Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old Lodi vineyard owner and longtime Central Valley agricultural figure, was trampled to death by a group of forest elephants during a guided hunting trip in Gabon’s Lope-Okanda rainforest last Friday. His professional guide was seriously injured in the attack, which unfolded suddenly in dense undergrowth where visibility is notoriously limited. The news has rippled through Lodi and Modesto, where Dosio ran the vineyard management firm Pacific AgriLands.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Dosio and his guide…
