Wildlife

Bob Zybach: educated professional ... so the demographics ... that was a real change.

Lorna Grabe: Big change. Maybe John ... Bruce Johnson down here owns a lot of property and has cattle, but he also works at Hewelett-packard. So it's still a sideline.

Bob Zybach: His main income, his main professional focus is Hewelett-Packard rather than cattle ranching?

Lorna Grabe: Right, but

Bob Zybach: That's interesting.

Lorna Grabe: He does probably have the biggest spread of anybody in the Valley.

Bob Zybach: How many head does he have?

Lorna Grabe: I don't know, but his property is Dolan's and Hollister's and now he's renting Daily's and his

Bob Zybach: Does he have dozens or hundreds?

Lorna Grabe: No, he doesn't have hundreds. Probably between fifty and hundred.

Bob Zybach: Have you noticed any trends or changes in wildlife population, I know I gave you an article on a cougar that have spotted here, are there black bear in the area?

Lorna Grabe: There was once just shortly before we came here. Louise Hollister said her husband shot a bear out here ... I don't

Lorna Grabe: know why he shot it, but there was one out here in their yard.

Bob Zybach: Opossum or raccoon?

Lorna Grabe: We have lots of those.

Bob Zybach: More or less or just about the same? Do you think it's a fairly stable population, wildlife population?

Lorna Grabe: I don't know since they come out at night, but everybody has them. We've seen porcupine, we see a lot of deer, and squirrels.

Bob Zybach: More deer now than before or about the same?

Lorna Grabe: I couldn't compare, I think there's still a lot of deer.

Bob Zybach: How about beaver, are they still ... have they been trapped out of the creek?

Lorna Grabe: I haven't been on that section of creek up there, I should have asked Ted because he went last Sunday, but I think they built a dam along the main road and then people got worried, that moved in down there, that it was going to flood the road Sulphur springs Road, so they may have been moved.

Bob Zybach: How big were the fish the kids caught?

Lorna Grabe: Oh, six inches.

Bob Zybach: Ever get any over a foot?

Lorna Grabe: No. Little.

Bob Zybach: That covers just about everything I can think of, how about you? I sure appreciate it.

Lorna Grabe: Thank you.