Greetings Everyone!
Through a 5-year contract between California State University, Sacramento and nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade, a novel field-biology program was launched, and the first students have graduated.

Video Highlights of Program; additional social media links below.
Two university students from CAL-STATE University, Sacramento just completed the intensive 2-week Wild Horse Fellowship program at Wild Horse Fire Brigade’s wilderness research site, Wild Horse Ranch.
This novel Wild Horse Fellowship program uses the ‘Goodall Method‘ for studying wildlife (wild horses) and is the result of a 5-year contract between nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade and California State University, Sacramento.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade is funding all aspects of the Fellowship program, so there is no cost to Cal-State or the students.
Cal-State Univ., Sacramento Professor Wayne Linklater, who is also an advisory board member of Wild Horse Fire Brigade, is overseeing the program. Wild horse researchers Michelle Gough & William E. Simpson II are providing the onsite wilderness & wild horse teaching assistance. Simpson has been living in the wilderness among and studying free-roaming wild horses for 10-years, and Gough has accumulated nearly 4-years of time living-among and studying the wild horses.
The program has already received acclaim from the students, scientists, numerous wild horse advocates, and from the Jane Goodall Institute, who wrote; “Love this programme”
Watch the video highlights of the Wild Horse Fellowship Program at these social media outlets:
1) YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srp-JGjx95I
2) Facebook: OfficialWHFB
3) Twitter: https://twitter.com/OfficialWHFB/status/1746325323614982275
- Obituary: Olive Irene BrownOlive Irene Brown was a lifelong resident of Siskiyou County. She passed away peacefully at her home in Yreka on February 9, 2025, at the age of 90. Olive was born July 1st, 1934, up Hurds Gulch in Scott Valley to Marion and Ruby Simmons. Along with younger sister Evelyn, they lived in Scott Valley… Read more: Obituary: Olive Irene Brown
- Obituary: Paulette Renee AdamsAmazingly brilliant, beautiful, funny, compassionate, and fiercely devoted—these are just a few words that come to mind when remembering Paulette Renee Adams, a longtime Siskiyou County resident who passed away peacefully on Friday, January 31, 2025, after a courageous battle with liver cancer. Paulette was born on August 9, 1953, in Oakdale, California, to Roland… Read more: Obituary: Paulette Renee Adams
- Restoring Our Waters, Strengthening Our Community: 2025 Scott Watershed Informational ForumFebruary 19-21, 2025 Scott Valley, California Please join at 11236 N. Hwy. 3, Fort Jones, click here for directions Join diverse voices from across our region for three transformative days of dialogue, learning, and action at the Scott Watershed Informational Forum (SWIF). This annual gathering brings together tribal knowledge keepers, agricultural producers, environmental scientists, and… Read more: Restoring Our Waters, Strengthening Our Community: 2025 Scott Watershed Informational Forum
- Northstate Youth Protect Los Angeles Waterways from Post-Fire ContaminationThe California Conservation Corps has local youth from Northstate responding as part of the state’s largest watershed protection mission. By Chris Van Horne Parker Robertson, a young adult from the Northstate, is part of a massive response to protect the burned areas of Los Angeles from taking another hit. This time from winter storms. “Watershed… Read more: Northstate Youth Protect Los Angeles Waterways from Post-Fire Contamination
- Fairchild MC Announces New Technology – working towards the goalBY, Michael MaddenAssistant AdministratorFairchild Medical Center Fairchild Medical Center attended a neonatal resuscitation training in January and was instructed on Fairchild’s new laryngoscope equipped with a screen. The team above, led by Maria Foster, Assistant Manager of OB, are all working towards the goal of delivering excellent maternal and neonatal services. Fairchild also received training… Read more: Fairchild MC Announces New Technology – working towards the goal
Will more be said about the lies recently put up, probably by U.S. Bureau of Land Management, that they are humanely treating U. S. mustangs, when they’d rather help a few cattlemen to use land & water designated for wild horses? Best wishes in your work saving your beautiful creatures.