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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Sale of downtown Bend’s troy Field falls apart Plan for federal wolf delisting clears US House By kristena hansen Associated Press BEND (AP) — A plan to sell Troy Field in downtown Bend to a Portland-based hotel developer has fallen through. The Bulletin newspaper reported that the property is owned by the local school district and it accepted a $1.9 million offer. But the window to complete the sale closed last week and the developer — Brownstone Development — decided not to move forward. The grassy field on Bond Street has been used as an informal park for decades. Bend-La Pine Schools put the property up for sale in 2014, expecting the proceeds to help pay for future school construction. The failure to complete the sale is a win for residents who want Troy Field pre- served as open space. PORTLAND (AP) — As the battle over Oregon’s recent delisting of the gray wolf as endangered is waged in a courtroom, the state’s lone Republican congressman helped convince the House to approve a plan to remove all protections for the species at the federal level. The proposal cleared the chamber Wednesday with a 223-201 vote and now heads to the Senate. It was introduced Monday by Oregon Rep. Greg Walden and Washington state Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse as an amend- ment to a large federal appro- priations package. The plan would enable the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to move forward with its pro- posal made three years ago to delist the gray wolf under the federal Endangered Species Act by 2017. Population management would instead be at the dis- cretion of the lower 48 states, although it wouldn’t directly impact state-level endangered species lists or wolf manage- ment plans in separate places such as Oregon. “Oregon’s wolf popula- tion has grown by more than 40 percent, and yet we have this divided management strategy in the federal gov- ernment where in part of the state wolves are still listed and part of the state they’re not,” Walden said in a statement. “We need a single manage- ment strategy where we have local control under the Oregon state plan.” Gray wolves in the eastern third of Oregon are under state management but, as of last fall, are not considered endan- gered as they are by federal officials elsewhere in the state. The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission took the wolf off the state endangered list in November — a deci- sion wildlife advocates are currently fighting in appeals court — and now revising its wolf management plan as required every five years. 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Peter DeFazio, a Democrat and longtime wolf advocate who voted against Walden’s amendment, said the issue stems from an irrational fear of wolves that farm and cattle- men’s associations use to put “tremendous pressure” on conservatives. “It’s borne of some ances- tral, irrational fear of wolves, which permeates the agri- cultural community and the Republican Party here in Washington, D.C.,” DeFazio told The Associated Press, noting the gray wolf is already partially delisted at the federal level as of a few years ago. The broader bill containing the wolf amendment won’t clear the Senate, he said. But in year-end negotiations, “I assume the Republicans will assert, ‘Oh gee, we got all these amendments and we want them in the year-end deal,’ which (is) how they got the first partial delisting of the wolves,” DeFazio said. 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