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March 31, 2017
Fire destroys fruit packing shed in Wenatchee
Capital Press
WENATCHEE, Wash. —
Fire destroyed a packing shed
of one of the smaller fruit
packers in the Wenatchee area
the evening of March 24.
Phillippi Fruit Co. Inc.
lost its apple packing line at
1921 Fifth St. in Wenatchee.
It has a cherry packing facil-
ity about eight miles away at
Dan Wheat/Capital Press
Baker Flats.
The
approximately Twisted rubble is all that remains of Phillippi Fruit Co. Inc.’s packing shed in Wenatchee, Wash., the
12,500-square-foot building morning of March 27 following a fi re. The fruit storage shed in the background was saved.
was unoccupied when fi re
was reported at 8:25 p.m., enough that fi refi ghters were said.
three aerial ladder trucks were
said Mike Burnett, chief of unable to pursue an interior
About 50 fi refi ghters from used, he said.
Chelan County Fire District attack upon arrival but saved seven fi re departments as
There was no immedwiate
No. 1.
an adjacent fruit storage shed far away as Lake Chelan, 40 threat to nearby homes, and
The fi re was not discov- just fi ve feet away and stacks miles to the north, respond- the fi re was under control in
ered early on and had spread of empty apple bins, Burnett ed to the two-alarm fi re and 2 1/2 hours, he said.
The cause of the fi re is un-
der investigation, but there is
nothing suspicious, Burnett
said.
“It won’t be easy to deter-
mine because of the extent of
damage,” he said.
He had no estimate of dol-
lar loss.
Chris Phillippi, co-owner,
released a statement credit-
ing fi refi ghters for saving the
storage shed, shop, distillery,
cidery and offi ce.
“We had already conclud-
ed our apple packing season
so the facility was only in
limited operation. Nobody
was working in the facility at
the time of the fi re,” Phillippi
said in the statement.
The company is consider-
ing options for packing this
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SW Oregon ranch
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Seed peas are planted in a fi eld near Nampa, Idaho, on March 28. Many farmers in the Treasure Val-
ley area of Idaho and Oregon are two to three weeks behind planting their crops due to soggy fi elds.
we haven’t had any real dry-
ing weather.”
Tolmie and others said the
delay in planting is something
they can deal with, for now.
“But you delay us another
two weeks, and it’s going to
be really damn serious,” Tol-
mie said. “It can be lived with
today but if it gets much later,
people are going to be panick-
ing.”
Nyssa, Ore., farmer Craig
Froerer had all his sugar beets
and onions planted by this
time last year but hasn’t been
able to get them in the ground
yet in 2017.
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upon a proposed budget for operation of the Clover Commission during
the fiscal year July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. At this hearing any
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He said he will end up
planting his onions at least on
the second latest date since he
started farming in 1978.
Froerer said the delay will
likely reduce his sugar beet
yields but isn’t serious at this
point. However, “If we get to
the 15th of April and we still
aren’t going, then we’ll start
getting nervous.”
For fall planted crops, the
heavy snowfall was a bless-
ing, area farmers said, be-
cause it insulated those crops
from temperatures in Decem-
ber and January that averaged
about 10 degrees lower than
normal.
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hold a public budget hearing
on April 20, 2017, 7:00 p.m.
at 1320 Capitol Street NE,
Salem, Oregon. Any person
wishing to comment on the
budget is welcome to do so
either orally or in writing. A
copy of the proposed budget
is available for public
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commission office located at
6745 SW Hampton Street,
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“All the crops we plant-
ed in the fall fared pretty
doggone well because of
the snow cover, which act-
ed as insulation against the
frigid temperatures we end-
ed up having,” Freeman
said.
“My mint came through the
winter better than I’ve seen it
in a long time,” said Meridi-
an farmer Drew Eggers. “And
my winter wheat seemed to
green up right after the snow
melted.”
Snow mold damage to
winter wheat and triticale that
Eastern Oregon farmer Bill
Buhrig worried about several
weeks ago has mostly van-
ished.
“Now you have to look
diligently to fi nd it,” he said.
“Things seem to be rebound-
ing real well.”
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TIMOFEY EROFEEFF
Lawsuit challenges
‘wild and scenic’
eligibility of river’s
63.5-mile segment
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
An Oregon ranch is chal-
lenging federal management
plans for a 63.5-mile stretch
of the Rogue River, arguing
they’ll impede stabilization of
the volatile river channel.
The Double R Ranch of
Eagle Point, Ore., fi led a law-
suit against the U.S. Bureau of
Land Management for adopting
plans to protectively manage
the segment, which is eligible
for designation as a “wild and
scenic river.”
Aside from hindering per-
mits needed to fortify the river,
BLM’s decision will compli-
cate changes to irrigation diver-
sions and the development of
water rights, the complaint said.
The lawsuit is joined by
the Oregon Cattlemen’s Asso-
ciation, which worries other
ranchers will encounter such
problems, as well as the Ore-
gon Concrete and Aggregate
Producers Association, which
fears barriers to erosion control
efforts.
Capital Press was unable
to reach a representative of the
BLM as of press time.
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TO: ALL OREGON BLUEBERRY PRODUCERS
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held
pursuant to ORS 576.416 (5), on Monday, April 24, 2017 at 12:00
noon at Chemeketa Events at Winema, Room 210, 4001 Winema
Place NE, Salem, Oregon, upon a proposed budget for operation
of the Oregon Blueberry Commission during the fiscal year July 1,
2017 through June 30, 2018. At this hearing any producer of
Oregon Blueberries has a right to be heard with respect to the
proposed budget, a copy of which is available for public
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MERIDIAN, Idaho —
An unusually harsh winter,
followed by a string of rain-
storms, has left farm fi elds
soggy and delayed planting at
least two weeks in many parts
of the Treasure Valley area of
southwestern Idaho and East-
ern Oregon.
Many areas of the valley
received record or near-record
amounts of snowfall this win-
ter, which left soils saturated
when it melted.
Coupled with persistent
and untimely rainstorms,
many farmers have been pre-
vented from planting crops
that would normally be in the
ground by now.
“It just keeps raining and
raining and that’s pushing ev-
erybody back,” said Meridian
farmer Richard Durrant. “We
hope the rest of spring treats
us OK and we can catch up in
May and June.”
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weeks late planting his onions
and because of more rain in
the immediate forecast, that’s
likely to turn into three weeks.
“We should be fi nishing up
planting our onions by now
and we’re not,” he said.
Don Tolmie, production
manager for Treasure Valley
Seed Co. in Homedale, Idaho,
said many farmers are 20-25
days behind.
“There is so much (ground)
work that still has to be done
and the rain keeps delaying
it,” he said. “There is still a lot
of moisture to get rid of and
fall’s apple crop but most
likely will not rebuild at Fifth
Street, he said.
It’s more likely the apple
packing will be moved to one
of the company’s two other
locations, he said.
“Much has changed since
our facility was built on
Fifth Street in 1960. At the
time, the area was an or-
chard district … but in 2017
we find ourselves as one of
the last tree fruit operations
in a residential district in the
city of Wenatchee,” Phillippi
said.
The June and July cher-
ry harvest is the company’s
upcoming focus and its cher-
ry packing plant at Baker
Flats will be fully ready, he
said.
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In 2016, the BLM deter-
mined the 63.5-mile segment
is “suitable” for protection as
a wild and scenic river, which
is the fi nal administrative step
before Congress can make that
designation.
However, this particular
stretch has a long history of
human manipulation, disqual-
ifying it from designation be-
cause it’s not “free-fl owing”
as required by federal law, the
complaint said.
“Throughout the proposed
segment, streambanks have
been extensively modifi ed, ar-
mored, and engineered to sta-
bilize the river channel,” the
complaint said.
This segment of the Rogue
River is prone to “extreme fl ood
events” and channel migration,
so further work will be needed
to reinforce its streambanks
with rip-rap rock and otherwise
avoid undesirable upland im-
pacts, the complaint said.
Gravel pits near the chan-
nel are susceptible to being in-
undated or “captured” by the
river, which has occurred in the
past, polluting the water with
massive amounts of sediment,
according to plaintiffs.
A coalition of landowners,
government agencies and con-
servationists has rectifi ed past
problems, but the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers would “al-
most certainly deny” future
permits for such projects due to
restrictions associated with the
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the
complaint said.
“Thus designation of the
proposed segment would ef-
fectively halt future bank and
channel protection activities,”
the lawsuit said. “That could
result in further pit captures, se-
verely degrading downstream
fi sh habitat and frustrating the
very purposes and policies the
WSR Act was created to pro-
tect.”
The plaintiffs claim BLM’s
own analysis found that state
and county governments are
already protecting the river, so
leaving the segment undesig-
nated wouldn’t threaten its wild
and scenic values.
“Designation would dupli-
cate local management and
could easily undermine it,”
the complaint said.
Upper and lower reaches
of the Rogue River are al-
ready designated under the
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act,
but those sections fl ow mostly
through public land, accord-
ing to the plaintiffs.
“In contrast, the proposed
segment is almost entirely
private property, with insig-
nifi cant land ownership by
federal agencies,” the com-
plaint said.