The Observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1968-current, March 15, 2019, WEEKEND EDITION, Page 2, Image 2

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✗■▲❨
▲✗◆◆❊❘
❲❳❨❩❬
❭♦❪❫❴ ❵❛ ❜r❵❪❫❴❝ ❞❫r❡❤ ❢❣❝
t❤✐ ❥❦t❤ ❪❫❴ ♦❧ ♠♥❢♣q❭❤✐r✐ ❫r✐
♠♣❢ ❪❫❴❛ s✐❧t ❵✉ t❤✐ ❴✐❫rq
❲❳❨❩❬✈✇ ①②③①④②③①❲
⑤✉ ❞❫r❡❤ ❢❣❝ ❦❦ ⑥q⑦q❝ ⑧♦⑨
⑩❫✉ ❪❵❡t❫t♦r ❶❷s❵❷❛ ⑦❫✐❛❫r
❸❫❛ ❫❛❛❫❛❛❵✉❫t✐❪ ❹❴ ❫ ❺r♦❷❻
♦❧ ✉♦❹s✐❛ t❤❫t ❵✉❡s❷❪✐❪ ⑥r❷t❷❛
❫✉❪ ⑦❫❛❛❵❷❛q
❳❼ ❲①②✇ ❨❩❲❽
❾✉ ❢❦♣❿❝ ❾t❫s❵❫✉ ✐➀❻s♦r✐r
Two receive more than Former Baker City man
4-year prison sentences gets two years in jail
❖❑✘❡✣✈❡✣ ✘✦❛✧✧
Heath Albert Horn, 34, and
Stephanie Rose Barker, will each
be heading to prison after being
found guilty in unrelated cases.
Horn will be going to prison
for 50 months after he failed to
comply with the conditions of
his parole.
In September 2018, Horn
trespassed into a home on 26th
Street in La Grande with the in-
tent of committing an assault
crime, according to his court re-
cords. Records also show Horn
threatened the woman who lived
at the home, resulting in a do-
mestic violence situation, with
whom he was ordered not to
have any contact.
Later that month, Horn plead-
✫✯ ❏✷✭❉✸✹ ✸✩ ❍✵✿✸●✯✫❏✵✫✫ ★✷✵❏❉✳✵✹❋
❹❫❡➂ ❵✉ t❤✐ ➃❻❫✉❵❛❤ ❤❫r❹♦r
according to a press release from
the Union County District Attor-
♦❧ ➄❫s♦❛ ❪✐ s❫ ❜r♦✉t✐r❫❝ t❸♦
✮✫✹❀✿ ❄❅❇✫❃ ▼✮✿✸✫✳✯ ✩❁ ✳ P✵✭✿✩✮
⑩♦✉t❤❛ ❫❧t✐r ❡♦✉❡s❷❪❵✉❺ ❤❵❛
sentence, Horn agreed to go to
⑦❤r❵❛t♦❻❤✐r ⑦♦s❷⑩❹❷❛ ❫rr❵➁✐❪
❋ ✁✂❆❨✱ ✄❆ ☎✆ ✝✺✱ ✞✟✝✾
LOCAL
substance abuse and domestic
violence treatment programs.
Within three weeks of that
agreement, Horn quit checking
✭✮ ❙✭✸✬ ✬✭✿ P✵✩★✳✸✭✩✮ ✩❅❇✫✵ ✳✮✯
failed to comply with the condi-
tions of his probation. He was
arrested again Feb. 2 and sen-
tenced Feb. 15 to 50 months in
prison.
In an unrelated case, Barker
pleaded guilty Feb. 25 to deliv-
ery of a controlled substance and
received a 56-month sentence.
She was a passenger in a vehicle
P✷❉❉✫✯ ✩❯✫✵ ★✹ ❄✵✫❏✩✮ ✻✸✳✸✫ ❈✩●
lice in September 2018. During
✳ ✿✫✳✵❇✬ ✩❁ ✸✬✫ ❯✫✬✭❇❉✫❋ ✩❅❇✫✵✿
found 50 grams of methamphet-
amine and 80 grams of heroin
inside two plastic drink cups.
The driver of the vehicle, An-
thony Espinoza, pleaded guilty
to delivery of a controlled sub-
stance and received a 65-month
sentence in October 2018.
❲❡✘✙✚✛ ✜❡✇✘ ✢❡✣✈✤✥❡ ✘✦❛✧✧
BAKER CITY — A former Baker
City man who has twice been con-
victed of making bomb threats in
Baker City was sentenced to two
years in prison Wednesday for the
more recent conviction, for making
an anonymous phone call in March
2016 claiming to have placed a
★✩✪★ ★✫✬✭✮✯ ✰✳✴✫✵ ✶✩✷✮✸✹ ✻✬✫✵✭✼
Travis Ash’s home.
Freddie Armando Butler, 31, of
Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced
by U.S. District Court Judge Steph-
anie M. Rose in Iowa.
Butler admitted using a cell-
phone to leave the anonymous
message for Ash, according to a
press release from U.S. Attorney
Marc Krickbaum.
✽✿✬ ✳✮✯ ✰✳✴✫✵ ✶✩✷✮✸✹ ✻✬✫✵✭✼❀✿
deputies searched the area around
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❁✩✷✮✯
✮✩
bomb.
As part of his guilty plea, Butler
admitted to leaving the phone mes-
sage with the intention to fright-
en or impede law enforcement,
according to a press release from the
❂❃✻❃ ✽✸✸✩✵✮✫✹❀✿ ❄❅❇✫ ✭✮ ❈✩✵✸❉✳✮✯❃
In a press release from the sher-
✭✼❀✿ ✩❅❇✫❋ ✽✿✬ ✿✳✭✯ ✬✫ ✭✿ ✮✩✸ ✯✫●
terred from his commitment to
duty by the actions of criminals, but
that the 2016 threat by Butler was
quite traumatizing for his family.
In January 2011 Butler, then 23
and living in Boise, was sentenced
to one year in jail for calling in a
bomb threat to Baker High School
in December 2009.
Butler pleaded guilty to one
❇✩✷✮✸
✩❁
❍✵✿✸●✯✫❏✵✫✫
✯✭✿✩✵✯✫✵❉✹
conduct.
Baker High School, which at that
time also housed kindergartners,
was evacuated due to the threat.
No bomb was found.
Butler admitted making the phone
call from Des Moines, Iowa. He told
✳ ✰✳✴✫✵ ✶✭✸✹ ❈✩❉✭❇✫ ✩❅❇✫✵ ✸✬✳✸ ✬✫
didn’t intend to scare anyone.
➅r❛t ➁♦❴❫❺✐ t♦ t❤✐ ➆✐❛t✐r✉
➇✐⑩❵❛❻❤✐r✐q
❾✉ ❢♣❢❿❝ ➄r✐❛❵❪✐✉t ➆♦♦❪⑨
r♦❸ ➆❵s❛♦✉ ⑩✐t ❸❵t❤ ❫❹♦❷t
❢♥♥ r✐❻♦rt✐r❛ ❧♦r t❤✐ ➅r❛t
❧♦r⑩❫s ❻r✐❛❵❪✐✉t❵❫s ❻r✐❛❛
❱❳ ❩❬❭❭t❪❫ ❱❴❵❫❜
❡♦✉❧✐r✐✉❡✐q
❬❜❝ ❞❵t❜ ❢❣❪❤t❪❴
❾✉ ❢♣❢➈❝ ❫ ➉q➃q ✐➀❻✐❪❵t❵♦✉❫r❴
✐❥❡ ❦✘✘✚✥✤❛✦❡❧ ♠✣❡✘✘
➌♦q ❣q ➃❤✐ ❫s❛♦ ❛❫❵❪ ❛❤✐ ❪❵❪ ✉♦t
A proposal to strip gray
wolves of their remaining
federal protections could
curtail their rapid expan-
sion across vast swaths of
the U.S. West and Great
Lakes, yet the predators al-
ready are proving to be re-
silient in states where hunt-
ing and trapping occur.
Thursday’s
Interior
Department proposal to
remove threatened and
endangered species pro-
tections for wolves would
end a decades-long res-
t✐❛t❵❧❴ ❛❫❴❵✉❺ ❛❤✐ ❡♦❷s❪ ♦❧t✐✉
✸✩✵✳✸✭✩✮ ✫✼✩✵✸ ✸✬✳✸ ✿✳❙ ✳
❤✐❫r t❤✐ ❡♦❷❻s✐ ➅❺❤t❵✉❺q ➣❷✐
remarkable turnaround
for an animal once nearly
exterminated across the
Lower 48 states. Now
more than 6,000 gray
wolves live in portions of
nine states.
Authority over wolves
would revert to state wild-
life agencies with no ob-
ligation to maintain cur-
rent numbers. Critics say
that amounts to a death
sentence for thousands
of the animals, shrinking
well-established popula-
tions and preventing wan-
derers from carving out
new territory.
The track record sug-
gests otherwise in parts
of the Northern Rockies,
where wolf numbers have
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➄✐r❛❤❵✉❺ ✐✉t✐r✐❪ ❞✐➀❵❡♦ ♦✉ ❫✉
❷st❵⑩❫t✐s❴ ❧❷t❵s✐ ⑩❵❛❛❵♦✉ t♦ ❡❫❻⑨
t❷r✐ ➄❫✉❡❤♦ ➋❵ss❫❝ ❸❤♦❛✐ r❫❵❪✐r❛
❤❫❪ ❫tt❫❡➂✐❪ ⑦♦s❷⑩❹❷❛❝ ➌✐❸
❞✐➀❵❡♦❝ ➂❵ss❵✉❺ ❢➍ ➉q➃q ❡❵t❵➎✐✉❛q
➏❳➐➐❽➏❲②❳❼
❾✉ t❤✐ ➄❫❺✐ ➑❢ ❛t♦r❴❝ ➒⑦♦r✐❴
⑦♦ss❵✉❛ ❧♦❷✉❪ ❺❷❵st❴ ♦❧ ⑩❷st❵❻s✐
❛✐➀ ❫❹❷❛✐ ❡❤❫r❺✐❛❝➓ ❻❷❹s❵❛❤✐❪
❜✐❹q ❢❿❝ ➔✐✉✉❫ ⑦♦ss❵✉❛❝ ⑦♦r✐❴
⑦♦ss❵✉❛→ ⑩♦⑩❝ ❛❫❵❪ ❛❤✐ ❪❵❪ ✉♦t
t✐❛t❵❧❴ ⑦♦r✐❴ ❤❫❪ ❹✐✐✉ ❡r❴❵✉❺
❫✉❪ ❧✐st s❵➂✐ ❤✐ ❤❫❪ r❫❻✐❪ ➋❵❡t❵⑩
t♦ t✐❡❤✉♦s♦❺❵❡❫s ❪❵❧➅❡❷st❵✐❛ ❸❵t❤
t❤✐ ❡♦❷rt ❫❷❪❵♦❝❭❤✐ ⑤❹❛✐r➁✐r
❸❫❛ ✉♦t ❫❹s✐ t♦ ➁✐r❵❧❴ ❸❤✐t❤✐r
t❤✐ ❵✉❧♦r⑩❫t❵♦✉ ❸❫❛ ❡♦rr✐❡tq
➔❤❵r✐✉❪❫ ❶♦❤✉❛♦✉ t✐❛t❵➅✐❪ ❛❤✐
❤❫❪ ❛✐✐✉ ⑦♦r✐❴ ❫✉❪ ➋❵❡t❵⑩ ➌♦q
❣ t♦❺✐t❤✐r ❪❷r❵✉❺ t❤✐ t❵⑩✐ ♦❧
t❤✐ r✐❛tr❫❵✉❵✉❺ ♦r❪✐rq
④❳❲❲❽➐❬
↔↕➙➛➜➝➞➟➠➡ ➢➤➥➦ ➧➨➩➩➨➫➭
❢❢⑨❢❥⑨♠❢⑨♠❦⑨♠❣⑨♠➈
↔↕➙➛ ↔➯➲➲➯➳➵➠➡ ➢➦➸ ➧➨➩➩➨➫➭
❢♥⑨❢♠⑨❢➈⑨❦♣⑨❣❥⑨❢➍⑨➀❦
➺➳➻↕➼➜➛➲➲➡ ➢➦➤➽ ➧➨➩➩➨➫➭
❢➍⑨❿➈⑨❦❣⑨❦❥⑨➈♣⑨➄⑥ ❢❦⑨➀❿
➾➯➵ ➚➳➼ ➪➯➚↕➡ ➶➹➘➴➷ ➬➮
❣⑨❿❥⑨➈❦⑨❥➈
➺➯➞➟ ➱➡ ➶➹➘➴➷ ➬➦
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✃ êÜáàèéÞ êßÞëâçÏ ÒÕ×ÑÒÙÙÑØÖÔ❐❮
❼❽ì✇Ú❩Ú❽➐ ④❩❲❽í
îïð➘ñ ðòò➫➘ó ➨ô ➧➹õð ó➫ õð➩➨ïð➘
ñ➫ö➘ ÷øôð➘ïð➘ ➨➭ ➹ ó➨➧ð➩ñ ➧➹➭ù
➭ð➘➥ ÷➴➴➹ô➨➫➭➹➩➩ñ ➴➫➭õ➨ó➨➫➭ô ðú➨ôó
ó➷➹ó ➧➹ûð õð➩➨ïð➘ñ ➧➫➘ð õ➨òü➴ö➩ó➥
ý➚ þ➳➝ ➛➼↕ ➵➳ÿ ➳➵ ➛ ♦ ➳ÿ➳➼
➼➳➝ÿ↕ õð➩➨ïð➘ñ ô➷➫ö➩õ øð øðò➫➘ð
ÒÏ×Õ ❒❮❰❮ æ ✁ ✂ âÜ éâ çâá ßÞãÞè ✄ Þ
ñ➫ö➘ ② ➹ ② ð➘ ② ➩ð➹ôð ➴➹➩➩ ➽➦➬ù➤ ✲ ➮ù
➮➬ ✲ ➬➥
◗☎ ❳❲❽ ❳ ❚ ❲①❽ ❨❩❬
➒ ➇ ♦❷ ❡❫✉→t ❡♦❻❴ ❫✉❴❹♦❪❴
✮✩✸
✮✩✸✭❇✫✳★❉✹
♥✳❏❏✫✯
in the face of aggressive
hunting and trapping.
When legal wolf har-
vests began in Montana
and Idaho in 2009, wild-
life advocates and some
scientists argued their
numbers would plummet.
Hunters and trappers
have since killed almost
4,400 wolves in the two
states, according to data
from state wildlife agen-
cies obtained by The As-
✿✩❇✭✳✸✫✯
❈✵✫✿✿❃
✽★✩✷✸
1,500 more were killed
by government wildlife
agents and property own-
ers following attacks on
livestock and similar con-
♥✭❇✸✿❃
But wolves are such
❫✉❪ ✐✉❪ ❸❵t❤ ❫✉❴t❤❵✉❺q ❾❧ ❴♦❷
❡♦❻❴❝ ❵t ⑩✐❫✉❛ ❴♦❷→r✐ ❸♦r➂❵✉❺
P✵✩❉✭❍❇ ★✵✫✫✯✫✵✿ ✸✬✳✸ ✳❁●
❸❵t❤♦❷t ❫✉❴ r✐❫s ❧✐✐s❵✉❺q➓
ter each hunting season,
their numbers bounced
back the next spring. That
➋ ✆✝✞✞✝✟ ✠✡✞✝☛☞✌✱ ❆✍✟✎✝✏☞✑
s✝✑✒✟✎ ✓✔✾✔✺✕✔✾✺✾✖
✷✸✹✺✻✼ ✽✾✿❀❁
continued even as wildlife
regulators loosened trap-
ping restrictions and al-
lowed individual hunters
and trappers to harvest
multiple animals.
The wolf populations
for the two states hovered
at around 1,700 animals
combined from 2009
through the beginning of
2016, the most recent year
❙✭✸✬
❍❏✷✵✫✿
❁✵✩✪
★✩✸✬
states.
“We’re almost a decade
into hunting and trapping
and we still have a popula-
tion that is robust and well
distributed. It can be done
well,” said Bob Inman, a
biologist with Montana
♣✭✿✬❋ q✭❉✯❉✭❁✫ ✳✮✯ ❈✳✵✴✿❃
Wildlife
researcher
Scott Creel at Montana
State University said his
examination of popula-
tion data suggests sus-
tained high harvest rates
are pushing wolves near a
“tipping point” that would
drive the species into de-
❇❉✭✮✫❃
✻✸✳✸✫
✩❅❇✭✳❉✿
✿✳✭✯
they see no cause for con-
cern and expect the popu-
❉✳✸✭✩✮ ✿✭r✫ ✸✩ ♥✷❇✸✷✳✸✫❃
Montana’s wolf num-
bers dipped from its 2013
peak over the last several
years before increasing in
2017, the data show.
Meanwhile, packs from
the Northern Rockies
have spread into neigh-
boring Oregon and Wash-
ington, where they had
been absent for decades.
A small number have also
taken up residence in Cal-
ifornia.
Collette Adkins, a
Minnesota-based senior
attorney for the Center
for Biological Diversity,
acknowledged dropping
federal protections would
not drive wolves to extinc-
tion, despite earlier saying
the proposal “was a death
sentence for gray wolves
across the country.”
But she said their re-
covery would “come to a
screeching halt” as hunt-
ing and trapping are al-
lowed in more states. That
would put the species in
a tenuous position in the
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likely rule out its return
to historic ranges, such
as Colorado’s southern
Rockies of Colorado and
the Adirondacks in the
Northeast, she said.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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was to prevent extinction,
not restore wolves every-
where they once roamed.
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make the call in Michigan
and Minnesota.
Hunting, trapping or
both were allowed in the
region at various times
between 2012 and 2014
before a federal judge shut
them down by returning
wolves to the endangered
species list. State sur-
vey data for the Western
Great Lakes showed at
least modest wolf declines
during the period.
Wolf advocates attrib-
uted the drop in Min-
nesota to hunting and
trapping. Dan Stark, of
the state Department of
Natural Resources, said
a more likely explanation
was a 30 percent decline
in deer, the wolf’s primary
prey. Either way, wildlife
managers say the popu-
lations in all three states
remained strong.
If hunting is allowed,
debate is likely over
whether to maintain wolf
numbers or seek cut-
backs. Some farmers hope
for smaller population,
which they believe would
reduce attacks that have
killed hundreds of cows
and sheep.
cline in livestock attacks
since 2009. However,
some scientists say hunt-
ing and trapping makes
livestock a more tempt-
ing target for wolves be-
cause it disrupts the pack
cohesion needed to bring
down swift or bulky prey
like deer, elk and moose.
Some Wisconsin groups
are pushing to reduce
their wolf population to
350 from about 900.
“If we’d kept them at
that number, I think al-
without federal protec-
tion, wolves won’t return
to their imperiled status
of the early 20th century
because modern hunting
regulations focus on man-
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aging animals, not exter-
would have been gone,”
minating them.
said Mark Liebaert, a
“The only way wolves
sixth-generation beef pro-
were removed from the
ducer who said he’s con-
Lower 48 was using tech-
sidered quitting because of
niques we don’t use any-
wolf kills and harassment.
more — poisons,” said
But Ethan Lane of the
Toby Boudreau, wildlife
National Cattlemen’s Beef
bureau chief for the Idaho
Association said his orga-
Department of Fish and
nization’s priority is en-
Game.
abling farmers and ranch-
Endangered
Species
ers to protect their herds.
Act protections were giv-
Making deep cuts in wolf
en to the animals in the
numbers, he said, is “just
1970s except in Alaska,
not realistic.”
where the population was
never considered in dan-
ger. States that designate
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the wolf as threatened or
endangered under their
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own laws and regulations
include California, Colo-
rado, Illinois, Nebraska,
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New Hampshire, New
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York, Texas, Virginia and
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Washington.
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David Mech, a U.S. Geo- cials credit a more aggres-
logical Survey wolf expert, ✿✭❯✫ ✫✼✩✵✸ ✸✩ ✴✭❉❉ P✵✩★❉✫✪
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said the species likely wolves with a sharp de-
would continue to grow
and expand in the contig-
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uous U.S. after losing its
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endangered and protected
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status, albeit more slowly.
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Wolves can and will
➯➲ ➳➵➸➺➻➼➻➵➽➺ ➾ ➚➪➚➶➹➪➲➶➘ ➴➷➽➴➬➮➼➱➷✃➳
live any place people tol-
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erate them, Mech said.
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He pointed to studies
➯➹ ➳➵➸➺➻➼➻➵➽➺ ➾ ➚➪➘➚ü➪➶üý ➴➷➽➴➬➮➼➱➷✃➳
that suggest the southern
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Rockies could host up to
1,000 wolves, with vast ⑩❶❷❸ ❹❺❻❶❼ ❽❾❿❾➀➁➂➃❿➄➅➂➆❿➇➈ ➇➉ ❿➂➀➀ ➊➋➌➍➎ ➏➐➐➑➍➒➌➌
areas of additional habi-
tat in the heartland region
from Texas to North Da-
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kota.
The Interior Depart- ✫ ✘✎ ✙✓✎✚❞✒
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cision on its proposal after
a public comment period
that runs through May 14.
The most immediate
changes could come for
more than 4,000 wolves in
the Western Great Lakes.
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Wisconsin law requires
its wolf hunts to resume if
the state regains authori-
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