cuts, directed the county jail to deprive all new inmates of their previously prescribed medications for two weeks.  It does not take two weeks for most drugs to leave an individual’s system.  On the other hand an inmate who has a doctor’s prescription discontinued for two weeks is susceptible to all sorts of physical and/or mental maladies. 

     What happens if an inmate is still in the county jail after two weeks? The medical staff has been directed to then supply the inmate with the cheapest possible alternative in their drug category. For instance, an inmate/patient previously on Cyprexa is given Thorazine, an inmate accustomed to Zoloft is dropped down to Elavil.

     Readers need to be aware that the policy regarding county jail inmates and their prescriptions was not made by law enforcement.  At a Tuesday, Feb. 5th meeting with local supporters of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Sheriff Allman spoke empathetically on this subject he knows well. When queried on the issue of gun control, Allman’s response these days is, “I’ll talk about guns if we give equal time to mental health.”

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  February 6, 2013

6/4/2013

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I belong to the Sierra Club and support most of the environmental stands they take. However, they also have a way of shooting themselves in the foot, publicly. Take the January-February issue of Sierra magazine. In that publication Paul Rauber questions removing wolves from Wyoming’s endangered species list. He declares that vultures are responsible for 0.3% of cattle losses. Vultures, or buzzards, as my family always called them, clean up after the death of a bovine; they do not kill or injure cattle.  Rauber’s statistics come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Two wrongs don’t make a right.  Listing vultures as a cause for cattle loss makes one wonder if anyone at the Department of Agriculture really knows what happens in cattle ranching. Furthermore, it only lends credence to the whackos who believe every part of our federal government is out to get them. For the Sierra Club to put this into print without the slightest pause for common sense furthers the stereotype that the Sierra Club leadership (and proofreaders – if there are any these days) are a bunch of ivory tower do-gooders who wouldn’t know a bull from a cow or a heifer from Hereford.

     On a local level, we’ve had our share of folk who’d sooner chain themselves to a corporate logging gate than see a good-sized second growth tree felled. Some of those same people drove into the woods in their internal combustion engine automobiles.  When they finished their righteous protest they returned to homes made from redwood logs.

  There’s a poster appearing on coastal bulletin boards asking for funds to complete a land trust purchase in the neighborhood of Deadman’s Gulch off the lower Albion River.  The photo on the poster depicts the remains of a trestle and marsh land where the mouth of Deadman’s Gulch meets the Albion.  The area in the photo is not part of the land trust that is pleading for money.  The poster also uses the phrase “enchanted meadow.” Let me make it clear to all readers: There is no such place. That phrase is barely twenty years old and was invented by those involved in lawsuits and counter suits with Louisiana-Pacific. In other words the “enchanted meadow” phrase was a public relations concoction, no different than the slogans and jargon used by corporations to sell dog food, drugs, or toilet cleaner. No evidence exists that the so-called “enchanted meadow” was ever identified as anything more than “the field” by the Pomo who occasionally passed through for centuries or the white people who lived here for more than a century before the phrase was conjured up.  My family having been a substantial number of those white people and amongst the very few who actually conversed with the remnants of the Pomo who camped in the area, this columnist has a certain level of understanding that transcends even the most enchanted Johnny-come-lately.

     Much of the field so inaptly called “enchanted meadow” is covered with thistles, blackberry vines, and poison hemlock that should make anyone think twice about picking the berries entwined with them.  One result of those suits and counter suits from the early 1990s created a land trust property that extends west from the mouth of Duck Pond Gulch to the Albion River boom.  In that case L-P essentially hoodwinked the land trust backers into accepting a piece of property that amounts to tidewater flats.  Every bit of the actual “enchanted meadow” land trust is within the floodwater plain of the lower Albion River.  As such, it was already under the protection of state law.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  January 30, 2013

6/4/2013

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Two hundred twenty-five years ago this week Thomas Jefferson wrote to his more conservative friend, James Madison: “I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical world.”

  The 1787 rebellion Jefferson referred to occurred in Massachusetts and came to be called Shays’ Rebellion.

  Daniel Shays, a second generation Irish-American, volunteered for duty with the 5th Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War.  He rose quickly from private to captain, serving five years without pay, fighting in several battles, including Bunker Hill.

  On his return to his farm at the end of the war, Shays fell into debt along with many other farmers in central and western Massachusetts.  One of the results of the Revolutionary War involved European business interests calling in debts from American merchants along the Eastern seaboard.  Subsequently, merchants in cities and towns, like Boston, called in the debts of farmers who, for the most part in Massachusetts, lived at a subsistence level, bartering for most necessary goods.  In the hardest of times the farmers bought on credit from the town merchants, with the land they farmed as their only means of collateral.  As any reader might guess, business interests dominated the Massachusetts legislature. That lawmaking body passed bill after bill raising property taxes on small farmers. Add to this the fact that most of the farmer-soldiers of the Revolutionary War had received little of the back pay owed them by the Congress of the Confederation. The original thirteen colonies were governed by the Articles of Confederation in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War.

  Shays led a group of veterans in organized protests at courthouses throughout the rural counties of Massachusetts. When the legislature failed to act to relieve the oppressive taxes on farmers, in the late summer of 1786, Shays’ protestors took over several courthouses and shut them down.  The matter came to a head when a band of farmers’ militia faced off against a government organized militia at the Springfield, Massachusetts, armory in late January of 1787. The government militia held the day and, along with another government victory at Sheffield a month later, the rebellion was effectively put down.

  Before Shays’ Rebellion turned bloody there were calls for a new constitutional convention throughout the former British colonies. Shays’ Rebellion galvanized the merchant class in support of a stronger federal government.

  The Constitutional Convention that began in Philadelphia during May, 1787 may well have been influenced by Shays’ Rebellion.  Article IV, Section 4 of our Constitution guarantees state governments the right to put down domestic violence. Shays and many of the leaders of the rebellion had fled to other states. Article IV, Section 1 provides for the return of anyone accused of a crime from one state to another (what we think of today as extradition).  Government militia and the militia of the protestors ultimately decided the outcome of Shays’ Rebellion. The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791, states: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Read in the context of the times in which it was written, one can easily argue that a person’s right to keep arms is contingent on that individual’s willingness to bear arms as part of a state-led militia.

  It is instructive to note that James Madison played an enormous role at the Constitutional Convention while Jefferson served overseas as ambassador to France.

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  January 23, 2013

6/4/2013

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Two items from the first week in January that barely registered faint blips on the media radar:  First, Huell Howser has died.  If he is unknown to you, I’m sure PBS stations throughout California will run his California Gold series until the DVDs wear out.  That program and Videolog before it celebrated some of the most unique yet seemingly commonplace people and places of the golden state.  Spoiler alert: not the plot kind, but Huell Howser’s excitement and ebullience at finding a rock in the middle of a sagebrush wilderness can be a little hard to take in long doses. So I’m not recommending renting a weekend’s worth of California Gold episodes all at once. However, Howser’s sense of wonder was no act. A favorite show involved hunting down the exact spot of California’s northeastern corner (the rock amidst sagebrush).  Huell (His parents were named Harold and Jewel.) Howser clambered to the top of the Hollywood sign, giant wind turbines, and well up the Golden Gate Bridge.  An ex-Marine, he derived more pleasure from getting to know the workers who continually paint the high wires of the bridge than the officials who run it.  He once reunited an octogenarian animal trainer with the elephant he’d given up fifteen years before.  Of course, the elephant remembered the man and his voice, sitting up with front legs raised at first command.  Huell gushed something like, “What a glorious day when two friends get to relive the old days and share a last goodbye.”

  Goodbye, Huell.  You truly were a nugget amongst California’s Gold.

  The second piece of unnoticed news:  The federal government conditionally approved California’s health care exchange. By October, individuals and small businesses will be able to work with the California Health Benefit Exchange to buy what hopefully become competitively priced insurance plans. This is one of the final steps in the Affordable Health Care Act, or as it is known on Fox News, Obamacare (Buck up readers, the computer does not recognize Obamacare as a legitimate word.).  Huell Howser’s ghost would be excited to find out that California is among the first seven states approved to run their own health insurance exchanges, already being called “Covered California” and administered by a board of directors appointed by the governor.

  Federal subsidies will be available. A family of four earning $90,000 per year may even qualify for a slight subsidy. A family of four with earnings of $75,000 annually could expect a Covered California subsidized health care plan costing approximately $555 per month, a little less than 9% of their income.  Subsidies will be prorated based on incomes compared to the federal poverty line. The 2012 federal guidelines placed the annual poverty level income for an individual at $11,170; for a family of four at $23,050.

  I happened upon all this information about Covered California et al when I received an end of the year notice from Anthem Blue Cross that my individual insurance would be going up 21.4% as of February 1st.  Keep in mind, my plan is “grandfathered” in by the rules of the Affordable Health Care Act. In other words it existed before the law was passed.  Anthem Blue Cross does not offer it to new customers.  This plan has a deductible of nearly $6,000. I’m switching to a non-grandfathered plan for about $30 less a month, with $100 higher deductible, but one which pays for preventative exams and procedures. Come October I’ll be hunting, not for the southeastern corner of the state, but, instead, through the new plans offered by Covered California. 

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River Views  -- Published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser  January 16, 2013

6/4/2013

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                                                                                                                    Link to Anderson Valley Advertiser:  www.theava.com 

January 16th marks two hundred twenty-five years since Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

  Unlike some Mendocino County newspapers, the AVA did provide notice that Mendocino Redwood Company would be hosting public workshops on its proposed Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) and Natural Communities Conservation Plan (NCCP).  The meetings will take place January 16th and 17th at MRC’s Holquist Lane office (just off Gibney Lane, south of Fort Bragg). Unfortunately, that means most of you reading this in print will have already missed one or both of these meetings.  I was only informed about them by phone message from Mendocino Redwood Company’s Albion area forester John Andersen less than a week ahead of time.  Be that as it may, MRC is inviting input from those who miss out on January 16th and 17th to provide their ten cents worth to John Ramaley, who can be reached by phone at 463-5129. 

  Those who miss the meetings and don’t feel comfortable speaking directly to a Mendocino Redwood Company employee might follow the official method of public comment by writing to any one of the following: Eric Shott, National Marine Fisheries Service, 777 Sonoma Avenue,

Room 325, Santa Rosa, CA 95404; John Hunter, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1655 Heindon Road, Arcata, CA 95521; Chris Browder, Cal Fire, Resource Management, P.O. Box 944246, Sacramento, CA 94244-2460; or Brad Valentine, Dept. of Fish and Game, 135 Ridgeway Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95402.

  Keep in mind that Mendocino Redwood Company is seeking permits from four federal and state agencies that will run for eighty years.  These permits will apply to almost all of the two hundred thousand acres of timberland MRC owns in Mendocino County. The current deadline for public comment on the proposed plans is February 21st.  However, I received a phone call late last week from Linda Perkins, a long time Sierra Club advocate in this area.  She stated that John Hunter, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, had told her that the deadline would probably be extended for another month.  A six month extension for the public comment period would be much more realistic.  Well over a thousand pages of documents and eighty-some maps accompany Mendocino Redwood Company’s proposal.

  Of course, it is my experience that public comment doesn’t mean a lot to Mendocino Redwood Company.  At an equally poorly noticed meeting in December I made a very public comment regarding the hundred feet of barbed wire strung head high amidst MRC’s eucalyptus grove on a ridgeback separating Slaughterhouse Gulch from Deadman’s Gulch.  The barbed wire could easily be walked or run into by humans or wildlife, particularly since much of it is camouflaged by fallen strips of eucalyptus bark. If someone informed me, especially at a public forum, that a hundred feet of barbed wire dangled dangerously on the Macdonald ranch I’d be out there the next day cutting it down.  A month has transpired since that public meeting. No one from Mendocino Redwood Company, with far more manpower resources than my family’s ranch, has done anything about the hazardous barbed wire.

  Nor for that matter has Mendocino Redwood Company dealt successfully with their plans to eradicate the eucalyptus that cover dozens of acres above Slaughterhouse Gulch.  Several years ago MRC hacked the trees and squirted them with herbicide, but thousands of young eucalyptus, too small to be hacked, have sprouted up alongside in the meantime.

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