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LOCAL
US wildlife officials announce
Annual sale took
plans to lift gray wolf protections place Monday
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➢➧ ➳➯➦ ➡➦➠➫➾
to lift protections for gray
wolves across the Lower 48
states, a move certain to re-
ignite the legal battle over a
predator that’s rebounding
in some regions and running
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The Associated Press.
Acting Interior Secretary
David Bernhardt was ex-
pected to announce the pro-
posal today during a speech
before a wildlife conference
in Denver, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Spokesman Gavin
Shire said in an interview
with the AP.
The decision to lift protec-
tions is based on gray wolves
successfully recovering from
widespread extermination
last century, Shire said. He
said further details would be
made public during a formal
announcement planned in
coming days.
Long despised by farmers
and ranchers, wolves were
shot, trapped and poisoned
out of existence in most of
the U.S. by the mid-20th
century.
They received endan-
gered species protections in
1975, when there were about
1,000 left, only in northern
Minnesota. Now more than
5,000 of the animals live in
the contiguous U.S.
Most are in the Western
Great Lakes and North-
ern Rockies regions. Pro-
tections for the Northern
Rockies population were
lifted in 2011 and hundreds
are now killed annually by
hunters.
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have continued to thrive
despite pressure from hunt-
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breeders and can adapt to a
variety of habitats.
Wildlife advocates want
federal protections kept in
place until wolves repopu-
late more of their historic
range that once stretched
across most of North
America.
Since being reintroduced
in Yellowstone National
park and central Idaho in
the mid-1990s, the North-
ern Rockies population has
expanded to parts of Or-
egon, Washington and Cali-
fornia.
The Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice has argued for years the
gray wolf has recovered in
the Lower 48 states, despite
occupying only a small frac-
tion of the territory it once
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sist that recovery of wolves
everywhere is not required
for the species to no longer
be in danger of extinction.
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posed revoking the wolf’s
protected status across the
Lower 48 states in 2013,
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courts struck down its plan
for “delisting” the species
in the western Great Lakes
region states of Michigan,
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Fish and Wildlife Service
➐Ð➏➍➆➒➁ ➓➍➁➏➒➐➁❽➓ ➂➐ ➂➅❽ Õ↔
last year that another scien-
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status had been launched.
Shire declined to disclose
the agency’s rationale for its
decision the species had re-
covered, but said members
of the public would have a
chance to comment before
➆ ➀➊➆➒ ➓❽➏➍➁➍➐➊ ➍➊ ➏➐Ó➍➊➎
months.
Lawmakers in Congress
frustrated with court rulings
maintaining protections for
wolves have backed legisla-
tion to forcibly strip protec-
tions for wolves in the Great
Lakes region and beyond. A
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succeeded in 2011 for North-
ern Rockies wolves.
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Cattle ranchers from across the Northwest de-
scended on Baker Valley Monday for the 40th-
annual Harrell Hereford Ranch Spring Bull
Roundup sale at the ranch along Salmon Creek
west of Baker City.
But those who walked through the snow on a
chilly late winter day weren’t the only ones bid-
ding on the cattle. Ranchers across the nation
were also able to submit bids via the phone or
the internet.
There were more remote bidders this year,
something Bob Harrell attributes to the recent
wintry weather across much of the West.
“We’ve got a good customer base that has been
with us for a long time and so we are trying to do
everything we can to accommodate them,” Har-
rell said.”What makes a good sale is when you
have more buyers than you have bulls.”
Up for auction this year were 140 bulls, about
100 heifers and 11 quarter horses.
“If our crowd is good then we should get along
all right — we have a really good set of bulls this
year, good set of heifers, so it’s just kind of up
to how bad they are needing them,” Harrell said
before the sale.
Buyers were able to see live video of every bull
when it went on the auction block. The Harrells’
website also had pre-recorded video of every bull
for sale. Although the ranch added this technolo-
gy to the spring sale a few years ago, Harrell said
he still tries to attract as many potential buyers
in person. He said those bidders are more willing
to pay more for a bull than those who participate
online.
“Our objective is to try to get them to come to
the sale and most people do. It’s just that weather
sometimes is tough,” Harrell said.
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lectured about the coun-
cil’s charters calling it
“demeaning.” She called
Little’s opening statement
a “slap in the face.”
The council members
and the mayor argued for a
few minutes but ultimately
decided to move on to the
next agenda item.
A vote to pass the Pro-
posed Sidewalk Ordi-
nance over to the League
of Oregon Cities for legal
review passed with four
votes, while Councilman
Shawn Parker abstained.
The ordinance, if passed,
would create stricter
rules on sidewalk main-
tenance.
A vote to pass part of
the Snow and Ice Removal
Plan passed unanimously.
The plan entails if there is
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the council and left.
Councilwoman
Nate
Conrad said she had
to side with Mayor
Little.
“Maybe he is trying to
move a little fast for you,”
she said to the remaining
members of the council,
“but I don’t think you are
giving him the respect that
his position asks for.”
Councilman
Alan
Cadinha voiced support
for McCowan and said he
believes Little was elected
because he made promises
to citizens even though
there was no funding in
the budget to accomplish
his promises. He said
the hostile environment
has made city council
meetings an unpleasant
experience.
Councilwoman
Lana
Shira spoke next, saying
to the mayor, “Since the
➆ ➌➁➍➎➊➍➀➏➆➊➂ ➁➊➐➄ ❽❼❽➊➂➃➑
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accumulation of 20 inches
or more, the city would
take action to clear the
streets.
The council selected a
candidate to be chosen
for the soon-to-be-vacant
Public Works Director po-
sition, although the candi-
❼❽❾❿ ➀❾➁➂➃ ➄❽ ➅➆❼❽ ➉❽❽➊
treated like we know
nothing.” She said she ob-
jected to being asked not
to comment and being
⑩❶⑩❷❸❶❹❺❻
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December. Liz Meyer is
originally from England,
while Grant is from Elgin.
Grant is the warehouse
manager at Carpet one,
and Liz will be working for
Community Kindness full
time.
“I plan to give it 150
percent,” she said. “This
community is so amazing,
they’ve accepted this Brit-
ish woman and I just think
it’s time to pay it back.”
Community Kind-
ness accepts all kinds of
items like books, games
date will not be named to
the public until he or she
➍➁ ➊➐➂➍➀❽➓➃ ➆➊➓ ➂➅❽ ➏➐➔➊➏➍➒
also approved a two-year
plan.
Tensions rose again
during the public com-
ment portion of the meet-
ing when Cove resident
Alexis Cannon voiced her
concern that Little was
responsible for creating
a hostile environment in
previous meetings. She
said she did not appre-
ciate the shortening of
the time for public com-
ments in the last council
meeting.
Little ended the meeting
with a formal apology to
the council for his open-
ing statement, saying he
did not mean to belittle
anyone on the council.
This led to a conversa-
tion between the council
members about how they
could work together more
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note, with Shira speak-
ing up to accept Little’s
apology.
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❣❦ ➉➄ ❶➍❼❾❶
and clothing. A full list
of acceptable items can
be found on Community
Kindness’s Facebook page.
hosting a Krispy Kreme
fundraiser. To contact Liz,
call 541-805-1410.
↔➆❾↕❽❾
the council should en-
courage discussion while
Conrad suggested taking
one another’s feelings into
consideration.
The meeting adjourned
on a much more positive
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