In Cactus Canyon, Bakersfield, near Hart Park

THE ROADRUNNER

December, 2000

Volume 48 Number 11

A Monthly Publication

of The Kern-Kaweah Chapter Of The Sierra Club

Box 3357, Bakersfield, CA 93385-3357
(661) 323-5569

E-mail: kern-kaweah.chapter@sierraclub.org

December 2000 Calendar of Events

Every Thursday Evening Conditioning Hike. 4-5 miles in northeast Bakersfield area. Meet at 7 pm at the Chevron station at the corner of Highways 178 and 184. Call Leaders Eva & Gordon Nipp (661) 872-2432 or Larry Wailes, (661) 861-1186 for details.

December 13, 2000, 7:00 p.m. - Sequoia Wilderness Campaign Planning Meeting, Visalia. Contact harold Wood at 559-739-8527 for information.

Feb. 19 (Mon) Owens Peak Group Monthly Meeting. Steve Smith will show slides of the western Mediterranean. Meet at Maturango Museum, 100 E. Las Flores. 7:30 p. m. Ridgecrest. Call Dennis at 760-375-7967 or Jeanie at 760-375-8973 details.

Executive Committee Ballott

Vote for up to 5

___ Richard Garcia

___ Harry Love

___ Ara Maderosian

___ Gordon Nipp

___ Lorraine Unger

Place signature of each voter on the outside of envelope and send ballot(s) to; Monte Harper Election Committee Chair 5400 Margaret Ct. Bakersfield, CA 93306

Ballots must be received by December 30, 2000.

Candidate Statements

Richard Garcia, Exeter

I have decided to run again for the Executive Committee because I want to remain active in the ongoing battles to protect our valley's riparian wildlife and underground water supply. California does not have enough water to sustain its present rate of growth. In the upcoming fights between competing agra business factions and municipalities, the Sierra Club must step forward to save what remains of our wildlife habitat.

Harry Love, Bakersfield

My name is Harry Love, a high school teacher. I became a Sierra Club member in 1972. I have served on the Executive Committee in the 1970s and 1980s and I have been Conservation Chair and Chapter Chair. After raising three sons, I would now like to resume an active role in the leadership of the chapter. Issues of the chapter that concern me are: creating a positive image in the community, increasing outings and social activities of members, and the chapter becoming more pro-active in local environmental issues.

Ara Maderosian, Weldon

With my scientific background, I would bring to the Executive Committee experience as Conservation Chairperson, managing lawsuits and writing appeals against harmful or illegal Forest Service actions. I hike and backpack. I serve on the Kern County Elder Abuse Prevention Council. I am an advocate for elder people and trees.

Gordon Nipp, Bakersfield

I have decided to run again for the ExComm because I think that my long-time activity and experience in the Sierra Club can be valuable assets in making the best conservation-oriented decisions. I have been a member of the Ex-Com for sixteen years, serving three years as Chapter Chair. I am also Treasurer of the Quercus Fund, appointed by the national Sierra Club Board to administer several large lawsuit settlements. I feel strongly that we must be respectful of others in the Club even if we sometimes disagree. I hope to bring experience and civility to the Ex-Com.

Lorraine Unger, Bakersfield

I joined the Sierra Club 24 years ago in Los Angeles. In 1982 we relocated to Bakersfield and I went searching for kindred souls. Before I could say no, I was on the Executive Committee. Since then I have been Vice-Chair, Chair, Treasurer, and held various other offices. Last year I took over the responsibilities of the position of Council Delegate. This group is an advisory body to the Club's National Board of Directors and governance committees on chapter and regional concerns. The position is extremely interesting. I act as a laison and help with what we call "housekeeping" by working on policies, by-laws, and serving as a resource for the chapter and groups on club services. With the recent change in our by-laws the Council Delegate is now required to be on the Chapter Ex-com. Please vote for me so that I can carry on this role.

Sierra Club Calendars

If you haven't yet purchased your Sierra Club Calendars contact Dennis Burg, 760-375-7967 (Ridgecrest); Louann Nickerson, 661-833-17334 (Bakersfield); Pam Clark, 559-784-4663 (Porterville); or Georgette Theotig, 661-822-4371 (Tehachapi).

The Power of the Potter's Slough Blockade

By Mary Moy

Landowners and property rights. Farmers and water rights. Sierra Club and the environment. Disparate interests, divergent viewpoints, dissimilar philosophies. But in this forgotten corner of California, amongst walnut groves and empty roads, in a place where dirt still rules over concrete, diversity became power.

In the predawn hours on Monday, Oct. 9 members of POWER gathered in preparation to link arms, hearts and minds. The forgotten corner was Lovers Lane and Ave 272, near a section of canal known as Potter's Slough. Potter's Slough was a natural waterway before an 1882 agreement with Joseph Potter granted an easement to the irrigation district. The slough still slithers like a snake on this section of the canal. TID (Tulare Irrigation District) wants to cement line 9.7 miles of this canal. In the process, 213 noble oaks standing along the banks would be bulldozed. Great valley oaks that can live 600 years, bold silhouettes with outreached arms as dramatic as Shakespeare theater would go down.

The event was to blockade TID's attempts to bulldoze the oaks. It would be done lawfully with the property owners present to exercise their rights. Richard Garcia was the man who planted the idea. Garcia is a board member of POWER, the group of farmers and landowners opposing the project. Negotiations had broken down; a court decision halted taking of private property by TID and litigation was still pending that would argue that the granted easement is for conveying water over an earthen ditch, not to line it with cement. TID wanted to start the project, regardless. Their start date was to be Monday Oct 9.

"All we want is due process. I didn't want to see irreparable harm before we've had our due process," says Garcia. This is the way it's supposed to work in America. It was the Saturday before TID was to begin. Deciding to be proactive, Richard hustled over to Don Petersen, who was working on his walnut dryer. Thin, wiry and energetic at 65, you cannot build a piano with a low-enough key to describe Petersen. You're lucky to get two words out of him. Richard got one. When asked what he thought about doing a blockade, Petersen answered "okay" as he continued to tune his dryer. Thus the idea germinated. A native of Lemoore, Garcia is neither a farmer nor landowner on the canal. He is an officer with the Kern-Kaweah Chapter of the Sierra Club. The Petersens are walnut farmers on the corner. Don and Peggy's roots are pure Visalia. Her mother was born a Chinowth, whose mother was Fulgham, whose mother was Caldwell. Her mother's family grew up in the house that is now the restaurant "Something Fresh." Don's father started the clothing business , John Richards Menswear. They used to own the auto shop Ray Hill Brake & Wheel. They bought the ranch on the corner in 1952 and have been farming it since. A respectable lineage. "We were raised in a Christian home and we're grandparents. Who would've thought we would be out there with picket signs," says Peggy. As farmers, water is one of their biggest concerns. Peggy says their well has dropped 22 feet in the past 2 years. Even as a grandmother, Peggy knows hard work as she spryly climbs a 15 ft ladder to the top of the dryer and walks along loose planks to inspect bins of walnuts. They farm in coexistence with the wildlife. "We found foxes under the dryer," she says. "There was a family living under the oak on the canal, there was quail, we loved to watch the coyote trot across." Monday morning was uneventful. Keeping watch on Road 132 was Bob Ludekens. Born in L.A., he studied business at UCLA, was a professional Boy Scouter and now owns L.E. Cooke, a nursery in Visalia. Married 50 years to Carole, Man of the Year from the Farm Bureau, Distinguished Eagle Award from the Boy Scouts, Pacific Coast Nursery AwardŠhis office wall was once covered with plaques. Carole has removed most of them, her subtle hint for him to retire. At 70, why would he want to do that? This man sleeps only 5 hours a night.

For 58 years he has continued scouting, even hosting dinners for them. He chairs meetings and gives presentations from Cal Poly to UC Davis several nights a week.

Ludekens is a businessman who likes facts and seeks the truth. When this issue first surfaced, he did just that. He attended meetings at TID, spoke to water engineers, to KDWCD. He listened to both sides of the issue, then formed his opinion. "Before there were wells, farmers dug ditches to farm and used the natural percolation," he says. "They gave easements to the Irrigation Company to maintain the ditches, but the ditches belong to the landowner. The oaks belong to the land." He has 23 wells on 1100 acres and is concerned the project will result in higher costs to operate. But he is more concerned about what it would do to the entire area. "Exeter will be affected first since they are uphill - as Visalia's water table drops, theirs will flow down." As he puts it, "Everyone will pay for it. We will all become prisoners of water."

The first equipment arrived on Road 132 in the early afternoon. Everyone was still at Potter's Slough. A cell phone call brought the group over and the 1st blockade occurred. Seeing that they were getting nowhere, the drivers left. Michael Millsaps and his buddy, Moose, followed them to where they parked their diesel on Caldwell. "We figured the guy was going to want to take a break, so we decided to get him a nice, cold soda pop," says Millsaps. Moose is 6'5" 321 lbs, Millsaps a midget at 6'3" 285 lbs. Imagine the drivers seeing these two hulks approaching. The drivers relaxed when the hulks tossed them each a Pepsi. "We hung around and shot the breeze for an hour," says Millsaps.

The drivers had taken two other missteps. They underestimated the relentlessness of two tenacious women, Sandy Blain and Peggy Petersen. And they parked on Blain's property. Sandy's husband is Brian, president of POWER. The two women had been looking for the diesel. Now Sandy, a petite 5'2", loomed larger than the two hulks as she marched up to the drivers and informed them they were on her property and must leave.

The Blains are 5 generations of Visalians. Brian's father was in real estate. A former schoolteacher, Brian began farming in 1974 and started a nut processing plant in 1983. Blain Farms is the largest pecan grower and processor in the state. "Our biggest concern is the impact it (lining) would have on groundwater supply in the area," says Brian. He believes the adverse effects are much greater than what the TID models show. Reflecting on the blockade, he states, "We're a conservative Mormon family, not accustomed to protesting, standing in front of bulldozers."

After leaving the Blain property, the diesel headed for Potter's Slough. Millsaps zipped out in front to slow them down, so as to give the protesters time to regroup. Upon arrival, there was no one there to blockade them. The diesel started to pull onto the ditch. In a flash, Millsaps thundered out and laid down in front of it. "Those guys, they weren't gonna hurt me. We'd just been sharing Pepsis, and I make a pretty good 300 lb speedbump," he jokes. Not a stranger to risk, Millsaps grew up in Exeter, attended COS, then became Captain in the Merchant Marines. He was a roustabout on oil rigs, rode Harleys, described as a "crazy lunatic", and now works as a bouncer in Visalia's clubs. But this "crazy lunatic" likes to cook and bake. He proudly shows visitors his custom-made spice drawer next to the stove and his drop-down baking board built into the cabinet. He is a "crazy lunatic" who cares about what happens. He worries that Exeter will dry up into a sandbox.

"Exeter is such a pretty town, there is not a more attractive place," he muses. "During the 7-year drought, our wells went dry. We sit on a granite shelf. The wells can't go any deeper." A " crazy lunatic" who praises the sheriffs, "They did one helluva job."

Within seconds after Millsaps laid down, people arrived. This corner was Bryan Bennetts, a walnut farmer. Bennetts quickly drove his truck in front of the diesel. A 3rd generation farmer, Bryan claims, "Don Petersen (the low-key man) wouldn't leave me alone, convinced me it was worth the fight. I didn't want them taking my land and water, it's our heritage." Here was the 2nd blockade. The diesel backed down and left. Bennetts praises the construction company, "they were gentlemen." This time, all the protestors followed the diesel back to Road 132, site of the 1st blockade. This site was significant because it is the terminal end of the lining before entering TID territory. It is the teVelde property.

Becky and Bernard teVelde both grew up in Riverside and graduated from UC Davis, he in ag business and she in economics. Bernard's family began dairy farming in Corona. Pushed out by suburban development, the teVeldes moved to Hanford. They now have two dairies and farm row crops in Hanford, right in the middle of TID country. They also farm fruit trees on Road 132. Becky teVelde is smart, savvy, and speaks knowledgeably on environmental issues. She says they have to deal with it all the time at the dairy. "My husband has never been for it (lining)," says Becky. "He's concerned about the water, it's going to have too much effect on Visalia's water table." For Becky, it has more to do with aesthetics. They moved to Visalia 6 months ago. "We built our home nestled among the oaks," said Becky. She loves to go running and walking along the canal and enjoys the oaks. She is concerned about the big picture. "We're going to lose 200 trees, and that's sad of itself. But if the water is cut off, what's going to happen to the other trees," she asks. "In 5 to 10 years, how many more trees will die? The oaks are Visalia's charm." She thinks about the future for her 6 kids, ranging in age from 2 to 11 with a 7th due in March. "It takes 150 years for an oak tree to look like that. My kids won't get a chance to see that." Becky made the sign on the oak that everyone is talking about, "I was here first, please don't cut me down".

It was now late afternoon, the bulldozer had returned. Becky was worried "I just don't want them to do something they can't reverse." She felt like the protesters had been out there all day and said her husband felt like he could stop it by sending the bulldozer away. Bernard went out there and did just that. It was the 3rd and final blockade.

The successful blockade led to a successful court ruling granting a temporary injunction against TID. A jury trial next year will seek to make it permanent.

November Dinner

The annual Fall Dinner Social was held on Friday, November 17, at Bill Lee's Chinese Chopsticks. As is our Chapter tradition, both new and "old" members were honored. Twenty-five year members recognized were: Doris Dooley, Joanne Dudley, David Grant, Virginia Lawrence, Stephen Montgomery, and Norma and Phillip Sexton. Sequoia Task Force activist Carla Cloer was presented the "Sally and Les Reid Award" by Les Reid for her monumental efforts on behalf of the remaining sequoia groves. We then sang "Happy Birthday" to Jim Clark, our respected Chapter elder, who turned 94 years young on November 20. Following a 5 entree Chinese dinner, a slide program was given by Sandy Hare on the "Middle Knob," a vast scenic region of public lands east of Tehachapi. Plan on joining us next year for an evening of good food and warm comradery! Better yet, mark your new Sierra Club calendar for the Annual Banquet in April. See you then!

-Georgette Theotig

From the Chair

This newsletter contains a ballot for the election to our Kern-Kaweah Chapter Executive Committee. Please cast your ballot. We need to know you care, and we need to know you are reading the newsletter. Newsletters change with the times, and we are anticipating one of those changes. (See article by Paul Gipe, pg. 7.). For many years, the newsletter of this chapter has been exemplary. Why? Because Andy and Sasha Honig were uncompromising in making sure that our newsletter measured up to the best. (In recent years Kevin Royle and Larry Wailes stepped into the breech when needed), but we owe our greatest gratitude to Andy and Sasha for sustaining our newsletter through "thick and thin" for about twenty years. Talk about commitment!! If you have a skill or talent to give, please get in touch. Our strength is built on the talents of our members.

- Glenn Shellcross

Many Thanks to Our Editors

Beginning early next year the chapter newsletter, the Roadrunner, will be edited by Mary Ann Lockhart and be printed in a new format. In announcing the change, the Kern-Kaweah chapter expresses its appreciation to Andy and Sasha Honig for the often thankless task of editing the Roadrunner. After many years at the helm, the Honigs are stepping aside.

"We'll miss the look and feel of the Roadrunner that has been a hallmark of the Kern-Kaweah chapter for many years," said Glenn Shellcross, chapter chairman. "The Honigs' willingness to repeatedly perform a necessary but tedious task represents the best in volunteerism," he added. "They deserve our thanks for the keen editing that saved many of us from an embarrassing public faux pas. And they certainly deserve a medal for tolerating our many idiosyncrasies. Kudos for a job well done."

- Paul Gipe

Wind River Range Service Trip

In early August we made our way to Wyoming for a 10-day Sierra Club Service Trip in the Wind River Mtns. Arriving in Lander, we soon met the other thirteen members of our team. The leaders were from Florida while others came from Oregon, Iowa, Tennessee, Illinois, New Mexico, and of course, California.

Our destination was the Bears Ears Trail in the Popo Agie (pronounced "Po-PO-shia") Wilderness. The trail started at Dickinson Park at 9,400 ft and climbed to 11,000 ft at Adams Pass. Our base camp was in a saddle about a mile beyond the pass and about 100 yards off the trail near a large snow bank. The Forest Service packed in a large cooking tent, cooking equipment, food, and the tools for trail work. We were working on a 4-mile seg-ment of the trail beyond the base camp, ranging from 11,000 to 12,000 ft elevation. After two days of hard work we had a free day. In spite of strong cautions from the trip leader, the two teenagers, Aaron and Sanjay, joined Phyllis and me on a hike to Cathedral Peak (12,326 ft.), which we found to be an easy climb. The view of the spectacular peaks of the continental divide to the west and south was awesome. Most of the other participants spent the day hiking or lounging around and fishing at the pretty lake near camp.

The trail work continued on the fifth day. We filled in rough areas, removed large boulders, and repaired water bars. Several rangers were working with us, but left on Friday to join crews fighting the many forest fires in the west. Although the winds kept the sky fairly clear at high altitude where we were, the valleys were filled with smoke. The fires raged the whole time we were there.

On our next free day, a fairly large group of us set off to climb Mount Chauvenet (12,250 ft.) which was within a half mile of the trail area we were working. It was an easier climb than Cathedral Peak, but we had decided to descend the east ridge and traverse to Bears Ears Mountain (11,820 ft.), an unusual rock formation for which the trail was named. On the ridge we came upon some rock structures that looked very similar to the Inca walls in Peru, but of course not man-made. The actual summit of Bears Ears was a pair of joined rock towers which would require some very technical climbing skills, so we just hiked around the base of the towers.

By the next work day, some of us were becoming a little disillusioned with what we were doing. It was quite apparent that the trail was in good shape for hikers when we arrived. The damage we were repairing was all a result of heavy use by pack horses. On many of the trail days we saw several pack trains of seven to twenty horses and mules. The most irritating part was that all the work was done to "horse standards." The obvious way to lessen the impact on this wilderness is to keep the horses out! But Wyoming is a horse culture.

On the final free day, Aaron, Sanjay and I set off to climb Hobbs Peak (11,663 ft.), a class 3 summit about a mile from camp. We had a great time scrambling up the rock chimneys and across the summit blocks. Then we continued across the high plateau, climbing various high points on our way to an unnamed summit (11,877 ft) which overlooked the lakes to the north. After scrambling up six rock piles, we descended to the lake where Phyllis, Kate, and Iris were watching John catch trout. We put in another half day of work, then relaxed for most of the afternoon. An early dinner preceded an evening of skits, songs and poems by the team members.

On the tenth day we hiked back to the trailhead, where the van from NOLS (Nat. Outdoor Leadership School) transported us back to civilization and a farewell dinner in a nice restaurant. After ten days in the mountains, prime rib is better than trout!

-Phil & Phyllis Allin,
Lake Isabella

Midgebuzzings

About a year ago at the suggestion of my neighbor, who is an advocate for flowers, I joined the Green Thumb Gardening Club of Bakersfield. My motive was entirely social, in response to what I thought was my neighbor's need rather than mine. But very much to my surprise and delight, I have found myself looking forward to the monthly meetings and to communion with horticultural lore, both quaint and modern. My only regret now is over conflicts that keep me away, particularly on the days when we visit each other's gardens.

It is about one of these gardens that I must tell you now, the experience of which was such a pleasant shock that I am still living in the glow of it.

We had been given an address in Oildale, a community very well known to me, or so I thought. My neighbor and I, following directions, could not visualize a garden in territory so seemingly hostile to one. We passed houses and yards, but did not see a single flower, not even the casual hardy rose one can find most anywhere. Then, rounding a corner, we came upon a picket fence. We parked and walked to the gate that opened off a small driveway, and after that we were in another dimension. Passing through that gate conjures the kinds of childhood experiences barely remembered but evoked so beautifully in such books as The Phantom Tollbooth, The Chronicles of Narnia and, most recently, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The gate is a tollbooth, a wardrobe and a train platform all in one.

Once inside, one leaves this bleak world of care and enters the imagination of an unusually creative spirit. Iris Wheat is a gardening genius. She plants wherever there is space, and she never runs out of it. Everything that goes into the ground flourishes, whether in sun or shade, and she is full of plans for what she is going to do next. If you say, "But, Iris, where will anything else go?", she draws aside a curtain of green and says, "Why just here, love. Lots of space, you see!" She is English. Her mother, who had been a cook for the royal family, emigrated with her daughter and kept her supplied with cups of hot tea when she was digging out the space for the pond that now is filled with fish and lilies and reeds of all sorts, and is surrounded by trees - apple and lemon among them- and arbors, and, of course, flowers. Mr. Wheat grumbled that all he heard at night was the creak of the wheelbarrow as the pond was materializing, but he might as well have been talking to a wall. Mr. Monji declared that all the excavated dirt would kill the tree she piled it under, but the tree thrives.

To paraphrase Dylan Thomas, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" drives Iris Wheat, and drives away the chaff of all complaint.

Iris's small house seems to contain all the things from all the houses of her mother, her grandmothers and her aunts, and there two weeks from now she will give an English tea to usher in the Christmas season, filling the interior with people the way she fills her garden with flowers, having no space whatever, and yet never running out of it. Wild horses could not keep me away.

Officers and Committee Chairpeople

Executive Committee (All but noted codes are 661)

Chair: Glenn Shellcross, shellcrossg@earthlink.net 832-3382; Vice-Chair: Monte Harper; Secretary: Bonnie East, 832-9775; Treasurer: Gordon Nipp; Assistant Treasurer: Larry Wailes; Conservation: Ara Maderosian sfa@lightspeed.net; At Large: Arthur Unger, , Mary Ann Lockhart; Richard Garcia, Gordon Nipp.

RCC Delegates: Bonnie East, Glenn Shellcross;

Alternates: Neil Fernbaugh, Lorraine Unger

Committee Chairpeople: Conservation: Ara Maderosian; Membership: Lorraine Unger, 323-5569; Political and Compliance: Harry and Kathy Love; Council Rep: Arthur Unger; Outings: Theresa Stump, 559-781-0594; Publicity: Paul Gipe; State and Local Government: Neil Fernbaugh; Legal:Georgette Theotig; Fundraising: Richard Garcia; History: Michelle Hoffman and amp; Ann Williams; Environmental Ed.: Joe Fontaine, ; Phone Tree: Mary Ann Lockhart; Air Quality: Art Unger; Biodiversity: Harold Wood; Endangered Species: Art Unger: Energy: Paul Gipe; Environmental Justice: Art Powell; Forest Organizer: Ara Marderosian; Population Growth: Glenn Shellcross; Urban:Lorraine Unger; Wilderness/Parks/Refuges: Joe Fontaine and Gordon Nipp; Waste: Lorraine and Art Unger.

Kaweah Group (Porterville, area code 559)

Chair: Theresa Stump, 781-0594; VC: Diane Jetter; Conservation: Carla Cloer; Outings: Jim Clark

Mineral King Group: (Visalia & Hanford, 559)

Chair: Harold Wood harold.wood@sierraclub.org
Vice-Chair: Mary Moy sierraprimrose@ca.freei.net (559) 625-0287
Conservation Chair: Neil Fernbaugh, marmot@lightspeed.net (559) 798-0343
Membership and Social: Beverly Garcia gmachine@psnw.com (559) 592-9865
Outings: Brian Newton xchiker@lightspeed.net (559) 627-3571
Secretary: Nina Stone (559) 734-7362
Treasurer: Janet Wood jswood@mediaone.net (559) 739-8527
Fundraising: Richard Garcia gmachine@psnw.com (559) 592-9865
Environmental Education and Webmaster: Harold Wood harold.wood@sierraclub.org

Owens Peak Group (Desert Area Code 760)

Chair: Dennis Burge, 375-7967; V.C.: Steve Smith; Conservation: Jeanie Haye; Treasurer: Dolph Amster; At Large: Dororthy Vokolek; Outings: Don Peterson, 375-8599

Condor Group (Frazier Park & Pine Mountain)

Chair: Chester Arthur ches@frazmtn.com ; Membership: Barbara Matthews; Outings: Ray Albridge & Harry Nelson; Conservation: Kevin Royle; Hospitality: Elsbeth Feldman; Publicity; Karen Cotter: Treas: Jean & Ed Rustvold; Ast Treas: M Albridge; Newsletter: Mary Ann Lockhart; At Large: Marta Bigler

Editor: Andy Honig (661) 325-0026. Contributions of news, articles, press releases, opinion, art and photographs (black & white), letters to the editor, should be sent to: andym@lightspeed.net.

After the January, 2001 issue, the editor will be Mary Ann Lockhart: jmal@frazmtn.com
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