The final part of the tour consisted of driving through the backroads and seeing ranchland, scenery and a few illegal cannabis farms in between. He noted that one of his biggest concerns was the landscapes being broken into small parcels and being developed, making it hard to drive cattle and diminishing the beauty of the landscape. After a tri-tip lunch, the group joined Daley and Newt at a cattle pen where Newt got a chance to showcase his driving skills and Daley talked about the many challenges facing ranchers.
“He joined his older brother who was about 12 years older and was already out here, Charles Foster, and he married an Elliot, a few of these names you might recognize from Paradise roads.”įoster said she still has some of the homesteading patents from the original land adding that each generation tries to add a little in the way of acreage to the properties and operation.Ĭal Fire-Butte County’s Tim Collins joined Foster to talk to the group about wildfire safety as well as utilizing fire to clear out brush in order to keep wildfires at bay.įollowing Foster’s ranch, the tour group once again hopped on the bus which made its way to the county land south of Oroville to see a ranch owned and operated by Dave Daley, his son and his dog Newt. “My great grandfather Robert Foster homesteaded in the southern end of Foster Road in Paradise in the 1880s,” Foster said.
Holly Foster, who works at both the family ranch and an auctioning company, met the group to talk about some of the history of the ranch as well as some of the intricacies of cattle ranching. The bus first set off to a ranch near Butte College run by the Foster family, who originally homesteaded on what would be Foster Road in Paradise. The tour kicked off with a presentation on more scientific elements led by Leslie Roche from UC Davis before embarking on the tour, which featured two ranch stops within Butte County. Hosting and organizing the tour was Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor Tracy Schohr with the UC Cooperative Extension. Cattle dog Newt demonstrates his work by driving cows throughout a pen outside of Oroville, California on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. OROVILLE - Much like the world around it, American cattle ranching has changed tremendously since its early days with the exception of one thing: it’s still grueling.Ī large group of county employees, along with staff from other agencies, got on a bus in Oroville on Wednesday morning for the Butte County Rangelands Tour, a cooperative effort between the University of California system and local agriculture agencies and ranches to provide insight on the cattle industry, fire prevention, science and how to utilize livestock grazing in beneficial and efficient ways.
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