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.
With federal delisting in
limbo as the wolf population
keeps growing, Walden said
there’s little recourse for area
ranchers and challenges for
the five-year review of the
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Oregon Rep. Peter
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longtime wolf advocate
who voted against Walden’s
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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.
Nick Cady, attorney for
Eugene-based Cascadia
Wildlands, one of the groups
fighting the state’s delisting in
court, also expressed concerns
about how year-end wolf
negotiations would play out.
“It is just so apparent that
so-called ‘local control’ sim-
ply means an absence of pro-
tections for the species,” Cady
said.
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