Larry Dalton Mindy Cecchettini thinks Deer Creek Hills will destroy the rural life. Everything around Sloughhouse is brown this time of year. Mindy Cecchettini absent-mindedly pokes at a clump of melon weed with her foot, one of the few patches of green left on the hills in fall.
Most people think it's just grazing land.
But you have to see it in the springtime. The wildflowers are incredible. Her neighbors raise turkeys and chickens, some grow corn or berries. But much of the life in the east area of the county is wild, like the hawks and falcons that spend their winters here, likewise the cranes and geese and also the native oaks that dot the hills. On Nov. 7, voters will decide on Measure O, and decide once and for all whether Myers will have his way.