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Wilderness
designation
opposition
strengthens
By Kathleen Ellyn
Wallowa County Chieftain
Wallowa County Com-
missioners have added their
protest to that of State Rep-
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county courts from 13 other
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Natural Desert Association to
carve off 2.5 million acres of
Malheur County as a wilder-
ness area. That area, Walden
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of Rhode Island and Connecti-
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6.5 million acres.
The Owyhee Canyonlands
Conservation Proposal would
set aside both lands and hun-
dreds of miles of wild and
scenic rivers in a county that
already has 4.5 million acres
(73 percent of the land in the
county) under federal man-
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Malheur County Soil and
Water Conservation District
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opposes the monument pro-
posal, said that 2.5 million
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of the county. Once federal
lands are converted to special
use lands, such as National
Monument, Wilderness Area,
National Conservation Area,
they permanently lose multi-
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from cattle.
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that much land would elimi-
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devastated by such a conver-
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here (either), Rowe said.
Malheur County Cattle-
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destroy the community and the
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sociation (ONDA), which is
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says the proposal would “al-
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believe the opposite would
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use his power under the An-
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land as a national monument,
wilderness area or national
conservation area.
Wallowa County Commis-
sioners unanimously approved
a resolution in opposition to
the proposal in September,
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Lincoln, Wheeler, Columbia,
Harney, Deschutes, Tillamook,
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hill counties in opposition.
The Malheur County Court
had already spent two years
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derness Area in the southern
part of Malheur County con-
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ed ranchers and the Malheur
County Court endorsed that
proposal
Sean Ellis of Capital Press
contributed to this story.
October 28, 2015
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B IGHORN GOES TO TOWN
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Former Enterprise resident Celeste Bauck snapped this shot of a bighorn sheep last week along Highway 82 headed
for Joseph, less than half a mile east of Enterprise.
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