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Page 2, Pawhuska Journal-Capital, Wednesday, April 24, 1996
Around
the County
Continued
- From
Page One
4
Across the Fence
by
Bill Rinehart
K Pre-enrollment
Kindergarten pre-enrollment
will be held Tuesday, April
30 from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
For infor, call 287-1185 or
287-1267.
Canna Bulbs ready
Canna bulbs are ready to be
picked up at the Cemetery
Warehouse. Bring your own
containers.
Bloodmobile
PHS Student Council is
sponsoring a Red Cross
Blood Drive, April 23, 9a.m.
to 2 p.m. in the high school
library. The public is invited
to participate as well as high
school students.
'76 class reunion
The PHS Class of '76 will
hold their 20th class reunion
the week of July 19-21. For
more info, call Bruce Smith
at 918/ 287-3707.
After From Party
The Pawhuska High School
Peer Helpers Club will be
sponsoring their 5th annual
After-Prom Party following
the prom on April 27. If you
would like to volunteer or
donate to this event, contact
Chris Blackwood or Gerry
Craun at 287-1266.
Veterans Support Group
The Osage Nation Counsel-
ing Center has started a Vet-
erans Support Group, which
will meet Tuesdays at 6:30
p.m. for discussion at 518
Leahy. This is a free service.
'86 Class Reunion
The PHS Class of 1986 is
planning a ten year reunion
for July 27, 1996. For info
contact Vince Bogard at 918/
496-3732.
About Literacy
Learn about local literacy
needs and what is expected
of literacy volunteers. For
more info, call 287-1776.
Legion and Auxiliary
American Legion Post 198
and Auxiliary meet at 7 p.m.
on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday
of each month at 614 E. 13th
Street. All members please
attend when possible.
Osage Nation Counseling
Osage Nation Counseling
Center is continuing to offer
ongoing group counseling to
persons who are interested
in addressing co-depend-
ence issues. Call 287-2773
for information. There is no
charge for services.
Pawhuska Walkers
The Old High School Gym is
open for walkers from 5:15
until 8 a.m. daily. Also, the
National Guard Armory op-
en daily from 8-9 a.m. for
walkers.
Masonic Meetings
Wah-Shah-She Lodge #110
meets at 7:30 p.m. the second
and fourth Tuesdays of each
month. Masonic Lodge is at
136 1/2 E. Main, Pawhuska.
Note to readers: Any
item placed in Around The
County cannot be for-profit.
If an admission is charged or
there is a cost for a dinner or
other function, it will have to
be placed as a paid ad.
Briefs Wanted
News briefs are wanted for
the "Around the County" ,
column. Bring your infor-
mation to the Journal-Capital
at 700 Kihekah Ave. or mail
to P.O. Box 238, Pawhuska,
74056.
Rains...
"If these acreages are produ-
cable then feed prices may start
to relax for next season feeder
cattle. This wold be a bright
spot in what has been a very
poor season up to this point."
Drummond urges everyone to
appreciate the cost of beef
when you go into the grocery
store. "In some stores you can
find great sales on hamburger.
A year ago hamburger was on
sale for $ a pound and now you
can find it on sale for 70-cents a
pound."
Another way of looking at the
ranchers’ financial challenge
is: cattle today are worth about
one-half of what they were
three years ago, Drummond
said.
In Washington County, Pirtle
said, there are about 40,000
head of cattle. "Cattle and
calves generate about $12 mil-
lion in sales annually for local
ranchers and farmers."
Drummond said in a normal
year ranchers would want to
burn off their pastures but not in
a drought year like 1996. "All
these fires are disasters ... de-
stroy fences ... ranchers want to
save all the grass they can."
He noted that ranchers do not
burn off their grass — not when
there is a fire ban, 27 percent
humidity and 40 mile-per-hour
winds to fan the flames.
Chamber...
ners in their businesses welcom-
ing visitors and in support of
National Tourism Week, other
activities are still in the plan-
ning stage.
"The Chamber of Commerce
Team Tourism Committee is
looking forward to celebrating
National Tourism Week with
the community of Pawhuska,"
said DeNacyer. "We hope
that the community will take
the opportunity to recognize
the importance of tourism in
Pawhuska and celebrate with
us."
HELP workshop
Recycling rates
The HELP Workshop, located at
219 Lincoln, will accept only alu-
minum cans for recycling on Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays,
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The rate is
now 35€ per pound.
PAWHUSKA
JOURNAL-CAPITAL
CORRECTION POLICY
As a matter of policy, the Pawhuska
Journal-Capital will publish correc-
tions of errors in fact that have
been printed in the newspaper.
The corrections will be made as
soon as possible after the error has
been brought to the attention of the
newspaper's editor at 287-1590.
The Nature Conservancy will eventually be one of the largest
private institutional bison owners in the country. Although the
herd on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve is the largest, there are
also bison herds at other Conservancy locations. When the pre-
serve herd reaches peak size of 2,100 head, other TNC locations
will peak out with another 900 head.
Institutionally, then, The Conservancy will plateau at 3,000 an-
imals. Of this number, about 1,000 head will be sold each year
from all Conservancy locations. Some 700 bison will be sold annu-
ally from the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. Moving this many ani-
mals in the same time frame will provide a significant logistical
challenge for the folks involved.
The market future for bison looks promising. The demand for bi-
son meat is increasing and as a result so are the number of bison
herds.
The bison industry is also becoming more sophisticated as exem-
plified by the Gold Trophy sale that is held in Denver each Jan-
uary. This sale offers high-dollar judging competition followed by
an auction. At the last sale, $61,000 was paid for a yearling bull
and $20,000 for a yearling heifer.
Last year, young, breeding-age females went for $2,000. Nation-
ally, the bull calf price has been in the $700-$900 range. Six-
month-old females bring as much as $1,700. That's twice as much
as for males and primarily because more people are going into the
bison-raising business.
Now is a good time to be selling bison, but a bad time to buy them.
Unfortunately, the preserve herd is not where it needs to be to take
advantage of the current market for females. To date, none have
been sold. Only bulls.
The big bison herds are located in the midwest, but other herds
are found scattered all over, even in Hawaii. Bob Hamilton, assis-
tant director and director of science and stewardship for the pre-
serve, and from whom the information for this article was ob-
tained, his first-hand knowledge of bison burgers being available
in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai.
The ban on burning altered this year's spring burning program
originally scheduled to begin in early to mid-March. The original
plan was to burn around 15,000 acres. A general guideline is to
leave at least half of the preserve unburned in any given year.
Since the burning ban has been lifted, the spring burning program
has begun. Most of the spring burning will be in the cattle-ranched
area. Some burning, however, will be in the bison unit where sum-
mer and fall burns are also planned.
A winter grazing program, that has not deleterious effect on the
plant community, is in effect at the preserve under a separate leas-
ing arrangement. This program provides that starting in Novem-
ber, after plant dormancy has set in, the lessee may begin bringing
in cattle.
The animals brought in under the winter grazing program require
supplemental feeding during the winter months. By mid-March
this year there were 4,800 head of cattle on the preserve.
Winter grazing fits in well with the Conservancy's program to
diversify the landscape. The cattle beat down certain areas and
the result is that spring burns are a little patchier. This is benefi-
cial for butterflies, insects, small animals, and prairie nesting
birds.
The summer grazing program will put 9,000 head of cattle on the
preserve during the 90-day grazing period. During the spring,
when many ranchers are shipping cattle to the tallgrass prairie
for the 90-day pasturing period, competition for trucking gets quite
heavy, the winter grazing program lightens the burden of securing
trucks during this busy time.
The overall cattle grazing program compliments the Conser-
vancy's bio-diversity management efforts. The early intensive
grazing system coupled with trucking the animals off the preserve
in July, allows for good plant regrowth during the second half of
the growing season. This procedure allows the plant community to
come back so there is ultimately a lot of potential fuel to support
the fall burning program.
Good weather is typically experienced on the prairie during Oc-
tober and November. That's also the time when bison sales are
taking place around the country. After annual fall roundup, the bi-
son herd will be culled by selling animals, primarily bulls.
Custer State Park has its big sale in the fall, there are a couple of
sales in Kansas, and last fall for the first time there was a bison
consignment sale at Perry, OK. For private producers, it's just like
selling cattle at a livestock barn, as the same facilities are used.
The marketing operation of bison is becoming more cattle-like.
Hamilton says a few head of bison may be taken to the Perry sale
next fall. Male animals will also be sold then at other consign-
ment sales as well as through sealed bid sales.
Individual winners
Pawhuska BPOE Lodge 2542 Ritual Team members Alan Wilson
and Bruce Cotton won individual plaques in the state competition
held April 19-21 in Oklahoma City. (Photo by Jeanette Poston).
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Dear Editor,
I am again very proud of our citizens and organizations for their
participation in our Spring Clean Up Week.
Special thanks go to our City crews and Don Stephens for their
cleaning downtown streets, sidewalks and building entrances.
Dean Branson and the park and electric crews for cleaning brush
from the dangerous curve around Williams Park and general clean
up.
Also, thanks to the County crews for cleaning and clearing brush
around the Courthouse and work on roads coming into Pawhuska.
The Osage Agency crews did a great job this spring n clearing the
Agency campus of litter and cleaning the yards of the four re-
stricted Indian houses within the city limits.
Also, thanks to State personnel for cleaning and maintaining
right-of-ways on Main Street and Lynn Avenue to the intersection
of the new highway.
Thanks to all of the service clubs -- Rotary, Kiwanis, Elks and
Lions Club for their participation.
The schools were involved this year with Roy Lamoreaux and
Whit Culver piloting the efforts of the Key Club and Student
Council in picking up litter on the school grounds and parking lots.
They also made announcements at the Jr. High and Elementary
schools on the advantages of having a litter free city.
Thanks to all people involved.
All in all, it was a great program and the city looks much better
for the effort. Let's all try to make it an on-going, year long pro-
ject. keep our city clean and trash free so we can be proud of it. It's
our home town!
Dear Editor,
A great sorrow has been laid upon our community, the loss of Ben
Johnson.
Ben was the best ambassador Osage County could hope for. He
represented our people with dignity everywhere he went. Ben was
a role model that cannot be equaled. His principles need to be re-
newed. Ben's respect for his father and mother should be a model
for others.
Joe Colby and I attended many gatherings in Las Vegas to honor
Ben. Movie stars, dignitaries were all there in his honor.
The attendance at his funeral is proof of how he was loved and
respected. People came to Pawhuska from all over the United
States to honor his memory.
In his memory, Osage County residents need to come together and
establish a park, with a bronze statue of Ben, so the ones that fol-
low us will always remember the legacy of Ben "Son" Johnson.
Sincerely,
3 -s-John L. Dahl
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City workers clean up limbs and debris from trimming trees around Williams Park during Clean Up,
Paint Up and Fix Up Week in Pawhuska. (J-C Photo by Larry Lucas).
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