General Manager’s Report

November 13,2021

Greetings All,

Those of you who are on social media saw the progress pictures of the gate entrances and some of the fencing at HQ. Owner volunteers stepped up and di a great job with them. The pumps have been pulled from the river and Ditch Creek diversion site along with the lift pump from Honker Pond that lifted water to the Stables area. Speaking of Stables, we have brought on-board a new head wrangler, Kara, who has many years’ experience with trail rides in remote areas and the guest services world. She likes the idea of bringing m a few more activities to Stables many of which will be a return of events owners have said they miss.

The last few weeks have had a good amount of rainfall with more to come. With this, comes the bogging down of outside projects but does allow us to get to some winter work that has been planned for a while. The largest of these are the removal of the dead trees from the entrance of HQ to the line shacks. Fences are getting repaired and as weather permits the irrigation ditches behind stables will get cleared out for spring irrigation. Fish & Wildlife are in process to review our locations, having gotten ill and missed the last inspection.

There have been repairs to main water lines in Klamath and the damaged electrical pedestals were reviewed by Wes and Heath with a plan to reinstall and repair them in the spring. The painting will begin again in spring along with more fence repair with existing materials, The bull field for transient horses will be repaired and functioning by May. Along with other horse news, the Bureau of Land Management has spoken with me about a “wild horse” roundup in the spring but with an estimated 400 horses between us and the Oregon border, and they will only take 50 animals, we will have to increase a proactive approach to controlling access of horses to the Klamath campground.

This next season will see an expansion of horse activities and I would like to remind everyone, horses always have right of way even if you are walking or on a mountain bike, please remember to pull to the side and shut down to let horses pass. If we plan any horse activities for parts of the 3,000, we will announce it and get some signage posted.

Looking forward to building a good year of activities for you all and growing the base of owners with new families.

 

Have a great Holiday Season,

 

Kelley, General Manager

 

 

Next BOD Meeting:      

Saturday, January 29, 2022, at 10am, meeting spot TBD