After heavy snowfall left cows in northern California stranded and starving, officials launched an unusual rescue mission.
Roads Flood, A Sinkhole Opens And People Are Ordered To Evacuate As Atmospheric River Bears Down On CaliforniaBushnell, who also raises cattle, said she called other ranchers in the area to check in on them, and when she learned some hadn't been able to reach their cattle for over a week, she realized she had to do something.
A longtime Humboldt County rancher John Rice had told Bushnell that when the area faced a similar storm in 1989, they called in the Coast Guard to drop hay from helicopters to stranded cows.So Bushnell called Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal and proposed a helicopter rescue for starving cows. Honsal went to the Coast Guard with the idea, and by midday Sunday, March 5 Operation Hay Drop was a go."The pilots are looking essentially for tracks in the snow," said Honsal.
"If it wasn't for them, I guarantee you 110% there'd be thousands of cattle that are dying. Thousands," Puga said.
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