More Dogs on Main: Old neighbors

More Dogs on Main: Old neighbors

The first job of the spring season on the ranch is inspecting the main irrigation canal.  It’s about two miles long from where it picks up the water at the river to fields it irrigates.  Some years, it makes it through the winter without a problem. Other years there can be anything from rockslides to beaver dams. This year it was a 3-foot diameter tree that smashed some of the flow regulating controls.  You never know, but if there is trouble, I…