Volume XVI Issue 167

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

The three-day event was not held last year due to scheduling conflicts but will return this year for the 13th annual festival.

The very popular Susanville Music Camp will also return, and will start at 10:00a.m., on June 18th, and run through the 20th. Music camp is $175 and attendees can purchase discounted festival passes.

Fairgrounds gates will open for camping beginning Sunday, June 16th. Included with the festival is an air-conditioned secured quilting room, 75+ RV sites with power and water, pets allowed, lighted picking areas at night.

A three-day festival pass is $90 and you can click here to purchase them online.

For more information visit the Susanville Bluegrass Festival’s website.

Bluegrass favorites Red Dog Ash will be performing here again this year.

Under this competitive grant program, CAL FIRE purchases or accepts donations of conservation easements or fee titles of productive forest lands from willing sellers, to encourage long-term conservation throughout the state.

The solicitation for these grants is two-part: first, a pre-application must be submitted, which will be ranked and scored; second, successful pre-applicants will be invited to complete a full application that will be considered for funding. The pre-application period is open from March 18th, 2024, to April 16th, 2024. Invitations to complete a full application will be made by May 7th, 2024, with the full application period open until June 7th, 2024.

A field visit by CAL FIRE staff to the potential project properties is required.

Additional application information including grant guidelines, eligibility requirements, and deadlines can be found on the Forest Legacy Program website. All grant work must be completed by June 30th, 2028.

Funding to conserve working forests is provided through the Budget Act 2023.

Administered by CAL FIRE’s Forest Legacy Program, this critical funding works to ensure that forests are safeguarded for future generations while also aiding the state in meeting critical climate and carbon goals. Protection of California’s forests through these grants ensures they continue to provide such benefits as wildlife habitat, recreation opportunities, watershed protection and open space, and supporting sustainable wood product economies.

The tournament is limited to 144 players so make your reservations soon. To reserve a spot, fees must be received by May 1st.

Prizes will be awarded for the longest drive and closest to the pin.

This golf tournament has helped to raise a substantial amount of funds over the years, providing safe and sober events for graduating seniors.

For more information or to register a team please call Lacey Carney at 530.252-1800 or visit the Susanville Highway Patrol office at 472-400 Diamond Crest Rd.

To download a printable 2024 Sober Grad Golf Tournament registration sheet click here.

Would your business or organization like to contribute to the tournament? Perhaps sponsor a hole?

The 140 Squad Club relies greatly on local businesses and community members from both Lassen and Plumas counties to promote this event by sponsoring tees and providing raffle prizes.

100% of donations support the school from the county in which it was raised. Lassen County donations support Lassen High grads and Plumas County donations go to Chester High School Sober Grad events.

Interested in helping sponsor? call Lacey Carney at 530.252-1800.

“I am excited and grateful to have the opportunity to serve as District Ranger for Eagle Lake Ranger District where I started my career with the Forest Service as a seasonal employee years ago. I look forward to meeting you, and sharing ideas on how we can work together to be good stewards for our public lands for present and future generations,” said Bobette Jones, Eagle Lake District Ranger, Lassen National Forest.

“Have you ever wanted to explore one of our wildland fire engines, buggies, or the tracked equipment we use to navigate deep winter snows?” asks LNF Public Affairs Officer Amber Marshall, “Come explore with us and hang out with Smokey Bear! Learn what you can do to help prevent wildfires.”

Easter Egg Hunts will be held for three age groups, with one special “Golden Egg Grand Prize” winner in each of the three groups: ages 4 and under, ages 5 through 9, and ages 10 through 15.

Don’t forget to check out the Forest Service’s visitor center and see the interpretive displays and information at the front desk while you’re there. To find out more information about this open house call the Eagle Lake Ranger District at 1.530.257.4188 during regular business hours.

All proceeds benefit Monticola’s local scholarships and community projects.

Looking across Leavitt Lake from Bass Hill in the late 1930’s -from an Eastman Studios postcard

Bone of Bison Found by Crew

March 26, 1952

What was believed to be the tusk of a mastodon was unearthed recently by a county road crew digging in a gravel pit about two miles west of Standish. However, when scientists at the University of Californian’s department of paleontology examined the relic they found it to be the horn core of an extinct bison, “tremendously more important as scientifically” than a mastodon tusk would have been.

D. E. Savage, assistant professor of paleontology and museum curator, wrote T. W. Ogilvie, county road commission as follows: “The fossil specimen arrived today in excellent condition. To my surprise, it is not a tusk of a mammoth or mastodon at all, but the horn core of a giant-long-horned bison. The technical name of this species is Bison Latifrons, and we have reason to believe that these animals lived in California until only a few thousand years ago.

“The find is tremendously more important scientifically than a mammoth would have been, and we will certainly get up there as soon as the weather permits.

“Skeletal bones have never been found definitely associated with Bison Latifrons, and if you have a complete skeleton it would make quite an addition to the knowledge and paleontological records on these extinct beasts.

“I have enclosed a photo of a skull of a Bison Latiforms placed next to a skull of a living bison; the fossil must have been a third larger than the recent animal.”

The horn core was excavated at a depth of approximately 40 feet, Ogilvie said. It is about five or six inches in diameter.