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March 25, 2016 Proponents: Klamath dam pact beneicial By TIM HEARDEN Monarch lawsuit has GMO implications Environmentalists claim biotech crops reduced habitat By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI Capital Press Capital Press SACRAMENTO — Pro- ponents say an updated plan to remove four dams from the Klamath River doesn’t skirt the U.S. Constitution or leave out opportunities for public debate. In their irst announced public meeting since announc- ing their plan last month, ofi- cials from Oregon, California and the federal government said it’s perfectly appropriate to seek dam removal approv- al through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. “In my opinion, we’re not trying anything new here,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife director Charlton Bonham said during the March 16 hearing at the state Environmental Protec- tion Agency headquarters. He added the FERC process for removing dams has existed since the 1920s. Richard Whitman, natu- ral resources adviser to Ore- gon’s Gov. Kate Brown, said no interstate compact is being made to set up the “non-feder- al” entity that would take con- trol of the dams from owner PaciiCorp and handle their removal. “It’s easy to get confused about this entity,” Whitman said. “That corporation is an independent corporation that is not an instrument of the states of Oregon or Califor- nia.” He also said the state is willing to help farming and ranching communities in Klamath County, where Commissioner Tom Mallams contends the dams’ remov- al would cost the county as much as $500,000 in annual revenue and take away local jobs. Mallams, who attended the meeting, said he would like to see a settlement that resolves water issues in the Klamath Basin but wants the county “left whole.” The exchanges came amid a sometimes contentious af- ternoon of haggling over lan- guage in the 133-page “agree- A new lawsuit claims the prevalence of crops geneti- cally engineered to withstand glyphosate herbicides is re- sponsible for the decline of monarch butterlies. The battle over monarch butterlies has been brewing since 2014, when several environmental groups peti- tioned federal wildlife reg- ulators to list the species as threatened or endangered. Later that year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found there’s substantial sci- entiic evidence that such a listing may be warranted, but the agency did not arrive at a inal conclusion within 12 months as required by the By DON JENKINS Capital Press OLYMPIA — The Wash- ington Department of Fish and Wildlife has dropped plans to buy a ranch and riv- erside grasslands in Eastern Washington, signaling the agency’s increasing sensitivi- ty to complaints that state land purchases rob taxes from rural counties. WDFW had identiied 5,542 acres of Lincoln Coun- ty rangeland and 2,560 acres in Walla Walla County along the Touchet River as among 10 properties it might pursue in 2017. Both pieces of land have been used for agriculture, though are not currently in production, according to WDFW. They were the largest par- Courtesy of Elizabeth A. Sellers, USGS Environmental groups have iled a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not making a inal decision whether to list monarch butterlies as endangered or threatened with- in 12 months of inding such a listing may be warranted, as required by federal law. Endangered Species Act. Two of the groups that iled the petition — the Cen- ter for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diver- sity — have now asked a fed- eral judge to order the Fish and Wildlife Service to make a decision within a reason- able timeframe. The plaintiffs argue that widespread spraying of gly- phosate has eliminated much of the monarch’s milkweed habitat, contributing to a 90 percent population decline since the 1990s. While farmers sprayed for milkweed prior to the commercialization of genet- ically engineered crops, en- vironmentalists say that gly- phosate is more effective at killing the plant’s roots, pre- venting it from regenerating. Biotech and pesticide in- dustry supporters fear the emphasis on monarch butter- lies signals that opponents of genetic engineering hope to use the Endangered Species Act as a weapon against such crops. One possibility suggest- ed by environmentalists is requiring farmers to plant reserves of crops that ar- en’t resistant to glyphosate, where milkweed could re- cover and provide habitat for monarchs. Tim Hearden/Capital Press Don Gentry, chairman of the Klamath Tribes, makes a point during a March 16 meeting on a new proposal to remove four dams from the Klamath River. The meeting was held at the California Environ- mental Protection Agency headquarters in Sacramento. ment in principle” announced Feb. 2 by PaciiCorp, the states of Oregon and California and the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce. The new agreement was reached after Congress failed to autho- rize the original Klamath Ba- sin water-sharing agreements by the end of 2015. The March 16 meeting was attended by representatives from most of the 42 original signatories to the 2010 agree- ments as well as critics, who in recent weeks have accused dam-removal proponents of meeting in secret and claimed the private entity created under the new plan would still need congressional approval. The latter argument is based on a legal opinion is- sued in late January by Oregon Legislative Counsel Dexter Johnston, who opined the pri- vate entity amounted to an in- terstate compact that must be authorized by Congress under the Constitution. But Whitman said Johnston’s opinion was based on language from the original agreements and not the new pact, which the Ore- gon Department of Justice has assured him is legally sound. “The amendments we’re discussing today are an agree- ment to a private party to han- dle removal of its dams,” he said. The meeting began as a veritable rehashing of a more than decade-long debate over dam removal, as public ofi- cials given a chance to make opening statements argued in favor of or against the idea. Grace Bennett, chairwoman of the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, argued remov- ing the dams is unnecessary to help ish and would expose area residents to risks from the built-up sediment and loss of lood control and water supply. “This is our livelihood, this is our watershed, this is our home,” Bennett said. “For two decades, the county government has worked with landowners and water users to improve ish habitat and water quality in a successful effort to reverse the last century’s trend of declining salmon runs.” WDFW drops rural land buys as counties complain Payment freeze puts property purchases on ice 7 CapitalPress.com cels on WDFW’s newest list of possible additions to its million-acre portfolio. The department prized the proper- ties as recreational areas and wildlife havens. County commissioners in both counties, however, pro- tested. The commissioners said taking land out of private ownership strains county bud- gets because the state pays less to support county ser- vices than taxpayers. County unrest has been building since the Legislature in 2011 revised the compli- cated formula for calculating payments in lieu of taxes, commonly referred to as PILT. As a result, WDFW’s pay- ments to counties declined by 53 percent, according to a re- port by the state Department of Revenue. Walla Walla County Com- missioner Jim Johnson said WDFW’s plan to buy land along a 3.5-mile stretch of the Touchet River for conserva- tion and recreation was sound, but the county can’t afford to lose more taxable land. “It just continues to reduce our revenue,” he said. “At some point, if the payments are restored, we can look at some of these things differently.” The point may have been moot for the Walla Wal- la County land. The land’s owner has decided the prop- erty is not for sale, WDFW Lands Division Manager Clay Sprague said. Nevertheless, the depart- ment would have abandoned its pursuit because the county was opposed, he said “We are trying to form good solid partnerships with all the counties,” Sprague said. “PILT is such a charged issue right now in the Legisla- ture, we want to get it solved.” Lawmakers reworked PILT during an economic downturn and hard budget times. 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