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A regular but very special meeting of the MCRCD
At the Meadowcliff Restaurant Oct. 13, the Directors of the Mono County Resource Conservation District (MCRCD) convened their regular meeting for a very special, you might say historic, occasion.
Mike Hayes from the Minden USDA Service Center acted as host until chairman Stan Hunewill and Directors Bennie Romero and Lauren Davis arrived. Item nine on the agenda was boosted to number one following their luncheon with Gerrit Buma, District Conservationist and three distinguished representatives of the University of Nevada at Reno: Rang Narayanan, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Outreach and Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics; Jean Guisti Cabon, Development and Alumni Relations, Director of Development and Public Relations and Bob Conrad, MA, Director of Marketing Communications and College.
UNR scholarship award
Dr. Narayanan presented Chairman Hunewill with a plaque of appreciation on behalf of the college. An annual agricultural scholarship is being funded by a $10,000 endowment from the MCRCD. The scholarship is their answer to "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm?"--a question first raised in 1918-19. Farm boys returning from World War I found that raking and plowing were a bit dull after time off in Paris. The exodus has continued until today. Farmers now make up less than two percent of all families nationwide.
In Mono County, agriculture showed an overall decline between 1992 and 1997, according to the County Housing Element updated in May 2004.
The number of farms decreased from 73 to 63; acreage...decreased from 103,294 acres to 68, 813. In accepting the award, soft spoken Chairman Hunewill said, "We need to keep young people in our county and in agriculture. The best way to do that is to have them get an education in agriculture, come back...and take care of the land."
He quietly practices what he preaches on the 4,400 acre, Hunewill Circle H Guest Ranch, a working cattle ranch founded by his family in 1861. Even his guests come back! Most recently Dr. Ken Gardner, now retired and living in Minden was happy to share his experiences as 'a city boy going country' in a program in Lee Vining. He has edited two books of poetry inspired by the summer campfire programs at the ranch and containing the art and poetry of "valley laureate" Sallie Joseph.
Agriculture has changed since the old days
Director Bennie Romero described his astonishment upon revisiting a university campus.
He found that studies had expanded past traditional ag disciplines to include nine different laboratories involved in areas of biotechnology.
The graduates of the world would be even more astonished at Dr. Narayanan's Department of Applied Economics and Statistics.
There is a course that focuses on the evaluation of such non-market goods, as "environmental amenities" (natural resources, clean air, clean water and recreation) without shortchanging the needs of the local community.
Scholarship program will be awarded in June 2005
Criteria includes a 3.0 grade point average, financial need and admission to a degree program within the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources.
For information contact Dr. Narayanan at 784-1616.
Meeting date changed
The regular meeting for the Eastern Sierra Unified School District has been changed from Oct. 20 to Oct. 27 at Lee Vining High School.
-- Selma Calnan can be reached by e-mail at poet1@gbis.com or by phone at (530) 495-2633.
At the Meadowcliff Restaurant Oct. 13, the Directors of the Mono County Resource Conservation District (MCRCD) convened their regular meeting for a very special, you might say historic, occasion.
Mike Hayes from the Minden USDA Service Center acted as host until chairman Stan Hunewill and Directors Bennie Romero and Lauren Davis arrived. Item nine on the agenda was boosted to number one following their luncheon with Gerrit Buma, District Conservationist and three distinguished representatives of the University of Nevada at Reno: Rang Narayanan, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Outreach and Professor of Applied Economics and Statistics; Jean Guisti Cabon, Development and Alumni Relations, Director of Development and Public Relations and Bob Conrad, MA, Director of Marketing Communications and College.
UNR scholarship award
Dr. Narayanan presented Chairman Hunewill with a plaque of appreciation on behalf of the college. An annual agricultural scholarship is being funded by a $10,000 endowment from the MCRCD. The scholarship is their answer to "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm?"--a question first raised in 1918-19. Farm boys returning from World War I found that raking and plowing were a bit dull after time off in Paris. The exodus has continued until today. Farmers now make up less than two percent of all families nationwide.
In Mono County, agriculture showed an overall decline between 1992 and 1997, according to the County Housing Element updated in May 2004.
The number of farms decreased from 73 to 63; acreage...decreased from 103,294 acres to 68, 813. In accepting the award, soft spoken Chairman Hunewill said, "We need to keep young people in our county and in agriculture. The best way to do that is to have them get an education in agriculture, come back...and take care of the land."
He quietly practices what he preaches on the 4,400 acre, Hunewill Circle H Guest Ranch, a working cattle ranch founded by his family in 1861. Even his guests come back! Most recently Dr. Ken Gardner, now retired and living in Minden was happy to share his experiences as 'a city boy going country' in a program in Lee Vining. He has edited two books of poetry inspired by the summer campfire programs at the ranch and containing the art and poetry of "valley laureate" Sallie Joseph.
Agriculture has changed since the old days
Director Bennie Romero described his astonishment upon revisiting a university campus.
He found that studies had expanded past traditional ag disciplines to include nine different laboratories involved in areas of biotechnology.
The graduates of the world would be even more astonished at Dr. Narayanan's Department of Applied Economics and Statistics.
There is a course that focuses on the evaluation of such non-market goods, as "environmental amenities" (natural resources, clean air, clean water and recreation) without shortchanging the needs of the local community.
Scholarship program will be awarded in June 2005
Criteria includes a 3.0 grade point average, financial need and admission to a degree program within the College of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Natural Resources.
For information contact Dr. Narayanan at 784-1616.
Meeting date changed
The regular meeting for the Eastern Sierra Unified School District has been changed from Oct. 20 to Oct. 27 at Lee Vining High School.
-- Selma Calnan can be reached by e-mail at poet1@gbis.com or by phone at (530) 495-2633.
