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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters Country birds
By Douglas Beall
Correspondent
The great blue heron is
America’s largest heron,
with a wingspan of up to
79 inches and a height
of 40 to 53 inches. It is
commonly seen along
waterways, swamps
and coastal ocean sides.
Around Sisters they
can often be seen in wheat
and grass fields feeding on
moles, gophers and ground
squirrels. Also great blues
can be seen overhead soar-
ing slowly, traveling to their
nests or a new feeding area.
They will form rookeries
in mature forests in which
large stick nests two to three
feet wide are built for two to
six eggs and to accommodate
their fast-growing chicks.
This community nesting has
up to 500 nests and will erupt
into loud guffawing when
disturbed. Clearcutting and
construction near a colony
are particularly damaging,
and a 1,000-foot buffer zone
is recommended. In recent
years great blue heron colo-
nies are becoming smaller,
numbering 100-200 birds.
For more great blue
heron images visit www.
abirdsingsbecauseithas
asong.com/recent-journeys.
photo by DougLAS bEALL
Great blue heron.
Frontiers In Science
MONTHLY SYMPOSIUM IN SISTERS
Music & The Brain
By Robert Collins, retired neurologist
Farm regulators eye ‘stop work’
By Mateusz Perkowski
Capital Press
CORVALLIS (AP) —
Food manufacturers and
pesticide applicators could
be subject to “stop-work”
orders under new regulatory
authority being considered by
Oregon’s farm regulators.
The Oregon Department
of Agriculture may seek new
regulatory power to halt spe-
cific unlawful actions that
endanger public safety.
Currently, the agency can
suspend or revoke the license
of a food establishment or
pesticide applicator that’s
violating the law, but such
sanctions may be overkill in
some situations, said Lauren
Henderson, ODA’s assistant
director.
“We don’t have anything
that’s specific to an activity.
It’s all or nothing,” he said
during this week’s meet-
ing of the Oregon Board of
Agriculture in Corvallis.
Revoking a license or
obtaining a temporary
restraining order in court also
involves fairly high legal hur-
dles, Henderson said.
Taking such drastic steps
would be overly burden-
some for the agency and the
business in the case of minor
violations, such as a faulty
thermometer in a refrigerated
meat cooler, he said.
Under the proposed stop-
work authority, the ODA
could simply require a com-
pany to cease using that
cooler until it’s fixed, he said.
“We’re looking at some-
thing very narrow and prob-
ably short-term,” Henderson
said.
At this point, the proposal
is in a very early stage but the
agency is considering it as a
possible “legislative concept”
for the 2017 legislative ses-
sion, he said.
Henderson acknowledged
the stop-work idea has met
with some trepidation among
regulated companies.
“The industry as a whole
is pretty nervous about us
having that authority,” he
said.
Aside from possibly
affecting pesticide applica-
tions, the proposal could
impact on-farm processing,
such as dairymen who make
farmstead cheese.
Doug Krahmer, a blue-
berry farmer and board mem-
ber, said companies should
have a way to challenge a
stop-work order.
“I would caution you to
put some sort of judicial
mechanism in there, so if a
grower or an owner takes
issue with a stop-work order,
there is a quick way to get
adjudication,” he said.
The U.S. Department of
Labor did not provide such
recourse when it issued “hot
goods” orders in 2012 that
halted the sale of perishable
fruit based on alleged labor
violations, he said.
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