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Grange 577 - Lake Earl Grange
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Fort Dick California
MISSION STATEMENT
- In Essentials, Unity
- In Non-Essentials, Liberty
- In All Things, Charity
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National Grange History
On December 4, 1867, in a small Washington, D.C building that housed the office of William Saunders, Superintendent of
Propagating Gardens in the Department of Agriculture, the Order of Patrons of Husbandry was born. Here, sitting around a plain
wooden table, a small group of seven earnest men, planned what was destined to become a vital force in preserving and expanding
American democracy. They were all men of vision, they had faith in God, in their fellow men and in the future. The Seven Founders
of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry were:
- Oliver Hudson Kelley
- William Saunders
- Aaron B. Grosh
- John R. Thompson
- Francis M. McDowell
- William M. Ireland
- John Trimble
- (Assisted by Caroline Hall)
Their names are inscribed on a Birthplace Marker located near the site of the original building on the south side of 4th
Street SW, near Madison St on the Mall. The marker was officially dedicated on September 9, 1951 and is the only private monument
on the Mall.
ORIGINS OF THE GRANGE
Oliver Hudson Kelley is regarded as the father of the Grange movement.
He was born in Boston in 1826, and in early life took up a homestead in Minnesota.
In 1856, Kelley, having served
several years as a member of the small staff of the newly created Department of Agriculture, was authorized by the first Commissioner
of Agriculture, Isaac Newton, to make a survey of farm conditions in the South following the Civil War.
During this
time Kelley conceived the idea that a fraternal organization, composed of farmers from all sections of the country, would
help heal the scars caused by the war, as well as improve the economic and social position of the farm population.
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his return to Washington, Kelley communicated his ideas to some of his friends in government service, and enlisted their support.
These men framed a ritual consisting of seven Degrees and a constitution and met in the office of William Saunders
in Washington, D.C. on December 4, 1867, to formally organize the National Grange. Miss Caroline A. Hall, a niece of O.H.
Kelley, who long served as his secretary, was the first to suggest that women be admitted to membership on a basis equal to
men.
Resigning his position in the Department of Agriculture, Kelley then left Washington on April 3, 1868, to establish
the new organization throughout rural districts. On April 16, 1868, in Western New York, he founded Fredonia Grange No. 1,
which is still an active Grange today.
Before the close of the year 1872, over a thousand Granges, located in more
than half of the states of the Union, were organized. Kelley and his family then moved to Washington, D.C. to live. It was
in the parlor of this home in Georgetown, January 8, 1873, that the National Grange first met as a representative body, with
27 delegates from eleven states.
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Lake Earl Grange
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FOREST FIRE SEASON
July 7, 2007
Note: While you may not live in these states, you likely know someone that does. Please, share this information
with them and encourage others to forward this information. Summertime is peak vacation season and people from other parts
of the country, and world, may venture into areas, unaware of the extreme fire danger. Fire -- especially with the "roadless
initiative, which closes roads and makes fire fighting much more difficult and presents a much greater danger to property
owners, firefighters, domestic stock, pets, and wildlife due to the lengthened response time -- continues to present property
owners with yet another cross to bear. From the "Endangered Species Act" to water use to the camel's-backbreaking regulatory
burdens, fire adds another real threat to private property. Year-to-date: 2,012,352 acres burned; 48,651 fires in the following
Twelve States: Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah,
and Wyoming.
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Heavy fire activity was reported throughout the West. Nevada and Idaho were hit the hardest with
lightning, igniting a total of 20 new large fires. Fire danger will remain high in the western states even though the temperatures
are predicted to drop 10 to 15 degrees.
With summer here, many people are enjoying the outdoors. When you work and play in our precious
forests and rangelands, it’s critical for you to be FIRESAFE. Be sure to have spark arresters on equipment and vehicles
like chain saws, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. Modern exhaust systems can easily ignite vegetation, so drive and park
in designated areas, and avoid dry brush and grass. Make sure your campfires are dead out by using dirt and water and stirring
the coals. And remember that fireworks have no place on public lands. For current information about fire restriction in your
area, please contact your local public land agency.
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The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), located in Boise, Idaho, is the nation's support center for wildland
firefighting. Eight different agencies and organizations are part of NIFC. Decisions are made using the interagency cooperation
concept because NIFC has no single director or manager.
History
The Boise Interagency Fire Center (BIFC) was created in 1965 because the US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management
(BLM), and National Weather Service saw the need to wrok together to reduce the duplication of services, cut costs, and coordinate
national fire planning and operations. The National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs joined BIFC in in the mid 1970s.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service later joined in 1979. The Center's name was changed in 1993 from the Boise Interagency Fire
Center to the National Interagency Fire Center to more accurately reflect its national mission.
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How far can you look and not see evidence that you
need the timber industry? It is everywhere, from the toothpick you use after a meal to the toilet paper to the supporting
home walls and the frames around your family's treasured photographs. Because the venue of the logger is often in places
distant to most of the population, we consider him or her as we contemplate the trucker: we see the truck but not its
driver, the wood products but not the human beings who worked long and arduous hours to make them available to us. Wood is
a renewable resource. The United States Forest Service is a branch of the Department of Agriculture, and wood is a crop,
to be tended and harvested. If those in charge of it are not good stewards of land and water, their livelihood will
be a self-fulfilling disaster. The healthier private enterprise becomes, the healthier the forests and the industry
will be.
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Tree Farming - BIG TREE Farming
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"And
now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our forest policy. That object
is not to preserve forests because they beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor because they are refuges for the wild
creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land
policy of the Unites States, is the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making in our
country. Every other consideration comes as secondary. You yourselves have got to keep this practical object before your minds:
to remember that a forest which contributes nothing to the wealth, progress, or safety of the country is of no interest to
the Government, and should be of little interest to the forester. Your attention must be directed to the preservation of forests,
not as an end in itself, but as the means of preserving and increasing the prosperity of the nation." - Teddy Roosevelt, speaking
to the Society of American Foresters in 1903.
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"And
now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our forest policy. That object
is not to preserve forests because they beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor because they are refuges for the wild
creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land
policy of the Unites States, is the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making
in our country. Every other consideration comes as secondary. You yourselves have got to keep this practical object
before your minds: to remember that a forest which contributes nothing to the wealth, progress, or safety of the country is
of no interest to the Government, and should be of little interest to the forester. Your attention must be directed
to the preservation of forests, not as an end in itself, but as the means of preserving and increasing the prosperity of the
nation." - President Teddy Roosevelt, speaking to the Society of American Foresters in 1903. (emphasis added)
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