Woolley estimates that, by the end of this year, the herd will be back to predrought numbers.
Lucas Pope is vineyard manager at Halter Ranch Vineyard in Paso Robles.
Most of the time, the foliage grows back, but stumping interrupts a tree’s fruit production for two to four years.
If normal rainfall continues next season, he said, he may replant 20 to 40 acres of trees.
“The rain did not come as hoped, but the timing of the rain that did fall was perfect,” she said.
Yields last year inched up about 5 percent over the previous year.
“Because we replanted, grafted and pruned last year, we are in a very good position this year,” she said.
Photos by Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com “In total, we are able to supply about half of our irrigation water from these two systems,” he said.
Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com About 40 acres of Hass avocados planted on the windswept hilltop at Morro Ranch had to be let go because there wasn’t enough water during the drought.
Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com Will Woolley of Templeton Hills Beef walks among the green grasses of the ranch.

Bottled water is a scam for most Americans — but a new report reveals some surprising places where it’s dangerous to drink the tap.
People living near private wells do not enjoy the same rigorous testing as those whose water comes from public sources.
Typically, tap water is tested regularly for quality and contamination in accordance with laws from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In its new report, the NRDC documents more than 80,000 violations of the law by community water systems in 2015 alone.
"These violations included exceeding health-based standards, failing to properly test water for contaminants, and failing to report contamination to state authorities or the public."
But in 2015, this law was violated nearly 8,000 times by community water systems serving more than 14 million people, according to the report.
Formal enforcement action, or reporting the problem to the level where the EPA required the community water system to respond to a complaint, was taken in just 10% of cases.
Here’s a map from the report showing the number of people served by community water systems with at least one reported violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015.
Populations are shaded at the county level to show the number of residents served by systems with violations that occurred that year.
Research suggests that the water from many of these wells is not safe to drink.

Here’s an overview of some of the key concerns: Groundwater contamination: One big concern is whether the chemicals used in fracking or the natural gas itself could contaminate people’s drinking water.
In recent years, fracking wells have blown out in states like North Dakota.
In another incident, thousands of gallons of fracking fluid leaked out of a storage tank in Dimock, Pennsylvania.
The Environmental Protection Agency is currently conducting a big study into this type of contamination and how to prevent it.
A second question is whether chemicals or natural gas could somehow migrate from the fracked shale layer thousands of feet up into the groundwater — even if the wells are perfectly constructed.
Environmental Protection Agency Wastewater pollution: A separate issue is what happens with all that water after it has been used to crack open shale and is pumped back up to the surface.
But when there aren’t enough injection wells available, the water is either stored in tanks and holding ponds or sent off to treatment plants.
That raises the risk of either accidental spills or improper treatment.
Air pollution: Once an area of shale has been fracked, natural gas begins flowing up out of the well.
In 2012, the EPA began requiring oil and gas companies to limit these emissions and capture the escaped gas.

By Prof. Dr. P. K. Jena Potentially water rich and green Odisha during the last couple of decades is experiencing unbearable hot summer with severe water scarcity for drinking as well as for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes.
Along with the hot summer, the water crisis particularly for drinking purpose in all parts of the state, has been very acute.
In urban areas though better infrastructural facilities are there to supply drinking water, the acute shortage of water is felt due to drying of most of the rivers and water bodies and at the same time the ground water table has gone down resulting in drying of the tube wells.
This measurable plight is due to unscientific irrigation practices, rampant deforestation, unplanned development of urban areas, industries, roads and railways, unscientific mining etc.
Along with these, the pollution of most of the rivers due to release of urban and industrial wastes, the mismanagement in storing of water resource and unscientific water distribution have been responsible for such acute water crisis.
In order to save Odisha from such miserable plight, the authorities should take immediate steps for implementing various projects in two important areas like (i) Enhancing the surface water in ponds and tanks and other suitable low lying areas for rain water harvesting with facilities for recharging the ground water and (ii) Undertaking afforestation in the barren and mined out areas as well as massive commercial plantation of species like neem, karanj etc., both in rural and urban areas including road and river sides.
Besides harvesting rain water on small and medium scales at suitable sites, better irrigation methods like surface, sprinkle and drip irrigation should be practiced so that the water can be utilized without much loss.
The water which we use particularly for drinking and other domestic purposes when supplied to the consumers a lot of public money is required for its purification and supply.
The forest being a major sink for green house gases, development of fertile soil, protector of ground water reserve and arrester of most of the rain water for going back to the ocean through rivers, efforts are being made all over the world to undertake afforestation programmes in the barren and wasteland including the mined out areas.
In order to bring improved socio economic development of the people in the state by utilizing its rich mineral, soil, water, forest and marine resources, the Government has to give high priority on integrated water resource management along with afforestation of vast barren and waste lands with priority to plantation of economic species both in rural and urban areas.

Jostna.
After concluding the cause to be unsafe water, a brave Jostna did what it took to prevent her other children from suffering as well.
“I refuse to accept any more sickness in my family,” said Jostna, a 56-year-old wife and mother of five living in Bangladesh.
You see, not until recently did the family have access to safe water or a private toilet at home.
For years the family got their water from various, unreliable sources; ponds, streams, hand-dug wells, and nearby drainage canals.
Open defecation eventually led the family to build a toilet at home.
Between unsafe water and poor hygiene, Jostna’s son became severely ill.
The doctor recommended Jostna install a deep tubewell at home to prevent any more water-borne illness in the home.
WaterCredit empowers the poor to take hold of their water and sanitation crisis, and put an end to it.
Jostna is now working with Water.org’s partner in Bangladesh to construct her own tap at home.This will put the needed resources into her home immediately, freeing her and her husband to work and focus on their children.

The corporation’s intention to build another plant — possibly in the Lincoln area — that could extract another 175 million gallons per year from an aquifer has, predictably, fanned fears that nearby wells or the entire aquifer will be sucked dry.
Could Poland Spring deplete Maine’s groundwater?
That included the 768 million gallons pumped out by bottled water companies, Gordon said.
Last year, Poland Spring bottled around 900 million gallons of water, less than 1 percent of the state’s groundwater, according to Thomas Brennan, Poland Spring’s senior natural resource manager.
Could Poland Spring bottling plants dry out nearby wells and deplete streams?
Gordon, the state hydrologist, said during the drought he checked each of the company’s test wells that measure how the aquifer being tapped is being affected by the bottling operation.
Poland Spring controls water under land it owns.
The Maine DEP typically checks testing wells at a proposed extraction site to see how the surrounding area would be affected, said Mark Margerum, an environmental specialist for the department.
During droughts, the Maine Geological Survey will check the company’s test wells itself.
Nisha Swinton, senior organizer for Food and Water Watch, said she wants stronger regulation of water extraction and says the state ought to have control over all of Maine’s groundwater.

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However, two drinking water wells in the base’s Hill system, which serves about 3,000 people on the Lakehurst portion, tested at 215 parts per trillion in December.
But a review of water pumping records by this news organization showed the two "backup" wells provided about 15 percent of water to the Hill system from 2007 to 2016.
From May 2014 to April 2015, records show the two contaminated wells supplied about three-quarters of the water in that system.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the arm of the CDC responsible for investigating potential toxic exposures at federal sites such as military bases, said in an email that it hasn’t looked at potential exposure to PFOA and PFOS “because we didn’t have the data to evaluate these contaminants.” After PFOA and PFOS contamination issues were found at a former military base in Warminster, Pennsylvania, the agency conducted a health assessment to determine that the perfluorinated chemicals posed a “public health hazard in the past.” Asked about doing a similar analysis at the joint base, the agency wrote that its “main role, currently, has been to provide health education related to (PFOS and PFOA) exposure.” On the state level, Health Department spokeswoman Nicole Kirgan said in an email: "The New Jersey Department of Health has not been involved with this site, as this is a federal Department of Defense site and falls under federal oversight."
Pumping records from the base showed the two contaminated wells were taken offline in November 2015 and not used again until they were tested for the chemicals in October 2016.
There is no indication why that happened.
David Kluesner, chief of public outreach for the EPA’s Region II office, wrote in an email: “At this time, it is unknown why the wells were taken out of service.” He also said the agency was working with the military, DEP and CDC to “evaluate all relevant information.” The base’s pumping records also showed the two contaminated wells were first sampled in October 2016, when they were pumping only a small amount of water.
Those tests showed no contamination.
Asked whether the DEP staff would review the pumping records to ensure proper testing, press officer Larry Hajna said in an email: “In general, any time a water system encounters an issue with elevated levels of contaminant for which there is no (legal limit), we recommend that the operator take steps to mitigate, such as using the well only if necessary and blending with other water.
Asked the same question about pumping records, the EPA’s Kluesner wrote, “Currently, the Air Force is investigating PFOA/PFOS contamination at the site, and all appropriate information, including the pumping records, will be considered in the evaluation.” When asked if it’s possible the chemicals may migrate from the closed wells to other area wells, he wrote, “The investigation of contamination at this site is in its early stages, and the focus is on determining if drinking water wells are impacted now.” Hajna did not answer that question for the DEP.

OSHaRE added to Walk for Water.
The event, which over the past nine years has helped to improve access to safe drinking water overseas, has added the local Owen Sound Hunger and Relief Effort to the causes it is raising money for.
"Next year will be the 10th anniversary and we will have OSHaRE on then as well," said Jeffrey Robins, owner of Aveda Mane Street Hair Salon, which puts on the event each year with Barry Kruisselbrink of Barry’s Construction.
"Barry gives money to them each year so he just wanted to help them out a little bit further."
Each year the funds raised from the event have gone to WaterAid Canada, which improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation.
"They are building wells for people who don’t have accessible, clean water," said Robins.
Robins said the event started locally after the salon took it on as it was Aveda’s national fundraiser.
"Each year it has just grown and gotten bigger and bigger."
Last year, the Owen Sound event raised close to $47,000, making it the top fundraising Aveda salon in Canada.
"I have a person in my chair for half an hour so I talk to them about what we are doing," said Robins.

Duke study finds no water well contamination from fracking.
Opponents of natural gas drilling have consistently spread fear by alleging that hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater and releases methane, saline and arsenic into water wells.
(Remember the “documentary” Gasland?)
Duke geochemistry and water quality professor Avner Vengosh and his team examined 112 drinking wells over a three year period in the heavily-drilled area of northwestern West Virginia.
The researchers were able to sample 20 water wells before drilling began to establish a baseline for comparison.
Vengosh reached this unambiguous conclusion: “We did not find any evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas development.” Yes, the researchers did find varying levels of methane and arsenic, but through the use of special geochemical “tracers,” they determined the substances were naturally occurring or a result of old wells or coal mines from years ago.
Their presence in aquifers “was found to be a widespread phenomenon and likely a result of natural migration of deep brine and natural gas-rich fluids combined with shallow water rock interactions.” In some cases, arsenic concentrations exceeding national drinking water standards were found in water wells before shale gas development.
However, the peer-reviewed study does not let the gas drilling industry off the hook.
The researchers concluded that accidental spills of fracking wastewater at drilling and disposal sites may pose a threat to surface water.
The Agency took so much heat from environmentalists that it struck that that conclusion from its final report.