November 13, 2015
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Wash. DNR denies cherry plans
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
OSU adds distilled spirits
teacher and researcher
Capital Press
Paul Hughes jokes that he
hasn’t caused an accident on the
road yet. So far, so good, when
you’re accustomed to driving on
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terns.
When it comes to making
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Hughes, a chemist who
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at a university in Scotland, has
been hired as a researcher and
instructor at Oregon State Uni-
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how to make wine, beer and
cheese, and is branching out into
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industry.
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of the state’s liquor revenue. Or-
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for the Oregon Liquor Control
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ities is to meet with distillers and
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be offered in January.
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threat, scientist argues
By DAN WHEAT
Capital Press
WENATCHEE, Wash. —
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the active ingredient in the
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man health threat is nonsense,
a Washington State University
scientist told attendees at the
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ciation’s annual meeting.
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entomology and environmen-
tal toxicology, sarcastically
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at the Wenatchee Convention
Center, Nov. 6.
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acid based on glycine, which
occurs naturally, he said.
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Organization’s International
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cer — known by the initials
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carcinogenic and
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to WDFW when we have an
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amend a federal grant to have
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sioner Ron Walters thanked
Goldmark, saying the issue had
been distracting from greater
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ning of the basin. The county
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ment the sale was unresolved
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he said, “I’m glad to see DNR
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Gordon Goodwin, a Stemilt
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to see it going forward. He said
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dead, Goodwin said. At a recent
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Mathison asked about trading
for or leasing the land from
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been addressed by changes in
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willow trees in wildlife corri-
dors to give elk and deer cover.
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Allan Felsot, professor
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but the data is already there. It
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By ERIC MORTENSON
Dan Wheat/Capital Press
Washington State Public Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark talks with State Sen. Linda Evans Parlette
at Stemilt Partnership meeting south of Wenatchee, Wash., Nov. 9. Goldmark announced he will sell land to
the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, not to the Mathison family for cherry orchard development.
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Courtesy of Oregon State University
Paul Hughes, a chemist from Scotland, will teach classes and
conduct research on whiskey and other distilled spirits at OSU’s
fermentation center.
WENATCHEE, Wash. —
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the state to acquire state De-
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land high in Stemilt Basin for
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over.
Commissioner of Public
Lands Peter Goldmark, head
of DNR, came to a communi-
ty meeting at Malaga Fire Hall,
south of Wenatchee, Nov. 9,
to announce DNR will sell the
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Fish and Wildlife as soon the
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negotiated.
It was a rejection of ef-
forts by the Mathison family,
owners of Stemilt Growers
LLC, Wenatchee, to lease, buy
or trade for the land in order
to gain more high-elevation
cherry ground for late-season,
high-value cherries.
State Sen. Linda Evans Par-
lette, R-Wenatchee, said she
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to the meeting at her request
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memorandum of understanding
for the sale signed last January
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then WDFW Director Phil An-
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ment and for wildlife habitat,
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ation, Parlette has often noted.
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and for DNR to allow it would
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has said.
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government, government has
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Nov. 9 meeting.
“I and Director Anderson
signed this agreement at the
request of Sen. Parlette and she
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