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Jewell unaware of any plan to
designate Owyhee monument
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
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Addressing a question hard
on the minds of southeast Or-
egon residents, U.S. Interior
Secretary Sally Jewell said
during a congressional hear-
ing March 1 that she knows
of no plans to designate an
Owyhee Canyonlands nation-
al monument.
Responding to a question
from Rep. Greg Walden, who
represents Eastern Oregon,
Jewell said the concept was
brought up by Keen Footwear
of Portland.
“It’s been kicking around,
it’s one of the things people
have recommended to us,”
Jewell said.
But she said the Interior
Department, which includes
the BLM and U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, has held no
community meetings or dis-
cussions about the idea.
“People haven’t been ac-
tively in my offi ce asking
about it,” Jewell told Walden.
Walden asked if there has
been any coordination be-
tween the White House and
Department of Interior on the
issue.
“Not that I’m aware of,”
Jewell replied.
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mental group Oregon Natural
Desert Association, backed
by the Keen Footwear, has
proposed a 2.5 million acre
Owyhee Canyonlands wilder-
ness and conservation area.
Critics say the area is bigger
than the Yellowstone, Yosem-
ite or Grand Canyon national
parks and would cover 40
percent of Oregon’s Malheur
County.
Local opposition is strong.
Opponents believe designa-
tion would prohibit or severe-
ly restrict grazing, mining,
hunting and other recreation.
Proponents have said tradi-
tional land uses will be al-
lowed, but opposition leaders
say they don’t believe them.
Opponents worry Presi-
dent Obama will establish the
wilderness and conservation
area under the federal Antiq-
uities Act, which can be done
by presidential order and does
not require approval of Con-
gress.
In February he designat-
ed three such monuments in
the California desert: Mojave
Trails National Monument,
Sand to Snow National Mon-
ument, and Castle Mountains
National Monument. They
cover almost 1.8 million acres.
Walden and others believe
an Owyhee Canyonlands des-
ignation would be economi-
cally and socially harmful to
an area still reeling from the
armed takeover of the Mal-
heur National Wildlife Ref-
uge. Walden has called upon
the administration to ease ten-
sion in the rural West by back-
ing away from the proposal.
On other topics, Walden
thanked Jewell for her sup-
port of collaborative sage
grouse conservation work but
said it was frustrating that an
environmental group fi led a
lawsuit over the work. Hab-
itat conservation agreements
signed by ranchers and oth-
er private landowners were
credited with helping keep the
Greater sage grouse off the
federal endangered species
list.
Walden also asked about
local reimbursement for costs
associated with the 41-day oc-
cupation of the wildlife refuge.
An analysis by Oregonian/Or-
egonLive estimated the cost
in law enforcement presence,
school closures, supplies and
other items at $3.3 million.
“Because this was a feder-
al facility, and because most
of the people who were there
were not from Harney County,
let alone from the state of Ore-
gon, I do hope the federal gov-
ernment will help fi gure out a
way to help cover some of the
local costs,” Walden said.
Jewell said she’s uncertain
how the reimbursement ques-
tion would be handled. “So
that’s certainly something that
we’re happy to have dialogue
on, but I don’t know what the
rules are,” she said.
Lawmakers mull fi ghting fi re with fi re
Washington House
unanimously embraces bill
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
OLYMPIA — Legislation
to give state land managers
more fl exibility to permit con-
trolled burns in Central and
Eastern Washington is catching
on, a policy that may emerge
from the state’s worst-ever mil-
lion-acre wildfi re season.
House Bill 2928 seeks to
slip past obstacles to intention-
al blazes by relaxing air-quality
rules that apply to other types
of outdoor burning.
The bill passed the Demo-
cratic-led House 97-0 on Feb.
16 and received a hearing Feb.
24 from the Republican-led
Senate Natural Resources and
Parks Committee.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep.
Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, told
the committee that forests that
were once naturally thinned by
fi re have grown choked with
brush that fuels catastrophic
wildfi res.
“Smokey Bear did way too
good of a job for a hundred
years,” Kretz said.
HB 2928 falls short of mak-
ing wholesale changes in how
Courtesy of Washington Dept. of Natural Resources
A fi refi ghter works on a grass fi re in this Washington Department
of Natural Resources fi le photo from 2007. The state House has
passed a bill authorizing DNR to permit controlled burns even
when air-quality standards may not be met.
the state uses controlled burns
to prevent uncontrolled wild-
fi res. But it would authorize
a “pilot project,” in which the
Department of Natural Re-
sources would work with local
groups in counties especially
hard-hit by fi res.
HB 2928 would create a
new category of outdoor burn-
ing — “forest resiliency burn-
ing.”
DNR would be allowed to
issue multi-day permits for for-
est resiliency burns in areas not
in attainment with state or fed-
eral air-quality standards.
The burns couldn’t be can-
celed unless DNR and the De-
partment of Ecology agreed the
fi res caused serious air-quality
problems.
DNR has cautioned about
running afoul of the feder-
al Clean Air Act. The state
manages smoke under a plan
approved by the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
DNR estimated that revising
the plan to allow for forest re-
siliency burns would cost $1.5
million.
Since then, Kretz’s bill
has been amended. It doesn’t
specify how many acres would
be burned, though the area
couldn’t be “at a sale” as a way
of forcing the state to review a
federally approved plan.
Kretz said there will be
smoke, whether from con-
trolled burns or wildfi res. “No
smoke is not a choice,” he said.
The bill has the support
of diverse groups such as the
Washington Farm Bureau,
Nature Conservancy and the
Washington Public Employees
Association, which represents
DNR fi refi ghers.
House Democrats included
$800,000 in their budget pro-
posal to conduct the burns.
Okanogan County rancher
Scott Vejraska told senators
that he saw the difference for-
est thinning made in places
last summer as wildfi res swept
through Eastern Washington.
“It did create a safe haven
for cattle and everything else,
deer, you name it,” he said.
Timber companies are ask-
ing for a provision to allow
land to be logged before it’s
burned.
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basins up for renewal
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Oregon regulators renew
fi rst water ‘reservations’
Environmental group
argued for expiration
of reservation
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
SALEM — Oregon’s wa-
ter regulators have renewed
the fi rst of several water “res-
ervations” across the state
over the objections of an en-
vironmental group.
When Oregon lawmak-
ers established minimum in-
stream fl ows to protect aquat-
ic life nearly 30 years ago,
they also “reserved” water
in fi ve river basins to allow
farmers and others to develop
new water rights for econom-
ic development.
Farmers in those basins
— Grande Ronde, Hood,
Malheur, Owyhee and Pow-
der — only claimed a small
amount of the reserved water
available, largely due to a
lack of awareness and fund-
ing, as well as environmental
obstacles.
Reservations
totaling
nearly 360,000 acre-feet were
set to expire between 2016
and 2020, but the Oregon De-
partment of Agriculture has
petitioned for their renewal
now that new funds have
been appropriated for water
storage during recent legisla-
tive sessions.
During its most recent
meeting, the Oregon Wa-
ter Resources Commission
agreed to renew about 26,300
acre-feet reserved in the
Burnt River, which repre-
sent roughly one-third of the
reservations for the Powder
Basin.
The Burnt River Irriga-
tion District hopes to store
some of the reserved water in
spring for release in summer
to irrigators who currently
aren’t receiving their full al-
location of water, said Wes
Morgan, the district’s man-
ager.
WaterWatch of Oregon, an
environmental group, argued
that the commission should
have either allowed the Burnt
River reservations to expire
on March 8 or extended them
for fewer than 20 years.
Contrary to instructions
from the commission, the
Oregon Department of Agri-
culture did not submit regu-
lar “progress reports” on the
water reservations, which is a
“fatal fl aw” in the process for
renewing them, according to
WaterWatch.
WaterWatch also ar-
gued that the reservations
shouldn’t be extended until a
dispute over in-stream water
fl ows in the Burnt River was
resolved.
Despite these complaints,
the commission on Feb. 25
voted 6-1 to renew the Burnt
River reservations for 20
years.
Commissioner Jeanne Le-
Jeune, a former City of Port-
land employee and consul-
tant, said she voted against
the proposal because the
ODA should be expected to
“play by the rules.”
LeJeune also said that
ODA was “irresponsible” by
conducting outreach efforts
about the water reservations
without doing its “basic
homework.”
The Oregon Farm Bu-
reau and the Oregon Water
Resources Congress, which
support renewing the water
reservations, defended the
ODA during the meeting, ar-
guing the agency didn’t sub-
mit progress reports due to
a lack of dedicated staff and
funding.
Government investments
in water storage that were
anticipated during the incep-
tion of the reservations nev-
er materialized, said April
Snell, executive director of
the Oregon Water Resources
Congress, a group represent-
ing irrigation districts.
During those years, the
ODA was subjected to re-
peated budget cuts, Snell
said.
Farmers also faced hur-
dles to building new storage,
such as compliance with the
Endangered Species Act,
said Mary Anne Nash, public
policy counsel for OFB.
Meanwhile, no harm
came from the water reserva-
tions, she said. “There really
is no downside continuing to
set aside the water for future
development.”
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Physiology.
Better nutrition, they con-
cluded, allowed the bees to
compensate for the effect of
the pathogens. They survived
longer, and examination
showed they had higher levels
of protein in the head glands
that produce food for larvae.
Sagili said the study raises
questions about the use of an-
tibiotics, used by many bee-
keepers to control the Nosema
pathogen. Broad-spectrum
antibiotics may be causing
other problems for bees, such
as disrupting the gut structure
that helps them digest food.
Sagili said beekeepers
have asked him whether they
should stop using antibiotics,
and he urges a cautious ap-
proach. Large-scale keepers,
who transport thousands of
hives to pollinate crops up
and down the West Coast,
can’t afford the risk of halt-
ing antibiotic use all at once.
He suggests trying it with 5
percent or 10 percent of hives
and monitoring what happens.
Many observers worry a
mono-crop diet may weak-
en bees as they feed on only
one crop at a time while doing
their pollination work each
year, beginning with almonds
orchards in California and
working north as other nuts,
fruit and berries come into
season. Sagili said a “polyfl o-
ral” diet provides better nutri-
tion for bees; some keepers
give bees a break from mo-
no-crop work to forage natu-
rally and add variety to their
diet.
The research work at OSU
began in June 2014. Bees for
the study were taken from
“sister queen” colonies to
control any variation in No-
sema infection that might
be attributed to genetics of
the bees. They were divided
into fi ve groups, fed varying
amounts of wildfl ower pollen,
then exposed to the Nosema
pathogen.
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SECRETARY OF STATE NOTICE
OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
Oregon Department of
Agriculture, Plant Program,
Administrative Rules Chapter
#603, Sue Gooch, Rules
Coordinator, (503) 986-4583.
Adopt: OAR 603-055-0200;
Amend: OAR 603-055-0100.
RULE SUMMARY: House Bill
3362 from the 78th Oregon
Legislative Assembly-2015 Reg-
ular Session, Section 2 requires
amending ORS 602.090 and
amending the apiary registra-
tion fee rule to add annual fees
for each beehive for beekeeper
with more than five beehives.
Hearing date: March 15, 2016
at 10:00 a.m. Location: Agri-
cultural Building, Confer-ence
Room D, 635 Capital Street NE,
Salem, OR. Last day for public
comment is March 22, 2016.
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OSU honeybee researcher Ramesh Sagili, right, believes nutrition
is key to solving the riddle of colony collapse.
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CORVALLIS. Ore. — Ra-
mesh Sagili, Oregon State
University’s honeybee re-
searcher, has long believed
nutrition is key to fi ghting off
colony collapse disorder, the
mysterious ailment that wipes
out hives and threatens crop
pollination.
So when he and graduate
student Cameron Jack carried
out a study in which sets of
bees were given various lev-
els and a variety of pollen,
they expected a logical result.
They assumed the bees that
received the most wildfl ower
pollen — a source of protein
— would be best able to stave
off parasites that weaken
bees.
That turned out to be true:
Bees fed a high-pollen diet
had a higher survival rate.
But, surprisingly, they also
had higher rates of a pathogen
called Nosema ceranae — the
opposite of what the research-
ers expected. They thought
better-fed bees would have
lower infection rates.
“Even though (Nosema)
spore intensities were high-
er in bees that received more
pollen in their diet, the bees
in these treatments had great-
er survival, which appears
to be counterintuitive,” the
researchers said in a study
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