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December 25, 2015
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Oregon
Meteorologist predicts variation on Oregon officials plan to spray 8,000 acres
El Nino pattern: A wet PNW winter in Portland to stop Asian gypsy moths
Bt aerial spraying
will take place next
spring against pest
By MITCH LIES
For the Capital Press
Eastern Washington Uni-
versity meteorologist Robert
Quinn said he believes that,
contrary to most El Nino
weather patterns, the Pacific
Northwest will see excessive
rain this winter.
Speaking at the 75th an-
nual convention of the Ore-
gon Seed Growers League in
Salem in December, Quinn
noted that an El Nino weather
system typically will split into
two storm tracks: a southern
half, which brings warm, wet
conditions to California; and
a northern track, which brings
with it drought-like conditions
to the Pacific Northwest.
Quinn said the southern
half will stay true to form and
produce “a good, strong flow
of warm, wet Pacific storms
coming in off the ocean, which
is good news for drought-rid-
den California.”
The northern half, however,
will see a deviation from the
norm, he said.
“The end result normally
in the Pacific Northwest is we
end up under a ridge of high
pressure and end up with a
winter drought. But there is
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Submitted photo
Eastern Washington University meteorologist Robert Quinn tells
participants in the Oregon Seed Grower League’s 75th annual con-
vention in Salem that he believes the northern part of El Nino’s track
will bring wet conditions to the Pacific Northwest this winter.
‘Variation B.’ Sometimes the
southern branch of the storm
track is so powerful that we
(in the Pacific Northwest) get
clipped by the northern part
of the southern branch. So the
end result is … we end up with
a warm, wet winter.
“My prediction is we’re
going to see the northern part
of that California-storm track
sweep into Oregon and parts
of Washington,” Quinn said,
“and we’re actually going to
end up with a warm, wet win-
ter.”
The strongest El Nino in
modern history was in 1982-
83, Quinn said. “It turns out
For the Capital Press
ADEL, Ore. — The tiny
Eastern Oregon ranching
community of Adel will come
alive New Year’s Eve when
Western Music Hall of Fame
singer-songwriter
Michael
Martin Murphey performs at
a New Year’s Eve fundrais-
ing dinner-concert at the Adel
Store to raise money for An-
drea “Andy” Rieber, who is
in Germany being treated for
chronic Lyme disease.
The concert will be held in
Adel, 33 miles east of Lakev-
iew.
The pre-concert dinner
is sold out. For information
on the concert call 541-947-
3851. Murphey is tentatively
planning a Feb. 3 fund-raising
concert in Bend and another
at a to-be-announced date in
Lakeview.
Rieber, 43, has been in
Schwabisch Hall, Germany,
since late September under-
going treatment for Lyme dis-
ease. She has lived in the Adel
area for 6 1/2 years working
as a journalist, public lands
consultant and, until her ill-
ness intensified, cowgirl do-
ing day work for Warner Val-
ley area ranchers. Her articles
have appeared in a variety of
publications, including the
Wall Street Journal, Jefferson
Monthly and American Cow-
boy.
“I’ve had so many ups
and downs. It’s been such a
long road,” Rieber said of the
ozone treatment during a tele-
phone interview from Ger-
many. “There are no conven-
tional treatments for advanced
lyme disease.”
She recently decided to
participate in a second 11-
week round of treatment and
said Murphey’s offer to per-
form at a benefit will help
cover some costs, noting, “It’s
extremely expensive, not the
kind of thing health insurance
pays for.” A portion of her
treatment in Germany, which
is being done after trying oth-
er treatments in the U.S., was
provided through a GoFund-
Me Facebook fund-raising
source.
“It was extremely mov-
ing and humbling thing,” she
said of support, largely from
Warner Valley ranchers. “I’ve
been blown away by people’s
support.”
Rieber said Lyme disease
is a little known, not well
funded epidemic that affects
hundreds of thousands of
people, a thought echoed by
Murphey.
“It’s probably the most
covered up health problem
in our country,” Murphey be-
lieves, citing statistics from
the U.S. Center for Disease
Control saying Lyme disease
is the fifth most common na-
tionally notifiable disease,
with 300,000 new cases re-
ported annually, according to
the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
The CDC also says Lyme
disease research receives less
than 2 percent of the funding
for West Nile virus and .02
Adult male
PORTLAND — Oregon
farm regulators plan to spray
more than 8,000 acres in Port-
land next spring to prevent
the establishment of the Asian
gypsy moth, a destructive pest
found in the area this year.
The Oregon Department
of Agriculture plans to first
conduct extensive outreach
before applying Bacillus
thuringiensis, a biological
pesticide that destroys the in-
sect’s ability to digest.
“This is a pretty significant
deal for us, especially since
we will have to apply the Bt
aerially around Portland,”
said Katy Coba, ODA’s direc-
tor, during a Dec. 16 meeting
of the Oregon Board of Agri-
culture in Portland.
The treatment is sensitive
as it could provoke a negative
public reaction in the populat-
ed urban area that would in-
terfere with the ability to fight
the pest, said Clint Burfitt,
manager of ODA’s insect pest
prevention program.
“There’s a short opportuni-
ty to mitigate the AGM threat
before it spreads,” he said.
The cost of spraying will
likely involve several aircraft
and the Oregon portion of
the project is expected to cost
$2.5 million, Burfitt said.
Spraying will also occur
in southwest Washington at a
cost of $3 million, he said.
that ’82-’83 was a warm, wet
winter in the whole West,” he
said. “And this El Nino is as
strong probably as the ’82-’83
El Nino.”
Quinn said El Nino starts
as “a warming of the East-
ern Equatorial Pacific off the
coast of Southern Ecuador and
Northern Peru” that occurs ev-
ery five to seven years.
In concert with the warm-
ing, trade winds weaken and,
as such, do not drive a typical
level of cold water toward the
Western Pacific. “So water
piles up in the Western Pacif-
ic … and it is like a dam,” he
said.
Benefit planned for Adel woman
By LEE JUILLERAT
Asian gypsy moth
percent for HIV, even though
the number of Lyme disease
cases dwarfs both West Nile
and HIV.
Most people, he believes,
are unaware of the extend and
severity of Lyme disease.
Courtesy of en.wikipedia.org
Binomial name: Lymantria dispar
asiatica
Appearance: Adult males have
grayish-brown wings with darker
bands and a wingspan of 1 1/2
inches. Adult females are white
and much larger with a wingspan
of 3 1/2 inches.
Diet: More than 600 species of
trees and shrubs, including larch,
oak, poplar, alder, willow and
some evergreens.
Life cycle: Four stages; egg,
larva, pupa and moth. Eggs are
laid between June-September and
remain dormant through winter to
hatch the following spring.
Origin: Far East countries such
as China, Russia and Japan.
First observed in N. America:
1991 near Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.
Source: USDA APHIS
Capital Press graphic
This year the moths were
found on the Washington and
Oregon sides of the Columbia
River.
In Oregon, eradication will
likely begin in mid-April
and involve three treatments
one week apart, pending an
environmental assessment
and public outreach, Burfitt
said.
Oregon has asked the fed-
eral government to fully pay
for the spraying, but ODA
will also request funding from
the state legislature early next
year in case the federal funds
don’t cover the entire ex-
pense, said Coba.
The eradication project is
the third largest in Oregon’s
history, said Helmuth Rogg,
director of Oregon’s plant
program area.
Asian gypsy moths have
previously been intercepted
in Oregon in 1992, 2000 and
2006 along the Columbia Riv-
er, likely due to Asian imports
at the nearby Port of Vancou-
ver, he said.
The Asian gypsy moth is
more of a danger to agricul-
ture and the environment than
the European gypsy moth,
whose females are incapable
of flight, Burfitt said.
Asian gypsy moth females
can fly and produce up to
1,000 eggs each, so the spe-
cies can become established
more rapidly, he said.
With about 600 host plants,
the Asian gypsy moth also has
more habitat available, he
said.
The pest can greatly de-
foliate wild-growing plants,
negatively affecting stream
temperatures, Burfitt said.
For agricultural products,
such as nursery stock, the
pest’s establishment would
cause increased pesticide use
and may impede shipments to
other states and countries, he
said.
In 2000, the Washington
State Department of Agricul-
ture sprayed for the insects on
725 acres in the Ballard and
Magnolia neighborhoods of
Seattle.
In 1992, WSDA sprayed
116,457 acres for the Asian
gypsy moths in Pierce and
King counties.
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