fire – Schmidlin Angus Farms

Cowpies to Treetops

Too Close For Comfort

I have been mentioning how dry the forest and farm are this year. The last measureable rain we had fell

A couple of years ago, there was an item on the local ballot about spending what seemed to be quite

Although we are very concerned about the dry season of our farm and forest, the southern part of Oregon is

We are vigilant during our Level IV fire danger. Level IV shuts down the woods completely. No logging is occurring

While we watch the sky and sniff the wind for tell-tail smoke, the fruit trees are ripening at a quick

It had been a rather quiet winter, no big storms, no week long deluges. The beginning of springtime had been

I can only describe it as nearly raining most of the last few days. The clouds are dreary and heavy

Where we are up the hill cleaning up the winter storm damage, we came across this tree that shows evidence