Letters Outreach news Service grants allow 4H - ers representatives from state and regional agencies Hto build healthier communities gave presentations and participated in discussions . H In addition to results of season - long water - the morning of a school holiday in mid - quality monitoring from across the watershed , He ONNovember , 12 - year - old Sean eBoergerr November , 12 - year - old Sean Boerg most participants received a copy of the October - got a rid across town and presented his ideas oforr got a ride across town and presented his ideas f December 2007 California Agriculture with the ex - H installing benches in a wetland to officials of hthee installing benches in a wetland to officials of t cellent article by Knox et al . , â?? Management reduces Siskiyou Land Trust . Boerger is junior leader of hthee Siskiyou Land Trust . Boerger is junior leader of t E . coli in irrigated pasture runoff . â?? 18 USC 707 Strawberry Valley 4 - H woodworking group , and hhee Strawberry Valley 4 - H woodworking group , and Co - author Ken Tate , a member of the Project knows about making and installing public benches . Team , discussed management practices that lo - Last year , his group won a 4 - H service - learning cal agricultural owners who irrigate for forage and grant to provide benches at Siskiyou Lake . This livestock could implement on their ranches , based year , a new grant of $ 1,100 will allow the group to upon work conducted at the UC Sierra Foothill make benches for the Sisson Meadow Wetlands , Research and Extension Center and summarized in which the land trust has recently restored in down - California Agriculture . Based on the article and Kenâ??s town Mt . Shasta . comments , members of the Upper Feather River â?? I think itâ??s going to be fun for the group , â?? Watershed Group felt that greater efforts could be Boerger says . â?? The benches will give people a place undertaken to reduce E . coli levels in local streams to sit and make the area look nicer , and we get to by having tailwater go through grassed waterways learn more woodworking skills . â?? or mini - wetlands before returning to the main Thatâ??s exactly the concept of service learning â?? channel . Ranchers also felt that they could improve serving the community and , in the process , gain - their grazing practices to minimize the time cattle ing educational opportunities . Last year , the are in actively irrigated fields . We will continue to community of Lake Siskiyou received beautiful , monitor E . coli levels on behalf of ranchers next year sturdily built benches , and Boerger and his group and hopefully see some improvements . learned many things , including how a cedar snag holly George is felled and turned into lumber at the town mill . Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor UC Cooperative Extension , Plumas - Sierra counties On the new project , Boerger is looking forward to the trickiest aspect : â?? Iâ??m not quite sure how weâ??re going to do the foundation , because itâ??s kind of swampy out there , â?? he says . To our readers The service - learning grants are part of the California 4 - H Youth Development Program spon - sored by the University of California Division of Laue leads Cal Ag into digital future Agriculture and Natural Resources ( the 4 Hâ??s stand Andrea Laue joined California Agriculture journal for â?? Head , Heart , Hands and Health , â?? and mem - as Web Editor on Aug . 1 , 2007 . Laue is leading bers pledge their hands to â?? larger service â?? ) . a new digital publishing initiative to digitize â?? The goal , â?? says Pat English , California 4 - H copies of the journal dating back to 1946 , and program representative , â?? is to expand mem - to redesign the information architecture of bers â?? skills in citizenship , leadership and life . â?? the journalâ??s Web site . She will also work on Club increasing the journalâ??s exposure in research 4 - H databases and popular search engines such as Valley Google . â?? California Agriculture content should Strawberry be more findable , retrievable and usable online very soon , â?? Laue says . In concert with California Agriculture and Communication Services staff , Andrea Laue Laue is implementing a comprehensive proposal that integrates the ideas and skill sets of collaborating staff . Laue earned her Ph.D . in English and Digital Humanities from the University of Virginia in 2006 . She has worked on sev - eral scholarly digital publishing projects , including the Mark Twain Project Online at UC Berkeley . Laue can be reached at With support from a 4 - H service - learning grant , ( 510 ) 642 - 2431 , ext . 16 , or andrea.laue @ ucop.edu . the Strawberry Valley 4 - H woodworking group built and installed benches at Siskiyou Lake . 6 CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE â?¢ VOLUME 62 , NUMBER 1