Flumes:

Davis, Frank W, and Elizabeth A Chornesky. Adapting to Climate Change in California.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 70, no. 5, 2014, pp. 6273.,

doi:10.1177/0096340214546839.

Frank W. Davis is a respectable professor from UCSB Biogeography Lab. He is the

Director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, His research focuses on
the landscape ecology of California plant communities; the design of protected-area networks;
rangeland and farmland conservation; and the biological implications of regional climate change.
The article was discussing the issue that Californians have to not only have to embrace
climate change and help stop our current progress, but adapt to the problems it has already
created. Weather it be opening dams, or simply moving out of farm area and letting the natural
ecosystem grow back. Clean up the rivers and let the microecosystems repopulate and possibly
alter global climate change.
This article goes along with environmental impact on rivers. It doesnt name the Feather
River specifically, although the topic of water was a big part of the discussion. Underwater
reservoirs, flowing freshwater beds, and water shed from the Sierras.
http://fshs.org/proceedings-o/2002-vol-115/35-37(%20Mahovic).pdf
Ekins, Roger, and Helen Ekins. The Flumes and Trails of Paradise: Hiking through
History on the Ridge. Happy Trails Press, 2013

Roger and Helen Ekins, the authors of the Flumes and Trails of Paradise are a couple
who lived in Paradise, California and often explored around the trails of Paradise. For 26 years,
they became acquaintances and mastered the vast pathways that lay in the city. They wrote this
book to share the history, experiences, and trailhead maps of the beautiful, adventurous Paradise.
https://www.newsreview.com/chico/flumes-trails-of/content?oid=10105355
the Flumes and Trails of Paradise describes 21 different flume hikes in the area and
provides historical information about the many different flumes. The author provides two
full-page maps showing an estimation as to where the flumes and trails are located, but do not go
into detail in how to reach them. Fortunately, the Ekins do state clear descriptions of the routes
and include a color tab with a letter and number for each hiking segment that corresponds to both
the table of contents and and the trailhead maps. Along with a color corresponding tab, the
authors include a Special Interest Hikes index located at page 30 of the book. Within this
section you can locate three of the most family friendly trails, along with other trials one may
take for those with physical limitations. You may also find color photos of waterfalls, ponds, and
trails for those who like a more visual representation before actually exploring the various trails.
This source would be useful towards our project because the author provides many
historical context within the book. Using this historical context, not only can we answer
questions that we may have towards the historical part of the flumes itself, but may also help us
answer questions about the improvements of the place, social and environmental impacts, and
the financial or economical aspects of the place. Knowing the historical background of the
flumes can help the group set a foundation and establish a basic knowledge of the piece. As
stated, throughout the book the authors gives specific details of the trails and how, some of the
flumes are quite high off the ground, which can occasionally be a problem for people who suffer
from acrophobia, or fear of heights (Ekins, pg. 14).This information can be useful for our
project, because we can use this information to raise awareness of the dangers that come along
with hiking the trails. Butte County Sheriffs Search and Rescue recently reported that in the
last three years, they have responded to 14 calls in the area. However, these responses include
both water rescue as well as injuries sustained from falling off the flumes said Dennis Schmidt
of Search and Rescue. A hopeful outcome of our research will allow people to become more
familiar with the trails to decrease or diminish the number of injuries that occur at the flumes in
Paradise.
Just as Robert Colby, author of Going to Philbrook states in writing, there was many
places in Paradise itself where one may be injured severely. These articles both show similarity
within their pieces by both expressing the dangers of hiking in Paradise at the flumes.

Garcia, Dawn. Paradise Flume Trail. Paradise Flume Trail, Altacal Audubon Society, 17 June

2016, www.altacal.org/birding-sites/ParadiseFlumeTrail/.

Dawn Garcia is the fellowship manager at Stanford in the journalism department. She is
also the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences.
This journal talks about the different kinds of wildlife that inhabits the land of the flumes.
It shows how devastated the land would be if the habitats were damaged.
If PG&E is planning on tearing down trees or damaging the habitats in any way, this
article clearly states why that shouldnt happen, so we could bring these ideas into an
intervention.
This journal discusses the wildlife that lives within the site of the flumes, similar to the
book The Flumes and Trails of Paradise: Hiking through History on the Ridge. They both
discuss why the flumes are an important part of the essence of our society and the nature within
it.

The Flumes:
White, Richard S. Lakeside Historical Society. The Flume, 7 Dec. 2015,

www.lakesidehistory.org/Flume/flume.htm.

Richard S. White is a scientist who is very interesting in the flumes and other work. To
this day his is continuing doing research and finding out new information about the flumes.
 This website talks mainly about a specific flume and the ecosystem. Unlike my other
sources this one talks about the building of them along with the problems and cost involved.
Even though it's about a specific flume it relates to the building in general and that is helpful
information to understand how things work and the impact it has overall.
This website can better understand how the flumes work along with the purpose and
overall the ecosystems. It will overall be helpful in understanding the process. Better
understanding how the flumes work based on how they were built will just further our
knowledge about the flumes here and how they have impacted us.
This relates to my first source because it's also historic information. They also both talked
about the importance of them and how they were either used or built. Lakeside also relates to
Sydney's sources because she mentioned the importance of the flumes along with other facts that
related to my source. It also relates to what our main focuses for our project is.

http://www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20170804/NEWS/170809860
Nature Based Tourism Resources Assessment Using Geographic Information System (GIS):

Case Study in Bogor. Science Direct, Mar. 2016,

www.sciencedirect.com.mantis.csuchico.edu/science/article/pii/S1878029616002528.

This research is done by the Bogor Agricultural University. These students are apart of the
Graduate Program of Natural Resource. This article is about the demand of sustainable tourism
becoming an important aspect that must be considered by local government.
The aim of this study is to develop a model understanding of natural tourism planning based
on criteria of attractiveness and accessibility of object in Bogor. The study is
carried out by collecting, studying, and reviewing documents related to the objective of the
research. They interviewed tourism actors and recorded how they felt about certain parts being
closed off from the public.
This article relates to our topic of the flumes because people mentioned that the flumes being
shut down would take away from the nature based tourism.People

Pimentel, David, et al. Renewable Energy: Economic and Environmental Issues. Bioscience,

vol. 44, no. 8, 1994, p. 536., doi:10.2307/1312281

David Pimentel is a professor at Cornell University. Mr. Pimentel received his Bachelors
from University of Massachusetts and his P.h.D from Cornell University. David researches Basic
population ecology, Genetics, Ecological and economic aspects of pest control, Biological
control, Energy use and conservation, Genetic engineering, Sustainable agriculture, Soil and
water conservation, Natural resource management and environmental policy.
Renewable Energy is the key words in sustainable energy. Fossil-fuel electric utilities
account for two-thirds of the sulfur dioxide, one-third of the nitrogen dioxide, and one-third of
the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Humans are addicted to electricity let's face
it. The fact of the matter is that burning fossil fuels is bad for our home, our Earth. This article
explains how the United States in particular needs to jump on the renewable train. Wind, Water,
Sunlight. Our next hurdle is to discover a non harmful way to store the infinite energy we can
theoretically create.
I think this article applies to the Feather River, because PG&E is running into the same
problem. They can divert water from their Penstock Dams and almost always have a constant
source of hydropower. Although during the day the demand is higher than what the
hydroelectricity can create, so naturally they add the generated power from solar.

Johnson, Ronald. Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California.

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 83, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Malden, 2001,

pp. 11071109. "Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California" by Brent

M. Haddad is reviewed.

This interview was actually ran by Brent M. Haddad, who has a PhD in Energy and
Resources from UC Berkeley. He currently is a research professor at the university of Santa
Barbara. Mr. Haddads main interest of study involves Integrated Water Management, Regional
Water Management, Water and Energy Policy, Political Economy, and Renewable Energy.
Rivers of Gold was an interview about how important the water is in California. In the
past they wasnt a large abundance of water either, and it's strange that our modern society thinks
that we can completely reconstruct the landscape to be as agricultural as we desire. Rivers are
the lifeline of California and need to be cleaned and kept in very good condition.
I think this article is very applicable to the Feather River, because yes; it was a river used
for transporting lumber downstream. It is also used for farm land and many ecosystems rely on
its water. Every river was perfectly placed in its area, it is not fair for humans to destroy all of
this land.
Stillman, Eli. PG&E Wants People to Stay off Its Flumes. Chico Enterprise-Record, Chico

Enterprise-Record, 4 Aug. 2017,

www.chicoer.com/article/NA/20170804/NEWS/170809860.

Eli Stillman served as editor-in-chief of SOUs school paper, The Siskiyou, and earned a
degree in communications focused on film, television, and convergent media. His work has been
featured in local media outlets including The Rogue Valley Messenger and the Ashland Daily
Tidings. http://journalism.uoregon.edu/course/stillman_eli/
PG&E will start enforcing that people/hikers stay out of their property for their own
safety. Not only are they going to restrict certain parts of the flumes, but even some of the
walkways and the water, because there have been incidents of people falling and even drowning.
New signs, and even barriers will be put up to try and restrict people from trespassing.
This material could potentially be useful for the project, because it explains some of the
safety factors and reports of incidents that have occurred in this place. Additionally, this will be
useful when we go to check this place out because we may or may not even be able to get on it.
It will be a good intervention to argue for.
This source connects to the source Hiking Safety, because they deal with safety while
being in the outdoors, particularly while hiking at the flumes. The ultimate goal for this part of
the study is to research ways to be safe at the two places we will be studying. This source and
another source that gives advice and tips while hiking relate to each other, because it is evident
that PG&E care about our safety by trying to restrict the flumes, which makes us conclude that
safety is priority in both sources.

Home and Recreational Safety. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, 28 Apr. 2016,

www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html.

Although this source has no author, I strongly believe that this source is credible based on
the sources and resource links it provides. In addition, I have heard some of my teachers from
previous years consider this website credible. This website lists references of places where they
found and who they got the information from. With that information, we are able to access
whether the information is accurate and trustworthy.
 In this article, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention state statistics of annual deaths
due to unintentional drowning, factors that influence drowning risks, and ways to prevent this
from happening.
This information could be useful for our project, because at the flumes there is a
swimming hole where a lot of people make their way to cool off and swim. Moreover, this place
has reported incidents of people that have drowned and this article can bring awareness to the
people and advise people to not go swimming alone, and be cautious.
This source is different from some of the other sources in terms of hiking safety. This
source discusses ways to prevent drowning, and also states statistics of how many people have
unintentionally drowned in the United States because of lack of swimming abilities, lack of
supervision, alcohol, etc. Although this type of safety is different from hiking safety, both hiking
safety and the safety of swimming is relevant, because the flumes has both areas.

Wilderness.org. Tips for Great Hiking | Wilderness.Org,

wilderness.org/article/tips-great-hiking.

This article was done by the Wilderness Society. These people are professionals in hiking
safety and outdoor activities. These people run a website that you can find the best places to hike
and the best and safest way to do fun outdoor activities.
They talk about the essentials for a safe adventure and to always leave no trace when hiking in
the great outdoors. They list ways to avoid emergencies by having the tools you need. They
make a point to talk about how leaving no trace is important because that's a wild animal's home
your visiting. Make sure to collect all your trash. Even better idea is to collect everyones trash.
Make it your goal to leave a trail better than you found it. They also encourage to hike with dogs
for protection.
This article relates to this class because if you're going to be visiting the flumes for research
you should know tips on how to hike safely. Also around the Flumes there are lots of trash and
waste just sitting around. When people are exposed to others wanting to help clean up behind
themselves or just wanting to help in general it makes others want to as well.
This article relates to others because it tells the importance of hiking. Lots of information in
this text is useful because there's been accounts of people hiking the flumes and getting hurt.

Holmes, Alice. Flumes. History of Flumes for Transporting Redwoods,

www.mendorailhistory.org/1_logging/flumes.htm.

Alice Holmes is the editor of timber times and also edits this website. She is a very
knowledgeable women who knows about the flumes and the history.
This website talked a lot about the history of the flumes. It doesn't talk specifically about
the Chico flumes but it talks about what they are and the history of them. In 1868 when they
were being used they did struggle and the talk about the jams and things that occurred while they
were in use. Also on this website there are old pictures of them in use to give us an idea of how it
worked and what things looked like.
 For our project this source could be useful to familiarize use with the flumes. Also the
photos on the website can be used when were are to make a presentation about the flumes. This
website overall will be helpful gathering information about the flumes.
This website relates to all my other sources because it is history of the places. Also it
relates to Marinas sources because she also found information about the history of the flumes.
Overall Marinas sources related to mine because of topic picked along with the location.

Farm:

Beckley, Steve.Chico State Farm Yields Many Benefits. Sacramento Valley,

sacramentovalley.org/stories/chico-state-farm-yields-many-benefits/.

The author of his article is vaildted because he is in the field of agriculture. His name is
Steve Beckley and has his educational list on the same web site where the article is
found. It is also an organization that wants to inform people about the different locations
in california specifically sacramento valley.
The article is talking about the fact that CSU Chico is good about giving its
students hands on experiences because a lot of schools don't offer actual experience in the
field. Him being an agriculture major from Chico was please about the the different
programs that the farm has to offer and its involvement with the community, such as
selling meat on Thursdays and Tuesdays.
This could be useful to my group and I for our project because it has useful
information about all the different departments that the farm has to offer and how it is
sustainable by growing its own food and that it offers job employment to chico students, so
they have that work experience when they go out into their field.
With these benefits we get to see what weve been talking about in class about
sustainability, but with that we can use that to make up questions about things they can
improve. I think this does agree with our other sources. Kayla and I interviewed her animal
science teacher and she also did validated some of the information.

Doyle, Michael P, and Marilyn C Erickson. Opportunities for Mitigating Pathogen

Contamination during on-Farm Food Production. International Journal of Food Microbiology,

Jan. 2012, www.sciencedirect.com.mantis.csuchico.edu/science/article/pii/S0168160511001383.

Michael Doyle and Marilyn Erickson are both experts in the Department of Food Science
and Technology at the University of Georgia. They both have other articles and some of their
works posted on the same research database that I have used to conduct most of this research.
In their article they discuss many diseases one could get through contamination by
foodborne pathogens. This article also discusses strategies to reduce pathogen contamination in
animal production. They also show multiple tables that show the animal type, the certain
pathogen and how to reduce the risk of those pathogens.
 This source can be used for our project to inform the people who buy the products the
potential contaminants and pathogens they should look out for. We can also use this to explain
what better practices we can use to prevent food contamination. This information can be relevant
for the food products at the University Farm in Chico.
Although this source does not necessarily explain some of injuries that people have
encountered like in the last 2 articles, this is still safety practice that is vital to the food produced
in farms. Food contamination and farm machinery relate to one another in a way that they are
areas in the farm that need to be dealt with very seriously

Organic Vegetable Project. California State University, Chico,

www.csuchico.edu/ag/farm/organic-vegetable-project.sht

I would say this article would be credible because it is from the chico State website.
Specifically from the college of agriculture department. At the bottom of the article they have a
contact which leads to Dr. Lee Altier which we could get a hold of if we had to. Dr. Lee Altier is
a professor at Chico State. He has worked in different places and has conducted researches.
The article touches the topic of how the farm has this program called Organic Vegetable
Program. The main goal of the program is to support local farmers with information, the
community with educational workshops, students with valuable management and research skills,
and the university campus with fresh produce. The farm provides fresh vegetables for the
community.
This piece could be useful for our project because again we could contact Dr. Lee Altier
with any questions we have. We could also ask questions to the public about the fact that they
had this program.
This connects because this proves that they are not only involved with the common
person in the community but also the businesses in Chico. Which is good because we know that
the food is fresh and doesn't have any harsh chemicals; Therefore I do think it relates with our
other sources and it would be good evidence.

S, Pryadarshini.Positive and Negative Impacts of Modern Agricultural Techniques.

YourArticleLibrary.com: The Next Generation Library, 28 Nov. 2014,

Organic Dairy Production

This article tells the positive side of farming which most of us know but also tells the
downside that none of us realize. These things could be changed for the better to be more
sustainable. The author of this article is a nature blogger who has spent many years of his life
traveling and researching sustainable farming techniques.
This article tells how modern agricultural system has both positive and negative impacts on
our environment and ecosystem. Farming at first was our only way to survive but now that times
have changed,is this really the best way to help our economy? A main point is that farming helps
make produce cheaper to the public because it's cheaper to produce. Also as the author mentions
In case of intensive livestock farming, an opportunity to capture methane emissions which would
otherwise contribute to global warming, these emissions can be used to generate heat and
electrical energy, thereby reducing local demand for fossil and fuels ( Pryadarshini,V ).
One thing that stands out to me that was mentioned a few times was the use of pesticides.
Use of pesticides have numerous negative health effects in workers who apply them, people that
live nearby the area of application or downstream/downwind from it, and consumers who eat the
pesticides which remain on their food (Pryadarshini, VII). Also pesticides kill useful insects that
help maintain plant life. A intervention we could talk about is the use of pesticides and how we
could change or manage the use of them.
This article relates to others because it shows the positive aspects of farming. It talks about
how the problem could be solved. There are many articles done comparing and contrasting
aspects of farming.

"Farm Accident Survivor Promotes Machinery Safety." The Safety & Health Practitioner, vol.

33, no. 9, 2015, pp. 24, ABI/INFORM Collection,

http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.mantis.csuchico.edu/do

cview/1722625579?accountid=10346.

Just like the last source, this source comes from ProQuest, a reliable research database
from Chico State, which makes it evident for us to trust. These databases and research methods
are encouraged to use by many professors of this campus.
In this article they talk about another experience at a farm when someone lost a leg due to
the dangers of farm machinery. The owner of the company stated in a meeting that you must be
aware of what is happening around you and you can not cut corners while using farming
machinery, because of the dangers it proposes.
We can potentially use this material for our project because, once again, these are
experiences that can happen to anyone who works in agriculture. This experience can be used as
an example when we talk about different types of machineries and their dangers while working
in a farm.
This source can connect to the source about Farm Worker Disabled in Falling Hay Bales
Accident, because they are both experiences that can occur. However the content of this source
is different from the source, Opportunities for Mitigating Pathogen Contamination during
on-Farm Food Production, because they are 2 different areas of safety in the farm industry.
Although both talk about safety, they are different in terms of machinery and contamination.

Foundation, GRACE Communications. Local & Regional Food Systems. GRACE

Communications Foundation, www.sustainabletable.org/254/local-regional-food-systems.

 Although this article does not have a specific author, it is through an organization is to
promote sustainability. Which is good because organizations usually are passionate about what
they do. They don't only have the topic of local and regional food but also water.
The article is about what it mean when food is local and regional and about how the
food system works. In addition, it touches topic on farmer markets(which is where the
university farm food gets sold too), supported agriculture, and other direct to consumer
programs. The article gives facts about why the local systems are important for sustainability,
health, and support local economies and protect local farms and farmland.
This could be useful for our project because it will be important to have the information
aspect of it. Saying it will be a sustainable way to grow food. Plus, we could interview someone
from the organization. They have a contact page with a number and email.
This relates to what we talk in class as a group of what the farm means to the
community in order to make it sustainable. ultimately, helps people understand the outcome of
having local produce in nearby restaurants.

Walthall, Charles Managing Agriculture in a Climate of Change Created 1 Nov, 2009

Charles Walthall is a Physical Science major that now works for the United States
Department of Agriculture. He has many public records of speaking out on climate change. He is
actually the head program leader of Global Change Research.
Managing Agriculture is about just that. It describes the challenges there is to being small
and diverse in your crops and livestock. A single selection of a crop is easier to wipe out with
disease or pests and is more harmful on the environment. The key to being sustainable in small
farms is being diverse and always switching the crop, soil usage, and weed removal.
I believe this article applies to the Chico farm because the farm is a small student run
operation. With many different crops including the Gourd family, Nightshade, countless
livestock varying from cattle to sheep to pigs.

Knigge L., Brimlow J.N., Metcalf S.S. (2016) Food Hubs: Connecting Farms with Local and

Regional Markets. In: Gatrell J., Jensen R., Patterson M., Hoalst-Pullen N. (eds) Urban

Sustainability: Policy and Praxis. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 14. Springer, Cham

L. Knigge is from the geography and planning department of Chico State.

Likewise, J.N Brimlow is also from Chico state from the Agriculture department. S.S. Metcalf is
from the department of geology at the State University of New York, at Buffalo. They together,
are the authors, of Chapter 11 in Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis. I found this source off
the meriam library.
 This is about how in the North Sacramento valley food hubs are the solution to
sustainability and restoring opportunities for mid size farm operations . They say Food hubs
restore a connection from farms to schools and other urban markets. It is also noted that they
explain food hubs as creating new value chains that strengthen the local and regional food
system. It is also stated in the chapter that U.S. citizens are becoming more inclined to purchase
local fresh food from farmers markets or subscription bags.
This source would be useful for background information not on the University Farm itself
but farming culture in the area and the growth of consumer want for it. This source will also be
useful because it is an extensive amount of information and a lengthy read. I could use this
article to create a plan for increasing sustainability on the farm and in the community in general.
This source differs because of the fact that it is not about the Chico State Farm itself but
instead about the Northern Sacramento Valley and its farms. This is also different because of the
subject of food hubs that strike the conversation of the rising U.S. culture of buying fresh and
locally. The article brings up different sides of the food culture in America that is usually not
talked about.

Chico Farm. Organic Dairy Unit. California State University, Chico,

www.csuchico.edu/ag/farm/dairy-unit/index.shtml.

The authors of this website are people from Chico from the farm. Even though we don't
know much about them it is a reliable source. The information provided is from people.
This website talks about the history of the Chico farm and just information about the
farm. The ARTC was created in 1960 and they support agriculture classes along with other
citizens. The farm is actually very impactful and benefits way more than just students, every year
thousands of people come to the farm for different reasons.
Overall this website could be beneficial for our project in many ways. It provides us
information that is directly about the Chico farm. Having it come from the chico website means
the information is true regarding its own farm. This will overall just help us figure out more
information about the farm itself.
This Article relates to my second source because its is about the history of farming. Both
talk about how they have impacted us today for the better. This source also relates to my 3rd
source but for a different reason. My 3rd talks specifically about things at the chico farm and so
does this source.

http://theorion.com/34388/news/chico-state-reduces-water-through-system-improvements/

https://www.newsreview.com/chico/milking-it/content?oid=21875459
Howden, S. Mark. Adapting agriculture to climate change. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences, National Acad Sciences, www.pnas.org/content/104/50/19691.full.

Accessed 2 Oct. 2017.

S. Mark Howden is a professor in the program Consortium for Science, Policy &
Outcomes at Arizona State University. Howden has taught agriculture science for almost two
decades.
This article is about agriculture as a whole. Agriculture takes up 1.5 billion acres of land
covered in crops and another 3.5 being grazed. Only the remaining 4 billion acres of forest land
remain. By our population increase we are going to have to conserve space. Move more people
in a smaller area. Make farms more efficient.
I think this article applies to the smaller family farms, because sometimes they own a lot
of land for only 6 people family. Maybe some more work-abroad programs, get more different
people disbursed

Hearden, Tim. Chico State Students Teach Kids about Ag. Capital Press, Capital Press, 8 Apr.

2014,

www.capitalpress.com/California/20140408/chico-state-student-teach-kids-about-ag.

Tim Hearden is the author of three peer edited books about agriculture. He is a journalist
for Capital Press, an agricultural journal.
In 2014, kids were brought to the Chico State University Farm to learn about agriculture
and farming and the relevance it has in society. This gave the Chico State students the
opportunity to show their professors what they knew, and explore the idea of teaching as a
profession. The kids that visited got to see how farms are operated and how cute animals are.
We could do something similar to this as an intervention to have people start gardening
or something. We could educate people on the benefits that certain animals have on smaller scale
farms and what plants could be the most useful to grow, like plants that grow at different times in
the year or year-round.
This article relates to Rheumatoid Arthritis in Agricultural Health Study Spouses:
Associations with Pesticides and Other Farm Exposures because both of them talk about farms
in general and the effects that they have on the public. The primary difference is that
Rheumatoid Arthritis in Agricultural Health Study Spouses: Associations with Pesticides and
Other Farm Exposures talks about the negative effects of farms and Chico State Students
Teach Kids about Ag talks about the positive things that the farms are doing for the general
public.
Food Education. Food Day, www.foodday.org/foodeducation.
The Author for this is the UC Davis Agriculture institute, it's not one specific author but
it is reliable since this school is very big in agriculture. The agriculture program does lots of
different studies and provides good information for the public.
This source talks about sustainability in agriculture and what it is. Sustainability relates directly
to farms since you want them to be sustainable. This source also talks about the specific ways to
be sustainable and some benefits of it. This source also talks about animal selection and that is an
important part in making a farm successful.
This is useful for our project because in our map we thought that sustainability was important
and this source is about how agriculture can be sustainable. It also could help because it explains
what sustainability is and how to make things overall better. Overall we can look to UC davis for
ways to improve.
Sustainability is what our project is mainly based off of so it relates to most people's
articles. It specifically relates Positive and Negative Impacts of Modern Agricultural
Techniques. because it talks about ways to be sustainable and positive while farming.

Department of Agriculture. "Meats Lab." California State University, Chico. College of Ag, n.d.
Web. 30 Oct. 2017.

Noelle Rivers is currently a freshman at Chico State where she is majoring in Animal
Science, in hopes of one day becoming a Veterinarian. Noelle is a user of the schools farm in
which she attends classes there twice a week for her practicing in the Animal Science field.
Within Noelles interview, she talked quite a lot about the school's meat laboratory and
expressed her many thoughts on the place. Noelle explained how she felt that this was a very
sustainable place for the university farm, that only added along to the other sustainable aspects of
the place as a whole. On Chico States official website, there is a tab where you may search for
many different departments within the Agricultural program such as a specific page that talks all
about the meats lab and the importance of its use at the farm.
The Meats Laboratory is a meat processing facility, operating under federal inspection,
which serves multiple purposes within the College of Agriculture and University Farm. The main
priority of the Meats Lab is to serve as an educational facility, where students may gain
knowledge by an on hands experience by producing a safe and quality product. The meats lab
purchases, harvests, and processes the livestock animals that are raised by other units of the farm,
for educational purposes of the students. All procedures are under supervision of United States
Department of Agriculture and a staff meats technician. The Meats Lab helps students with
internships and employment that help build a strong resume for the meat industry. This will help
the students become more desirable employers as they enter the workforce. The Meats Lab sells
a variety of retail cuts such as beef, pork, lamb, goat, as well as products such as sausage, cured
meats, and beef jerky. Products are sold to a number of local restaurants as well as the
community where as it is open for the public every Thursday and Friday from 8am to 5pm. The
Universities Meat Lab will remain as a sustainable place because they are processing and
marketing meat that comes from the very own farm itself, while maintaining an economical
balance while being open for citizens of Chico and all those around.
Just as Kate Moore (an instructor in the Animal Science Program) says, the farm is a
sustainable place and helps the farm maintain an economical balance.

Zaragoza, Luis. "SO THAT'S WHERE MILK COMES FROM: CITY KIDS LEARN ABOUT

FARM, KINDNESS TOWARD ANIMALS." McClatchy - Tribune Business News, Oct 31,

2006, pp. 1, ABI/INFORM Collection; Global Newsstream,

http://mantis.csuchico.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.mantis.csuchico.edu/docview/4

63203139?accountid=10346.

Luis Zaragoza was a writer since middle school. He worked for many news letters
throughout his life. Although Zaragoza has unfortunately passes away. His work is credible
because there are other interesting related articles about the same general area and some others.
which shows that he takes the time to research his work.
The article is about the fact that city children don't know where milk comes from they
think that it just comes from the uper marketing. Which isn't wrong but there is much more
behind it. The non-profit Dairy Council of California goes around to different places and gives
the children lecture of where their milk really comes from.
My group could use this information to do a study of our own with the local children
here. We could compare the difference between the children they have described and the
children here in Chico. We could also use this to come up with questions for later interviews.
This relates to the education portion that we have been talking about in class because the
children are being educated about how a farm works and about what kind of animals can be
found on a farm. Also, it connects with the fact that teaching children about a sustainable way of
how things work on a farm can lead to a better tomorrow.

Turner, B L. Production Diversity. Production Diversity and Dietary Diversity in Smallholder

Farm Households, 2015, www.pnas.org.mantis.csuchico.edu/content/112/34/10657.

I found this article through the Meriam Library website. It talks about how the
micronutrient and malnutrition remain a significant problem in large parts of the developing
world. This is a study done by students at Arizona State University about how agriculture and
food systems can be made more nutrition-sensitive in particular situations.
This article talks about how hunger and malnutrition are complex global problems. The use
of agriculture/farming is hugely depended upon especially in countries less fortunate. In Africa
and Asia, the majority of the undernourished people live in rural areas. Many of them are
smallholder farmers (Turner, 1). Increasing peoples diversity in agriculture is an important
strategy to improve nutrition and health. Comparisons show that more commercialized farms that
produce cash crops for the market have more diverse diets than subsistence farms on average.
(Turner, 3).
I believe this information relates to our class tremendously because its not sustainable to
have countries with lots of knowledge on agriculture diversity compared to countries still
starving without knowledge. An intervention could be done on how education about agriculture
should be spread. There could be demonstrations on farming techniques and livestock handling.
This article relates to others because some of my group members used sources regarding
studies done in other countries. The agriculture here is way more advanced than in other