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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1991)
Spotted owl debate may block resort expansion ASHLAND (AIM Rogue Vtillt;v residents trying to keep this Mount Ashland ski area from closing an; angry at an en vironmental group's appeal of the ski area's expansion plans "It makes me sick." said Dreg Williams, an Ashland city councilman and member of a steering committee trying to keep Ski Ashland Inc operat ing. "For an out-of-town group like this who feels they can overwalch us. it just makes me sick." The Oregon Natural Resource Council has Filed the sole ap peal against the U S Forest Ser vice's Final environmental im pact statement for the expan sion. File steering committee and lor al leaders want the ()NK( I to withdraw it. The expansion plnn. released in Julv. would allow develop ment on the mountain's north side 'Hiu details satisfied local groups and the city of Ashland, which deflated the plans with the Forest Service for eight years Hut the ONKC asserts the ev pension would disturb irnpor tent spotted owl habitat pro tected by .1 federal < ourt injunc tion. Chitting new ski trails, which would he like a prohibit ed timber sale, would disrupt a vital forest corridor between the Coastal and Cascade moun tain ranges that is important to the entire Northwest, ONKC spokesman Wendell Wood said I bis is more important bio logically than a nesting site," he said -•’This- area is ke\ to holding together the whole eco system.” Medusa lays eggs NKWI’ORT (AIM Medusa. .1 (bant Pacific octopus cloistered .1! the Hatfield Marine Si 1 once ("enter since February, has txrgun laving eggs in her observation tank. Staffers al tfie center are fascinated, but they're also worried For an octopus, the mommy tr.u k is fatal in the wild, a female octopus generates an en/vmi' during the egg laying process thal flat tens tier appetite She stops eating after laving her eggs, tends to them until they hatch, and then dies "She started laying eggs utxmt three weeks ago It was on a Monday,'’ said Jim Deakln of Waldport, a center volunteer It generally takes about two weeks for them to complete their laying cycle " So tar, Medusa inexplicably continues to eat She ate Monday." Deakln reported "We al ways feed her one < rah. four times a week It takes about six months for fertile eggs to hatch, hut si dentists believe Medusa's eggs may nut be fertile Deakln is hopeful, but aquarium director Rob Sparks is confident the eggs a re infertile "They've been there probably two weeks We should be able to see some development and 1 leavuge of the eggs We re not seeing that All we can see now is the yolk sac inside the egg,” Sparks said Downs appeal denied S\1.1.'M (AIM (’onvir led t hild killer Kli/a both Dune Downs' newest attempt at felling a now (rial has tailed Marion County Circuit lodge Duane l.rtsgaard on Friday lurneil down her request for relief, said 1 ’lliI l.emman, a spokesman lor Attorney Conoral Dave Irubnmaver Downs <1,dined she had ineffective legal i ounset at her trial and while appealing her i onvii lions Hut l.rtsgaard said her lawyers e\ eri tsed valid judgments and that she laded to prove her contentions Downs was convict id in 1 flHt in lame ( am n tv of the gunshot murder of one of her children and of attempting to murder the other two Her i onvictions have t>een upheld Shi1 had filed a petition for post t omnium relief, a method permitting convicts to seek new trials hy raising issues such as inadequate legal assistance Downs has a right to appeal hrtsgaard's deci sion to the (iregon ( ourt of Appeals She has been serving a sentence ol life plus r>0 years l.emman said ft) years will he taken oil of the senteni e heiause ol a separate ruling by l.rtsgaard JansportBackpacks Starting s1695 ( omp.ii r .it S22 »(> \ up \ .11 irf \ nl ( nlors ( lion .r Irnill .1 \ .1111! \ nf sf \ i*s I a< Ion direct sa\ iii^s of 30-60% lii-lmv regular retail everyday! 342-WI73 Great Outdoor Clothing Company THIS YEAR A LOT OF COLLEGE SENIORS WILL BE GRADUATING INTO DEBT. 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