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[ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:36 ]

Legacy Journal: Haying in the upper John Day River Valley

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“Hay is the foundation of civilization in the northern climes"---- futurist, physicist, and Templeton Award winner Freeman Dyson. Chandler Hereford’s of Baker, Oregon agrees.

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Going Green at Sixteen by Doug Fisk, May 2008

For the Fisks and the Forrests mid-July in the fifies was a time for three generations to gather and Go Green.

On working cattle ranches in the upper John Day Valley of eastern Oregon, haying season was and is serious business and a heck of a lot of fun.

The Forrest ranch is 4,000 acre spread located just up river to the east of the pioneer village of Prairie City. In its “hayday” “the ranch” was a cow and calf operation that shipped 1200 lb, lean and meaty 2year old grass fat steers to the Portland market or to a buyer from Safeway markets. The deal was usually make on a handshake,

One square mile of the ranch was green irrigated wild natural meadow grass that was mowed, sun dryed, winnow raked into rows, bucked up in bunches, and piled into loose two story high mounds using an overshot stacker. It was kind of a 2 weeks blitzkrieg that was hopefully free of thundershowers. The harvest result became winter fodder and the only feed for the herd of carefully bred Herefords. Home grown, individually selected, broad beamed cows, their gestating calves to be, range bulls imported from Red Bluff, CA, this year’s weaners, and last year’s yearlings were all the beneficiaries of open field winter feedings that were hand pitched daily from a low-rider hay wagon. It was a cycle that was self sustaining, season driven and largely powered by machines that had replaced the preWWII one, two, and four horse powered teams hitched to primitive iron wheeled implements.

Now, rubber shod Ford tractors were fitted with mowing machines and blades that were carefully sharped daily, a canvas canopied WWII jeep pulled the winnow rack, and the power hay bucks, pickup victims of road kill that were rescued, repaired and given new life in the winter shop. darted about the field like hounds fetching rabbits. A big green stationary John Deere diesel was outfitted with a long ponderosa pine fork received the catch for overshot loose hay stacking in the field

The machine operators were mostly family high schoolers who gathered from around the state to bunk out at Uncle Orrin’s ranch, help in the kitchen, feast and put on weight around Auntie Christina’s huge table, man the equipment, and shoot some spirited pool in the basement after the evening chores were finished. My red haired teen age cousin John was an only child, so he particularly benefited from the youthful annual gathering of the youthful hay crew.

One memorable summer, Jimmy Howard , a Prairie City townie, and I were the designated power hay buck jockeys. We had a spirited racing competition. Our cockpit perches were open air, the wind was in our unprotected faces, the bugs between out teeth , and our saddle-like seats were unbelted. The game was to see who could deliver the most hay to the stacker from soggy and slippery ditch banks and from the far fences bordering the fields. The hazards included the ignomy of getting stuck in the mud or running a fork down a gopher hole. The competition continued after dinner around the green felt pool table in ranch house basement with Uncle Orrin quietly and approvingly looking on.
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His ancient fiddle and his player piano was by that time mute and unused upstairs in the parlor where Strawberry Mountain to the south was framed in a picture window.

The times, they do change. The ranch was a major part of my uncle’s life. He had passed on college to inherit the property from Grandpa Clyde. That was the verbal bargain they made made many years prior and he had no regrets. However, were he alive today, he would be saddened, if not despirited, by recent news. The ranch has been sold by the third generation to the Consolidated Indian Tribes of the Warms Springs out of Madris on the Deschutes River near Billy Chinook Resevoir. The tribe is now the largest private land owners in the state.

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[ Thursday, April 03, 2008 06:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Rochester Rites of Spring: Squash, Squash, and more Squash

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Opinion

Summary:
“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ----- Aristotle

* The University of Rochester and the local Squash Racquet community is hosting a “Satellite” Pro event. Erika and Jon Little of Brighton are hosting Armando Olguin , a teaching and touring Pro from the San Francisco Bay area.

As the ground unfreezes, it near time to plant what the Seneca Indians call the “Three Sisters”—corn, beans and squash.

* It is also time to squash a few delusions and predictions : the pending American Hurricane Season, the Future of the American Democrat Party, the state of the American Economy, the failure of American Public Education, the degenerate state of the New American Generation, the Coming Collapse of the Global Climate System, ---- etc.

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: The game of Squash seems to be having a mini surge of popularity. Young kids are being signed up by their parents for lessons in Manhattan, NY to Marin Country, CA. Elitist and expensive, it is seen as a way to starting networking toward the Ivy League and Wall Street. In 2003 Forbes magazine rated the game as the # one fitness sport. Impact injuries are rare. Cardio-aerobics are rated at at 800 - 1,000 kcal/hr among top Pros. Upper, core, and lower body muscle strength and speed are required. Endurance, mental toughness, consistency, and practice discipline complete the competition package.

Clearly, the game has gone global with roots in the British Empire and Commonwealth. Youngsters of 23-26 are top ranked. English is the universal language of the sport. The top players come from Egypt, Scotland, Pakistan. Mexico, Colombia and Canada contribute their share of young, mobile talent. College recruits in upstate NY come from Japan, the Ukraine, and even Pennsylvania. Senors also play the game

:: Prof Jared Diamond of Guns, Germs and Steel fame and fortune, continues, as he has for 10 years now, to remind us from his video reruns that geography, geology, climate, and the accidents of migration have much to do with food production, animal domestication, surplus, technology , social organizations and the sustainability( or not) of primitive cultures. The recently the DNA story, grave site
Aztec archeology in Peru, and Native American finding in Oregon have all added complexity and new time lines to the more simple Diamond narrative and interpretation.

::: Experts from Colorado fearlessly continue to make their embarrassingly bad annual predictions. The 2008 Hurricane season edition in now out. A related inconvenient embarrassment is the $6 per bushel of corn and the $4 per gallon price of diesel full. What happened to all the environmental happy talk about how using corn alcohol and stopping oil exploration and drilling was key to controlling global fever.

Today’s temperature bullseye is Yuma, Arizona where the all time low of 13 degrees was recorded within the past 5 years. The another bullseye is the international hot spot , Venezuela, where General Chavez has announced his intent to nationalize the cement industry. Cemex of Mexico is the major external investor

In addition, the Wigley article from the NCAR on the assumptions of the IOCC on carbon emissions rates and published the early April edition of Nature, the weekly international science journal, is yet another wakeup call at the credibility of some of the IOCC Climate Commission’s claims. From nytimes., science writer, Andrew C. Revkin does a partial journalistic mea culpa on his previous “ robins in Inuit land” reporting. To his credit, Revkin does acknowledge that the error was reported by the climatologist Patrick J. Michaels on a blog site at World Climate Report..

Meanwhile, the good new is that the baseball and local lake and stream trout season is underway.

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[ Wednesday, December 26, 2007 13:50 ]

Legacy Journal: Winter action in Iowa, Utah, and on the Ski Slopes.

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Briefs

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* Connecting with voters in Iowa. Hit the gym for a girl’s high school basketball game. Go pheasant hunting.Share some corn, ethanol ,and ideas like Bt with the farmers over a morning mug of coffee at the local diner. Listen more, talk less, and you will learn a lot.

AGW Disconnection. Mountain snow continues to pileup in the Sierra, the Cascades and the Rockies. Upstate New Yorkers are heading for Aspen, Colorado and Park City, Utah. Meanwhile, the Madison Ave “Green” version of Rudolph has a better idea. Replace natural bioluminesence with a photovoltaic cell and an LED. But, now about that battery pack…

* The communication connection. Consumer electronic were big this Christmas. Consider the iPod Touch with iTunes, Wi Fi and Safari built in. Apple stock hits 200, up 135% for the year. Speaking of music, the PBS Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir video featuring Sissell, the Orchestra, Bell ringers, dancers, an audience of 20,000 was a rich delight to the HD eye and stereo ear. The Salt Lake City PBS station is KUTV based at the University of Utah.

Main:
: Corn farmers in Iowa love the ethanol research funding and subsidization. However, they are unlikely to abandon their diesel tractors and harvesters anytime soon. For example, they know that large scale, safe, and secure storage and distribution of ethanol is problematic.

:: Recently, the question of who qualifies as a “climate scientist” has been raised. Weather forecasters who are educated in the science of meteorology are one thing. PhDs who wrote decades old dissertations on topics ranging from AstroPhysics to Zoology currently claim expertise in Climate Forecasting, the Environment, and Energy Public Policy. Many attending the Bali UN IPCC conference appeared be among those hoping to monetize mandated carbon caps via an unregulated market global trading system. Now, if we could only learn how to color code carbon dioxide emissions and electrons to ID their source, we would be in business.

::: Meanwhile, it should be noted that the 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle are all volunteers, most are long term members, many are husband and wife pairs. Replacements are made from a trained pool as members are “retired” at age 65. The local Sorensen Legacy Foundation was one of the program’s underwriters as was the Eccles family.

This journal writer is not Mormon but has visited Utah and is familiar with the Temple Square performance hall.

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[ Sunday, September 30, 2007 13:04 ]

Legacy Journal: Climate Change: Global View : Local Opportunities?

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Building and Construction

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Many states, California chief among them, have created a market and business opportunity for taking advantage of subsidized sources of energy, and tax incentives to invest capital at electricity consuming sites including public buildings, office parks, retail complexes and parts of the transportation infrastructure. Qualifying with certified realtime electrical flow monitoring systems assists in the REC validation of claims game.

A recent Sunday presentation on the crisis of Global Warming at a Rochester area church was given by an Gore trainee and engineer/marketing manager with a business association with a Silicon Valley HiTech startup company promoting and supplying services to the alternative energy industry. His Power Point illustrated presentation included the often quoted Gore metaphor / analogy of a frog not moving to protect itself in water with a slowly rising temperature.
James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly , a clear thinker and a careful writer, takes issue with the validity of the example.

Main:
Question, who is making the market and setting the price of “carbon credits” for those who elect, or are mandated, to become “carbon neutral? The answer appears to be “ No One”.

Therefore there is a least on company out their who will sell you their version of an ocean phytoplankton, iron juiced carbon sequestering sun powered carbon credit. And then there is the perpetual motion machine that uses no energy source.

Snake oil you say?

Better that than the inevitable oil dependence on the Gulf, nuclear power, global bipolar ice cap melt down, the threat to the polar bears habitat, the energizing of hurricanes, the spread of invasive specie, a plague of diseases unchecked by frost, an unsafe place for out grandchildren and the flooding of southern Florida. Gore does not intend to lose in Florida this time around. Florida voters want it all at “early bird special” prices and within walking distance of their rented condo. Now if the state’s local Democrats just do not screwup their primary system by taking on the national pros.... but that is another story

. Meanwhile, is seem everyone, except four billion Chinese and Indians, and those idiots in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Utah and Wyoming seem to be endorsing limits on coal fired electrical generation.

As for the low sulfur diesel fleets out on the interstate, the farm machines in the fields, and the school buses in the neighborhoods they are part of the problem. Those 25 upper Michigan seniors overnighting in downtown Rochester on their way to the Fall Foliage in New England have not properly consulted their collect moral conscience before boarding the sleek, comfortable, 2007 bus with big windows, a built in bathroom, and a safe driver. Still there are those who lecture the world after jetting to London for a summit, cross country to their condo in San Francisco for a board meeting, or the New York City for yet another UN conference with UN Foundation President and former Gore/Clinton State Department Global Affairs Officer, Tim Wirth of Andover, Harvard, Stanford and Colorado.

Speaking of Colorado and business, Paul Romer of the Stanford Graduate School of business and son of the former Governor of that state, Roy Romer , is due to return to the University of Rochester for a Simon School of Business and Economic Dept, technology and business gathering in October.

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[ Friday, August 31, 2007 10:20 ]

Legacy Journal: An August Update from the Heartlands.

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Travel

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During the month of August, this writer has been on a minimalist kind of luxury vacation. No phone, not camera, no note pad, no guide books and no driving. The occasion was a relocation from Calilfornia to Rochester, NY. The mode of transportation was a live-aboard Green Tortoise Bus crammed with an eclectic group of 35 free spririts representing seventeen countries and seven languages outbound from San Francisco. Most of us had done the Bay Area tourist thing before departing for flight connects in New York City, Boston or Washington, D.C. for England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia or whereever.

Meanwhile is was close quarters in the bus on visits to the Rudy Mountains of Nevada, the Salmon River of Idaho, the great National Parks of Grand Teton and Yellowstone and the sweeping vistas of Wyoming, the five star destination spot at Cisco Hotsprings Resort in Paradise Valley on the Yellowstone River in the heart of cowboy heaven south of Livingston, Montana, the annual Biker rally in Sturgis and Lakota country in the Bad Lands of Rapid City, South Dakota, the farmlands and the upscale suburb of Egan near the Mall of the Americas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Interstate Park of LA Croix,Wisconsin, the center of Chicago near DePaul University, Lake Michigan, the Turnpikes of Indiana, Lake Erie and Cleveland in Ohio, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Niagara Falls in Seneca country in northwestern upstate New York. Then it was then on to mid Lake Ontario, the Erie Canal, the lower Genesee Valley and the county’s first boom town, The City Rochester, NY. For some explorers, it was 13 states in 13 days. Whew!

Main:
What an opportunity to take the pulse of the county. The pulse of this youthful country is Strong, steady, vital and optimistic.

Impressions:

* Young non-American travellers see the country through different cultural prisms than do native travellers from the two coasts. Distance, the grandeur of big building, homes, rivers, lakes and mountains, open space, abundance, opportunity and prosperity impresses european youth. Many of them are young students working summer jobs in places like the Pharmacy in Wall, South Dakota, and the Yellowstone NP restaurants run by Xanterra, Inc of Denver, CO.

* Corporate America is not despoiling the environment and raping the landscape in the Heartlands. For example, in Wyoming, along I-90, local coal on mile- long hopper trains were supplying electrical generation plants suppled with local water from steam and cooling. Those plants were connected to the national power grid towers with pronghorn antelope, Angus cattle and quarter horses grazing in their shadow. BTW, energy associated state revenues in Wyoming have led to one of the highest rates of per capita public education spending in the nation. The results are eye-popping rates of graduating seniors enrolling in college.

* Along the high reaches of the Continental Divide, the watersheds of the Snake River to the Pacific and the Yellow Stone River to the Caribbean Oceans are well guarded and extensively monitored by multiple agencies and their professional staffs offield engineers and wildlife naturalists.

* Those literate folks who get most of their information about the country and the current state-of-affairs from their easy chairs and the media are missing an important and postive story. They become like many obese folks who accept norms via the recently described mechanism of social networking of a socially acceptable body image recently described in the NEJM. Independent observations by folks who put boots on the ground and do their field work tend to be optimistic and hopeful.

* Independent working people in the Heartlands do their jobs with the aid of machines, power equipment, trucks, vans, tractors, combines, tillers, service vehicles, school buses, snow clearing equipment, locomotives, airplanes, etc. They and their families are impacted daily by the price of natural gas, gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, their electic bills reflect the mitigation legislation that targets coal fired electricity producers. Further, basic building and construction materials like lumber, cement, rebar and asphalt are impacted by rising energy prices.

* Yes, there is roadside evidence of wind farming and corn ethanol fired turbines along the Heartland gridway. But, but eco-friendly can extract a price. USA Today, this weekend reports the death of a worker in at a Wasco CO. Oregon wind farm site from a high speed windmill blade malfunction.

* Reports are that the prices for prime corn land have tripled over past five years. Agricultural commodities prices for meat, milk, eggs and corn meal have impacted the supermarket and restaurant checkout bill.

* Today in the online NYtimes, a regular columnist, David Brooks, sums it up well. Weary easterners tend to vacation at the beach. The vigorous and vital among us head for the high mountains. At altitude, in places like the the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Grand Tetons, the Sierra, MT Shasta, the Cascades of Oregon and Washington, and Montana’s Glacier, NP, the air is clear, the climb a challenge, and the perspective refreshing and uplifting. Maybe that is why the the Directors, Governors and guests of the Federal Reserve System at their annual prelabor day meeting chose to head west to places like the Rerort Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While the air is bracing, an envionmental group and USA Today have labelled the Cowboys the worst per capita polluters on the planet. Meanwhile, construction jobs and fossil fuel fired electrical plants continue to boom in the Basin region as south California reports its annual late summer brownouts.

* Meanwhile, may the Americans who hew the wood and draw the water be included in policy debates that propose to adopt the EU model of energy taxation and the Chinese model of transportation.

* BTW, one notes that Rochesterian homeowners are plentiful, proud, and are frequent flag flyers, even when it is not Memorial or Labor Weekend.

* Local Labor weekend Sunday services included a visiting member of the United Universalist Service Committee based in Washington, D.C. The theme was the Jewish Holocaust, the Just Nations award in Israel, and the tribal conflict in the Darfur Region of the Sudan as widely covered by Nicholas Kristoff of the nytimes. None in the audience appeared to aware of of their former senior Senior’s book, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Oxford University Press, 1993. He and his coauthor described the rising tide of regional tribal conflicts that have come to define the destatification of current geopolitics.

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[ Sunday, July 01, 2007 15:02 ]

Legacy Journal:July, A time to cool the carbon cycle?

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Climate Change

Summary:
Today marks the first day of July, the start of the the American summer vacation season, and the departure of the Little’s of Davis, CA on their long planned cross country move to Rochester, NY. Their Trawler Pl. property shines with pride of ownership and is ready for the next occupant for at least the next two years. Jon, a serious Weather, Climate and Physical Geography guy will be teaching his passion at Monroe Community College. He is planning the trip as an educational vacation so to include the landscape of the northern tier. Jon is part an army weather station equipped painstaking professional and amateurs who continuously collect, analyze, publish, share, and achieve local data, including temperature.

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The Little’s first destination is Corvallis, Oregon, home of the CWS BB Champion Beavers and the OSU professor recently dismissed by the Governor from his long held unpaid post as the State’s official Weatherman cum Climate guy. According to a recent PBS New Hour report (with streamed video), the reason was that the Gore based Climate Crisis politics of Governor Kolongoski (D), and the standardized, long-term data collected by the Professor Taylor in rural field sites near Corvallis were in conflict. The Professor precipitated the controversy when he participated in a public presentation at the respected venue, the Oregon Museum of Science in Portland. In this case, regional, national and global politics appears to have trumped, minority view sceptics, academic freedom of speech and the local facts on the ground from the mid Willamette Valley. Oregonians are known for a history of rewarding straight talking mavericks at election time.

That brings to mind, today’s Op-Ed nytimes article by … Contributor, Al Gore. His logic appears to come from outer space as he attempts to make his carbon case by linking the high temperature on Venus with the life sustaining temperature on Earth to their radically different carbon cycling systems. In attempting to make his case, MR. Gore is clearly confusing cause and effect, a common problem for those with limited training is the rigors of science and an over exposure to rhetoric and oratory. Journalist Gore was a short timer in uniform at HQs in Viet Nam, at Divinity School and at Law School before running for Congress from Tennessee.

Plant person, daughter Erika Little, loves to nurture her plants. But, her UCDavis M.S in Biology informs her, and others, that all plant life is temporary. During their life span, plants pair atmospheric carbon plants with water in a sun-powered photosynthetic chlorophyll factory. The end product will eventually be recycled to the soil, decomposed to the air or sequestered in sinks like the shells of mollusks to become limestone deposits or even cement. Some plant carbon becomes peat bogs that do a rapid recycle via a natural continuous burn in the northern Russian tundra. The same is true in western US and Australian wild fires.

In the Oregon, Washington, Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska heartland region, carbon is converted to grass and grain. Feed fuels the livestock and poultry that produce the eggs, milk, cereal and meat that will fed the grandkids breakfast, lunch and dinner on their cross country adventure and their fall school days in Rochester. In Davis, the price of a gallon of milk is rising faster than fuel, and cow juice now exceeds the pump price of gasoline.

The boom to Iowa corn growers attracted by the dream of cost and energy efficient carbohydrate conversion to ethanol based fuel is now tempered by the facts on the ground. A short term spike in food prices, increase corn planting, and the long term explosive prospect of massive market supplies of cheap corn alcohol mixing with teenage and young adult drivers in a deadly combination. Alcohol associated auto accidents is the leading cause of young lives lost or ruined. The toll is 320 a week, over 10 times the U.S troop losses in Iraq from all causes.

The Little family summer travel will be fueled by gasoline. Their personal belongs, including, treasured books, have been loaded in a trailer and will be towed cross country by a commercial diesel tractor rig driven by a professional driver. The load can be tracked daily online in real time as it moves across the country on the Interstate. Other items will be shipped cross country on Amtrak Express powered by a diesel electric locomotive . Rochester visitors from the west coast will arrive by diesel powered bus and jet fuel powered aircraft. Once on the shores of Lake Ontario, the Little’s and their neighbors will be serviced and supplied with the assist by diesel powered Great Lake ships. The local version of the Erie Canal is now a tourist and recreational boating attraction.

Meanwhile, America Optimism, Can Do, Get up and Go, circa 2007-07-01 trumps Kyoto redox, galaxy fiction, and the green Earth Tour as viewed and touted by corporate President, corporate CEO , corporate Director and corporate advisor, Al Gore , circa 2007-07-01. Let the games begin.

Go Beavers. Go Red Sox. And may the Annual 4th of July Pancake Breakfast for the Davis Little League be another great success.

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[ Thursday, November 09, 2006 15:06 ]

Legacy Journal: A Recruiting Day in Davis

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Food and Nutrition

Summary:
Marketing masters from leaders in beverage industry were in Davis on a sunny, fall “Recruiting Day” for a gathering at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, that shares its I-80 location south central campus location with the construction site fotr the new RMInstitute for Wine and Food Science. Presentations were made by marketing representatives from Coca Cola, Anhauser- Busch and Jackson family wines. The hostess for the morning presentations and noon meal was the Institute’s Executive Director, Clare M. Hasler.

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Advertising and brand growth were the main themes. Health was part of the subtext.. Invited beverage industry presenters included:

* Donad W. Short, President of The Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness of Houston, Texas.

* Tom Shipley, Director, Global Industry Development for Anheuser-Busch, Inc, St. Louis, Mo

* Clay Gregory, President, Jackson Family Wines. Lake, Sonoma and Napa Counities

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