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Maria, Alee/.a and farrek Hurdle of Sacramento, Calif, ride
Tiki, an African elephant fnim the Wildlife Safari who is in
Springfield this weekend for the New Zoo '* annual event.
Field burning phase-out
sent to House for vote
The Oregon Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that
would drastically reduce open burning of grass-seed fields
and virtually eliminate the practice within four years.
Senate Bill 425. sponsored by Sen. Grattan Kerens, was
approved on a near-party line vote. 10-11. anil is now headed
for the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
The bill passed was an amended version of Kerens' origi
nal proposal. He had first called for an immediate ban on
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open-field burning, but revised the bill to require a gradual
phase-out under pressure from fellow legislators and Gov.
Neil Goldschmidt.
Goldschmidt had originally opposed a field-burning ban
of any kind, but changed his mind during a Senate Agricul
ture Committee public hearing on SR425.
The new plan would drop the current annual level of
250.0(H) acres burned to 150.000 acres immediately upon fi
nul passage of the bill.
The cap would then be lowered each year until l't't.i
when a permanent level of .50.000 acres would he reached
Willamette Valley grass-seed growers burn their fields to
remove waste chaff and to control disease and pests.
Another part of the bill would increase the fee for field
burning to $20 per acre by 1002. and force growers to pay for
propane burning.
The money gathered from the higher horning fees es
timated at $7.5 million over the next two years would be
used mostly lo fund research programs t<> find alternatives to
field burning
THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON
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New Zoo brings world wildlife
to community for yearly event
Bv Beth Mischke
Emerald Contributor
An alligator, an African ele
pliant, reptiles, birds and a gi
ant tortoise are just a feu of the
animals that will be on display
this weekend during the New
Zoo's annual event
Tiki, a South African ele
phant. vs i 11 lie the feature of the
New Zoo. said zoo co-diret tor
Nam \ Hell, who also coordi
nates the yearly event The
New Zoo will lie located at Is
land I’ark in Springfield
"Tins annual (the elephant)
belongs to the world, not just
Africa. " said Hob Heisser. 1:11
director of the New /.ihi
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The South African elephant
is featured bee ause it is being
slaughtered for it's ivorv tusks
and fat es extinction within to
sears. Helsser said Tiki is visit
inn Eugene from the slate's
Wildlife Safari, south of Kose
horn in Winston.
In contrast to previous veers,
tile New Zoo will not lie in a
Eugene lew.at ion during the
sveekend. lleisser said this
change will save tinie. t'fforl
and tost of moving the animals
from Eugene to Springfield
Most ol thr animals come
from farms. breeders and reha
liilitation organizations that
find wild animals who have
lieen injured or are sii k
rim rehabilitation organize
lions krr|i tin- animals it the\
i an't return to the wild. Heisser
said
the New /.oo ails as >i net
work lor animal handlers and
helps promote the rehahilita
lion programs. Hell said
Eugene has its own rehabili
tation program participating in
llm New Zoo lire Willamette
\\ ildlile Resi lie and Rehahilita
lion Tim organization is staffed
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