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some outcomes to apply to our practices.” He says the key is to have beneficial management practices in place for high-risk areas such as between the outflow and the intake points in a community watershed. “We need to monitor and


restrict access,” says Dinwoodie. “Managing a range these days is not about grass, it’s about relationships.” The greatest need for


relationships comes when the water sources for a community watershed are within an active rangeland or forestry tenure. Renee Clark, water manager for the Regional District of North Okanagan, outlined the policy for developing a watershed assessment, protection and response plan in her region. “We first delineate the watershed; next, we inventory all the possible activities that could be sources of contaminants. We calculate the risks those sources may cause and recommend an action plan,” Clark explains. Lake Country municipal water quality technician Patti Meger points out that if


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something happens in a local watershed, it will show up in the municipality’s taps in as little as seven hours. “We used to communicate


with everyone separately, such as ranchers and forestry and the communication was lacking,” says Meger. When a high bacterial count in the watershed that couldn’t be treated with chlorine occurred, the approach changed. “It was the start of looking at things differently and our collaboration process was brought together into one package,” says Meger. “We are multipurpose and multi- jurisdictional and the only way we can address all these action items is in one room with everybody.” Lake Country now hires a facilitator for its twice-yearly meetings and collaboration and support among stakeholders is exceptional. “If we want to get a project completed, someone will come up with the materials, and somebody else will find the money for the construction in their budget,” she says.


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ARMSTRONG – The North Okanagan Holstein Club held its annual fall sale at the fairgrounds in Armstrong, September 27. Beginning with a potluck social and cattle viewing, the sale started at 7:30 pm with 26 head paraded through the sale ring. Auctioneer Don Raffan of Valley Auction


kept the cattle moving efficiently through the pen while Dave Hamming provided pedigree information to the crowd. The final lot, Bonivista Miley Cyrus Planet, a three- year-old bred by the Syme family of Bonivista Farms in Salmon Arm and consigned by the DeWitt family of Dari Delite Farm in Sicamous, was the high-seller of the sale. She sold to Brinkland Holsteins of Grindrod for $6,750.


The sale averaged $3,801 on 26 lots, one of the highest sale averages ever for the North Okanagan Holstein Club fall sale.


Other top sellers were: • Bonivista Brisk Moon, consigned by Bonivista Farms, Salmon Arm, and sold to T&L Cattle, Rosedale for $5,500.


• Suncountry Pride Goldsun, consigned by Suncountry Holsteins, Evergraze Holsteins, Sunnyvale Farms, and sold to Suncountry Holsteins, Armstrong, for $5,400.


• Aldora Cassie Windminn, consigned by Thea Luttmerding, Armstrong, and sold to Chilliwack Cattle for $5,200.


• Shadynook Airlift Zahra, consigned by Shadynook Farms, Enderby, and sold to T&L Cattle, Chilliwack, for $5,000.


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