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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Anderson Marsh Interpretive Association will hold is annual membership meeting and open house at the ranch house at the Anderson Marsh State Historic Park on Wednesday, May 13.
The group will meet from 6 to 8 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided.
Join fellow AMIA members in the historic ranch house for an evening of information, refreshments and entertainment.
The program will include music, a slide show depicting the highlights of AMIA’s past year, introduction of AMIA’s 2015 officers and presentation of AMIA’s 2015 Volunteer of the Year Award.
AMIA Board members will be available to answer questions about the ranch house and what is happening in the park.
This event is open to the public, so please bring your friends to join in the fun.
Anderson Marsh State Historic Park is located on Highway 53, between Lower Lake and Clearlake.
For information about the event, contact AMIA at 707-995-2658 or email
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has two tabbies waiting for adoption this week.
The adult cats – one male, one female – are cleared to go to new homes.
In addition to spaying or neutering, cats that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are microchipped before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets there, hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following cats at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (other cats pictured on the animal control Web site that are not listed here are still “on hold”).
Female domestic short hair mix
This sweet female domestic short hair mix has a gray tabby coat.
She's in cat room kennel No. 13, ID No. 2082.
Male domestic short hair mix
This male domestic short hair mix has a gray tabby coat.
He's a handsome guy, very sweet and affectionate, and wants to be petted and loved, according to shelter staff.
He's in cat room kennel No. 32, ID No. 1997.
Adoptable cats also can be seen at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Cats_and_Kittens.htm or at www.petfinder.com .
Please note: Cats listed at the shelter's Web page that are said to be “on hold” are not yet cleared for adoption.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
NICE, Calif. – The Nice Mutual Water Co. has issued a public notification regarding high levels of a chemical compound that was revealed in the district's drinking water during routine testing.
The testing revealed that total trihalomethanes, or TTHMs, came in above the state drinking water standard in the year's first quarter, according to district General Manager David Fultz.
The district draws its water from Clear Lake, he said. Trihalomethanes are a byproduct of chlorinating the drinking water.
Fultz said the district tests for trihalomethanes – a suspected carcinogen – quarterly.
Samples between April 2015 and March 2015 showed that the drinking water the district provides had an average TTHMs of 84.73 micrograms per liter.
The maximum level allowed – also known as the maximum contaminant level – is 80 micrograms per liter, according to the district's notice to its customers.
Fultz said the substance found to have exceeded the standard was chloroform.
He said the state requires that when the standards are exceeded, notices be issued.
There isn't an emergency, and district water users don't need to do anything like boil water, he said.
“This is the first time that we’ve had high results in the wintertime,” said Fultz. “They’re always low.”
As for what may have caused the high levels, Fultz said it's hard to know why. “We could sit here and guess all day long.”
The district already is taking action. Week before last, they installed fresh carbon at the water treatment plant. Fultz said the new carbon will help reduce the organics in the water, which along with chlorine produces trihalomethanes.
They're also preparing to install aeration pumps and blowers in the Yuba tanks, he said. The Yuba tanks have the longest turnover time, which can cause trihalomethanes to form.
Fultz said trihalomethanes are very volatile, and come out of the water when it's aerated.
The notice to water users was issued on April 16.
It states that within 10 days the following entities must also issue reports:
– Schools: Must notify employees, students and parents (if the students are minors);
– Residential property owners and managers, including nursing homes and care facilities: Must notify tenants and employees;
– Business property owners, managers or operators: Must notify employees and customers of businesses located on the property.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have proven that the Hayward Fault is essentially a branch of the Calaveras Fault that runs east of San Jose, which means that both could rupture together, resulting in a significantly more destructive earthquake than previously thought.
“The maximum earthquake on a fault is proportional to its length, so by having the two directly connected, we can have a rupture propagating across from one to the other, making a larger quake,” said lead researcher Estelle Chaussard, a postdoctoral fellow in the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. “People have been looking for evidence of this for a long time, but only now do we have the data to prove it.”
The 70-kilometer-long Hayward Fault is already known as one of the most dangerous in the country because it runs through large population areas from its northern limit on San Pablo Bay at Richmond to its southern end south of Fremont.
In an update of seismic hazards last month, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a 14.3 percent likelihood of a magnitude 6.7 or greater earthquake on the Hayward Fault in the next 30 years, and a 7.4 percent chance on the Calaveras Fault.
These are based on the assumption that the two faults are independent systems, and that the maximum quake on the Hayward Fault would be between magnitudes 6.9 and 7.0.
Given that the Hayward and Calaveras faults are connected, the energy released in a simultaneous rupture could be 2.5 times greater, or a magnitude 7.3 quake.
“A rupture from Richmond to Gilroy would produce about a 7.3 magnitude quake, but it would be even greater if the rupture extended south to Hollister, where the Calaveras Fault meets the San Andreas Fault,” Chaussard said.
Chaussard and her colleagues, including Roland Bürgmann, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science, reported their findings today (April 2) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Creep connects two faults
Chaussard said there has always been ambiguity about whether the two faults are connected. The Hayward Fault ends just short of the Calaveras Fault, which runs about 123 kilometers from north of Danville south to Hollister in the Salinas Valley.
The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn’t stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.
“We found that it continued on another 15 kilometers and that the trace merged with the trace of the Calaveras Fault,” she said. In addition, seismic data show that micro-earthquakes on these faults 3-5 kilometers underground also merge. “With this evidence from surface creep and seismicity, we can argue for a direct junction on the surface and at depth for the two faults.”
Both are strike-slip faults – the western side moves northward relative to the eastern side. The researchers found that the underground portion of the Hayward Fault meets the Calaveras Fault 10 kilometers farther north than where the creeping surface traces of both faults meet. This geometry implies that the Hayward Fault dips at an angle where it meets the Calaveras Fault.
InSAR revolutionizes mapping
Chaussard said that the 19 years of InSAR data from the European Space Agency’s ERS and Envisat satellites from 1992 to 2011 were critical to connecting the two faults.
Creep, or the surface movement along a fault, is evidenced by offset curbs, streets and home foundations.
It is normally determined by measuring points on opposite sides of a fault every few years, but that is hard to do along an entire fault or in difficult terrain.
InSAR provides data over large areas even in vegetated terrains and outside of urban areas, and with repeated measurements over many years, InSAR can detect deformation with a precision of 2 millimeters per year.
“With InSAR, we have access to much larger spatial coverage,” said Chaussard, who has been expanding the uses of InSAR to measure water resources and now ground deformation that occurs between earthquakes. “Instead of having a few points, we have over 200,000 points in the Bay Area. And we have access to areas we couldn’t go to on the ground.”
She noted that while creep relieves stress on a fault gradually, eventually the surface movement must catch up with the long-term underground fault movement.
The Hayward Fault moves at about 10 millimeters per year underground, but it creeps at only 3 to 8 millimeters per year. Earthquakes occur when the surface suddenly catches up with a fault’s underground long-term movement.
“Creep is delaying the accumulation of stress needed to get to an earthquake, but it does not cancel the earthquake,” Chaussard said.
Other co-authors are seismologists Robert Nadeau, Taka'aki Taira and Ingrid Johanson, as well as graduate student Chris Johnson, all of UC Berkeley; and Heresh Fattahi of the University of Miami in Florida. The work was supported by NASA and the USGS.
Robert Sanders writes for the UC Berkeley News Center.
“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.” – N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – According to anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, in his book, “The Religion of the Indians of California,” “The California Indians were in an animistic state of mind, in which they attributed life, intelligence, and especially supernatural power, to virtually all living and lifeless things.”
The native peoples of Lake County – the Pomo, Miwok, Yuki, Wappo and Patwin – all incorporated myth into their various cultures.
There were specialists in some American Indian groups who sometimes traveled to tell the stories, or myths, which could explain their world in a unique way.
At times the storytellers were presented with food, furs and baskets. In his book, “Pomo Myths,” S.A. Barrett said, “In fact this region was an ideal 'Indian country', and here there was developed a special culture, with certain variants in each of the environmental units. Such variations are reflected even in the mythology of the people.”
Over time, in the western traditional literary circle myths have come to mean make-believe or fairy tale.
Studies done on mythology in the fields of anthropology, history, linguistics and archaeology have come to understand and value the meaning of myth in American Indian culture.
Since most California Indians were of the oral tradition, then it serves to follow that not only is the true meaning obscured by writing it down, but it loses much in the language translation as well.
Myths of many types were important to the peoples of times past. Some of the themes were cosmogonic, or origin myths – how the world came into being.
Through studying myths of different cultures in Joseph Campbell’s works it is fascinating to find themes that play out over and over across the cultures, such as the world coming into being from nothing (Mayan, Greek, Australian, first book of Genesis), or that of emergence from the lower worlds such as that of the Hopi and Navajo.
In Siberia and Romania the motif is that of an animal such as a bird or turtle who dives into primeval water and surfaces with a bit of earth that later grows into being the world.
The traditions of times past continue. These traditions are valuable, when so many have faced obliteration.
As Paula Gunn Allen states in “Spider Woman’s Granddaughters – Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women,” “Indian storytellers seldom write or speak as isolated individuals, cut off from their communal context. Rather, they use their tales to entertain, enlighten, educate, and above all to reveal to the audience their connection to the wisdom and experience of the tribal group. In this way the continuity between daily life and the tribal matrix is reaffirmed, and the audience’s participation in the sacred life of the group and of the universe gains an added dimension.”
Myth, it is now understood, is of vast importance to each culture’s education.
When the stories are no longer told then it serves to follow that they are no longer in your mind.
With the loss of myth, you lose perspective about what’s occurring in your day-to-day life.
This valuable information from ancient times has everything to do with ideas we have, our religion, problems we may face, and life passages.
The stories and traditions become a rich source of meaning for life.
Kathleen Scavone, M.A., is an educator, potter, writer and author of “Anderson Marsh State Historic Park: A Walking History, Prehistory, Flora, and Fauna Tour of a California State Park” and “Native Americans of Lake County.” She also writes for NASA and JPL as one of their “Solar System Ambassadors.” She was selected “Lake County Teacher of the Year, 1998-99” by the Lake County Office of Education, and chosen as one of 10 state finalists the same year by the California Department of Education.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – This week's group of adoptable dogs at Lake County Animal Care and Control come both in little and large size.
The dogs available this week include mixes of Chihuahua, dachshund, English Bulldog, German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, pit bull, Rottweiler, Shar Pei and terrier.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
Chihuahua-dachshund mix
This male Chihuahua-dachshund mix has a short brown coat.
He's in kennel No. 2, ID No. 2054.
Female Chihuahua mix
This female Chihuahua mix has a short tan coat.
She's in kennel No. 7, ID No. 2085.
Rottweiler-Shar Pei mix
This male Rottweiler-Shar Pei mix has a short black coat and big brown eyes.
Shelter staff said that the family who found him said he was good with children and got along with other dogs.
He's in kennel No. 8, ID No. 1983.
Male Chihuahua mix
This male Chihuahua mix has a short buff-colored coat.
He's in kennel No. 9, ID No. 2064.
Labrador Retriever-German Shepherd mix
This male Labrador Retriever-German Shepherd mix has a short black coat.
Shelter staff said he's one big ball of energy, loving to fetch, run and play with other dogs. He is being socialized with other dogs and is learning very fast.
He's in kennel No. 10, ID No. 2004.
Male pit bull terrier mix
This male pit bull terrier mix has a short gray and white coat.
Shelter staff calls him a “big squishy guy” who is very gentle. They believe he would be fine with children.
He has no food aggression, gets along with other dogs both male and female, and is very appropriate in every way.
The shelter is looking for that special "pitty" lover to take him home and care for him.
He's in kennel No. 13, ID No. 2035.
Male pit bull mix
This male pit bull mix has a short dark brown and white coat.
He's in kennel No. 15, ID No. 2094.
'Bear'
“Bear” is a male English Bulldog mix.
He has a short tan and white coat.
Shelter staff said he is great with other dogs and very social with people.
He's in kennel No. 29, ID No. 1972.
Labrador Retriever mix
This female Labrador Retriever mix has a short buff-colored coat.
She's in kennel No. 33, ID No. 2115.
Male pit bull terrier mix
This handsome male pit bull terrier mix has a short gray and white coat.
He's in kennel No. 34, ID No. 2101.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at